A few months after landowner Thomas Gage’s fiftieth birthday Julius Gooby enters his life. Gooby proposes that the North Norfolk Railway should cross Gage’s land. With the railway comes tragedy but Gage’s revenge assuages his grief over others’ greed and lust for progress during the railway boom.
A respectable banker jeopardizes his happiness and future in one night of misadventure. In an attempt to clean up his indiscretion while his wife is still away, he lands himself in a bitter pot of political intrigue and murder.
This book opens with the discovery of two young womens bodies in shiba park. Against the wishes, detective minami is assigned to the case, and as he gets drawn ever deeper into these complex and horrific murders, he realizes that his own past and secrets arev indelibly to those of the dead women and their killer
When Marty Winslow’s thirteen-year-old daughter dies of a devastating genetic disease, she discovers the truth- her precious middle child had been switched at birth. After learning that he actual biological daughter was recently orphaned,she decides to fight for custody. Winning the court case was the easy part.
Europeans have long been fascinated by all that it means to be English: its liberal institutions, its civil liberties, its delicate balance between social order and the free pursuit of self-interest.
In Voltaire’s Coconuts Ian Buruma examines these ideas about Englishness and what Europeans admired or loathed about Brithain.‘
We won the lottery also goes behind the scenes at the national lottery to reveal funny facts, the luckiest numbers, the unusual purchases and exactly what happens when you win.
Cynthia Vogit, author of the bestselling Tillerman saga, has written her most compelling novel to date, a brutal portrait of one day in the life of seven-year-old Tish, who learns to come to the greatest fear.
Jay Franklin Cerf, the president of a six-million-dollar navigation company, keeps a check on his wife’s expenditure and passbook. Suddenly, he notices an increase in her bank withdrawals up to the tube of fifteen thousand dollars which he suspects his wife is using to pay as ransom. He employs the services of a private investigator to monitor her movement, and then…
Robin is devastated when she learns Chris is going to Italy for the summer, it’s supposed to be their last holiday together before he goes away college. So with time weighing heavy, she reluctantly agrees to join her widowed aunt and bratty cousins on a road trip to Los Angeles. It’s a nightmare from start; they’re barely off the driveway before everyone is ready to kill each other.
