The story sets a bucolic scene with eerie and mystical undertones. The river seems to have a personality of its own. Who is the girl, dead but then alive?
I couldn’t put it down; just had to find out the end of the story. Each of the characters is so well drawn that you want the best for them and when, on occasion it does, it is so satisfying.
From the instant #1 New York Times bestselling author of the “eerie and fascinating” (USA TODAY) The Thirteenth Tale comes a “swift and entrancing, profound and beautiful” (Madeline Miller, internationally bestselling author of Circe) novel about how we explain the world to ourselves, ourselves to others, and the meaning of our lives in a universe that remains impenetrably mysterious.
On a dark midwinter’s night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, an extraordinary event takes place. The regulars are telling stories to while away the dark hours, when the door bursts open on a grievously wounded stranger. In his…
Ben’s storytelling gets better and better. This is the ninth in the Rivers of London series continues the adventures of Peter Grant as the magical policeman of London.
As a Londoner myself, I know many of the places described and got the twitchy feeling between the shoulder blades that some of these places just could be fey. Brilliant entertaining story, but you probably need to read some of the earlier ones in the series to understand everything.
The ninth novel of the bestselling Rivers of London urban fantasy series returns to the adventures of Peter Grant, detective and apprentice wizard, as he solves magical crimes in the city of London.
There is a world hidden underneath this great city.
The London Silver Vaults-for well over a century, the largest collection of silver for sale in the world. It has more locks than the Bank of England and more cameras than a paparazzi convention.
Not somewhere you can murder someone and vanish without a trace-only that's what happened.
The disappearing act, the reports of a blinding flash of…
I’ve been a murder mystery fan for years and Christie is just the best. Other mysteries often don’t have the clues available. Then the detective pulls something out of the hat to solve the crime.
Christie’s novels are different. All the clues and hints are there, but only when Poirot explains the mystery does everything fall into place. I always put the book down thinking, "I should have spotted that."
A wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place...
The house guests at Styles seemed perfectly pleasant to Captain Hastings; there was his own daughter Judith, an inoffensive ornithologist called Norton, dashing Mr Allerton, brittle Miss Cole, Doctor Franklin and his fragile wife Barbara , Nurse Craven, Colonel Luttrell and his charming wife, Daisy, and the charismatic Boyd-Carrington.
So Hastings was shocked to learn from Hercule Poirot's declaration that one of them was a five-times murderer. True, the ageing detective was crippled with arthritis, but had his…
Travels with High Frequency is a collection of true events where aid agencies and others have worked. There is humour and sadness, pathos and bathos, irritation and fear as we see how John responded to stressful circumstances. Each of the 40 short chapters takes the reader by the hand and lets them ‘be there’ through his eyes, seeing and feeling the environment, engaging with aid workers, victims, and many others. Events covered include the Rwanda genocide, Serb attempted ethnic cleansing of Kosova, Libya during the Arab Spring, Afghanistan and Pakistan while the Taliban are active and South Sudan shortly after its establishment. He recounts having been shot at in Zaire, enjoying generous hospitality in Kazakhstan, being propositioned in Liberia. An exciting travelogue.
