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When a young woman returns from holiday to find her elderly neighbour dead, she immediately alerts the police. Commissario Brunetti is called to the scene but, though there are signs of a struggle, it seems the woman has simply suffered a fatal heart attack. Vice-Questore Patta is eager to dismiss the case as a death from natural causes, but Brunetti believes there is more to it than that. His suspicions are further aroused when the medical examiner finds faint bruising around the victim?s neck and shoulders, indicating that someone might have grabbed and shaken her. Could this have caused her heart attack? Was someone threatening her? Conversations with the woman?s son, her upstairs neighbour, and the nun in charge of the old-age home where she volunteered, do little to satisfy Brunetti?s nagging curiosity. With the help of Inspector Vianello and the ever-resourceful Signorina Elettra, Brunetti is determined to get to the truth and find some measure of justice.Insightful and emotionally powerful, Drawing Conclusions reaffirms Donna Leon?s status as one of the masters of literary crime fiction.

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This collection bring together all the Father Brown mysteries of G.K. Chesterton in a single, convenient, high quality, but extremely low priced Kindle volume!

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 ? 14 June 1936) was an English writer whose prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, play writing, journalism, public lecturing and debating, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction, namely with his exceedingly popular Father Brown short stories.

Father Brown, a short, stumpy Catholic priest with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, has uncanny insight into human evil.
Father Brown solves his crimes through a strict reasoning process more concerned with spiritual and philosophic truths rather than scientific details, making him an almost equal counterbalance with Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, whose stories Chesterton read and admired. Father Brown was the perfect vehicle for conveying Chesterton's view of the world and, of all of his characters, is perhaps closest to Chesterton's own point of view, or at least the effect of his point of view.


EXCERPT

"Six people sat around a small table, seeming almost as incongruous and accidental as if they had been shipwrecked separately on the same small desert island. At least the sea surrounded them; for in one sense their island was enclosed in another island, a large and flying island like Laputa. For the little table was one of many little tables dotted about in the dining saloon of that monstrous ship the Moravia, speeding through the night and the everlasting emptiness of the Atlantic. The little company had nothing in common except that all were travelling from America to England. Two of them at least might be called celebrities; others might be called obscure, and in one or two cases even dubious.

The first was the famous Professor Smaill, an authority on certain archaeological studies touching the later Byzantine Empire. His lectures were accepted as of the first authority even in the most authoritative seats of learning in Europe. His literary works were so steeped in a mellow and imaginative sympathy with the European past, that it often gave strangers a start to hear him speak with an American accent. Yet he was, in his way, very American; he had long fair hair brushed back from a big square forehead, long straight features and a curious mixture of preoccupation with a poise of potential swiftness, like a lion pondering absent-mindedly on his next leap.

There was only one lady in the group; and she was (as the journalists often said of her) a host in herself; being quite prepared to play hostess, not to say empress, at that or any other table. She was Lady Diana Wales, the celebrated lady traveller."


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Kurzbeschreibung

ANNOTATED:

* Contains unique, hand-crafted additional content including literary critiques, and detailed biographical / historical context


OVERVIEW:

This collection bring together all the Father Brown mysteries of G.K. Chesterton in a single, convenient, high quality, but extremely low priced Kindle volume!

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 ? 14 June 1936) was an English writer whose prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, play writing, journalism, public lecturing and debating, literary and art criticism, biography, Christian apologetics, and fiction, including fantasy and detective fiction, namely with his exceedingly popular Father Brown short stories.

Father Brown, a short, stumpy Catholic priest with shapeless clothes and a large umbrella, has uncanny insight into human evil.
Father Brown solves his crimes through a strict reasoning process more concerned with spiritual and philosophic truths rather than scientific details, making him an almost equal counterbalance with Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, whose stories Chesterton read and admired. Father Brown was the perfect vehicle for conveying Chesterton's view of the world and, of all of his characters, is perhaps closest to Chesterton's own point of view, or at least the effect of his point of view.


EXCERPT

"Six people sat around a small table, seeming almost as incongruous and accidental as if they had been shipwrecked separately on the same small desert island. At least the sea surrounded them; for in one sense their island was enclosed in another island, a large and flying island like Laputa. For the little table was one of many little tables dotted about in the dining saloon of that monstrous ship the Moravia, speeding through the night and the everlasting emptiness of the Atlantic. The little company had nothing in common except that all were travelling from America to England. Two of them at least might be called celebrities; others might be called obscure, and in one or two cases even dubious.

The first was the famous Professor Smaill, an authority on certain archaeological studies touching the later Byzantine Empire. His lectures were accepted as of the first authority even in the most authoritative seats of learning in Europe. His literary works were so steeped in a mellow and imaginative sympathy with the European past, that it often gave strangers a start to hear him speak with an American accent. Yet he was, in his way, very American; he had long fair hair brushed back from a big square forehead, long straight features and a curious mixture of preoccupation with a poise of potential swiftness, like a lion pondering absent-mindedly on his next leap.

There was only one lady in the group; and she was (as the journalists often said of her) a host in herself; being quite prepared to play hostess, not to say empress, at that or any other table. She was Lady Diana Wales, the celebrated lady traveller."


WHY BUY BOOKS FROM THE COMPLETE WORKS COLLECTION FOR KINDLE EDITION?

1. All COMPLETE WORKS COLLECTION Kindle Books are priced as low as possible in order to offer unbelievable value and hours of reading pleasure for Kindle readers. All COMPLETE WORKS COLLECTION Kindle Books bring together ALL the complete works of a classic literary author, character or series in a single, extremely low priced volume in a single download, thereby freeing up valuable space and visual clutter on your Kindle device.

2. All COMPLETE WORKS COLLECTION Kindle Books are painstakingly formatted especially for Kindle and come with a FULLY INTERACTIVE table of contents DIRECTLY ACCESSIBLE FROM THE KINDLE MENU, Kindle MasterLink (tm) technology, Kindle text-to-speech Audiobook technology, and Kindle Free Lending Technology

3. All COMPLETE WORKS COLLECTION Kindle Books come with additional material including photo(s) of the author, and/or critical commentary, and/or biographical or historical background

Kurzbeschreibung

A #1 Kindle Best Seller in Romantic Suspense, Romantic Adventure and Women Sleuths

Interpol cop, Anna Leyton, spirals down into a hopeless vortex of sexual and emotional passion
as she fights to keep her professional cool. Who is deceiving who in this fast moving ride across continents?
What motivates her art loving prize-bull of a lover Freddie La Salle?  The power of love and trust
stands against greed and crime as conflicting forces grapple for that knockout punch.

Watch the video trailer on Amazon's Emma Calin Author Pages (click on 'Emma Calin' above)

Knockout! A romance novel with a twist of suspense that will take you on a roller coaster ride of passion,
deception and love.


REVIEWS:

• 'A mix of relentless, buff sexuality, uncompromising, idealistic romance, and sassy, police detective mystery'
• 'Knockout writing and a perfect dilemma'
• 'The language is sensual and gripping and powerful all at once'
• 'The sex scenes are well written and actually play a part within the story rather than being thrown in for the fun of it'
• 'Knockout will surprise you with its qualities, but do not be surprised if you put it down wishing for more. I did.'
• 'What a page turner the plot was held perfectly with shocking twist n turns'
• 'The story is so full of passion, it is easy to be swept along'
  

Kurzbeschreibung

A #1 Kindle Best Seller in Romantic Suspense, Romantic Adventure and Women Sleuths

Interpol cop, Anna Leyton, spirals down into a hopeless vortex of sexual and emotional passion
as she fights to keep her professional cool. Who is deceiving who in this fast moving ride across continents?
What motivates her art loving prize-bull of a lover Freddie La Salle?  The power of love and trust
stands against greed and crime as conflicting forces grapple for that knockout punch.

Watch the video trailer on Amazon's Emma Calin Author Pages (click on 'Emma Calin' above)

Knockout! A romance novel with a twist of suspense that will take you on a roller coaster ride of passion,
deception and love.


REVIEWS:

• 'A mix of relentless, buff sexuality, uncompromising, idealistic romance, and sassy, police detective mystery'
• 'Knockout writing and a perfect dilemma'
• 'The language is sensual and gripping and powerful all at once'
• 'The sex scenes are well written and actually play a part within the story rather than being thrown in for the fun of it'
• 'Knockout will surprise you with its qualities, but do not be surprised if you put it down wishing for more. I did.'
• 'What a page turner the plot was held perfectly with shocking twist n turns'
• 'The story is so full of passion, it is easy to be swept along'
  

Produktbeschreibung

Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
Gewicht: 148 gr / Abmessung: 20 cm
Von Wilde, Oscar

Hinweis:
Lieferung vom Verlag mit leichten Qualitätsmängeln möglich

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A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife", Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."

As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment."

Amazon.co.uk

A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife", Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."

As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment."

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A lush, cautionary tale of a life of vileness and deception or a loving portrait of the aesthetic impulse run rampant? Why not both? After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent. After he kills a young woman, "as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife," Dorian Gray is surprised to find no difference in his vision or surroundings. "The roses are not less lovely for all that. The birds sing just as happily in my garden."

As Hallward tries to make sense of his creation, his epigram-happy friend Lord Henry Wotton encourages Dorian in his sensual quest with any number of Wildean paradoxes, including the delightful "When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy." But despite its many languorous pleasures, The Picture of Dorian Gray is an imperfect work. Compared to the two (voyeuristic) older men, Dorian is a bore, and his search for ever new sensations far less fun than the novel's drawing-room discussions. Even more oddly, the moral message of the novel contradicts many of Wilde's supposed aims, not least "no artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style." Nonetheless, the glamour boy gets his just deserts. And Wilde, defending Dorian Gray, had it both ways: "All excess, as well as all renunciation, brings its own punishment."

Produktbeschreibung

Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Von Patterson, James

Der Millionär Chaz Smith ist erschossen worden, mit einer Waffe, die sich in Polizeigewahrsam befand. Jeder könnte der Mörder sein, selbst die engsten Vertrauten der Polizei. Ein Fall für den ''Women''s Murder Club''

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Winner of Schwedischer Krimipreis 2006
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Gewicht: 340 gr / Abmessung: 18 cm
Von Larsson, Stieg

Im 2.Teil der Millennium Trilogy wird Lisbeth Sander gesucht. Doch Millenniums Ermittlungen ergeben, dass Lisbeth weniger hilfloses Opfer als teuflischer Engel zu sein scheint.

Hinweis:
Lieferung vom Verlag mit leichten Qualitätsmängeln möglich

Amazon.co.uk

Stieg Larsson gleaned a remarkable degree of success before his too-early death in 2004. He had delivered to his publisher three remarkable crime novels; the initial book in his ?Millennium? sequence, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, had enjoyed an unprecedented success in his native Sweden before the translation took the UK by storm. Larsson had made a considerable mark as a crusading journalist, with a speciality in tackling political extremist groups. But he offered assistance to many people and groups who he felt were vulnerable ? something of a modern hero, in fact.

One of Larsson's key achievements as a writer was to create an innovative kind of heroine for the crime novel. His unconventional sleuth, the highly intelligent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander, is a confrontational young woman, whose Goth accoutrements sometimes alienate those around her (except the individuals she opts to have sexual relations with ? strictly, that is, according to the rules she lays down). In the second book in the Millennium sequence, The Girl Who Played with Fire (as in its its predecessor), Lisbeth's closest ally is the older journalist Mikael Blomqvist, even though she has abruptly ended her emotional relationship with him. Lisbeth has left all she knows behinds her and has begun a relationship with a gauche young lover. But after a grim revenge run-in with a man who has abused her, she becomes a suspect in three murders, and is the subject of a nationwide search. Blomqvist, however, is convinced of her innocence (he has just been responsible for a blistering report on the sex trafficking industry in Sweden), and is determined to help her ? whether she wants his help or not.

As with Larsson?s earlier book, this is highly compelling fare, with tautly orchestrated suspense; it's often grisly and uncompromising (not a problem for many readers), and the massive text may be longer than is good for it, but Larsson admirers won't begrudge the late author a word,and will be impatient for the third (and, regrettably, concluding) book in the sequence. --Barry Forshaw

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Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Abmessung: 13,5 cm
Von French, Tana

In ''Broken Harbour'', einer heruntergekommenen, halb verlassenen Wohnanlage außerhalb von Dublin, werden die Leicher zweier Kinder und ihres Vaters gefunden. Die Mutter schwer verletzt. Alles weist auf eine Verzweiflungstat des arbeitslosen Vaters hin. Scorcher Kennedy, der Star-Ermittler der Mordkommission, übernimmt den Fall und wird mit seiner eigenen, düsteren Vergangenheit konfrontiert.

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Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Von Castle, Richard

NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat ist tough, sexy, professionell und hegt eine ausgeprägte Leidenschaft für die Gerechtigkeit. Zusammen mit einem Teufelskerl, dem Journalisten Jameson Rook, kommt sie so zoemlich jedem verzwickten Rätsel auf die Spur. Dritter Teil der ''Nikki Heat'' Serie aus der ''Feder'' des Fernsehermittlers Richard Castle.