Résultats pour "James" dans Petites villes et ruralité

Jericho College is closed for the summer break. But professor Carla James is busy teaching a short course to a small group of archaeology enthusiasts. Keen to get involved with local history, the newcomers become fixated on the century-old grave of Meg Woodthorpe. Killed for being a witch. A single stone sits on the burial site supposedly to prevent her rising again. And excavations reveal she may have. Meg's body is no longer there. She has been replaced by a modern victim. With no one missing, Carla must work out who this is and where Meg has gone.

Brought to you by Penguin. The girl in the lake was never supposed to be found. When her body surfaces in the frozen waters of Cayuga Lake, a note left on the body turns Brendan Holmes from private investigator to prime suspect. With his name on the line and a deadly adversary closing in, Holmes...

Mrs McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion fell immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes revealed traces of the victim's blood and hair. Yet something was amiss: Bentley just didn't look like a murderer.

The final masterpiece by James Sallis, author of the cult classic Drive, a breathtaking and poignant small town detective procedural—and examination of human nature When an old friend from his days on the police force makes a plea for him to come and help with what seems a murder case, jazz...

Bob Dylan once declared that "Sex and politics and murder is the way to go if you want to get people's attention," and readers won't be able to look away from Shadows on Sidewalks, the new erotic thriller from James Grady. James Traven returns home to his small Montana town in autumn 2024 to care for his mother after a devasting fall. He quickly finds himself trapped in a life-threatening web of lies and lust. With the clock ticking, Traven must save the savvy and beautiful Lana LaBuff from almost-certain murder.

Angel Sands is a traditional seaside resort of bed and breakfasts, cottages to let and teashops. And with the best views of the tiny beach and surrounding coastline is Paradise House, home to the Baxter girls - or the Sisters of Whimsy as they're known locally. With their mother taking time out...

Odilie Rutherford is known in the small Scottish town of Lauriston for two things – her beauty, and her father, Canny. As a self-made man, Canny has the wealth he dreamed of but not the status and hatches a plan to marry his daughter to local bachelor of note, the Duke of Maudesley. Yet Odilie cannot bear the thought of a life with the ill-mannered Duke, and when the annual summer fair arrives in town for three days she seizes a chance to enjoy the freedom she craves.

Dylan Davenport has always been the responsible one, but he's bitten off more than he can chew. Looking out for his sisters. Running the family ranch. Managing his restaurant as head chef. And raising his six-year-old daughter on his own. Poppy Golightly was eighteen years old when she left Aster Springs to get over her crush on her best friend's brother. Now she's back with a broken heart, an empty bank account, and an eternal optimism that her true love is out there somewhere.

Brought to you by Penguin. A brilliantly realised account of the most famous archeological dig in British history, now a major motion picture starring Ralph Fiennes, Carey Mulligan and Lily James. In the long hot summer of 1939 Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk...

A boy’s disappearance in the small town of Deerfield, CT, stokes distrust and resentment from its residents. Each local he interviews harbors a hidden agenda, keeping long-hidden secrets close to their chests. With trust in short supply, Sheriff Sean Callahan struggles to find answers to the child’s whereabouts, but every new secret he uncovers leads him closer to a horrifying truth.

Some stories don't end. They wait to be found… Book editor Lucy Thomas has just inherited her grandmother’s windswept Cornish home, and with it, a library bathed in sunlight, a spiral staircase that leads to secrets, and a battered box filled with unfinished stories… To honour her...

William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic fiction read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first...

The suburbs of Par Mars. Two shopping centres, rows of estates and a thematic design scheme. Twenty-four-year-old Leen is going to open an ear-cleaning and massage salon in the Topic Heights Shopping Centre, taking her mother's Chinese ritual to the West to bring people back to their bodies. But something is not quite right in Par Mars. Managers are being attacked, and when Leen befriends Jean Paul, a pharmacist who is obsessed with a cryptic online forum, she finds herself involved in a community that is intent on disrupting the routines of capitalism in increasingly troubling ways. 

From the Abyss Led Astray, a new Christian psychological thriller novel, weaves a complex narrative that explores themes of trauma, redemption, and the battle between good and evil through the interconnected lives of its characters. Set in the small fictional town of Chance Landing, this whodunnit thriller delves into supernatural elements as it follows various individuals — from a vulnerable teenager to a struggling pastor, an emotionally overwhelmed youth pastor, and others caught in sinister plots far beyond their understanding.

1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel, in Fell. But Viv feels that something is wrong, something disturbing and haunting. And then she vanishes. 2017. Carly Kirk has never been able to let go of the story of her aunt Viv. She decides to move to Fell and take a job at the hotel - as a night clerk - to try to get to the bottom of the mystery. But Carly soon discovers that, before she vanished, Viv believed she was on the trail of something truly sinister.

The search for Mr. Right is over… Until my new "boyfriend" walks into a bar and my best friend gets fate-induced heart-eyes at first sniff. So, I bow out with grace and maturity… by running from the bar and jumping behind the wheel of my car in the middle of a snowstorm. When I find myself lost on an unfamiliar road outside of town, everything suddenly goes blank. Luckily, three alphas that smell a lot like mine come to my rescue. I can't remember anything except my name, and we're stuck in the middle of nowhere with no cell signal or internet, but I feel… safe.

New World Shipping supervisor Ben Harrison is a happily married man in his mid-thirties when he wakes up alone—and dead. Isolated in a strange new place where all the clocks read 6:55, the last thing Ben remembers is a series of both good and bad memories. When he finds a bakery that hasn’t existed since his childhood, he meets the owner, Harold Toll, who explains that they’re in purgatory. Ben’s fate now lies in an upper power’s hands, so he must make the most of it.

Can she trust a dragon with her heart? Tevryn’s been given a mission by his leader, to find out who is behind the attacks on the dragons and the laboratory they are using for their experiments. While attending an event where several of the suspects will be present, he runs into a complication he never saw coming. .. his eternal flame. Delaney is a brilliant architect with an eye for uncovering unusual secrets. She accepts a job offer from a wealthy tech mogul to build a monument based on an ancient prophecy.

Set in 1959, the "year the music died," The Smoke in Our Eyes is a cinematic, clock-ticking saga set in a small Montana town. When a fatal car accident shatters ten-year-old Lucas's world, he finds himself confronting crime and vengeance, humor and heroism, all against the backdrop of growing up.

When the Revolutionary War begins, Guy Watson is a slave to the Hazzard family in Rhode Island, but he is soon engaged in service for the American army by Samuel Ward, head of one New England's most prominent families. Torn about leaving his beloved June and the other slaves who have become his family, Guy eventually sets out with Samuel Ward and a battalion of men on a treacherous and legendary trek to Quebec.