Résultats pour "The Dinner" dans Fiction historique

Cleo is hired by the housekeeper at a Mayfair residence after the police rule the sudden death of the butler was the result of natural causes. Not convinced by the verdict, she wants Cleo to prove foul play was involved. Considering he was acting mysteriously around some of the guests, and they were equally mysterious when they saw him, murder is a possibility. When the investigation leads Cleo to another decades-old murder and the sudden disappearance of the primary suspect, she’s even more determined to uncover the truth.

Mitten in der glanzvollen Londoner Ballsaison schlägt ein Mörder zu und niemand scheint vor Verdacht sicher. Der zweite Fall für Miss Harrington und Robert Kurland, im London des 19. Jahrhunderts Für Lucy und Anna Harrington geht mit der Einladung nach London ein lang gehegter Traum in...

Roddy Greenbank was brought by his father to the remote Northumberland community of Langley in the autumn of 1807. Within hours of their arrival, however, the father meets a violent death and the boy is left with all memory of his past life gone. Adopted and raised by old Kate Makepeace, Roddy found his closest companions in Hal Roystan and Mary Ellen Lee. These three stand at the heart of a richly eventful narrative that spans the first half of the 19th century, their lives lastingly intertwined by the inexorable demands of a strange and somewhat cruel destiny.

Erik Bernstein wasn’t afraid of death. He was afraid of life. He battled with inadequacy and the feeling that he never belonged. He became an expert at deflecting intimacy to mask his shame, lies, self-doubt, and bad choices. From the time he was eleven years old, or even younger, death was never far from his mind. Needless to say, death was front of mind as he sat in the back corner of the synagogue, watching his own funeral.

When Julia, Lady Fieldhurst, returns from Scotland restless and out of sorts, her friend Emily Dunnington plans a select dinner party with half a dozen male guests from whom Julia may choose a lover.

But Emily's dinner ends in disaster when one of her guests, Sir Reginald Montague, is shot dead.

This stunning novel plunges into the tumultuous life of screen icon Katharine Hepburn, a star whose fierce independence, passionate spirit, and fluid sexuality shattered Hollywood’s rules and redefined what it meant to be a woman in film. “Filled with intrigue and old Hollywood glamour...

He wants nothing more than to be her everything. She can't stand the thought of being his void. Gareth knew the moment he saw Cecillia that she was the only woman for him. Her strength, her fire, her dedication... she pulled him in. Cecillia died a little inside when she thought Gareth might be the kind of man to show her love again. She can't have those thoughts so soon after the passing of her husband, can she? This sweet, short story is set in the Princesses of Ruin series following Gareth and Cecillia.

Michael and Pauline seemed like the perfect couple - young, good-looking, made for each other. The moment she walked into his mother's grocery store in the Polish neighbourhood of Baltimore, he was smitten. And in the heat of World War II fervour, they were hastily wed. But they never should...

The hilarious and profound novel from National Book Award finalist Joshua Ferris is about an American family in all messy forms—and one man at the head of it. “A fine American novel about family, love, and a decent but flawed man trying to be better." —Stephen King Someone is telling the...