Résultats de "Mary Stewart" dans Toutes les catégories

Geillis Ramsey är en ensam flicka. Hela hennes uppväxt präglades av en mystisk kusin till hennes mor, någon som sas ägna sig åt häxeri. Geillis blir äldre, och står nu på tur att ärva huset. Frågan är bara hur hon ska förhålla sig till allt märkligt som fortfarande pågår i trakten. Till råga på allt dyker den ack så charmerande Christopher Dryden upp. Vad han har i kikaren är oklart.

Modellen Gianetta Drury har lämnat London för att åka till ön Skye utanför Skottland för att vila upp sig. På hennes hotell är stämningen minst sagt uppskrämd efter att ett mord skett i trakten och en ung flickas kropp hittats. När ett nytt mord inträffar ökar spänningen och skräcken blir påtaglig. Snart pekar alla misstankar mot någon av hotellets gäster. Och bland dem finns Gianettas exmake.

Molodaya anglichanka Linda Martin priezzhaet vo Franciyu, chtoby stat' guvernantkoj devyatiletnego Filippa, grafa de Val'mi. Ee podopechnyj - vladelec rodovogo zamka i imeniya, kotorymi upravlyaet ego dyadya Leon. Linda chuvstvuet v otnosheniyah obitatelej zamka neponyatnuyu napryazhennost' i pytaetsya zashchitit' mal'chika ot davyashchej vlastnosti dyadi i holodnogo ravnodushiya tetki. Vnezapno vspyhnuvshaya lyubov' k synu Leona, Raulyu, eshche bolee oslozhnyaet ee zhizn'. Vo vremya progulki v Filippa strelyayut.

When Rose Fenemore takes a desperately needed holiday to an isolated cottage on the Scottish island of Moila she doesn't expect much in the way of adventure - just a few quiet weeks of writing, walking and bird-watching. And then, late one night during a wild storm, two young men appear in her doorway, seeking shelter from the wind and rain. Neither man is quite who he claims, and the question of whom to trust will put Rose in grave peril....

The rambling house called Thornyhold is like something out of a fairy tale. Left to Gilly Ramsey by the cousin whose occasional visits brightened her childhood, the cottage, set deep in a wild wood, has come just in time to save her from a bleak future. With its reputation for magic and its resident black cat, Thornyhold offers Gilly more than just a new home. It offers her a chance to start over.

Summer, 1947. Kate Herrick, a war widow, returns to her childhood home for a final visit before the house is sold. But Rose Cottage is not the idyllic paradise she remembers from her youth and someone has been there before her. As Kate uncovers an old secret that haunts the home she thought she knew, she is forced to confront a dark truth from her own past.... Beyond the weedy garden with its riot of rose bushes, nothing had changed. And someone was crossing the bridge to approach the garden gate. Someone I knew well....

While on a walking holiday through the beautiful, deserted hills of Crete, Nicola Ferris stumbles across a critically injured Englishman, guarded by a fierce Greek. Nicola cannot abandon them and so sets off on a perilous search for their lost companion - all the while being pursued by someone who wants to make sure none of them leave the island....

Legend has it that when the Gabriel Hounds run howling over the crumbling palace of Dar Ibrahim, high in the Adonis Valley of Lebanon, death will follow on their heels. When rich, spoilt Christie Mansel arrives at the decaying palace to look after her eccentric Aunt Harriet, she arrives to the sound of howling dogs. The palace is riddled with hidden passages and the servants are unwilling to let anyone see Harriet during the day. It seems the palace hides an extraordinary secret...one that somebody is willing to kill to keep.

Camilla Haven sends a letter home during her quiet holiday in Athens. But when a stranger begs her to drive a car to Delphi, swearing that it is a matter of life and death, Camilla impulsively takes the opportunity she's been offered. Before long she is caught up in a whirlwind of intrigue, deceit and murder as she spins along the dusty Greek roads in a race against time to solve a 14-year-old mystery.

Mary Stewart, one of the great British storytellers of the 20th century, transports listeners to rural Northumberland for this tale of romance, ambition and deceit - a perfect fit for fans of Agatha Christie and Barbara Pym. Whitescar is a beautiful old house and farm situated in Roman Wall country. It will make a rich inheritance for its heirs, but in order to secure it, they enlist the help of a young woman named Mary who bears remarkable resemblance to missing Whitescar heiress Annabel Winslow. Their deception will spark a powder keg of ambition, obsession and long-dead love.

The recently rediscovered short story 'The Lost One', perfect for fans of Daphne du Maurier, Santa Montefiore and Anya Seton. First published in Woman's Journal in 1960, and set against the backdrop of unfenced country and dark winding valleys at night, the aptly named 'The Lost One' features The Wind off the Small Isles heroine Perdita West, who brings her characteristic pluck and courage to this classic Mary Stewart tale of suspense and intrigue....

Vanessa March's husband, Lewis, is meant to be on a business trip in Stockholm - so why does he briefly appear in newsreel footage of a fire at a circus in Vienna, with his arm around another woman? Vanessa flies to Austria to find her husband, inadvertently becoming involved in a mystery that spans three countries...and the famous dancing stallions of the Spanish Riding School. The moonlight flooded the meadow, blanching all colours to its own ghostly silver. The pines were very black.

Ashley Court: the tumbledown ancestral home of the Ashley family, all blessed with 'the gift' of being able to speak to each other without words. When Bryony Ashley's father dies under mysterious circumstances, his final words a cryptic warning to her, Bryony returns from abroad to uncover Ashley Court's secrets. What did her father's message mean? What lies at the centre of the overgrown maze in the gardens? And who is trying to prevent Bryony from discovering the truth?

It sounds idyllic: a leisurely drive through the sun-drenched landscape of Provence. But Charity's dream holiday turns into a nightmare when she becomes embroiled in a sinister plot to kidnap a young boy. She soon finds herself in a deadly pursuit and must uncover whom to trust...and whom to fall for.

In the timeless dance between land and sea, the lighthouse stands as a beacon of guidance, guarding against the storm and lighting the way through the darkest nights. This anthology brings together a diverse collection of stories inspired by these steadfast sentinels of the shore. Whether bathed in the glow of a distant light or buffeted by fierce waves, these stories will carry you on a journey across windswept coasts and deep, mysterious seas, where every light offers a new beginning, and every storm hides a deeper truth.

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society. In this volume we offer up a small selection of talents from the literary landscape of American women authors whose time has now come again.