Résultats lu par "Elizabeth Revill" dans Toutes les catégories

Adam Barrie has a gift – some would say a curse – and can see and communicate with the dead. When suspicious activity is discovered at the local girls’ boarding school, Barrie investigates. What he discovers shocks him to the core. Leonard Shaitan, a charismatic teacher at the school runs a cult and plans to unleash Hell. To do so he must sacrifice a special child. With the help of a vicar who has crossed paths with Shaitan before and a detective out of his depth, Barrie must stop Shaitan before it is too late. He is facing a cataclysmic battle. The fate of the world hangs in the balance.

A dismembered body with no head, hands, or feet turns up in a suitcase at New Street Station. The only witness to the suitcase being deposited is a young runaway, Katy, who relies on selling the Big Issue to survive. Some of the female sellers are, themselves, running scared, and Katy sees more than is safe for her.DCI Allison and Sergeant Mark Stringer are on the case. As usual, they have too much to do and not enough officers. Little do they know that this investigation will uncover a criminal gang involved in something much bigger.

Book five in the DCI Allison detective series, set in the Midlands, continues on from where the last one, Would I Lie to You, finished. Intimate and realistic, listeners will be on the shoulders of the police as they are followed into every corner of their lives, which shows that work pressures don’t end at the station door. If you are a fan of gritty thrillers like Missing, then this series is for you.

The Chameleon is the hitman hired for the job and he is on the move. DCI Allison and Sergeant Stringer are frustrated when they arrest the wrong man. The Chameleon is a master of disguise with numerous identities at his disposal. Only two people are able to identify him, Chrissy Stephens and police psychic Holly.

Coppers overloaded with work are once again led down a path that twists and turns, bringing to light a female psychic, Holly, who has a physical and psychic connection with Tony. Holly lives through the new slayings at a huge cost to herself and when Tony’s mother recognizes she is being watched through Holly’s abilities she turns her evil eye on the psychic.

Teacher, Tara Lomas just wants to spend time with her husband, Steve but he is intent on working hard to secure them a bright future in order to raise a family. Feeling bored and unloved Tara is persuaded to try a little social networking. Once she embarks on setting up a profile on Friend Finder she soon becomes addicted and hunts for her old netball coach Lee Powell.

The thrilling sequel to Against the Tide, which was highly acclaimed by the Historical Novel Society, sees Brookes returning to ride again at the request of the King, when his friend and fellow rider Goliath comes back to England to seek his help. Aleka, Goliath’s wife is missing, stolen by barbaric slavers. Her father, the Governor of Sierra Leone has been alerted to this tragedy and is known to work tirelessly to stop this hideous trade.

After witnessing the brutal death of his father, at the tender age of seven, by a band of smuggling cutthroats, Nathaniel Brookes swears to find his father’s killers. As a man he initially follows a medical career, but he turns his back on his comfortable life and dons the garb of a Riding Officer to fulfill his vow. Hated in all communities, ostracized, and friendless, he faces more than just his father's enemies. Little did Nathaniel expect, when taking up his duties to ride the dramatic Welsh coastline, that he would meet and fall in love with local beauty, Jenny Banwen.

A woman witnesses from her bedroom window a violent assault on her elderly neighbor, and becomes embroiled in something much larger involving a criminal gang. They want her eliminated. DCI Allison has his work cut out as he tries to close his file on Kelland and Paulson, in the sex trafficking case, together with a number of other crimes linked to the OCG.

Wales between the wars, a place of poverty and a world full of anguish. Yet, there is hope. Within family, within community and most of all in the brave heart of one young girl. Set in the lush Dulais Valley; Carrie is fated to a life of hardship and sorrow, but she grows stronger as she is forced to become a woman before her time. The hand she is dealt becomes a challenge and she refuses to surrender.

Carrie's life is turned upside down when the London Chest Hospital is bombed in the Blitz and it threatens to tear her from the slowly flowering love she has found in Michael's arms. After this horrific incident, her bravery is brought to the attention of the authorities. They contact her with a proposal, which drags her into the center of the conflict in Europe and out of the security of her home and family.

Thunder in the Sun is the fourth in the continuing Llewellyn family saga. Carrie, in her new role as district nurse, finds that she has far more to deal with than patients recovering from minor ailments. She takes charge of organizing a troop of evacuated children escaping the Blitz in London and finding them safe houses in which to stay. Some are lucky, but some are not, and Carrie’s life is flooded with incidents of cruelty, rape, and heart-wrenching drama.

For some, a life at sea is all they want. That’s certainly the case for Adam Barrie. Out there, among the waves, he has a peace he cannot find on land. When tragedy strikes his family, Adam’s commitment to them has to become his focus. For him, it’s family before everything else, and his inheritance proves to be the catalyst to a new life.