Detective alex cross is pulled out of family celebration and given the devastafing news that his niece, caroline has been found brutally murdered. Cross vows to hunt down the killer, and soon learns that caroline was mixed up in one of washington's wildest scenes. And she was not this Killer's only victim. Happy reading
In Salthill, on Hudson, half an hour outside New York, the inhabitant are beautiful, rich, and though they look younger than they really are, middle-aged. When the enigmatic sculptor Adam Berendt dies suddenly, his death sends shock waves through the town. Middle age, ordinarily not a time for passion romance, is transformed by his loss as his close friends evaluate their lives and set out …
Mollie and Peter have a big secret; in their playroom is a magic Wishing-Chair which can grow wings and take them on flying adventures. They rescue Chinky the pixie from a giant's csstle, visit Disappearing Island, and go to a party at Magician Greatheart's castle. There's more Wishing-Chair magic in the Wishing-Chair Again.
A girl rns away from home - and it's up to the Seven to find her! JAck's little sister Susie is up to her usual tricks - but she can't the SEven off the trail of clues!
Dahlia's childhood memories consist of stuffy cars, seedy motels, and a rootless existence travelling the country with her eccentric mother. Years later, she desperately wants to distance herself from that life. Yet one thing is stopping her from moving forward: she has questions. In order to understand her past, Dahlia must go back. Back to her mother in the stifling town to Aurora. Back in…
SEBASTIAN FAULKS was born and brought up in Newbury, Berkshire. He worked in journalism before starting to write books. He is best known for the French trilogy, The Girl at the Lion d'Or , Birdsong and Charlotte Gray and is also the author of a triple biography, The Fatal Englishman ; a small book of literary parodies, Pistache ; and the novel Human Traces . He was elected a Fellow of the Royal…
Jack's little sister Susie is very annoying and the Secret Seven are furios when she forms a rival club. But is Susie wicked enough to have stolen some money?
The SEven are desperate to help Tolly and his sick horse, Brownie. But where can they hide an old man and his horse? And can they protect Brownie from thieves?
A car is stolen - Peter and Janet witness the theft! Now the Seven are on the trail of a dangerous gang.
Something of a landmark ...... exuberant and absorbing ...... a bold and important work. (This )is the first novel I know of that successfully renders an Arab, Egyptian Muslim reality in English A tour de force." - Leila Ahmed, Washington Post Book world. Set amidst the turmoil of contemporary Middle Eastern polities, this marvelously vivid novel by Egyptian journalist is an intimate look i…