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Vine Barbara: Asta's Book

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: It is 1905. Asta and her husband Rasmus have come to East London from Denmark with their two little boys. With Rasmus constantly away on business, Asta keeps loneliness and isolation at bay by writing a diary. These diaries, published over seventy years later, reveal themselves to be more than a mere journal, for they seem to hold the key to an unsolved murder and to the mystery of a missing…

Vine Barbara: Grasshopper

Скачать книгу (размер 1 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 392) Аннотация: From the writer Patricia Cornwell calls the most brilliant mystery novelist of our times comes a typically astute and suspenseful tale of what happens when a taste for dangerous heights becomes a way of life.

Vine Barbara: A Dark-Adapted Eye

Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Like most families they had their secrets. And hid them under a genteelly respectable veneer. No onlooker would guess that Vera Hillyard and her beautiful sister, Eden, were locked in a dark and bitter combat over one of those secrets. England in the fifties was not kind to women who erred so they had to fight it out behind closed curtains using every weapon they had. In this case, murder.

Vine Barbara: Grasshopper

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Blamed by her parents for the tragic death of a friend, Clodagh has been banished from their home in the countryside to a dingy basement flat and a meaningless existence in the city. Then she meets the inhabitants of the top floor of 15 Russia Road. Charismatic Silver, brutal Johnny, paranoid Liv and exotic Wim range across a London of roofs, eaves and ledges, unseen by the ordinary inhabitants,…

Vine Barbara: King Solomon's Carpet

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: Eccentric Jarvis lives in a crumbling schoolhouse overlooking the tube line, compiling his obsessive history of the Underground. A group of misfits are also drawn towards his strange house: Alice, who has run away from her husband and baby; Tom, the busker who rescues her; truant Jasper who finds his terrifying thrills on the tube; and enigmatic Axel, whose deadly secret casts a shadow over all…