Rejoignez-nous pour un voyage dans le monde des livres!
Ajouter ce livre à l'électronique
Grey
Ecrivez un nouveau commentaire Default profile 50px
Grey
Abonnez-vous pour lire le livre complet ou lisez les premières pages gratuitement!
All characters reduced
Friend & Foe - cover

Friend & Foe

Shirley McKay

Maison d'édition: Polygon

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Synopsis

From the author of the bestselling Hue & Cry. “Fans of C. J. Sansom and Shona MacLean will find much to admire in this gripping mystery” (Historical Novel Society).   St Andrews, 1583. The young king, James VI, is confined at Falkland Palace, plotting his escape. Dissension rages between Kirk and Crown, the king and his “lord enterprisers,” and between the separate factions of the church. In St Andrews Castle, a bishop in decline plays out his darkest fantasies while lawyer Hew Cullan and his friend, Giles, investigate the true source of his sickness, uncovering corruption at its heart. The death of a young soldier implicates Hew’s sister and Giles’s wife, Meg, and leads Hew to an astonishing discovery and towards his blackest hour, his fortunes inextricable from those of James himself. Real historical figures woven into this fantastical tale are James VI, the bastard son of James V, spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham, and Alison Pearson who was executed for witchcraft in 1588.  Praise for the Hew Cullan Mysteries   “Charms the reader.” —Scotland on Sunday   “The authentic Scottish dialogue and gripping narrative make this a must for fans of Scottish history or mystery.” —Scottish Field   “Wonderful stuff.” —Good Book Guide   “Informative, suspense filled, downright entertaining.” —The Bookbag
Disponible depuis: 26/01/2015.
Longueur d'impression: 320 pages.

D'autres livres qui pourraient vous intéresser

  • Found Her - cover

    Found Her

    NJ Mackay

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Belle Moriarty was there one moment and gone the next. Ten years ago, she disappeared walking home from school, under the supervision of her older sister Eve. Eve has never recovered from the guilt of turning her back on her. But then Eve receives a phone call that changes everything. Belle has been found—alive. But who took her? Why did they keep her alive all these years? And now that Belle has escaped, will they try to silence her for good? With Belle in a coma and Eve receiving increasingly terrifying threats, she must discover the kidnapper's identity before they return to finish what they started...
    Voir livre
  • The Race - A Novel - cover

    The Race - A Novel

    Richard North Patterson

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Can an honest man become president? In this timely and provocative novel, a maverick candidate takes on his political enemies and the ruthless machinery of American politics. 
    Corey Grace—a handsome and charismatic Republican senator from Ohio-is plunged by an act of terrorism into a fierce presidential primary battle with the favorite of the party establishment and a magnetic leader of the Christian right. A decorated Gulf War Air Force pilot known for speaking his mind, Grace's reputation for voting his own conscience rather than the party line-together with his growing romance with Lexie Hart, an African-American movie star-has earned him a reputation as a maverick and an iconoclast. But Grace is still haunted by a tragic mistake buried deep in his past, and now his integrity will be put to the test in this most brutal of political contests, in which nothing in his past or present life is off-limits. 
    Depicting contemporary power politics at its most ruthless, The Race takes on the most incendiary issues in American culture:  racism, terrorism, religious fundamentalism, gay rights, and the rise of media monopolies with their own agenda and lust for power. As the pressure of the campaign intensifies, Grace encounters betrayal, excruciating moral choices, and secrets that can destroy lives. Ultimately, the race leads to a deadlocked party convention where Grace must resolve the conflict between his romance with Lexie and his presidential ambitions—and decide just who and what he is willing to sacrifice.
    Voir livre
  • Vindication - cover

    Vindication

    FJ Donohue

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Can this wrongful conviction be overturned? 
    A teenager was found guilty as an accomplice in a robbery murder. His brother has tried unsuccessfully for years to get the case reopened. Now a University Law Center has taken it on. It's the boy's last chance. 
    They retain Alastair Stewart of Endwell Investigations to reexamine all the evidence. Along the way he identifies a corrupt District Attorney and a long-standing stolen car trade.
    Voir livre
  • Murder On the Run - 1920s Historical Cozy Mystery - cover

    Murder On the Run - 1920s...

    Sonia Parin

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Evie, the Countess of Woodridge, has been kidnapped?A telegram arrives at Halton House, sending the dowagers and Toodles on a mad race to rescue Evie from the clutches of an impostor.Unaware of the chaos and panic reigning at Halton House, Evie finds herself entangled in a web of deceit and dealing with Tom Winchester's odd behavior. He is keeping secrets and every time she tries to get answers from him, he manages to change the subject or worse . . . something else happens.When that "something" happens to be the death of a woman they had met along the way to their destination, Evie knows Tom's secrets are bigger than she first suspected.Would she be next?
    Voir livre
  • A Season to Lie - A Detective Gemma Monroe Mystery - cover

    A Season to Lie - A Detective...

    Emily Littlejohn

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    In Emily Littlejohn's follow-up to her acclaimed debut Inherit the Bones, a twisted killer stalks his prey in the dead of winter.On a cold dark night in February, as a blizzard shrieks through Cedar Valley, police officer and new mother Gemma Monroe responds to an anonymous report of a prowler at the local private high school, The Valley Academy. In her idyllic Colorado small town, Gemma expects the call was just a prank by a bored teenager.But there in the snow lies the savaged body of a man whose presence in town was meant to be a secret. And a disturbing message left by his killer promises more death to come.This is only the beginning . . .Nothing is as it seems in Cedar Valley and stories, both fact and fiction, ensnare Gemma as her investigation moves from the halls of an elite academy to the forests that surround Cedar Valley.Against a backdrop of bleak winter weather, stymied by those who would lie to protect what is dearest to them, Gemma hunts a ruthless killer before he strikes again in A Season to Lie.
    Voir livre
  • Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of the Faceless Bride - cover

    Sherlock Holmes: The Mystery of...

    Pennie Mae Cartawick

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    An enhanced audiobook, with complete music score and extensive sound effects to add to your listening experience. 
    The bride carried no decaying roses, but her bridal dress was torn and burnt. Her bare legs, starved needle points, staggered disjointedly. The veil hung low over her face. I had my pistol, however I could not shoot. If it was a ghost, the bullet would surely pass through. If it was flesh, then I would be shooting dead a woman. Her hands, the fingernails long and cracked, lifted up the veil. Her face! Even in the darkness I could see its ruin. The eyes had been snatched from its sockets, the nose sunken in; all that was left was the mouth. Thin, melted lips parted to reveal brown chipped teeth. 
    A Roger Rittner Production. Pulp Radio — Audio Dramas. Narrated by Ian Whitcomb, with Barbara Goodson and J.W. Terry. Announced by Dave Mallow.
    Voir livre