Detective Age

Few were disappointed when Raoul Vernet was found with his head bashed in, dead in a pool of his own blood. On vacation in England, the Belgian seducer comes to visit Matilda, an old flame from a few years before. She agrees despite suspicions that Vernet has been deploying his legendary charm on another member of the family: young Rosie, who has returned from her Swiss boarding school carrying a child. None of the family members were in the house when Raoul was killed, but all were within a fog-choked London mile.

Pip is a poor orphaned boy who lives together with his sister and her husband. Pip is not educated but has great dreams of the future. He is determined to get out of the low class and seek progress in the higher class. One day a lawyer appears. Pip has suddenly received a large fortune from a secret benefactor and he has to get to London to start his education. Pip’s life changes in a second. But he is ready to embark on his next journey.

Talented, ambitious designer-dressmaker Rose Burnham knows well both the strains of her profession and the secrets it can yield. Newly established in her own business, she and her sisters are privy to the hushed conversations that unspool behind the fitting room’s closed doors. So when a major client finds herself the victim of a deception, it is Rose she tells. Driven by the shortage of men following the Great War, Miss Holmes had engaged the services of a matrimonial agency, only to be cheated out of her inheritance by a fake suitor.

I knew I was in Paris, I knew that was the Seine beneath me, the sky above, but when I looked around for help, the grand apartment buildings of the Quai Voltaire stared back at me, indifferent. In the sixth arrondissement everything is perfect, and everyone is lonely. This is the Paris of 13-year-old Paul. Shy and unloved, he quietly observes the lives of the self-involved grown-ups around him: his glamorous maman Séverine; her young musician lover, Gabriel; and his fitness-obsessed papa, Philippe.

Back to "Night School". Wenn du an einen der sichersten Orte der Welt gebracht wirst und sie dich trotzdem finden... Gray, die Tochter der Premierministerin, wird zu ihrem Schutz nach Cimmeria, einem Eliteinternat, gebracht. Es dauert jedoch nicht lange, bis ihre Feinde sie aufgespürt haben.

Back to "Night School". Nach einem missglückten Partybesuch muss Gray Langerty, die rebellische 16-jährige Tochter der neuen Premierministerin in Hausarrest. Die unfreiwillige Freizeit nutzt sie, um die Downing Street Number 10 mit all ihren verborgenen Winkeln und Ecken zu erkunden. Eines Nachts stößt sie dabei auf einen alten Tunnel, der direkt ins Parlament führt. Dort belauscht sie ein Gespräch zweier Politiker: Sie planen einen Mordanschlag auf Grays Mutter, um selbst an die Macht zu gelangen. Sofort erzählt Gray ihrer Mutter davon.

Das Schicksal der Bienen liegt in ihren Händen... Mel weiß noch nicht so recht, was sie mit ihrem Leben anstellen will und gönnt sich ein Jahr Auszeit: als Köchin, Gärtnerin und Seele ihrer WG in San Francisco. Im Garten der alten Villa kümmert sie sich liebevoll um einen Bienenstock, denn zu diesen Tieren verspürt sie eine besondere Verbundenheit, ähnlich wie vor Jahren schon ihre Großmutter. Doch eines Tages wird der Stock von einer täuschend echten Bienen-Drohne angegriffen. Unversehens geraten die vier jungen WG-Freunde in eine hochbrisante Verschwörung.

Hot Springs Arkansas The 1920s On the eve of her eighteenth birthday, Bethany is eager to celebrate at the Arlington Hotel. More than anything she wants to cut her long hair into a bob, raise her hemline, and learn to do the Charleston. Unfortunately, every aspect of her life is strictly controlled by her aunt and uncle who want to keep her--and her inheritance--stiflingly close. If they have their way, she will return from her holiday engaged to her uncle’s new business partner. Little do any of them know Al Capone has rented the fourth floor of the Arlington, and one of his men has ...

Sam, James and the gang are off to 4th grade science camp. When they arrive, Sam discovers his brand new iPod in his suitcase–which is against rules. He hides it and hopes the camp counselor doesn’t find out he has it. Later he discovers it's missing. Now Sam, James and the others have to find it before camp is over or he may never see it again!

Welcome to Willieville is a novelette set in 1998 about a high school graduate, Willie, whose friend is murdered while they party on a warm Friday night, out behind the 7-Eleven. He's in a suburb north of Detroit where the primary mission of the police is to keep things just the way they are. Willie, nearly killed in the attack that took his friend's life, didn't see who did it, so the police have little to go on, and assume that it was a drug deal gone bad. Forced to investigate on his own, Willie makes a terrible discovery about the murderer.

When Nick O'Reilly is invited to Sherlock Lake by his friend Danny, he is more than apprehensive. Nick is familiar with the ghost story that surrounds that place, and he is not one to meddle with situations like that. However, after Danny pushes him into it, criticizing his confidence, Nick feels like he has no choice. The two wander down to the lake to explore the legend that surrounds it, and when they do, they get more than they bargained for. The Mystery at Sherlock Lake is a short story that will thrill you with its mysterious twists and turns and leave you wondering what will happen ...

Una strana processione di luci appare in mare aperto e finisce nella Grotta dei Morti, dove è sepolta la "madre più antica del mondo". Tre ragazzi partono all'avventura: un'aspirante archeologa, un inventore pasticcione e un ristoratore innamorato della propria terra e dell'archeologa. Riusciranno a dimostrare che i fantasmi esistono? Un'avventura stile Goonies ambientata nell'Alto Salento, per nostalgici anni '80 e '90. Libro pubblicato in cartaceo ed ebook con editore tradizionale.

In 1930s London, celebrity psychiatrist Anselm Rees is discovered dead in his locked study. There seems to be no way a killer could have escaped unseen. There are no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence of the murder weapon. Stumped by the confounding scene, the Scotland Yard detective on the case calls on retired stage magician turned part-time sleuth Joseph Spector. Spector has a knack for explaining the inexplicable, but even he finds that there is more to this mystery than meets the eye.

Judit é unha nena a piques de facer os doce anos que debuxa moi ben. Vive con súa nai e co seu avó en Xenebra. O pai, un famoso pintor, marchou para Hungría cando era pequena. Mentres Judit se está a preparar para participar nun concurso de debuxo, o xadrez crúzaselle inesperadamente no camiño e comeza a afeccionarse. Judit xogará moitas partidas, pero unha delas vaille cambiar a vida. O seu contrincante será Mr. Aliyat, un estraño mestre do xadrez, nacido en Irán, que se comunica con ela a través de enigmáticas notas.