Black Swan Gone Дикин Леона

How can you solve a crime if you can't remember the clues? • There is an explosion at a military ball. The casualties are rushed to hospital in eight ambulances, but only seven vehicles arrive. Captain Harry Peterson is missing • His girlfriend calls upon her old friend Dr Augusta Bloom to support the investigation. But no one can work out if there is a connection between the bomb and the disappearance • When Harry is eventually discovered three days later, they hope he holds the answers to their questions. But he can't remember a single thing • Without any clues, will Dr Bloom find herself lost in this puzzle too?

Five footprints are the only sign that Daniel Buck was ever here • Yesterday they were a family just like any other: Anna and James, and their little boy, Daniel • But in one careless moment everything changed • A front door accidentally left ajar . . . and Daniel was gone • Now they are a pair of strangers who can't even look each other in the eye • Distrust and unspoken words fill the void where their son used to be • Anna will go to any lengths to find Daniel - a four-year-old doesn't just vanish into thin air. But how far will this desperate search push her? • Right to the brink • And beyond

They are driving home from the search party when they see her. The trees are coarse and tall in the winter light, standing like men • Lauren and her father Niall live alone in the Highlands, in a small village surrounded by pine forest. When a woman stumbles out onto the road one Halloween night, Niall drives her back to their house in his pickup. In the morning, she's gone • In a community where daughters rebel, men quietly rage, and drinking is a means of forgetting, mysteries like these are not out of the ordinary. The trapper found hanging with the dead animals for two weeks. Locked doors and stone circles. The disappearance of Lauren's mother a decade ago • Lauren looks for answers in her tarot cards, hoping she might one day be able to read her father's turbulent mind

Chrissie, in the twenty-three years she'd been together with Richie, had always believed that he loved her • He loved their three daughters and their house in Highgate and their happy, lively existence. But if she really was the love of his life, why had he never given her the one thing that would have made her life perfect? • Then suddenly Richie is no longer there, and without him Chrissie's carefully constructed life is in jeopardy.The one big fact she had always tried to keep from her daughters threatens to overwhelm them all. For Richie had still been married to his first wife, the one with a son that he had abandoned in Newcastle • And now, with Richie gone and the practicalities of wills and money to be sorted out, it is finally time for the two families to face each other

When the children have come and gone, can a marriage pick up where it left off? • Ben is, at last, leaving home. At twenty-two, he's the youngest of the family • His mother, Edie, an actress, is distraught • His father, Russell, a theatrical agent, is rather hoping to get his wife back • His brother, Matthew, is struggling in a relationship in which he achieves and earns less than his girlfriend • And his sister, Rosa, is wrestling with debt and the end of a turbulent love affair • Meet the Boyd family and the empty nest, twenty-first-century style

'I wanted someone to know, you see. To know my truth, now that I am gone. How everything and none of it happened.' • Everyone knew bestselling novelist Cassandra Tipp had twice got away with murder • Even her family were convinced of her guilt • So when she disappears, leaving only a long letter behind, they can but suspect that her conscience finally killed her • But the letter is not what anyone expected. It tells two chilling, darkly disturbing stories. One is a story of bloody nights and magical gifts, of children lost to the woods, of husbands made from twigs and leaves and feathers and bones • The other is the story of a little girl who was cruelly treated and grew up crooked in the shadows • But which story is true? And where is Cassie now?

Lots of husbands forget things: they forget that their wife had an important meeting that morning; they forget to pick up the dry cleaning; some of them even forget their wedding anniversary • But Vaughan has forgotten he even has a wife. Her name, her face, their history together, everything she has ever told him, everything he has said to her - it has all gone, mysteriously wiped in one catastrophic moment of memory loss. And now he has rediscovered her - only to find out that they are getting divorced • The Man Who Forgot His Wife is the funny, moving and poignant story of a man who has done just that. And who will try anything to turn back the clock and have one last chance to reclaim his life

Все пошло наперекосяк с мужчиной, которого Лотти считала мистером Правильным. И тут, как гром среди ясного неба, ей звонит ее первая любовь. Она решает, что это, должно быть, судьба, и спешит выйти за него замуж, чтобы возродить их пылкий роман на греческом острове • Старшая сестра Лотти не может поверить, что она совершает такой безумный поступок. Больше никакой мисс Милая сестра, она расторгает этот брак. Немедленно! И она пойдет на все, лишь бы это сделать • Книга Софи Кинселлы «Брачная ночь» — остроумный роман, отличный подарок любителям легких теплых и оптимистичных историй • Книга на английском языке • It's all gone wrong with the man Lottie thought was Mr Right. Then out of the blue she gets a call from her first love. She decides it muct be Fate, and rushes off to marry him and rekindle their sizzling Greek island romance

Все пошло наперекосяк с мужчиной, которого Лотти считала мистером Правильным. И тут, как гром среди ясного неба, ей звонит ее первая любовь. Она решает, что это, должно быть, судьба, и спешит выйти за него замуж, чтобы возродить их пылкий роман на греческом острове • Старшая сестра Лотти не может поверить, что она совершает такой безумный поступок. Больше никакой мисс Милая сестра, она расторгает этот брак. Немедленно! И она пойдет на все, лишь бы это сделать • Книга Софи Кинселлы «Брачная ночь» — остроумный роман, отличный подарок любителям легких теплых и оптимистичных историй • Книга на английском языке • It's all gone wrong with the man Lottie thought was Mr Right. Then out of the blue she gets a call from her first love. She decides it must be Fate, and rushes off to marry him and rekindle their sizzling Greek island romance

A fascinating and revelatory journey along the Danube to appeal to fans of Michael Palin's New Europe • The Danube is Europe's Amazon. It flows through more countries than any other river on Earth - from the Black Forest in Germany to Europe's farthest fringes, where it joins the Black Sea in Romania. Andrew Eames' journey along its length brings us face to face with the Continent's bloodiest history and its most pressing issues of race and identity • As he travels - by bicycle, horse, boat and on foot - Eames finds himself seeking a bed for the night with minor royalty, hitching a ride on a Serbian barge captained by a man called Attila and getting up close and personal with a bull in rural Romania. He meets would-be kings and walks with gypsies, and finally rows his way beyond the borders of Europe entirely

Sue Black confronts death every day. As a Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment, and when investigating mass fatalities due to war, accident or natural disaster • In All That Remains she reveals the many faces of death she has come to know, using key cases to explore how forensic science has developed, and examining what her life and work has taught her • Do we expect a book about death to be sad? Macabre? Sue's book is neither. There is tragedy, but there is also humour in stories as gripping as the best crime novel • Part memoir, part science, part meditation on death, her book is compassionate, surprisingly funny, and it will make you think about death in a new light