Vintage books The Comforts of Home Хилл Сьюзен

Однажды дождливой ночью супружеская пара приглашает в свой дом двух незнакомцев, нуждающихся в помощи. Это поступок, о котором они будут сожалеть всю оставшуюся жизнь • На другом конце города жестоко убита женщина, а ее муж остался без сознания • Связаны ли эти два преступления? • Детектив Саймон Серрайлер отправляется на расследование, но помешают ли ему его собственные демоны? • Книга на английском языке • One rainy night, a couple welcomes two strangers needing help into their home. It's an act they will regret for the rest of their lives • On the other side of town a woman is brutally murdered and her husband is left unconscious • Are the two crimes connected? • Detective Simon Serrailler sets out to investigate but will his own demons get in the way?

A gunman is terrorising young women • What links these seemingly random murders? Is the marksman with a rifle the same person as the killer with a handgun? Or do the police have two snipers on their hands? • Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler is in charge of the case, but is struggling to cope with a tragedy at the heart of his family • The pressure is mounting

Children are vanishing. The village of Lafferton is shattered • There are no witnesses and no leads - just a kidnapper at large • Then Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler receives a call: a child has been snatched in Yorkshire. Has the abductor struck again? And will they find this child alive?

В романе Сьюзен Хилл "Осмотрительность" Саймон Серрайлер сталкивается со своим самым опасным испытанием • Кафедральный город Лаффертон кажется идиллическим, но во многих отношениях он ничем не отличается от любого другого места. Являясь частью того же быстро меняющегося мира, он разделяет те же надежды и страхи, а также те же виды преступности, что и любое количество городов по всей стране • Когда однажды констебля Саймона Серрайлера вызывает новый главный констебль Лаффертона Кирон Брайт, его встречают четверо офицеров в штатском. Его просят взять на себя ведущую роль в сложной, потенциально опасной операции под прикрытием, и он должен немедленно покинуть город, никому ничего не сказав • Тем временем Кэт, сестра Саймона, сталкивается на работе с трудным выбором, который проверит ее преданность Национальной службе здравоохранения

Heavy rain falls on Lafferton. As the rain water slowly drains away, a shallow grave - and a skeleton - are revealed • It doesn't take long to identify the remains as those of missing teenager, Harriet Lowther, who was last seen sixteen years ago • But a cold case isn't a priority: if Detective Inspector Simon Serrailler is to solve the case, he will have to do it alone

A little boy is snatched at the gate of his home while he waits for his lift to school • An ex-con struggling to go straight finds himself drawn back into a criminal ring • A young woman hovers between life and death • Detective Chief Inspector Simon Serrailler is called in to investigate. But with dead ends mounting up and time running out, has he taken on a case so complex it threatens to defeat him?

How do you catch a killer who doesn't exist? • One snowy night in the cathedral city of Lafferton, an old woman is dragged from her bed and strangled with a length of flex • DCS Simon Serrailler and his team search desperately for clues to her murderer. All they know is that the killer will strike again, and will once more leave the same tell-tale signature • Then they track down a name: Alan Keyes. But Alan Keyes has no birth certificate, no address, no job, no family, no passport, no dental records. Nothing • Their killer does not exist

‘The funniest book in the world’ Evelyn Waugh • Mr Charles Pooter is a respectable man. He has just moved into a very desirable home in Holloway with his dear wife Carrie, from where he commutes to his job of valued clerk at a reputable bank in the City. Unfortunately neither his dear friends Mr Cummings and Mr Gowing, nor the butcher, the greengrocer's boy and the Lord Mayor seem to recognise Mr Pooter's innate gentility, and his disappointing son Lupin has gone and got himself involved with a most unsuitable fiancee • George and Weedon Grossmith's comic novel, perfectly illustrated by Weedon, is a glorious, affectionate caricature of the English middle-class at the end of nineteenth century

The story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was rife, and the gaols were bursting. From this situation was born the Sydney experiment, with criminals perceived to be damaging British society transported to Sydney, an 'open air prison with walls 14,000 miles thick' • Eleven ships were dispatched in 1781, and arrived in Australia after eight hellish months at sea. Tom Keneally describes the first four years of the 'thief colony' and how, despite the escapes, the floggings, the murders and the rebellions, it survived against the odds to create a culture which would never have been tolerated in its homeland but which, in Australia, became part of the identity of a new and audacious nation

The House of Mirth follows the tragic fall of Lily Bart, a beautiful socialite who loses her footing in the savage social-climbing world of New York high society in the nineteenth century • Lily Bart has no fortune, but she possesses everything else she needs to make an excellent marriage: beauty, intelligence, a love of luxury and an elegant skill in negotiating the hidden traps and false friends of New York's high society. But time and again Lily cannot bring herself to make the final decisive move: to abandon her sense of self and a chance of love for the final soulless leap into a mercenary union. Her time is running out, and degradation awaits. Edith Wharton's masterful novel is a tragedy of money, morality and missed opportunity

The Hill of Evil Counsel is a fusion of history and imaginative narrative, re-creating the twilight world of Jerusalem during the fading days of the British Mandate. In these three closely linked stories, Oz vividly evokes the stifling atmosphere of impending crisis as real personalities rub shoulders with fictional characters whose hopes and fears are hauntingly portrayed

The first modern spy novel and a must-read for espionage junkies and fans of James Bond and John Le Carre • When Carruthers receives a letter from his friend Davies suggesting a Baltic sailing trip, the vision of a manned yacht, A1 scenery and excellent duck shooting quickly works its charm. But Carruthers hopes for a holiday are quickly dashed. There has been suspicious German activity along the coast. The Medusa, manned by the sinister Dollman, has already tried to destroy Davies. What are the Germans up to? Nothing less than a plot to invade Britain. And only these two courageous Englishmen can stop them • Published in 1903, The Riddle of the Sands is considered the first modern spy novel