10 Ergebnisse.

When travel blogger Evie Lorrigan arrives at the Villa Brocanti resort in Tuscany to review it, she is irritated to find no staff on duty, no phone signal and the pool closed. Undeterred, she decides to explore the Brocanti estate where deep in dense woods she discovers the boarded-up ruin of a massive villa. Her journalistic instincts piqued, Evie searches for and discovers a way in, only to find herself in a terrifying maze of tricks and t...

The Delusion Gambit' was originally published as 'Delusional Traits', the second part of the Rare Traits Trilogy.It is 1970 and artist Annie Carr has a problem. Charged with brutally murdering two people, she faces execution unless she can convince her court-appointed psychiatrist she is not fit to stand trial. And the only way she can do that is to tell the psychiatrist the truth about her life, all four hundred and fifty-two years of it.Over...

Fatal Consequences' was originally published as 'Murderous Traits'.Quincentenarian John Andrews is in a state of shock. Only weeks after meeting his long-lost daughter Paola for the first time, almost five hundred years after she was born in Naples, she has been abducted and the brutally murdered body of an unidentified woman has been found in the Cape Cod house where Paola lived.To add to John's confusion, DNA and eye-witness evidence show th...

Quincentenarian' was originally published as 'Rare Traits', the first part of the Rare Traits Trilogy.When forensic biochemist Claudia Reid sees the results of a routine DNA swab taken in connection with a drink-driving case, she cannot believe her eyes. Beyond rare, the profile is, as she confides to her best friend Sal, 'outrageously unique'. Convinced she has stumbled upon a major discovery in the world of genetics, Claudia ignores the rule...

This title was previously published as The Assassin's Dog by David George Clarke.COSIMO GRAZIANO ROSSELLI. A Mafia assassin who prides himself on his humanity: his victims feel nothing as they die, they simply cease to exist.When newly promoted Detective Sergeant Jennifer Cotton's close friend Detective Superintendent Trisha McVie disappears in mysterious circumstances, a huge search throughout the UK's East Midlands proves fruitless and frust...

Keine Beschreibung.

In 1895, Marchese Salvatore Brocanti abruptly abandoned the villa in the forests of Tuscany that had been his family home for generations. Today it lies hidden, crumbling and forgotten. But why did the tyrannical artist flee the palatial villa? Was it cursed as he insisted? Did his wife and children really desert him as he claimed? Or were his stories simply smoke and mirrors to hide a more sinister purpose? In 2018, after seeing extraordinary...

With the right DNA, you could be free from disease, free from ageing.You could even, perhaps, live forever.Like her father before her, Paola Santini has the right DNA.Centuries-old Renaissance artist John Andrews is in a state of shock. Just weeks after meeting his daughter, Paola, for the first time - almost 500 years after she was born in Naples - she is abducted and DNA evidence shows that the culprit is Jacques Bognard, John's seafaring fr...

With the right DNA, you could be free from disease, free from ageing.You could even, perhaps, live forever.John Andrews has the right DNA … and so did his daughter, Paola.In 2012, art-forgery expert Ced Fisher is contacted by a woman from Boston wanting him to compare paintings by two female artists - one modern and one from the 19th century. When Ced discovers that the paintings are by the same artist, he immediately thinks of his 600-year-ol...

With the right DNA, you could be free from disease, free from ageing. You could even, perhaps, live forever. John Andrews has the right DNA … John Andrews is an extraordinary man. Not only is he an artist as gifted as any of the old masters, but at almost 600 years old, he is as youthful as he was back in the 1460s. Born Luca di Stefano in early Renaissance Tuscany, he is apprenticed to the great fresco painter, Piero della Francesca. Luca has...