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P. I. Louis Kincaid has never liked working for the rich. Despite the blinding white of the Palm Beach pavement and the gleaming metal of the Bentleys at the curbside, it's clear to him that the creepy cleanliness only runs so deep. When the headless body of a male escort is found in the aptly named Devil's Garden, Louis's client is in the frame. Determined to clear his name, Louis is forced to delve behind the bedroom doors of the wealthiest women in the county as he uncovers a series of simila r murders: young, handsome, penniless men who have been keeping company with rich, married, powerful women. But in a county where power is everything, women here will do anything to preserve their place in the social pecking order, and if someone bre aks the rules, someone pays. Louis must watch his back, as behind Palm Beach's united front lurks a killer determined to cover their tracks.

Mitch Rapp, der beste Anti-Terror-Agent der CIA, wird bei einer gefährlichen Mission in Deutschland von seinen Auftraggebern verraten. Es gelingt ihm, der tödlichen Falle zu entkommen und in die USA zurückzukehren. Dort versucht er, die Hintermänner, die

Michael is a 66-year-old drunken arisotcrat fallen on hard times. He used to manage the family pile, a maginficent estate called Sitten Hall. But when the family got stung for inheritance tax he was forced to 'gift' it to the National Trust. Now he's stuck in sheltered housing, his mother, Granny Banana, is seeing out her last in Greenaways Nursing Home, and his despised brother Philip lives in suburbia with his exotic young wife and three children. But Michael's doing ok - until Granny Banana a ccidentally falls out of the back of his landrover. The least he could do was to give her the funeral she wanted, to be buried back at Sitten Hall with her cherished dog. But the family coffers aren't what they were, and Philip insists on a cremation and for the ashes to be scattered in the grounds of a local hotel. Determined to salvage the last of Banana, Michael contrives to steal the ashes, replacing them in the urn with sugar, but a farcical bungling of events leads to Granny Banana being b aked into one of three cakes to be presented as a raffle prize at the local swimming gala...THE OLD COUNTRY is Sam's most mature book yet.

P. I. Louis Kincaid has never liked working for the rich. Despite the blinding white of the Palm Beach pavement and the gleaming metal of the Bentleys at the curbside, it's clear to him that the creepy cleanliness only runs so deep. When the headless body of a male escort is found in the aptly named Devil's Garden, Louis's client is in the frame. Determined to clear his name, Louis is forced to delve behind the bedroom doors of the wealthiest women in the county as he uncovers a series of simila r murders: young, handsome, penniless men who have been keeping company with rich, married, powerful women. But in a county where power is everything, women here will do anything to preserve their place in the social pecking order, and if someone bre aks the rules, someone pays. Louis must watch his back, as behind Palm Beach's united front lurks a killer determined to cover their tracks.

A Saint-Ségur, en Corr?ze, les Monestier r?gnent sur la Renaudi?re depuis le xve si?cle. En cet été 1910, Angel, le patriarche, compte sur le riche mariage de sa fille Clémence pour assurer l'avenir. Et puis, le temps venu, Paul, l'aîné, prendra la rel?ve... Mais bientôt le fracas de la Grande Guerre vient bouleverser la paisible destinée du domaine. Aux pertes irréparables se sont ajoutées d'invisibles fissures, qui peu ? peu s'élargissent. L'évolution des mentalités, de la technologie et de l'économie ébranle les valeurs séculaires de la terre. Comment l'intransigeant Angel Monestier pourrait-il s'adapter ? ce monde qui lui échappe ? La prospérité de la Renaudi?re est pourtant ? ce prix...

125pages. 16,2x10,2x0,8cm. Poche.

Ce livre comporte une table de mati?res dynamique pour faciliter la lecture.A lire absolument ? tous les enfants !Vous découvrirez également la biographie de l'auteur Lewis Carroll (de son nom de plume Charles Dodgson), ainsi qu'une fiche énumérant les principales étapes de ses oeuvres.Comment est née l'histoire?: Ce fut au coeur d'un été tout en or, la journée du 4 juillet 1862. Alice, alors âgée de dix ans, fut l'inspiration de Charles Dodgson ( nom d'auteur: Lewis Carroll). Il la courtisait au moyen de devinettes ou de belles histoires composées ? son usage. L'histoire qu'il racontait par-dessus son épaule ? Alice, assise derri?re lui dans le canot, fut improvisée avec brio tout en maniant l'aviron. Lorsque la fille lui demanda d'écrire pour elle son histoire, il accomplit son chef-d'oeuvre: Il l'offrira ? son inspiratrice, Alice Liddell, le 26 novembre 1864.