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William Olivier Desmond

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    Wilful Behaviour
    Just After Sunset
    Needful Things
    Collections Litterature: La Rose Noire
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    • Policier: La petite fille de ses rêves

      Une enquête du commissaire Brunetti - Das Mädchen seiner Träume, französische Ausgabe

      • 325 stránok
      • 12 hodin čítania

      Le commissaire Brunetti, après l'enterrement de sa mère, est sollicité par un missionnaire pour enquêter sur une secte à Venise. Son hésitation est interrompue par la découverte du corps d'une fillette dans un canal.

      Policier: La petite fille de ses rêves2012
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    • The Girl of His Dreams

      • 336 stránok
      • 12 hodin čítania

      Commissario Brunetti and Ispettore Vianello pull a body out of the Grand Canal. No one has reported a missing child, nor the theft of the gold jewellery that she carries. So Brunetti is drawn into a search not only for the cause of her death but also for her identity. His investigation takes him from the canals and palazzos of Venice to a Gypsy encampment on the mainland, as he struggles with institutional prejudice and entrenched criminality to try to unravel the fate of the dead child

      The Girl of His Dreams2011
      3,8
    • Just After Sunset

      • 576 stránok
      • 21 hodin čítania

      This collection of short works is comprised of pieces that previously appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Playboy, and McSweeney's, in a volume that includes such tales as " The Gingerbread Girl " and " N."

      Just After Sunset2010
      3,9
    • Wilful Behaviour

      • 295 stránok
      • 11 hodin čítania

      When one of his wife's Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it, beyond being intrigued and attracted by the girl's intelligence and moral seriousness. But when the girl is found dead, clearly stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo suddenly becomes Brunetti's case, no longer Paola's student. Claudia seems to have no discernible living family - her only familial relationship is with an elderly Austrian woman, who was the lover of her grandfather, but was not herself Claudia's grandmother. Brunetti is both intrigued and stunned by the extraordinary art collection the old woman keeps in her small, unprepossessing flat, and when she in turn is found dead, the case seems to have be about to open up long buried secrets of collaboration and the exploitation of Italian Jews during the war, secrets few in Italy are happy to explore...

      Wilful Behaviour2005
      3,9
    • Meet Will Kelly. English teacher. Film fan. King of sandwich construction. Still in love with The One, desperately searching for An-Other One. In his decrepit flat, Will's lifeline is the telephone. There's Alice (who remembers his birthday), Simon (who doesn't), Martina (the one-night stand), Kate (the previous tenant of his rented Archway fleapit) and of course Aggi - the inimitable Aggi. His Legendary Girlfriend. Or is she? Two men, three women and a donkey called Sandy...basically it's your classic love hexagon.

      My Legendary Girlfriend2005
      3,1
    • In Derry, Maine, four young boys once stood together and did a brave thing. Something that changed them in ways they hardly understand. A quarter of a century later, the boys are men who have gone their separate ways. Though they still get together once a year, to go hunting in the north woods of Maine. But this time is different. This time a man comes stumbling into their camp, lost, disoriented and muttering about lights in the sky. Before long, these old friends will be plunged into the most remarkable events of their lives as they struggle with a terrible creature from another world. Their only chance of survival is locked in their shared past - and in the Dreamcatcher.

      Dreamcatcher2002
      3,7
    • Rose Madder

      • 479 stránok
      • 17 hodin čítania

      Rose Daniels saw the single drop of blood on the bed sheet -- and knew she must escape from her macabre marriage before it was too late.

      Rose Madder1995
      3,6
    • Collections Litterature: La Rose Noire

      Roman

      • 400 stránok
      • 14 hodin čítania

      Darkness has fallen on the city of Portland, Oregon. One by one, the wives of affluent and respected men are vanishing from their homes. The only clues to their disappearance are a single black rose and a note that reads, "Gone, But Not Forgotten." It is the rebirth of a horror that has already devastated a community at the opposite end of the country—and, as it did then, terror and death will follow. Defense attorney Betsy Tannenbaum is trapped in a nightmare as the shadows of a killer darken her world. And she will soon be risking everything she has and everyone she loves to defend a cold, powerful, and manipulating client who may be a victim . . . or a monster.

      Collections Litterature: La Rose Noire1994
      3,0
    • With a demonic blend of malice and affection, Stephen King says farewell to Castle Rock, Maine, the town he put on the map. By the author of CARRIE, THE SHINING, NIGHT SHIFT, THE STAND, PET SEMATARY, MISERY, IT, THE DARK HALF and FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT.

      Needful Things1993
      4,0
    • Štyri po polnoci 1

      • 400 stránok
      • 14 hodin čítania

      Dva príbehy: 1.Langolieri /The Langoliers/ - poviedka, vychádzajúca z originálneho nápadu. Predstavte si, že letíte v lietadle, zaspíte a keď sa zobudíte, všetci cestujúci (okrem asi desiatich) sú preč. Zostali po nich len cennosti a zubné protézy pohádzané na zemi, v pilotnej kabínke nikto nie je a ešte taká drobnosť: stále letíte. Čo sa stalo? 2.Tajné okno, tajná záhrada /Secret Window,Secret Garden/- Úspešný spisovateľ trpí umeleckým blokom a keď mu na dvere zabúši šialenec z Mississippi, John Shooter, nastáva nová etapa v jeho živote. Tajomný cudzinec ho totiž obviní z najhoršieho zločinu na svete. Z umeleckej krádeže.

      Štyri po polnoci 11992
      3,8