Florianne Vidal Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

On a train departing from Manchester, a woman sits among sleepy commuters, wiping away tears and trying to remain unnoticed. Emily has a happy marriage, a child, and a beautiful home. Yet, she has just abandoned it all, relying on a train ticket and a new name. Hours earlier, she had dressed quietly and left the bedroom without a glance at her husband, certain that if he woke, he would stop her from leaving. Her departure was surprisingly easy; all it took was some money and a few essentials in her bag, while she pushed aside thoughts of those she was leaving behind. Emily is determined to seek a new beginning, to build a life entirely opposite to the respectable one she has led until now. However, a shadow looms: the memory of her twin sister, Caroline, who has always hated her and seemingly tried to ruin her life at every turn. What secret binds the two sisters, and what event from their past casts a dark shadow over Emily's escape? Is it truly so simple to disappear and start anew?

Keď spisovateľa Owena Quinea vyhlásia za nezvestného, jeho manželka sa obráti na súkromného detektíva Cormorana Strikea. Najskôr si myslí, že sa len na niekoľko dní vytratil, aby mohol byť osamote – ako to už v minulosti urobil – a tak od detektíva chce len, aby ho našiel a priviedol domov. Počas Strikeovho vyšetrovania sa však zistí, že v prípade ide o viac ako si Quineova manželka myslí. Nadaný autor práve dokončil „jedovatý“ rukopis knihy, ktorej vydanie by mohlo mnohým ľuďom skomplikovať alebo dokonca zničiť život. A je tak množstvo podozrivých, ktorí by mali dôvod spisovateľa umlčať...

Joss Cole, a burned out public defender from LA, has opted for a quieter life in Washington State. Then into her office walks Dean Belden in search of a lawyer to help him set up a business. Within days Belden appears before a federal grand jury and, just minutes before testifying, he is killed. Meanwhile, Gideon van Ry, a nuclear fission expert in California, is troubled by the failure to account for two nuclear devices missing from the former Soviet Union. Under a false bill of lading, they were shipped to a company called Belden Electronics, and Gideon's only lead is the lawyer who incorporated Belden Electronics - Joss Cole...