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England 1922: Um sich von einer schweren Krankheit zu erholen, reist die junge Lucy mit ihrer Gouvernante nach Ägypten. Bald schon ist sie fasziniert von der Schönheit des fernen Landes und dem illustren Kreis bedeutender Archäologen und ihrer Familien. In Frances findet sie eine beste Freundin, gemeinsam erleben die beiden die aufregenden Entdeckungen im Tal der Pyramiden mit und erforschen die rätselhafte Welt der Erwachsenen – eine Welt aus Halbwahrheiten und dunklen Geheimnissen. Noch Jahre später werfen die Geheimnisse, die ihren Anfang in Ägypten nehmen, ihre Schatten auf Lucys Leben und gefährden ihre große Liebe ...

In this collection of suspenseful tales in which fantasies, murderous dreams and half-forgotten worlds are exposed, Daphne du Maurier explores the boundaries of reality and imagination.

Het is zomer 1967. In een oud, vervallen huis in Suffolk maakt een kunstschilder een portret van de dertienjarige Maisie en haar twee zussen. Tijdens het poseren vertelt Maisie hem over haar familie en haar idool Daniel, een jonge zigeuner uit het dorp. Is haar idyllische verhaal echter wel de juiste weergave van de werkelijkheid ? Die zomer verandert het leven van de drie zussen onherroepelijk en verschrikkelijk. Na meer dan twintig jaar keert Daniel terug naar het dorp , belaagd door wanhopige herinneringen en schuldgevoelens.

If I didn't spy, I'd be in the dark eternally. I live in a maze of unknowing -- Maisie's maze -- and I hate it. I need to be informed . . .' The summer of 1967, at a decaying house in the heart of Suffolk: an artist is painting a portrait of thirteen-year-old Maisie and her elder sisters, beautiful Julia and bookish Finn. Maisie embarks on a portrait of her own: she begins an account of her family and of her village friend Daniel Nunn, a young man she idolises, whom she watches over the chasm of a class divide. But is Maisie's description of a summer idyll all it seems? This is the summer when the three sisters' lives will irrevocably, and terribly, change. The winter of 1991, in London: the now-famous portrait of the three sisters features in a major retrospective. Daniel Nunn, haunted by the vanished England of his childhood, obsessed by the three sisters and newly determined to understand what happened that last summer, pursues the ghosts of his past.

Anglická spisovateľka Daphne du Maurier (nar. 1907 v Londýne) sa po skončení štúdií v Paríži vracia do vlasti. Bohaté skúsenosti ju priam uspôsobili, aby ich preliala do literatúry. Daphne du Maurier získala úspech románom Rebeka, ktorý pre pútavý príbeh prenikol v desiatkach prekladov do cudzích rečí (bol aj sfilmovaný) najmä medzi stredné, široké čitateľské vrstvy na celom svete. Krásna a mŕtva Rebeka dlho hádže svoj tieň na novú, mladú a neskúsenú paniu zámku v Manderley uprostred rozorvanej a tajomnej prírody na juhovýchodnom pobreží Cornwallu. V dramatickom deji, ktorý sa v poslednej časti priam detektívne valí k vyústeniu, sa odhalí ozajstná príčina smrti krásnej Rebeky, aj keď sa pravda nesmela dostať na verejnosť. Nová pani v Manderley sa zbaví posadnutia, nájde pokoj a napokon hádam aj šťastie.

On the twentieth anniversary of the death of Rebecca, the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter, family friend Colonel Julyan receives an anonymous parcel. It contains a black notebook with two handwritten words on the title page -- Rebecca's Tale -- and two pictures: a photograph of Rebecca as a young child and a postcard of Manderley. Rebecca once asked Julyan to ensure she was buried in the churchyard facing the sea: if she ended up in the de Winter crypt, she warned, she'd come back to haunt him. Now, it seems, she has finally kept her promise. Julyan's conscience has never been clear over the official version of Rebecca's death. Was Rebecca the manipulative, promiscuous femme fatale her husband claimed. Or the gothic heroine of tragic proportions that others had suggested. The official story, the 'truth', has only had Maxim's version of events to consider. But all that is about to change . . .

L'Inghilterra è invasa da una nuova, letale droga: la "Colomba Bianca". Durante un party una ragazza muore ed un'altra sparisce con un pusher. Un insolito terzetto di investigatori - una reporter di guerra, una redattrice di moda ed un giornalista - decide di indagare sul traffico di stupefacenti, che sembra aver raggiunto anche il modo della moda.

Romantic thriller with the characters from Lovers and liars and Danger zones, featuring journalist Gini Hunter.