Ruth Rendell
Road Rage
The woods outside of Kingsmarkham were lovely, dark, and deep. And much of them were about to vanish forever when the new highway cut through.
While Chief Inspector Wexford privately despaired about the loss of his hiking grounds, local residents and outsiders were organizing a massive protest. Some of them may have been desperate enough to kidnap five hostages and threaten to kill them. One hostage was Wexford’s wife, Dora.
Now, combining high technology with his extraordinary detecting skills, Wexford and his team race to find the whereabouts of the kidnappers. Because someone has crossed from political belief to fanaticism, and as the first body is found, good intentions may become Wexford’s personal path to hell.
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En toute honneteté
Une vieille dame à héritage affligée de manies loufoques tyrannise ses domestiques attentionnés et ses enfants aigris. Lorsqu’elle décide de remplacer la moquette de sa maison victorienne par une épaisse moquette à poils synthétiques, elle ignore que c’est à ses risques et périls. Ainsi commence En toute honnêteté, la première nouvelle de ce recueil où Ruth Rendell sonde les phobies du quotidien : une répétition, une habitude deviennent insupportables et les gestes s’enchaînent jusqu’à l’irréparable. On en vient à glisser des amanites phalloïdes au milieu de barquettes de champignons dans un supermarché, à haïr les mots croisés du Times, à se persuader d’avoir c4séd’un proche, à utiliser la nicotine comme une arme fatale. Avec l’extrême finesse psychologique et l’économie de style trompeuse qu’on lui connaît, Ruth Rendell pratique ici la dissection des mobiles qui ont motivé les actes; jusqu’à exposer les moindres rouages des névroses de ses personnages pour créer, mieux qu’un suspense, un malaise lancinant.
Rome Houses
Anglais, Allemand, Italien, Espagnol – The streets of Rome may be filled with monuments to its imperial past but among the Renaissance palaces and Baroque basilicas, tombs and medieval bell towers, are several impressive examples of contemporary architecture and design. Packed with over 400 color illustrations that reveal a range of interior design styles both contemporary and classic, this addition to teNeues' highly regarded « Design Pocket » series allows the reader a rare glimpse into modern living in this most historic of European cities.
Adam Runaway
En Anglais – « It is 1721 and young Adam Hanaway, devastated by his father’s sudden death, leaves England to seek his fortune in Lisbon, where his uncle is a successful merchant. But almost nothing turns out as Adam planned. His family’s welcome is cool, and Adam’s rise to the top is thwarted by Bartolomeu Gomes, his uncle’s treacherous clerk. » « As Adam attempts to overcome these obstacles he is handicapped by a certain personal trait. Not, he insists, that he is a coward exactly, but he is inclined to boldly put himself in dangerous situations and then at the last minute run away from them – hence the nickname given to him by friends who had observed this failing once too often. » « While Adam’s mother and sisters wait in England for him to rescue them from poverty, Adam is preoccupied with more compelling women: the beautiful, older half-Portuguese lady Maria Beatriz Hutchinson; the spoiled, rich Gabriella Lowther; and his charming young cousin Nancy. But Adam commits a social faux pas so severe he forever ruins his chances for making a good match – yet no one dares tell him what he has done wrong! » « Adam certainly has a lot to learn. …
A judgement in stone
On Valentine’s Day, four members of the Coverdale family–George, Jacqueline, Melinda and Giles–were murdered in the space of 15 minutes. Their housekeeper, Eunice Parchman, shot them, one by one, in the blue light of a televised performance of Don Giovanni. When Detective Chief Superintendent William Vetch arrests Miss Parchman two weeks later, he discovers a second tragedy: the key to the Valentine’s Day massacre hidden within a private humiliation Eunice Parchman has guarded all her life. A brilliant rendering of character, motive, and the heady discovery of truth, A Judgement in Stone is among Ruth Rendell’s finest psychological thrillers.