The Gown

En bok om ett par av kvinnorna (fiktiva) som broderade Drottning, då prinsessan Elizabeths brudklänning. Den var jättebra, kanske inte för sin litterära höjd, men för att den gjorde mig märkligt berörd. Det är något med tyg och handarbete, vet ni.

We Solve Murders

Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar habits and routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him when he comes home. His days of adventure are over: adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s business now.

Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. As a private security officer, she doesn’t stay still long enough for habits or routines. She’s currently on a remote island keeping world-famous author Rosie D’Antonio alive. Which was meant to be an easy job...

Then a dead body, a bag of money, and a killer with their sights on Amy have her sending an SOS to the only person she trusts. A breakneck race around the world begins, but can Amy and Steve stay one step ahead of a lethal enemy? 

 

 

 

Home Stretch

It is 1987 and a small Irish community is preparing for a wedding. The day before the ceremony, a group of young friends, including the bride and groom, are involved in an accident. Three survive. Three are killed.

The lives of the families are shattered and the rifts between them ripple throughout the small town. Connor survived, but living among the angry and the mourning is almost as hard as carrying the shame of having been the driver. He leaves the only place he knows for another life, taking his secrets with him. Travelling first to Liverpool, then London, he eventually makes a home—of sorts—for himself in New York, where he finds shelter and the possibility of forging a new life.

But the secrets—the unspoken longings and regrets that have come to haunt those left behind—will not be silenced. Before long, Connor will have to confront his past.

Det tog ett tag att komma in i boken och ett tag tänkte jag att jag inte intresserade mig tillräckligt för dessa människors öden för att fortsätta, men sen tog den sig och tog också en oväntad vändning.

De fenomenala fruntimren på Grand Hotel

I början av 1900-talet är Stockholm en stad i förändring. Medan rika drömmer om större bostäder med alla de nya faciliteter som pengar kan erbjuda, drömmer de fattiga om mat till familjen, en rimlig lön och färre råttor på gatorna.

Vid vattnet mitt emot slottet tronar Grand Hôtel, den omtalade juvelen i turistnäringen. Men hotellet är i ekonomisk knipa och styrelsen behöver en särskild kvinnas begåvning för att lyfta hotellet till nya höjder. Wilhelmina Skogh äger ett pärlband av hotell längs de svenska järnvägarna, och ser Grand Hôtels potential och betydelse för staden. Men hon är en lika fruktad som respekterad chef.

Samtidigt anländer den unga Ottilia till storstan från Rättvik för att påbörja sin anställning på det mytomspunna hotellet. Tillsammans med ett gäng andra kvinnor får hon kämpa mot orättvisor och hinder i en mansstyrd bransch. Kvinnor förväntas ju sköta hemmet – men vad är ett hotell om inte ett hem?

The Rising Tide

For fifty years a group of friends have been meeting regularly for reunions on Holy Island, celebrating the school trip where they met, and the friend that they lost to the rising causeway tide five years later. Now, when one of them is found hanged, Vera is called in. Learning that the dead man had recently been fired after misconduct allegations, Vera knows she must discover what the friends are hiding, and whether the events of many years before could have led to murder then, and now . . .

But with the tide rising, secrets long-hidden are finding their way to the surface, and Vera and the team may find themselves in more danger than they could have believed possible . . .

 

 

 

 

 

SPOILER 

På slutet dör en av Veras närmaste poliser, Holly. Väldigt sorgligt och oväntat. Hon blev anfallen och skadad, men jag trodde verkligen inte att hon skulle dö... 

The Darkest Evening

On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sets off for her home in the hills. Though the road is familiar, she misses a turning and soon becomes lost and disorientated. A car has skidded off the narrow road in front of her, its door left open, and she stops to help. There is no driver to be seen, so Vera assumes that the owner has gone to find help. But a cry calls her back: a toddler is strapped in the back seat.

Vera takes the child and, driving on, she arrives at a place she knows well. Brockburn is a large, grand house in the wilds of Northumberland, now a little shabby and run down. It’s also where her father, Hector, grew up. Inside, there’s a party in full swing: music, Christmas lights and laughter. Outside, unbeknownst to the revelers, a woman lies dead in the snow.

As the blizzard traps the group deep in the freezing Northumberland countryside, Brockburn begins to give up its secrets, and as Vera digs deeper into her investigation, she also begins to uncover her family’s complicated past.

The Last Devil To Die

An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing.

As the gang springs into action they encounter art forgers, online fraudsters and drug dealers, as well as heartache close to home.

With the body count rising, the package still missing and trouble firmly on their tail, has their luck finally run out? And who will be the last devil to die?

Som alltid så underhållande och fint skriven.