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Format: 448 Seiten

ISBN: 9783865528780

Content: Einige Türen sind aus einem bestimmten Grund verschlossen ... England, 1866: Als Elsie den reichen Erben Rupert Bainbridge heiratet, glaubt sie, nun ein Leben im Luxus vor sich zu haben. Doch nur wenige Wochen nach ihrer Hochzeit ist sie bereits verwitwet. Und dazu schwanger. Elsie bezieht das alte Landgut ihres verstorbenen Mannes. Da ihre neuen Diener ihr gegenüber äußerst reserviert sind, hat Elsie nur die ungeschickte Cousine ihres Mannes zur Gesellschaft. Zumindest glaubt sie das. Doch in ihrem neuen Zuhause existiert ein verschlossener Raum. Als sich dessen Tür für sie öffnet, findet sie ein 200 Jahre altes Tagebuch und eine beunruhigende, lebensgroße Holzfigur eine stille Gefährtin ...

Language: German

Keywords: Fiktionale Darstellung

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Format: 448 Seiten , 20,5 cm

Edition: 1. Auflage

ISBN: 9783986760182

Content: KRIMI/THRILLER Böses geschieht im Dunkeln. Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts hält die Fotografie in England Einzug, und die Scherenschnitt-Künstlerin Agnes kämpft verzweifelt darum, ihr Geschäft zu erhalten. Mit jedem Tag scheinen sich weniger Menschen für ihr besonderes Handwerk zu interessieren. Agnes sieht sich plötzlich mit Problemen konfrontiert, die sie immer mehr in die Dunkelheit ziehen. Doch in den Straßen von Bath lauert ein weiterer Schatten: ein heimtückischer Mörder, der es scheinbar auf ihre Kunden abgesehen hat. In ihrer Verzweiflung wendet sich Agnes an ein spirituelles Medium, die junge Pearl, die mit den Toten Kontakt aufnehmen soll. Die Wahrheit, die die beiden Frauen ans Licht bringen, wäre jedoch besser im Dunkeln geblieben ...

Note: Deutsch

Language: German

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Format: 512 Seiten , 20,5 cm

ISBN: 9783865529404

Content: Als ihre gemeinnützige Arbeit Dorothea Truelove zum Oakgate-Gefängnis führt, freut sie sich über die Gelegenheit, die Theorie der Phrenologie zu erforschen. Kann die Form des Schädels eines Menschen ein Licht auf seine dunkelsten Wesenszüge werfen? Doch als Dorothea die junge Schneiderin Ruth Butterham trifft, stellt sie sich ganz andere Fragen: Ist es möglich, mit Nadel und Faden zu töten? Denn Ruth schreibt ihre Verbrechen einer übernatürlichen Kraft zu, die ihren Stichen innewohnt. Die Geschichte, die sie über ihre tödlichen Kreationen zu erzählen hat - von Bitterkeit und Verrat, von Tod und Kleidern - wird Dorotheas Glauben an die Wissenschaft erschüttern. Ist Ruth verrückt? Nur ein Opfer? Oder eine eiskalte Mörderin?

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Language: German

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Format: 433 Seiten

ISBN: 9781526602503 , 1526602504

Content: Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken. But Dr Pinecroft has plans for a revolutionary experiment: convinced that sea air will prove to be the cure his wife and children needed, he arranges to house a group of prisoners suffering from the same disease in the cliffs beneath his new Cornish home. While he devotes himself to his controversial medical trials, Louise finds herself increasingly discomfited by the strange tales her new maid tells of the fairies that hunt the land, searching for those they can steal away to their realm. Forty years later, Hester Why arrives at Morvoren House to take up a position as nurse to the now partially paralysed and almost entirely mute Miss Pinecroft. Hester has fled to Cornwall to try and escape her past, but surrounded by superstitious staff enacting bizarre rituals, she soon discovers that her new home may be just as dangerous as her last.

Language: English

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Format: 364 Seiten

ISBN: 9781408888032

Content: Newly married, newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge. With her new servants resentful and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie only has her husband's awkward cousin for company. Or so she thinks. But inside her new home lies a locked room, and beyond that door lies a two-hundred-year-old diary and a deeply unsettling painted wooden figure – a Silent Companion – that bears a striking resemblance to Elsie herself...

Content: England, 1866: Als Elsie den reichen Erben Rupert Bainbridge heiratet, glaubt sie, nun ein Leben im Luxus vor sich zu haben. Doch nur wenige Wochen nach ihrer Hochzeit ist sie bereits verwitwet. Und dazu schwanger. Elsie bezieht das alte Landgut ihres verstorbenen Mannes. Da ihre neuen Diener ihr gegenüber äußert reserviert sind, hat Elsie nur die ungeschickte Cousine ihres Mannes zur Gesellschaft. Zumindest glaubt sie das. Doch in ihrem neuen Zuhause existiert ein verschlossener Raum. Als sich dessen Tür für sie öffnet, findet sie ein 200 Jahre altes Tagebuch und eine beunruhigende, lebensgroße Holzfigur – eine stille Gefährtin ...

Language: English

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ISBN: 9781408888117

Content: " Winner of the WHSmith Thumping Good Read Award As featured on the Radio 2 Book Club and the Zoe Ball ITV Book Club '[An] extraordinary, memorable and truly haunting book' Jojo Moyes '[It] shone, for originality for the sheer quality of the writing, the characters and some masterly chills' Peter James Some doors are locked for a reason... Newly married, newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge. With her new servants resentful and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie only has her husband's awkward cousin for company. Or so she thinks. For inside her new home lies a locked room, and beyond that door lies a two-hundred-year-old diary and a deeply unsettling painted wooden figure 8211 a Silent Companion 8211 that bears a striking resemblance to Elsie herself..."

Content: Biographisches: "Laura Purcell is a former bookseller living in Colchester, Essex with her husband and pet guinea pigs. She is the author of six novels, among them Gothic novel The Silent Companions , which was a Radio 2 Book Club pick, was selected for the Zoe Ball ITV Book Club and was the winner of the Thumping Good Read Award. Her short story 'The Chillingham Chair' was included in The Haunting Season anthology, which was an instant Sunday Times Bestseller. Recently, she wrote Roanoake Falls, a dramatic podcast for Realm, working with John Carpenter and Sandy King Carpenter.laurapurcell.com @spookypurcell" Rezension(2): "Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black:Ghost stories are for Christmas. Some recent ones haven't quite got it right but t his is terrific . Perfect setting, great build-up, chilling. What more could you want ? " Rezension(3): "Sunday Express:A deliciously creepy ghost story " Rezension(4): "Emerald Street:Laura Purcell has nailed it with a story that conjures up Susan Hill's The Woman In Black , Henry James's The Turn Of The Screw and a little bit of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier" Rezension(5): "Stylist, 'Must-Read Books':A creepy, unsettling tale that I had to finish reading in broad daylight " Rezension(6): "Woman & Home:Really tense and unnerving , it still won't let me go" Rezension(7): "Times Literary Supplement: A true page-turner.. .neatly crafted and compelling...with a spine-tingling revelation every few pages " Rezension(8): "Sophia Tobin, author of the Sunday Times bestseller The Silversmith's Wife and The Widow's Confession:Writing in the tradition of country house ghost stories, Laura Purcell has created a book that is unnerving and compelling in equal measure. The Silent Companions is an atmospheric gothic tale which chills the blood " Rezension(9): "Anna Mazzola, author of The Unseeing: Not since The Little Stranger has a book so entranced and haunted me . Compelling, bewitching and beautifully written. Read it if you dare " Rezension(10): "Lyndsay Faye, author of The Gods of Gotham:If The Silent Companions lands on your night table, don't plan on leaving your bed anytime soon. Immersive, meticulous, and reminiscent of the masters of gothic fiction 8211" Rezension(11): "Helen Sedgwick, author of The Comet Seekers: Frighteningly atmospheric , genuinely haunting and psychologically astute, the horror of The Silent Companions lingers like truth in the darkest corners of the human mind" Rezension(12): "Sunday Mirror:Things begin to go bump in broad daylight as well as the night. Compulsively creepy " Rezension(13): "Psychologies: Menacing and unsettling" Rezension(14): "Essie Fox, author of The Last Days of Leda Grey: Compelling and claustrophobic. The pages all but turn by themselves " Rezension(15): "Natasha Pulley, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street: Magnificently creepy ... I really wished it were longer" Rezension(16): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: January 8, 2018 Purcell’s debut is an atmospheric, eerie Victorian gothic novel centered around a decaying English country estate. Elsie has married into the Bainbridge family, which “had a nasty habit of losing their heirs.” Her own family history is similarly grim, her father having died gruesomely in an accident at the family’s matchstick factory. The two households, both alike in tragedy, unite, and the result is predictably disastrous. Elsie’s new husband dies suddenly, leaving her the sole mistress of his ancestral estate, the Bridge, with its distrustful servants and collection of lifelike wooden props, “not a statue or a painting but somewhere in between.” These figures multiply, assuming the likenesses of people from the house’s and Elsie’s history alike. Are they manifestations of Elsie’s subconscious fears, or malevolent forces of evil? Purcell skillfully maintains the ambiguity as she splinters the story into three timelines: Elsie’s stay at the estate over the winter of 1865,Elsie in a psychiatric hospital shortly thereafter, rendered mute and amnesiac after being accused of murder and arson,and a 17th-century account (found in an old diary) that sheds light on the origin of the evil lurking within the estate. Purcell’s novel is more formulaic than, say, Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger , but its combustible tale of a 19th-century woman tormented by an English country house’s creepy curios does produce sparks."

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Format: 364 Seiten

ISBN: 9781408888094

Language: English

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Format: 394 Seiten

ISBN: 9781408889527

Language: English

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Format: 416 Seiten , 21,6 cm

ISBN: 9781526602589

Content: Wicked deeds require the cover of darkness... A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead - and to try and identify their killers - in this beguiling new tale from Laura Purcell. Silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat. Still recovering from a serious illness herself, making enough money to support her elderly mother and her orphaned nephew Cedric has never been easy, but then one of her clients is murdered shortly after sitting for Agnes, and then another, and another... Desperately seeking an answer, Agnes approaches Pearl, a child spirit medium lodging in Bath with her older half-sister and her ailing father, hoping that if Pearl can make contact with those who died, they might reveal who killed them. But Agnes and Pearl quickly discover that instead they may have opened the door to something that they can never put back...What secrets lie hidden in the darkness?

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Language: English

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Format: 304 Seiten

ISBN: 9781526627186

Content: 'Spooky, atmospheric, brilliant... I think I love it the best out of all Laura's books. Watch out for it - but beware...' Bridget Collins, author of number one bestseller, The Binding'Deliciously creepy, riveting and full of heart with compelling characters and brilliant twists. The theatrical setting and use of the tragedies on stage that are woven expertly into the unfolding story is glitteringly dark and mesmerising' Jennifer Saint, Sunday Times bestselling author of Ariadne and ElektraBe careful what you wish for... it may just come true.At The Mercury Theatre in London's West End, rumours are circulating of a curse. It is said that the lead actress Lilith has made a pact with Melpomene, the tragic muse of Greek mythology, to become the greatest actress to ever grace the stage. Suspicious of Lilith, the jealous wife of the theatre owner sends dresser Jenny to spy on her, and desperate for the money to help her family, Jenny agrees. What Jenny finds is a woman as astonishing in her performance as she is provocative in nature. On stage, it's as though Lilith is possessed by the characters she plays, yet off stage she is as tragic as the Muse who inspires her, and Jenny, sorry for her, befriends the troubled actress. But when strange events begin to take place around the theatre, Jenny wonders if the rumours are true, and fears that when the Muse comes calling for payment, the cost will be too high.

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Language: English