Книги пользователя perepelkin, жанр английская литература

1172, Britain - king's lover is dead, and the bishop of St Albans summons an Italian female physician-cum-detective to find out the truth...

In medieval Cambridge, England, four children have been murdered. The crimes are immediately blamed on the town's Jewish community, taken as evidence that Jews sacrifice Christian children in blasphem...

Adelia Aguilar is a unique person - she is Doctor to the Dead, in XI century. She has to accompany 10-year-old Princess Joanna on her thousand-mile journey to marry the King of Sicily. But when member...

On compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Thomas Lynley is called back to Scotland Yard when the body of a woman is found stabbed and abandoned in an isolated London cemetery. His former te...

Helen Dunmore's pen must have barely rested after her first novel, Zennor in Darkness, was published in 1993. An extraordinarily prolific writer, she won the inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction for her...

One of the classic jewels by the Maitre.

Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing t...

M. Nabb lived in Florence for many years, and her superior knowledge of this part of Italy combines in her "marshal Guarnaccia" with her love for people and exquisite language. No ordinary w...

Reading this book was a real repose - dramatic family events, if sometimes predictable, are masterfully intertwined with descriptions of English country and its modern life.

A welcome return to a writer whose last book, the much loved and admired Girl With a Pearl Earring has been such an outstanding success. 1901, the year of the Queen's death. The two graves stood next ...

A nun tries to drown himself (Portugal, 1970s). She is saved and intends to thank her savior with a treasure hidden for her by her late mother. That's when the skeletons in the cupboard begin to rattl...

Что делать жителям городка Литтл-Пэддокс, когда в утренних газетах они обнаруживают объявление следующего содержания: "Объявлено убийство, которое произойдет в пятницу, двадцать девятого октября,...

Англия, 1837 год. Когда королева Виктория начинает свое правление, Элиза Актон вносит последние штрихи в сборник стихов. Она мечтает, чтобы ее книга увидела свет, но своенравный издатель уверяет Элизу...

Роман из знаменитой дилогии, произведение яркое и горькое, не способное оставить читателя равнодушным. Что принесла человеку `жизнь наверху`, во имя которой онпожертвовал самым дорогим, что имел, во и...