Durante un concerto a Londra, il violinista Gideon Davies improvvisamente si blocca e non riesce più a suonare. Sconcertato e confuso si rivolge a un terapeuta, la dottoressa Rose, la quale si convince che il blocco di Gideon sia da ricondurre a un trauma infantile, conseguente alla tragica morte della sorellina Sonia, annegata nella vasca da bagno. Dopo che la madre di Gideon, sparita da casa vent'anni prima, viene ritrovata morta, investita da un pirata della strada, la polizia decide di riaprire il caso Davies e i sospetti cadono sulla bambinaia tedesca, Katja Wolff, appena uscita di prigione dopo aver scontato vent'anni per negligenza criminale.

Explores the fruit of the Spirit, discussing the blessings of making them a part of everyday life.

Il tranquillo villaggio inglese di Keldale è lo sfondo di un delitto tanto atroce quanto inspiegabile: Roberta, adolescente introversa, viene trovata accanto al cadavere decapitato del padre e le sue uniche parole sono una confessione senza la minima ombra di pentimento. Il parroco, convinto dell'innocenza della ragazza, si reca di persona a Londra per convincere Scotland Yard ad affidare le indagini all'ispettore Thomas Lynley. Coadiuvato dal sergente Barbara Havers, Lynley indagherà nel passato della famiglia di Roberta, scoprendo che la giovanissima madre e la sorella più grande sono scomparse in circostanze misteriose.

The author interprets parts of the book of Proverbs for very young girls.

Guides clinicians and researchers in choosing practical tools relevant for clinical assessment, intervention, and research in depression. Overviews some 90 key assessment tools, and provides summary tables comparing and contrasting different instruments in terms of their requirements, suitability, costs, administration, reliability, and validity. Sample copies of 25 instruments in the public domain are included. For instruments commercially available, samples of instrument content and information about how to purchase them are provided. Lacks a subject index. Nezu is affiliated with MCP Hahnemann University. Wire comb binding. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

A Londra un produttore di musical si suicida inspiegabilmente dopo la trionfale prima della sua nuova opera. Tre mesi più tardi, nella brughiera del Derbyshire, vengono trovati i corpi senza vita di Nicola, figlia di un ex poliziotto, e di un giovane ucciso a coltellate. Quale può essere il legame tra i due eventi? L'ispettore Linley di Scotland Yard comincia la difficile indagine senza la sua partner abituale, Barbara Havers, degradata per insubordinazione, che condurrà invece un'indagine parallela. In un crescendo di sospetti, la George scava a fondo nell'animo umano, facendone emergere i desideri e le paure più inconfessabili.

After his parents are killed by the Romans, Daniel loses all ability for compassion and forgiveness until he gains a new understanding through the teachings of Jesus

Balford-le-Nez is a dying seatown on the coast of Essex. But when a member of the town's small but growing Asian community, is found dead on its beach, his neck broken, sleepy Balford-le-Nez ignites. Working solo, without her long-time partner Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, Sergeant Barbara Havers must probe not only the mind of a murderer and a case very close to her own heart, but the terrible price people pay for deceiving others...and themselves.

Soltanto la natura offriva a Ian Armstrong quella pace che il resto della sua vita gli negava. Ma la pace che si sarebbe trovato davanti quella mattina, durante la sua passeggiata sul Nez, era del tipo che nessuno si augurerebbe. Perché l'uomo trovato da Ian nella casamatta sul promontorio aveva raggiunto la pace eterna, anzi, qualcuno lo aveva costretto a raggiungerla. Un delitto non può mai lasciare indifferenti, ma quel delitto, per la gente di Balford-le-Nez, cittadina balneare sulla costa dell'Essex, ha lo stesso effetto di un'esplosione: per il modo efferato con cui è stato compiuto, per l'assoluto mistero che lo circonda, e soprattutto perché la vittima, Haytham Querashi, oltre ad appartenere alla piccola ma solida comunità pakistana insediatasi nella zona, avrebbe dovuto sposare di lì a poco Sahlah Malik, figlia del facoltoso Akram, così ben integrato nella società inglese da essere addirittura membro del consiglio comunale della cittadina. Ben presto l'omicidio diventa quindi l'epicentro di un terremoto razziale, in cui l'odio per i «diversi» - un odio troppo a lungo represso - finisce per travolgere chiunque abbia avuto a che fare con Querashi: in primo luogo i Malik, e soprattutto l'iroso Muhannad, fratello di Sahlah e attivista politico, ma anche la ricca Agatha Shaw, anziana e malata eppure combattiva, decisa a cancellare dalla «sua» città quel gruppo di «forestieri» che si ostina a mantenere usi e costumi «non inglesi», Theo, il suo quiete e riflessivo nipote, la sfortunata Rachel, unica amica di Sahlah. Una situazione davvero incandescente per Emily Barlow, l

Twelve-year-old Matt is left on his own in the Maine wilderness while his father leaves to bring the rest of the family to their new settlement. When he befriends Attean, an Indian chief's grandson, he is invited to join the Beaver tribe and move north. Should Matt abandon his hopes of ever seeing his family again and go on to a new life?

La piccola Charlotte, dieci anni, figlia del deputato conservatore Ewe Bowen (donna tanto affascinante quanto ambiziosa), viene rapita. E Dennis Luxford, spudorato direttore di un giornale scandalistico, riceve una lettera nella quale gli si chiede di riconoscere la paternità di Charlotte, e di farlo a lettere cubitali sulla prima pagina del suo tabloid... altrimenti la bambina sarà uccisa. Ma quale mistero si cela dietro quel ricatto? E se tutto non fosse altro che un abile, astutissimo e crudele tentativo di Dennis per fare uno scoop ai danni di Ewe e della sua carriera? Qual è l'oscuro legame che unisce Ewe e Dennis?

"The story begins with my father, actually, and the fact that I'm the one who's answerable for his death.  It was not my first crime, as you will see, but it is the one my mother couldn't forgive."

In her astonishing New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Elizabeth George reveals the even darker truth behind this startling confession. Playing for the Ashes is a rich tale of passion, murder and love in which Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers once again
find themselves embroiled in a case where nothing--and no one--is really what it seems.  Intense, suspenseful and brilliantly written, Playing for the
Ashes will make readers "search out the sleuthing pair's first six adventures...a treasure," as Cosmopolitan predicted in their review.

When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the lad's housemaster, who also happens to be an old school chum. Thus, the inspector, his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, and forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James find themselves once again outside their jurisdiction and deeply involved in the search for a child—and then, tragically, for a child killer. Questioning prefects, teachers, and pupils closest to the dead boy, Lynley and Havers sense that something extraordinarily evil is going on behind Bredgar Chambers's cloistered walls. But as they begin to unlock the secrets of this closed society, the investigation into Matthew's death leads them perilously close to their own emotional wounds—and blinds them to the signs of another murder in the making....

Award-winning author Elizabeth George gives us an early glimpse into the lives of Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James, and Lady Helen Clyde in a superlative mystery that is also a fascinating inquiry into the crimes of the heart. Lynley, the eighth earl of Asherton, has brought to Howenstow, his family home, the young woman he has asked to be his bride. But the savage murder of a local journalist is the catalyst for a lethal series of events that shatters the calm of a picturesque Cornwall village and embroils Lynley and St. James in a case far outside their jurisdiction—and a little too close to home. When a second death follows closely on the heels of the first, Lynley finds he can't help taking the investigation personally—because the evidence points to a killer within his own family.

Elena Weaver was a surprise to anyone meeting her for the first time. In her clingy dresses and dangling earrings she exuded a sexuality at odds with the innocence projected by the unicorn posters on her walls. While her embittered mother fretted about her welfare from her home in London, in Cambridge—where Elena was a student at St. Stephen's College—her father and his second wife each had their own very different image of the girl. As for Elena, she lived a life of casual and intense physical and emotional relationships, with scores to settle and goals to achieve--until someone, lying in wait along the route she ran every morning, bludgeoned her to death.

Unwilling to turn the killing over to the local police, the university calls in New Scotland Yard. Thus, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, enter the rarefied world of Cambridge University, where academic gowns often hide murderous intentions.

For both officers, the true identity of Elena Weaver proves elusive. Each relationship the girl left behind casts new light both on Elena and on those people who appeared to know her best—from an unsavory Swedish-born Shakespearean professor to the brooding head of the Deaf Students Union.

What's more, Elena's father, a Cambridge professor under consideration for a prestigious post, is a man with his own dark secrets. While his past sins make him neurotically dedicated to Elena and blind to her blacker side, present demons drive him toward betrayal.

Kenneth Fleming poteva avere tutto: ancora un passo e sarebbe diventato il più grande giocatore di cricket d'Inghilterra, avrebbe conquistato l'amore dei suoi sogni e avrebbe vinto la sua battaglia contro un destino iniquo e beffardo. E invece si è addormentato per sempre, lasciandosi alle spalle lo straziante rimorso di sua moglie Jean e il rancore e la solitudine delle altre donne che lo hanno amato. Troppe donne nella vita di Kenneth Fleming, e troppi misteri intorno alla sua morte. Ma Thomas Lynley, ispettore di Scotland Yard, è troppo onesto con se stesso per accettare la comoda spiegazione di un delitto perfetto, e troppo caparbio per lasciare che la verità svanisca per sempre in un pugno di cenere.

Deborah and Simon St. James have taken a holiday in the winter landscape of Lancastershire, hoping to heal the growing rift in their marriage. But in the barren countryside awaits bleak news: The vicar of Wimslough, the man they had come to see, is dead—a victim of accidental poisoning. Unsatisfied with the inquest ruling and unsettled by the close association between the investigating constable and the woman who served the deadly meal, Simon calls in his old friend Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley. Together they uncover dark, complex relationships in this rural village, relationships that bring men and women together with a passion, with grief, or with the intention to kill. Peeling away layer after layer of personal history to reveal the torment of a fugitive spirit, Missing Joseph is award-winning author Elizabeth George's greatest achievement.

Orphaned Kit Tyler knows, as she gazes for the first time at the cold, bleak shores of Connecticut Colony, that her new home will never be like the shimmering Caribbean island she left behind. In her relatives' stern Puritan community, she feels like a tropical bird that has flown to the wrong part of the world, a bird that is now caged and lonely. The only place where Kit feels completely free is in the meadows, where she enjoys the company of the old Quaker woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond, and on occasion, her young sailor friend Nat. But when Kit's friendship with the "witch" is discovered, Kit is faced with suspicion, fear, and anger. She herself is accused of witchcraft!