J. P. Smith Bücher

Das Blut im Pool ist nur der Anfang. Jemand treibt Alex Mason in den Wahnsinn – oder in den Tod ... Alle sieben Jahre, so erzählen sich die Kinder am Lagerfeuer, verschwindet aus dem Feriencamp ein Junge. Jetzt ist es wieder soweit. Und tatsächlich fehlt von Joey Proctor plötzlich jede Spur. Das ängstliche Kind war von einem Betreuer allein auf einem Floß im See zurückgelassen worden. Seither wird Joey vermisst – und bleibt es. Zwanzig Jahre später ist aus Alex Mason, dem Betreuer von damals, ein millionenschwerer Immobilieninvestor geworden. Von den Ereignissen jenes Sommers hat Alex niemandem erzählt. Aber wie kommt auf einmal Blut ins Wasser seines Pools? Wer filmt nachts seine Familie im Schlaf? Und das ist erst der Anfang des Albtraums. Ist Joey zurückgekommen, um sich zu rächen?

Polish piano player Jerzy Wozzack brought his family to Paris to escape Communist rule. When a fellow émigré offers him an in on a high-paying job delivering anonymous packages to anonymous recipients, Jerzy finally finds himself flush with cash; but snared in the drug-smuggling schemes of a sadistic crime lord and his seductive assistant.

Divorced American academic David Reid teaches English by day and spends his free time writing mystery novels that nobody reads. In London he meets his new editor, Kate. Blonde and beautiful, she is also mysterious and aloof--and soon captivates David. The feeling seems mutual and the two are soon wed, but Kate quickly spirals into a deep sadness. In less than two years, she leaves David and heads to New York City. Just as the shock of her absence sets in, David receives a call announcing Kate's instant death under a subway train. Was Kate trying to return to David when she was killed? Was it an accident? A suicide? A murder? The more David learns, the less he wants to know--especially when he discovers Kate had been having an affair with French novelist Marc Rougemont, whose work she was allegedly translating. As David searches for the truth about his wife, he becomes fixated on two paintings of women by Dutch master Johannes Vermeer, for whom David and Kate shared a passion that bordered on obsession. Was his wife as unknowable as the subjects of these cryptic, beautifully rendered portraits?

Professor Jill Bowman, 42, learns that her husband, a psychiatrist, was murdered in a sleazy motel. As she examines her past to explain his cheating, she begins a relationship with the detective on the case.

When Adam Füst's wife, Honnie, suddenly vanishes, the couple's friends assume she was just unhappy and skipped town. Wracked with worry and confusion, Adam knows there's more to the story. When the realization hits that he doesn't know his wife well enough to find her, he enlists the help of a brilliant but amoral cop to comb the streets of Paris for her. The deeper their investigation goes, the more Adam learns about Honnie's past-- and the secrets she kept from him. Pimps, prostitution, murder... In this modern-day version of the Orpheus myth, Adam descends into Paris's underworld to find the woman he loves. The city's sex shops, seedy night clubs, and the people who inhabit them simultaneously repel Adam and draw him ever deeper, giving him a painfully clear look into Honnie's past--and his own soul. Adam's grief eventually gives way to his obsession with finding her, driving his sanity to the breaking point. Even if he should find Honnie, has he already lost her forever?

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