Dieser Autor erforscht komplexe menschliche Beziehungen durch scharfsinnige Schriften, die sowohl Theater- als auch Prosaformen umfassen. Seine Drehbücher für namhafte britische Sendeanstalten zeugen von meisterhafter Erzählkonstruktion. Mit seinem Debüt wagte er sich in die Romanlandschaft und erhielt sofortige kritische Anerkennung in einem Genre, das für seine verschlungenen Handlungsstränge bekannt ist. Sein Werk schwingt mit einem tiefen Verständnis der menschlichen Natur und ihres Platzes in der Welt mit.
Die Protagonistin Missy flieht wütend vor einem drohenden Streit mit ihrem Partner und fährt ziellos in ihrem Auto, um ihre Gedanken zu ordnen. Während sie über den Konflikt nachgrübelt, wird ihr bewusst, dass sie scheinbar die einzige Verkehrsteilnehmerin auf der Autobahn ist. Diese unerwartete Einsamkeit verstärkt ihre innere Zerrissenheit und lässt sie über ihre Beziehung und die zugrunde liegenden Probleme nachdenken.
Denton, 1984. After a morning's betting at the races, bookmaker George Price is found in his car, barely alive with a bullet in his head. As he's rushed to hospital, Detective Inspector Jack Frost and the Denton police force start their hunt for the would-be murderer. But with a long list of enemies who might want the bookie dead, the team have got their work cut out for them. And with a slew of other crimes hitting the area, from counterfeit goods to a violent drugs gangs swamping Denton with cheap heroin, the stakes have never been higher. Will Frost find the answers he's looking for before things go from bad to worse?
When art dealer Ivan Fielding is found dead of a heart attack in his home, surrounded by the treasures he's collected all his life, it doesn't initially seem like a case for Detective Inspector Frost and the Denton police force. But then signs of a burglary are discovered, and Frost senses there's more to the story than meets the eye - even though the only thing taken was a worthless amateur painting. Then a young girl is abducted outside the school, an infamous gangster fresh from prison arrives in the area, and dead bodies start turning up in the woods. As Frost and his team dig deeper, everything seems to lead back to Ivan Fielding's murky lifetime of misdeeds. Will they find the answers they need before the dead man's past puts them all at risk?
A twisting and turning noir thriller that plays out like an amphetamine fuelled Greek tragedy.
It's the Swinging Sixties but not all barriers have come down. It is against this background of London society and villainy that detective Vince Treadwell enters when investigating the seemingly unrelated murder of a young black woman in Notting Hill and blue-blooded Johnny Beresford in Belgravia.
Behind the Painting
A revelatory compilation of sketchbook pages from a protagonist of 1970s New York painting Nachume Miller (1949-98) was a German-born Israeli painter who became well known in the US after immigrating to New York City in 1974. Miller's first major exhibition was the Guggenheim's Young American Artists: 1978 Exxon National Exhibition(he was the youngest artist ever to present work at the museum); he also exhibited at Exit Art, MoMA and the E.M. Donahue Gallery. Throughout his career, Miller kept an almost daily record of his creative process. This monograph compiles pages from his sketchbooks spanning the years 1976 to 1998, and provides insight into his life, work and inventive practices. Meticulously dated, the sketchbooks are filled with plans and ideas for potential paintings, expressive watercolors and drawings, diary entries about family life, commentary on the art world, notes to himself and simple to-do lists.