Clare Francis ist eine Autorin, deren Romane vor der Kulisse lebendiger Landschaften spielen, inspiriert von ihrer Kindheitsliebe zu den Yorkshire Dales und der Isle of Wight. Ihre Werke, die von packenden Thrillern bis hin zu gefeierten literarischen Romanen reichen, erforschen oft Themen wie Abenteuerlust und die Widerstandsfähigkeit des menschlichen Geistes. Basierend auf ihrem reichen Hintergrund als Solo-Seglerin, durchdringt Francis ihre Prosa mit einem authentischen Sinn für Ort und einem tiefen Verständnis der menschlichen Psychologie. Ihre Fähigkeit, fesselnde Erzählungen und denkwürdige Charaktere zu schaffen, fand weltweit Anklang bei den Lesern.
In einer stürmischen Nacht im Norfolk-Marschland versuchen zwei Frauen verzweifelt, eine Schleuse zu schließen, als eine in den Fluten verschwindet. Der Tod von Grace Dearden, die nicht ins Kleinstadtleben passte, birgt ein dunkles Geheimnis, da kaum jemand ihr wahres Ich kannte.
Julie Lescaux, eine Engländerin, wird vom Krieg in der Bretagne überrascht. Sie muss sich schwierigen Situationen stellen und entwickelt sich von einem ahnungslosen Mädchen zu einer selbstlosen, mutigen Frau, die Gerechtigkeit im Angesicht von Gewalt und Verrat selbst in die Hand nimmt.
In matters of deceit, some victims are more innocent than others . . .
Glen Ashard, the idyllic Scottish home of ex-rock star Nick MacKenzie, is a haven of peace and security until the day a plane with a deadly chemical cargo flies off course. Daisy Field, environmental campaigner, picks up the trail.
After five years, lawyer Hugh Gwynne’s most difficult case has finally come to court. His client Tom Deacon is claiming damages for post-traumatic stress after a car accident in which he witnessed the death of his young daughter by fire. The case is going well, it seems certain Tom will win the compensation that will enable him to pick up the pieces of his shattered life. Then Hugh receives an anonymous letter that throws him into an impossible dilemma. To stay on the case is unethical, to withdraw will threaten its success, and Tom Deacon, revealing himself in an entirely new light, makes it clear that such treachery will not be forgiven. For Hugh the dilemma is intensified by the contrast between their lives: Tom tormented by flashbacks, jobless, with a broken marriage and two children he hardly sees; Hugh with what he regards as a blessed existence, a rewarding life as a jobbing solicitor and an intensely happy marriage to Lizzie, with whom he has two adopted children, Lou away on her gap year, and fragile, sensitive Charlie who seems to have overcome his personal demons. Then one night Hugh’s life changes for ever. His happiness is snatched away, and he, like Tom, must face a lifetime of troubling memories. 'Homeland is a thoughtful, deeply atmospheric novel' Daily Mail
It is 1946, and the eve of the harshest winter for a hundred years. Servicemen are pouring home from the war to a land beset by stringent food and job shortages, and a desperate housing crisis. As anti-Polish refugee propaganda reaches its height, Wladyslaw Malinowski, a young veteran of Monte Cassino, now stranded in a resettlement camp on the Somerset Levels, attempts to start a new life on a withy farm in the middle of the wetlands. His taskmaster is Billy Greer, newly demobbed, and itching to escape to a job in London. Stella, the local schoolteacher, has been waiting for the return of Lyndon Hanley, a hero of the Burma Campaign. But Lyndon is troubled, elusive, and ultimately unresponsive. When he goes away again, she finds herself falling for the beguiling and irrepressible Wladyslaw. As the country is brought to its knees by blizzards and coal shortages, people start to go hungry and attitudes harden. Then a death occurs on the wetlands, and it seems Wladyslaw, the outsider, will be held responsible. Homeland is Clare Francis`s finest achievement. Atmospheric, rich in description, it depicts with dramatic power the turbulence of a country beggared by war, and the uncertainties of the men returning to it.
Joe, struggling to survive his job in a law firm, is faced with the challenge of finding his childhood friend Jenna, who's been missing for four years. But has she disappeared through choice? Or is she under the influence of her husband?
Catherine Galitza has been badly injured by an intruder in her own home. In the months before, there had been a string of nuisance calls. Are the events connected? Has someone been stalking her? As Catherine begins her slow and painful recovery, two men seem intent on uncovering the truth: her husband's business partner, the intense, prickly Simon Jardine, who harbours an almost obsessive devotion to Catherine; and the self-made Irish hotelier Terry Devlin, once a benign figure in Catherine's childhood, now with a reputation for ruthlessness. But which of these men has Catherine's real interests at heart? Then the police arrest and charge a suspect. Yet Catherine's watcher is still with her. And she has no way of knowing who she can trust. 'Clare Francis has serious crime-writing talent' Mail On Sunday 'Crime novels with action to keep you guessing until the very end' Daily Mail
Anwältin Alex will die spurlos verschwundene Ehefrau ihres Jugendfreundes finden. Der hoch verschuldete Ehemann gerät in Verdacht, seine Frau umgebracht zu haben, als ihre Leiche auf seinem Grundstück auftaucht.