An Air That Kills

Author: Andrew Taylor
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 1444716778
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

Book Description
'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily Telegraph From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and Fire of Court, this is the first instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth series Workmen in the small market town of Lydmouth are demolishing an old cottage. A sledgehammer smashes into what looks like a solid wall. Instead, layers of wallpaper conceal the door of a locked cupboard which holds a box - and in the box is the skeleton of a young baby. Items within the box suggest that the baby was entombed early in the nineteenth century, but when another man is also found dead, the evidence suggests that the baby's death is more recent and that a killer is on the loose. For Journalist Jill Francis, newly arrived from London, this looks like her first story to chase ... 'The most under-rated crime writer in Britain today' Val McDermid 'Captures perfectly the drab atmosphere and cloying morality of the 1950s . . . Taylor is an excellent writer. He plots with care and intelligence and the solution to the mystery is satisfyingly chilling'The Times 'There is no denying Taylor's talent, his prose exudes a quality uncommon among his contemporaries' Time Out 'Andrew Taylor is a master story-teller' Daily Telegraph

An Air that Kills

Author: Francis King
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781934555279
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Mark Langworthy has just returned home after a stint as a colonial administrator in India. Once a promising writer, his dreams and idealism have been extinguished, and he returns stricken with malaria and fatigued in both body and spirit. When he meets his nephew, Paul, an ingenuous orphan of eighteen and an aspiring writer, Mark sees in the boy a chance for redemption. Over the course of an English summer they form a close though sometimes difficult friendship, but when Paul begins a love affair with one of his uncle's former acquaintances, Anne, things begin to unravel. A series of circumstances threatens the bond they have developed, and when Anne suggests that Mark's interest in Paul may not be what it seems, both Mark and Paul will have to come to terms with their feelings and discover the true nature of love and friendship. Published in 1948, An Air That Kills is the third of Francis King's more than thirty novels. Widely acclaimed as one of the finest novelists of his generation, King displays in this early work all the imaginative energy and ardour of a young writer dealing with a theme which he clearly felt profoundly. This 60th anniversary edition includes a new introduction by the author.

An Air that Kills

Author: Andrew Schneider
Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
ISBN: 9780425200094
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468

Book Description
Schneider and McCumber reveal how the asbestos poisoning of Libby, Montana, uncovered a national scandal.

An Air That Kills

Author: Margaret Millar
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 168199013X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213

Book Description
From the Edgar-Award winning author of Beast in View, this landmark novel of domestic suspense is a gripping tale of ordinary lives ripped apart by lust, deceit, adultery, conspiracy and betrayal. On a Saturday night in April, Ron Galloway's friends have all arrived at his Ontario lakeside vacation lodge for a boys' weekend without their wives. But as the night wears on and the host himself doesn't arrive, the party turns sour. Then Ron Galloway's suspicious wife, convinced he is having an affair and trying to track him down, arrives on the scene, followed by the police. It is clear something is very wrong. In the hours and days that follow Ron Galloway's disappearance, the secret of an ugly infidelity comes to light, tearing apart Galloway's circle of friends and destroying two marriages. Did Ron Galloway commit suicide to escape his own unforgivable betrayals? What sinister set of circumstances brought him to his desperate end, and how will his survivors cope with the truth without tearing one another apart?

A Shropshire Lad

Author: Alfred Edward Housman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 168

Book Description

Swallowing Stones

Author: Joyce McDonald
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
ISBN: 0307816826
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
You can’t change the past. . . . When Michael fires his new rifle into the air on his seventeenth birthday, he never imagines that the bullet will end up killing someone. But it does—and Michael’s world is changed forever. Desperate, he wrestles with his guilt and keeps silent as his life begins to fall apart. When Jenna’s father is killed in a freak Fourth of July accident, she’s devastated. As she grieves, she tries to understand why she no longer feels comfortable with her boyfriend, Jason, and why a guy named Michael keeps appearing in her dreams. . . . Swallowing Stones is a haunting novel about choices . . . and devastating consequences.

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art deco (Art)
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description

A.E. Housman

Author: Alfred Edward Housman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571207053
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 65

Book Description
In this series a contemporary poet selects and introduces another poet of a different generation whom they have particularly admired. This selection of A.E. Housman poems are selected by Alan Hollinghurst.

An Air That Kills

Author: Christine Poulson
Publisher: Lion Fiction
ISBN: 9781782642831
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Katie Flanagan goes undercover at a lab: the scientists prove as dangerous as the diseases

Beauty Kills the Beast

Author: Astrid Hoffmann
Publisher: Balboa Press
ISBN: 1504385322
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 119

Book Description
Beauty kills the Beast transports us to imaginary worlds through very real stories. Four short tales, told as metaphors to actual societal issues, state the struggles of young characters facing emotional abuse, social discrimination, transgender identity, drugs and human trafficking. Each story introduces us to the circumstances and emotional conditions lived by each character, under a close analysis of the author where she calls our attention to issues of self-esteem, respect for oneself and others, forgiveness, gratitude and love, and invites us, the reader, to voice our own point of view and face our own fears to empower ourselves for a better world. Each story faces the problem, goes through an analysis and opens to the endless possibilities of a life lived with love, knowing that all good is within and that with positive mindfulness and faith one can achieve the unthinkable and overcome any obstacles. The book is addressed to the young at heart and its intention is to shed light on modern issues and give a hand in the search for ones power and true love.