A Desperate Longing

✍ Cornelison, Brenda 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 108 KB

He could be everything she’s hoped for. Or everything she fears. Two years after Kacy Carwell eluded kidnapping by a serial rapist, she still lives with nightmares and panic attacks on her painstakingly slow path to recovery. When a mysterious new neighbor moves in next door, her tenuous hold on her

A Vengeful Longing

✍ Morris, R N 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Faber & Faber, Limited 🌐 English ⚖ 178 KB

It s the middle of a hot, dusty St Petersburg summer in the late 1860s. A doctor s wife and son die suddenly and the doctor is arrested, suspected of poisoning. But when further, apparently unconnected, murders occur, Porfiry Petrovich is forced to reassess his assumptions. Delving into the hidden,

A Mermaids Longing

✍ Nour, Myra 📂 Fiction 📅 0 🌐 English ⚖ 648 KB

A Vengeful Longing

✍ R. N. Morris 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Faber & Faber, Limited 🌐 English ⚖ 169 KB

It s the middle of a hot, dusty St Petersburg summer in the late 1860s. A doctor s wife and son die suddenly and the doctor is arrested, suspected of poisoning. But when further, apparently unconnected, murders occur, Porfiry Petrovich is forced to reassess his assumptions. Delving into the hidden,

A Vengeful Longing

✍ R. N. Morris 📂 Fiction 📅 2008 🏛 Faber & Faber, Limited 🌐 English ⚖ 169 KB

It s the middle of a hot, dusty St Petersburg summer in the late 1860s. A doctor s wife and son die suddenly and the doctor is arrested, suspected of poisoning. But when further, apparently unconnected, murders occur, Porfiry Petrovich is forced to reassess his assumptions. Delving into the hidden,

A Vengeful Longing

✍ R. N. Morris 📂 Fiction 📅 2007 🏛 Faber & Faber 🌐 English ⚖ 169 KB

*A Vengeful Longing* confirms what RN Morris' previous novel, *A Gentle Axe*, suggested - that here is major talent in the increasingly overcrowded historical crime field. On the evidence here, Morris is writing novels that rival the very best in the genre in terms of atmosphere, plausible historica