Ergebnis für "Evan" in Schwarzer Humor

In this witty, charming follow-up to the acclaimed Crooked Heart, the life of lies a small time scammer and her adopted son have constructed in London becomes endangered during the tumultuous final months of World War II. It’s late 1944. Hitler’s rockets are raining down on London with...

Lights Out meets Butcher & Blackbird in Dead Lift, a serial killer romcom from beloved author Clio Evans. Murdering a man isn't hard. Getting rid of the body, though? That’s another story. Forensic scientist Shelby has a simple plan. Get justice for her sister, kill the men who murdered her...

A little old lady turns vigilante on the streets of London in this gritty, witty crime thriller. Gloria Jones has had enough. She's sixty-five, approaching retirement, and nearing the end of her tether. When someone flings away a gun in her local park, it ends up in Gloria's hands and changes...

Plenty of retirees have hobbies; Gloria's just happens to be murderous . . . An entertaining new crime thriller by the author of Bang Bang, You're Dead. At this stage of her life, Gloria Jones just wants peace, quiet, and as little stress as possible. But her habit of helping others in need is...

From the author of the acclaimed Crooked Heart comes another smart, funny, ingenious, revealing tale of London life during the Second World War (The Independent) longlisted for the Orange Prize upon its original publication in England. It is 1940. France has fallen, and only a narrow strip...

Named one of 2019’s most anticipated reads by Entertainment Weekly, “a hilarious and witty joy of a novel about a family’s insanely dramatic summer at their new island home” (Cosmopolitan) in the Pacific Northwest. The inimitable—some might say incorrigible—Frank Widdicombe is...

Paper Moon meets the Blitz in this original black comedy, set in World War II England, chronicling an unlikely alliance between a small time con artist and a young orphan evacuee. When Noel Bostock—aged ten, no family—is evacuated from London to escape the Nazi bombardment, he lands in a...

#1 UK Bestseller “A thoughtful, funny, companionable novel…executed with verve.”—London Times The author of the acclaimed Crooked Heart returns with a comic, charming, and surprisingly timely portrait of a once pioneering suffragette trying to find her new passion in post-WWI era London...

There are only a few weeks left before an asteroid destroys the planet. It’s the countdown, and all of humanity is just waiting for the end. In Phoenix, AZ, the sheriff’s department and National Guard are battling for supremacy, gas is as good as cash, and elementary school kids are out for blood. Most people in town have become the worst versions of themselves. Except for Dutch Kovaks, private detective. Dutch wants to right some wrongs, help a few people in need, and use the days he’s got left for good. Most of all, he wants to track down a bottle of gin.

From the nationally bestselling author of Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, comes a funny and moving novel in which a former college swimmer falls off a cruise ship and must keep treading water as memories and regrets wash over him—perfect for fans of Where’d You Go, Bernadette; Florence Adler...