Ergebnis für "Fall 32 Der Fall John Watson" in Belletristik

In einer atemberaubenden Beichte bekennt im Amsterdamer Hafenviertel Jean-Baptiste Clamence, ehemals angesehener Anwalt, der sich stets für einen Wohltäter der Menschen gehalten hat, Selbstgefälligkeit und Opportunismus als Triebfedern seines einstigen Rechtsbewusstseins. Als er eines Nachts eine Frau auf einer Brücke stehen sah, im Begriff, in den Fluss zu springen, hat er sie nicht daran gehindert.

Cal's "honeymoon" didn't start off quite how he'd planned. For starters, he was heading somewhere he didn't actually want to go. And secondly, he was going alone and unmarried. He had no idea that his first visit to New York City would also land him in the middle of a domestic terror attack, forcing him to flee Manhattan in a desperate bid to survive. This was no ordinary terror attack. The Movement, in a misguided attempt to seize political control of the USA, unwittingly invited the destruction of their homeland.

Nicole and Tom's lives are changed overnight by a ten-million-pound lottery win. Before they know it they've moved into a state-of-the-art Glass Barn conversion in the stunning grounds of Lancaut Manor in Gloucestershire. But their dream quickly turns into a nightmare when Tom is found dead in the swimming pool, with a nasty wound on the back of his head. Someone close to home must be responsible. But other than the young couple who live in the Manor, and their housekeeper in the Coach House next door, there's no one around for miles.