Bøger af Dorothy Simpson

From Material Compiled By The Maine Writers' Research Club.

Locate Yourself is a book for healing. Unpack the stuff that limits you. Find the stuff that grows you. Secure your peace of mind, now. Psychological, social, biological and spiritual. Help... I've lost my emotional freedom... I know it's around here somewhere! Discover emotional freedom within these pages! Humans have a beginning and an end, and the stuff in between. So who are you - a product of all the previous stuff? Dorothy Simpson explains in easy-to-understand language how the stuff impacts you. Hurt people unknowingly hurt other people, and this emphasises the roll-on effect of the confusing stuff. Delivering a fusion of knowledge from psychology, sociology, health care and mysticism - Dorothy shares her story of locating and making peace with her wobbly foundation and finding love, inner calm and belonging. Identify and break free of the mind game of "Is it me, or is it them who's making me feel bad?" Gain fresh perspectives and self-mastery of your body and mind. Find a path to newer, healthier relationships, and a range of self-care options.

When playboy Max Jeopard is killed at his own engagement party, Inspector Luke Thanet is called in to investigate and uncovers a host of suspects, including his fiancée, a jealous brother, an ex-girlfriend, and the victim’s future in-laws. “This English village ‘cozy’ goes down well” (Library Journal). “A master at plot manipulation, Ms. Simpson cunningly strews clues right and left…The pleasure here is watching Thanet meticulously pick his way through ‘the complex web of relationships’ to arrive at an understanding of what would make a person kill for love.” —The New York Times Book Review

Serious crime isn't supposed to happen in elegant English country homes, especially not in such families as that of Queen's counsel Ralph Mintar, a prominent barrister who's destined to become a high-court judge. So it's particularly shocking when Mintar's attractive wife, Virginia, goes missing just after a small dinner party. Her disappearance is eerily reminiscent of the day four years before, when the Mintars' adult daughter Caroline left the house, never to return. Caroline seems to have vanished off the face of the earth, but Virginia's body is soon found at the bottom of a garden well, and Inspector Luke Thanet and his partner, Sergeant Mike Lineham, who are called in to investigate, quickly discard any idea of accidental death. Virginia was the perfect murder victim. Her outrageous flirting made her many enemies, several of whom were there on the night of her death. They had both reason and opportunity to kill her, but which one took the final, fatal step? Who wanted Virginia dead and gone? Who was Virginia's latest lover? What does her mother-in-law have to hide? What about Caroline's younger sister and her womanizing fiancé? Thanet and Lineham wonder how they can even begin to unravel the morass of family secrets that complicate this case. Distracted by his own daughter Bridget's dangerous pregnancy and pushed by his boss to find hard evidence in this high-profile homicide, Luke Thanet feels pressured as never before as he probes into the life and death of one of the most poignant and, finally, shocking cases of his career. Always a skilled mistress of the classic British crime novel, award-winning author Dorothy Simpson is at the top of her form in this powerful novel of family love gone tragically wrong.