Bøger af Margaret Murphy

A beautiful African princess is kidnapped and sold into slavery. With the spirits of her homeland beside her, she makes the best of life in the New World.A handsome French plantation-owner's son is sent away from France in disgrace. With innocent curiosity and an open mind, he finds a new home and true love.An anxious Parisian schoolgirl tastes freedom for the first time. With wide-eyed trust and gratitude, she treads the certain road to doom.The king of the estate believes he can free his people from the scars of slavery. With the fire of vengeance in his heart, he obeys the dictates of fear.Met Kalfou watches over them, satisfied that everything is going according to plan.Life Without The Liar celebrates everything that unites us and eliminates anything that sets us apart.Life Without The Liar dreams now of healing.

A body swinging in the trees. A mysterious hit and run. Detective Cassie Rowan tackles the most disturbing case of her career.Just before dawn on a clear October morning. Detective Cassie Rowan is driving home, exhausted, after a gruelling night on duty. Her headlights catch a sudden flash of movement by the side of the road, a streak of bright, metallic blue. Cassie pulls over to take a look. For a moment, she thinks she imagined it: a body swaying among the trees - hanging from a branch.Cassie scrambles up the slope, already dialling emergency services. And stops short. The macabre sight that greets her is not what she expected at all . . .A week later, there's a fatal accident on the same stretch of road. Seventeen-year-old Damian Novak mown down in a hit-and-run. No witnesses.Something about Damian's death doesn't add up. Cassie is convinced that the hit-and-run and her mysterious swinging body are connected.Cassie discovers that Damian isn't the first local teenager to have died in strange circumstances . . . and he won't be the last.In each case, a sinister effigy of the victim appears a week before their death.Cassie is in a race against time to track down a brutal killer before they kill again.

Bringing together fiction from some of the city's most celebrated writers, The Book of Liverpool traces the unique contours that decades of social and economic change can impress on a city. Part of the Reading the City series.