Bøger af Maureen Carter

Maureen's memoir is a story of migration, family tragedy, resilience, humour and finding peace and fulfilment in the natural world. The eldest of four children from a working class family living in a sleepy corner of South Wales, she experiences the death of her mother and the shock of life with a new stepmother, who was emotionally ill-equipped to deal with four grieving children. The family of ten children travel to Australia to follow her father's dream of living in Paradise, and Maureen writes with candour about her difficult childhood and adolescence, as well as life in Wales and her new home, as she grows up, marries and eventually takes charge of her own life.

Ice-cool Detective Inspector Sarah Quinn and fiery reporter Caroline King lock horns once again in this latest intriguing mystery. When the body of a teenage girl is found in a local park, it is assumed she is the latest victim of a serial sex offender who has been plaguing the area. But when it transpires that the dead girl's best friend is missing, DI Sarah Quinn is drawn into a complex murder investigation where nothing is as it seems.With the investigation heading nowhere - not helped by the hostility of the victim's distraught father, nor by Sarah's unsympathetic new Chief Superintendent who seems determined to undermine her - a shocking turn of events leads Sarah to question her own judgement. And that's before she encounters her old foe, calculating journalist Caroline King ...

Based on true events of a son's search for a father he barely knew, this amazing tale of romance, drama and humour tells the story of Dick, a young American. After entering Australia as a stowaway, he becomes the first American in Queensland to enlist in the First World War. On his return to Australia, he continues a life of freedom and adventure capturing the hearts of women along the way until his casual attitude towards his family is challenged by the hand of fate.

When 16-year-old Caitlin Reynolds fails to return home from school, Detective Inspector Sarah Quinn soon realizes this is no ordinary missing person case. Then the note arrives, referring to a crime committed more than fifty years earlier, and it becomes clear that someone is playing a childish - but all too deadly - game with the police.