Bøger af Susan Moody

En voldsom begivenhed har rystet Hannahs liv. I femogtyve år har hun levet med en tung hemmelighed, og pludselig konfronteres hun med sin fortid. Det gør ondt, og Hannah har svært ved at tro, at hendes sanser er hende tro. Som om det ikke var nok støder hun tilfældigvis på en roman, der detaljeret fortæller om omstændighederne omkring et mord, og indgående beskriver intime scener fra hendes eget liv - scener af lidenskabelig sanselighed, som hun troede, hun kun selv kendte til.Pludselig befinder hun sig igen i gådefulde og tragiske begivenheder, og hun må se i øjnene, at nutiden står i forbindelse med hendes egne oplevelser femogtyve år tidligere. Rystet forstår hun, at hun er fanget af fortiden, og at hun må søge tilbage i tiden og løse gåden, inden tragedien indtræffer endnu en gang.Den Italienske have er en nervepirrende roman om en kvinde, der konfronteres med begivenheder i sin fortid, som hun har brugt hele livet på at fortrænge. Oplev åndeløs spænding i kapløb med yderst sensuelle skildringer. Susan Moody, hvis to tidligere romaner på dansk er udgivet under navnet Madison, bevæger smidigt sit forfatterskab fra spændingsbøger over kærlighed til krimier, og i årenes løb har hun skrevet over tyve romaner. Susan Moody er født og opvokset i Oxford og har i de senere år sammen med sin mand, John Donaldson, delt sin tid mellem England og Tasmanien.

When one of Cassie Swann's bridge partners, Naomi Harris, dies from an overdose, she is shocked but not suspicious. But things look rather different with the appearance of a young woman claiming to be Naomi's daughter, given up for adoption twenty years earlier, and a secret lover who insists that Naomi was murdered by her husband. Guiltily aware that she was not a good friend to Naomi while she was alive, Cassie decides to try to find the truth - and soon discovers that while Naomi had little reason to kill herself, there are several reasons why someone might have wanted her dead. Complications in her own life don't make things any easier. Torn between DS Paul Walsh and the persistent attentions of Charlie Quartermain, she suddenly finds a menacing figure is stalking her. As she closes in on the mystery of Naomi's troubled life, she is about to discover some very dangerous secrets.

Penny Wanawake, daughter of an African diplomat father and English aristocratic mother, is swept up in the tides of adventure when she agrees to look after the RH Domestic Agency for her neighbour. A nanny for the agency disappears and Penny finds herself sorting out a dangerous puzzle. 'A character who will run and run' Times Literary Supplement 'Magnificent black Penny' Sunday Times 'Fast moving ... witty writing ... a dazzling romp' Birmingham Post 'This fine female writer has found a winning formula with her heroine Penny Wanawake' Oxford Mail 'Dialogue as crisp as a cookie' London Standard 'Not a wasted moment for heroine or reader' The Times 'A protagonist who strides right into the gallery of memorable amateur sleuths, to occupy a position of distinction' Financial Times

Lower lngleford seems a typical rural hamlet in the sunlit uplands of northern England, complete with Village Institute, village green, and lord of the manor. But something is seriously amiss: milking equipment explodes; brakes are tampered with; bullets fly - someone is trying to kill the squire. Or so it seems. And the motives are tangled in a morass of shady property deals, art forgeries, and various dubious business practices. When Kendal Sartain, local landowner and apparent target, calls on Penny Wanawake for help, he gets it. And rather more than he'd bargained for. Six feet, 1261bs, Bovril-black, rich, beautiful and totally uninhibited - when Penny seeks a solution, there is nowhere for a solution, however timid and retiring, to hide.

Spotlights focused on the Abbey buildings. The air held a piece of silver moon. An oboe blew a soft pure note. Clear young voices broke into a madrigal... ...listening, in mellow mood, Max Maunciple drank just one gin too many. And died. An egotist, a blackmailer, no-one mourned for Maunciple. But one person did not believe that alcohol was the only poison that poisonous man had imbibed. And when Penny Wanawake seeks the Truth, the Truth, however elusive, gets dragged kick- ing and screaming into the open. Penny Dreadful is the second in the series of Penny Wanawake Mysteries

Meet PENNY WANAWAKE, philanthropist, free-thinker, part-time sleuth. Very tall, very classy, very black, a beautiful tigress in tigress's clothing. And her lover and friend, BARNABY, cool, witty, high-class thief, dedicated low-life. Stand by as Penny meets KIMBELL, black American detective, and blows his mind. Thrill as between them they track down the brutal killer of Penny's wacky friend MARFA, and exact poetic justice among banks of orchids ...

The news hit the papers ... Dr Bruno Fenlinghetti, esteemed Italian archaeologist and director of Rome's Instituto Ferlinghetti, had disappeared from his home near Naples. A pair of priceless statuettes had also vanished. You didn't have to be Perry Mason to realise that the doctor and the statuettes were thought to be travelling together. Dear forgetful Bruno - disorganised, thoughtless, but never, Penny knew, never dishonest. Bruno, was incorruptible; he didn't mess with drink or drugs or boys, and if he developed a vice he had the Ferlinghetti fortune to indulge it. The exquisitely tuned reasoning of Penny Wanawake sensed it had to be kidnapping or worse. Six feet of slender, sophisticated, immoral, uninhibited sleuth took the first flight to Rome...

Mystery returns to Cassandra Swann’s life when she realizes she is being watched everywhere she goes and then suddenly her friend is murdered, leading Cassie to enact her amateur sleuth skills to unmask her stalker and uncover the killer of her friend. Someone is stalking Cassandra Swann. He drives a white Peugeot and turns up in the moments she least expects to see him, like outside the library, in the aisles of the supermarket, and in parking lots. When she sees him after leaving the hospital to visit her friend, Naomi, she knows she must figure out who it is following her every move. Just as she begins to work on discovering her stalker’s identity, she is met with the problems of her friend. Naomi has just had a hysterectomy, ending all chances that she may be able to conceive a child… but even heavier on her mind is that she believes her husband, John, is trying to kill her. When Cassie receives a call from John asking if she could check on Naomi at their house while he is on a business trip and she discovers Naomi dead, Cassie can’t help but remember her friend’s concerns. While searching for the truth behind the façade of her dead friend and her husband, Cassie is dealing with trying to keep her unwelcome admirer, Charlie Quartermaine, at a proper distance. Even when given half a chance, something as small as a nod, Charlie finds a way back into her life… which is not where Cassie wants him to be.

When she was 19, Kate's family were killed in a car accident in South America. Kate, sole survivor, has no memory of the crash. But a stranger's proposition becomes the catalyst for a series of events that will change Kate's life irrevocably. Somehow everything leads back to that one dreadful day in Ecuador, and loose ends that need to be resolved.

A compelling tale of childhood trauma and sinister discoveries - Alice and her brother Orlando lived a quiet life growing up in post WWII Britain; that is until the arrival of the precocious, manipulative and sexually aware Nicola. But on Alice’s 12th birthday, Nicola disappears, only to be found days later, battered, bruised and dead. Twenty years go by until Alice becomes determined to dig up the past and solve the mystery of Nicola’s death. But will the truth be too much to handle when she starts to suspect her own quiet and bookish brother Orlando?

Daniel Farley, en midaldrende arkitekt, kører ud til sin hytte ved den amerikanske østkyst for at reflektere over sit liv og ægteskab. Med sig har han en bunke breve, skrevet af sin danske kone Kirsten, og som han tilfældigvis har fundet bagerst i hendes klædeskab. Indholdet skal vise sig at være et tankevækkende kig ind i det allerhelligste privatliv. I takt med at han læser brevene, lærer han helt nye sider af Kirsten at kende – på trods af at de har været gift i otteogtyve år – og han må stille sig selv spørgsmålene: Har jeg taget Kirsten for givet? Har jeg gjort mit for at holde gnisten ved lige? Et brud synes uundgåeligt, men ikke alt er, som det ser ud… Kirstens breve er et stærkt ægteskabsdrama og en opfordring til alle om at gribe dagen, inden det er for sent…

Det er få år efter anden verdenskrig. I den lille kystby Shale i Kent bor Alice med sin mor, sine søskende og en broget flok af lejere i den store, gamle villa Linfield House. Krigen fortaber sig i det fjerne, men er stadig uhyggelig nærværende for indbyggerne i flådehavnen Shale – for enkerne efter byens soldater og for de skæbner, der er skyllet op på kysten i krigens efterdønninger. Den sommer, hvor Alice fylder 12 år, forandrer alting. Hun forelsker sig for første gang – i sin klaverlærer, den unge jødiske flygtning Sasha Elias. Og hun møder Nicola – fremmelige og farlige Nicola, der fordrejer hovedet på drengene og gør selv de voksne urolige.En morgen findes Nicola myrdet i et brombærkrat. Kort efter spredes beboerne i Linfield House for alle vinde. Men sommeren, hvor barndommens uskyld forsvandt for altid, bliver ved at hjemsøge Alice. Tyve år og et mislykket ægteskab senere vender hun tilbage til Shale. For at forsone sig med sin skæbne. For at forsøge at finde Nicolas morder – og måske kærligheden, der fortabte sig i en jødisk flygtnings bedrøvede øjne …

Flora oplever sit livs mareridt, da hun finder sin søster brutalt myrdet. Med en blanding af skyld og kærlighed overtager hun moderrollen for sin søsters lille datter. Men angsten og usikkerheden lurer stadig. Flora føler sig dybt ansvarlig og sætter sig for på egen hånd at finde morderen. Hendes intensive detektivarbejde bliver dog ikke bare et korstog for at yde søsteren retfærdighed men også en proces, som indirekte tvinger Flora til at konfrontere sin egen kærlighedsløse barndom. Et smertefuldt traume som har ført til Floras egen bevidste barnløshed og tabet af ægtemanden, den perfekte Oliver. Men efterhånden som fortiden bliver mere nærværende, nødsages Flora ikke kun til at åbenbare sine egne hemmeligheder men også til at erkende, at sandhed kan være ligeså skæbnesvanger grusom som uvished. Faldne Engle er en foruroligende og indtagende roman om skyld og tilgivelse. Men også en historie om at skytsengle kan antage menneskeskikkelse.

Kate er ved en skillevej i sit liv. Hun er fraskilt og bor midlertidigt hos sin bror Magnus. Ti år tidligere var hun under en ferie involveret i en bilulykke på Galapagos-øerne, hvor blandt andre hendes far, stedmor og halvsøster blev dræbt. Kate var eneste overlevende og har siden blokeret alle erindringer om den traumatiserende hændelse. Jobbet som servitrice på en vinbar giver hende smør på brødet, men hun er træt af særligt én anmassende stamgæst og siger op. I stedet får hun arbejde i et lille rejsebureau, hvor hendes første kunde skal til netop Galapagos-øerne for at undersøge et dødsfald. Kate tilskriver det tilfældighederne, at hun med sin fortid skal arrangere sådan en rejse, men samtidig finder hun blandt sin brors post et brev fra faderens tidligere advokat, som åbenbart holder Magnus ajour med den gamle sag. Er det stadig en tilfældighed? Og kan ulykken tilskrives andet end hændeligt uheld? Mystikken breder sig, og tingene tager en farlig drejning.