epub |eng | | Author:Fenella J. Miller [Miller, Fenella J.]

Sixteen Ellie slept surprisingly well considering the events of last night. When she turned over and reached out, Jack’s place in the bed was already empty. She put her hand ...

epub |eng | 2020-04-06 | Author:Alex Gerlis

* * * He and Otto met in reception at seven o’clock. His colleague had already had breakfast and looked as if he’d slept well. He was sitting on a ...

epub |eng | 2020-08-05 | Author:Alex Gerlis

Chapter 18 Istanbul September 1943 On the Friday – the morning after Michael Doyle’s escape from the Kayseri – all hell broke loose in the Abwehr office and the corridors ...

epub |eng | 2020-07-28 | Author:P. T. Deutermann [Deutermann, P. T.]

FIFTEEN Thus began a brand-new chapter in the existence of the Hooligans. We learned that our new boss, after his séance with Commander Cogswell, had gone to see one of ...

epub |eng | 2020-07-21 | Author:Kristin Harmel [Kristin Harmel]

* * * Eva was working alone the next afternoon when Père Clément appeared in the doorway of the small library. “How’s the work coming?” he asked. “The new papers ...

epub |eng | | Author:L. Annette Binder [Binder, L. Annette]

14 Old Frau Focht pulled a file from her pocket and worked the hatchet head, starting at the cutting edge and moving inward, taking out the burrs. She worked the ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-30 | Author:Elise Hooper

30. May 1933 Chicago ALMOST A YEAR HAD PASSED SINCE BETTY’S PLANE crash. Dr. Minke’s prediction that one leg would be shorter than the other was right, so she limped. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2020-03-16 | Author:Celia Rees [Celia Rees]

22 44 Möllnstrasse, Lübeck 25th February 1946 Wild Boar Steinhof A robust dish from the north. A reminder of times gone and places lost forever. The boar is marinaded in ...

epub |eng | 2018-11-15 | Author:Jenoff, Pam [Jenoff, Pam]

Chapter Sixteen Eleanor London, 1944 Eleanor stood in the door of the Director’s office, paper clutched in her hand. “Sir, something isn’t right.” Ten minutes earlier, a message had come ...

epub |eng | 2020-01-30 | Author:Charles Causey [Causey, Charles]

Only Tchechia knew that Rakowski was storing the gold for their own personal escape. The two of them—unknown to anyone else—had planned to depart the camp the very evening Kapo ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-03 | Author:Karen Harper

Chapter Eighteen Tangled Ivy In the spring of 1942, I went without Bertie or the girls to visit Queen Mary, in exile, as she called it. Leaving London was not ...

epub |eng | | Author:Jane Johnson [Johnson, Jane]

* Two nights later there was an immense thunderstorm with winds that made the glass rattle in the window frames. Olivia, reading a book in the kitchen under the flickering ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-19 | Author:Nathaniel Lande

MEETING LENI RIEFENSTAHL Near the cabinet room, ever-delusional Joseph Goebbels, the notorious propaganda minister, sat dwarfed by a desk as exaggerated as his imposing Berlin office. “There’s someone waiting to ...

epub |eng | 2019-07-14 | Author:James Lingard [James Lingard]

Hebden Bridge saw little of the war; occasionally the sirens sounded but enemy bombers sought more worthwhile targets in neighbouring towns. The evacuees climbed the steep hill to James’ house ...

epub |eng | 2020-05-05 | Author:Tara Moss [Moss, Tara]

Chapter Nineteen Billie ventured to Circular Quay West and stepped into the shadows of the dark-brick and sandstone trimmed arches of the morgue on Mill Lane. The night was heavy ...