Эрик Райт0.0 Toronto Inspector Charlie Salter and his wife, Anne, go to England for a holiday. While Charlie is discovering a passion for English beer and horse racing, their hotel is plagued by a peeping tom, and then there's murder. The atmosphere is great. It presents England as you've never seen it.
Энтони Хайд0.0 Soviet affairs specialist Robert Thorne receives a strange message from May Brightman, a woman he had been due to marry twenty years earlier.
It is the anniversary of his father’s suicide and he is making the journey to the grave alone this time without his mother.
The message from May is abrupt and strange.
Robert has settled into a comfortable routine of journalism and academia since they first parted in unfortunate circumstances all those years ago.
But he cannot bring himself to ignore her.
May’s father, Harry Brightman, has gone missing and frantic with worry she believes Robert is the only person who can help her.
Robert is cynical and initially suggests Harry has gone after women and adventure in his old age.
Yet soon a mystery begins to unravel which reveals Robert to be more involved than he could ever have imagined.
Travelling around Canada, Georgetown, Paris and Russia he is propelled by an instinctive urge to uncover the truth.
The mysteries of Russia and communist activity are shrouded in secrecy by spies, betrayal and murder.
Opposing factions leave Robert unsure of who to trust and he wonders how much May knows herself.
Is he being manipulated by her?
This is a story of betrayal, murder and the lengths we will go to for the ones we love or for a cause we believe in above all else.
Praise for Anthony Hyde:
‘ A new literary star has arrived’ THE SUNDAY EXPRESS
‘As stylish and soulful as Graham Greene, as subtle and complex as le Carré, as devious as Deighton, as gripping as Forsyth, and as readable as Dick Francis. A new literary star has arrived’ THE SUNDAY EXPRESS
‘A first-rate political thriller, full of action, brilliantly descriptive of landscape and characters, informed with a penetrating analysis of the emergent and evolving Soviet state’ THE TIMES
‘Superior and unusually intelligent … Mr Hyde knows how to bait the storytelling hook; he deals out his revelations with a shrewd sense of timing … a remarkably assured performance’ THE NEW YORK TIMES
‘A work of such savoir-faire and sheer style ... strongly remindful of Gorky Park and The Spy Who Came In From The Cold’ KIRKUS REVIEWS
Anthony Hyde was born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1946. He has written for the National Film Board, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation and the National Museum. ‘The Red Fox’ was his first novel and he also the author of ‘China Lake’ and ‘Formosa Straits’.
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Л. Р. Райт0.0 The Edgar Award-winning novel of hidden secrets, haunting guilt and murder--set in a town near Vancouver on Canada's Sunshine Coast. For no apparent reason a man murders his old acquaintance after only a short chat.
Мэгги Сиггинс0.0 When this book was first published in 1985, it became an instant bestseller and the basis for the popular CBC-TV series “Love and Hate.” It’s easy to see why, when this true story reads like a crime thriller. Colin Thatcher was a golden boy, growing up the son of Saskatchewan’s Premier Ross Thatcher. But as he rose to political prominence and to a seat in the Saskatchewan cabinet, his marriage to JoAnn, the mother of his three children, began to unravel, amid rumours of infidelity and of domestic violence. His children disappeared; his estranged wife was shot at through her kitchen window, but Thatcher denied any knowledge of either incident and defied the law (and his old legislative buddies) again and again. The law wrung its hands, until JoAnn was finally bludgeoned to death in the family garage. At last, Thatcher had gone too far. In a dramatic trial in Saskatoon that involved every major legal figure in the province, he was found guilty of murder.
At that point, Maggie Siggins’s 1985 book was published. But the story was too big to end there. In his Edmonton jail, Thatcher stayed in the news by publishing his memoirs and exciting the media with news of dramatic new evidence that would prove his innocence. It never appeared. He was eventually moved to a minimum-security jail in British Columbia, and seemed to be living a fairly good life. Nonetheless, though his three children grew up believing in his innocence, rumours continued to fly around the Regina underworld about him.
In October 2000, Thatcher was the subject of a trial to see if he deserved early parole. Maggie Siggins was present, and this book gives a full account of the trial and of what has happened to all of the actors in this incredible case during the last 15 years.
• Now updated, with coverage of Colin Thatcher’s recent parole hearing
• Television series based on the book was a hit on both CBC and NBC
• Maggie Siggins is an experienced and articulate journalist, who won a Governor General’s Award for her book Revenge of the Land
