Download or read book The Mystery of Yew Tree House written by Lesley Thomson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Lesley Thomson at her considerable best - you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll never guess.' ELLY GRIFFITHS 'Always a treat reading Lesley Thomson.' IAN RANKIN Eighty years of secrets. A body that reveals them all. 1940. At Yew Tree House, recently widowed Adelaide Stride is raising her two daughters alone – but it's not just the threat of German invasion that keeps her up at night. She is surrounded by enemies posing as allies and, while war rages, she grows sure that something terrible is about to happen. 2023. Soon after Stella Darnell begins her holiday at Yew Tree House, a skeleton is found in a pillbox at the bottom of the garden. The bullet hole in the skull tells her that the person was murdered. This triggers the unravelling of a mystery eighty years in the making. Soon, Stella will learn that Adelaide was right to worry – the fighting might have been happening abroad, but the true enemy was always much closer to home... A unique take on the traditional murder mystery from critically acclaimed author, Lesley Thomson, for fans of Elly Griffiths, Val McDermid and Mari Hannah. 'Fiercely unique, it's a whodunnit on an epic scale.' SUN 'Thomson has created a complex mystery full of psychological suspense, worthy of Barbara Vine. She makes you feel the presence of evil.' THE TIMES 'Elegant and spooky... A gripping demonstration that the past is never really the past.' MAIL ON SUNDAY Praise for The Detective's Daughter series: 'Cunningly plotted.' Mick Herron 'One of the most original characters in British crime fiction.' Sunday Times

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Download or read book The Mystery of Yew Tree House written by Lesley Thomson and published by Aries Book. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eighty years of secrets. A body that reveals them all. 1941. Rupert and Adelaide Stride are raising their two daughters, Clare and Rosa, in the midst of war. When Rupert is called to fight, he dies on the beaches of Dunkirk, leaving his family to fend for themselves. 2023. Decades later, Clare and Rosa have retreated to the annex, trapped in the place where they were raised: Yew Tree House. When the rooms are put up for rent, Jack Harmon sees the perfect spot for a family holiday with his twins and detective Stella Darnell. But then the children discover a skeleton with a hole in its skull hidden in the brambles of a decommissioned WWII pill box. This home has always been a complicated one, but Stella and Jack will need to confront a history of revenge, desperation, and wartime tragedy to uncover the truth of what happened at Yew Tree House... "--Publisher.

Download or read book A Kind of Vanishing written by Lesley Thomson and published by Myriad Editions. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of acclaimed thriller 'The Detective's Daughter' A spellbinding mystery of obsession and guilt, this is also the poignant story of what happens to those left behind when a child vanishes without trace. It is the summer of 1968, the day Senator Robert Kennedy is shot. Two nine-year-old girls are playing hide and seek in the ruins of a deserted village. Alice has discovered a secret about Eleanor Ramsay's mother, and is taunting the other girl. When it is Eleanor's turn to hide, Alice disappears. Years later, an extraordinary turn of events opens up shocking truths for the Ramsay family and all who knew the missing girl.

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Download or read book The Rose and the Yew Tree written by Mary Westmacott and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 1997 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody expected aristocratic Isabelle to fall for John Gabriel, a ruthless war hero. For Isabella, love would mean abandoning her dreams of privilege. For Gabriel, it would ruin his chance of a career and all his ambitions. This novel was written by Agatha Christie under the name Mary Westmacott.

Download or read book The Immortal Yew written by Tony Hall and published by Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As some of the oldest living organisms to be found in Europe, yew trees have become inextricably bound up in some of the oldest enduring institutions of European culture. In The Immortal Yew, Tony Hall explores the biological, cultural, and mythic significance of these imposing evergreens. Supporting a range of animals and plants, yew trees foster new life by contributing to biodiversity in their surroundings. But their common occurrence in churchyards and their evergreen leaves have given them a separate folk status as symbols of life--in the British isles, they have come to represent the resurrection and eternal life central to the Christian faith. Their enduring significance to British culture extends beyond the church, however--even the founding political document of British government, the Magna Carta, is believed to have been sealed beneath a yew tree. Despite the enduring presence and significance of the yew tree across a millennium of British history, this seemingly immortal stalwart faces new threats in the twenty-first century as elderly trees near the end of their lives and global climate change threatens the next generation. Perhaps by spending time in the generous shade of one of the yew trees Hall documents in this beautifully illustrated book, a new generation might begin to learn the importance of protecting its legacy and invest in its future.

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