Until the mass hysteria of the seventeenth century, accusations of witchcraft in England were rare. However, four royal women, related in family and in court ties - Joan of Navarre, Eleanor Cobham, Jacquetta of Luxembourg and Elizabeth Woodville - were accused of practicing witchcraft in order to kill or influence the king....
Hairpin Bridge: A Novel
Author: Taylor Adams
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Hour of the Witch: A Novel
Author: Chris Bohjalian
Publisher: Doubleday
Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in the New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives...
Bath Haus: A Thriller
Author: P. J. Vernon
Publisher: Doubleday
A young gay man in a perfect marriage strives to keep a dangerous indiscretion from his loving husband. (Edited 6/21)
The Final Twist
Author: Jeffery Deaver
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Just hours after the harrowing events of The Never Game and The Goodbye Man, Colter Shaw finds himself in San Francisco, where he has taken on the mission his father began years ago: finding a missing courier bag containing evidence that will bring down a corporate espionage firm responsible for hundreds, perhaps thousands,...
Castle Shade: A Novel of Suspense...
Author: Laurie R. King
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The queen is Marie of Roumania: the doubly royal granddaughter to Victoria, Empress of the British Empire, and Alexander II, Tsar of Russia. A famous beauty who was married at seventeen into Roumania's young dynasty, Marie had beguiled the Paris Peace Conference into returning her adopted country's long-lost provinces,...
In the Company of Killers
Author: Bryan Christy
Publisher: Random House Large Print;...
Tom Klay is a celebrated investigative wildlife reporter for the esteemed magazine The Sovereign. But Klay is not just a journalist. His reporting is cover for an even more dangerous job: CIA agent. Klay's press credentials make him a perfect spy--able to travel the globe, engage both politicians and warlords, and openly...
The Wonder Test
Author: Michelle Richmond
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Lina is on leave from her job in New York at the FBI in order to clean out her fa-ther's home in Silicon Valley. As though letting go of her father isn't hard enough, Lina has also recently lost her husband in a freak traffic accident. Still reeling, she and her teenage son Rory must make their way through this...
A Peculiar Combination: An Electra...
Author: Ashley Weaver
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Electra McDonnell has always known that the way she and her family earn their living is slightly outside of the law. Breaking into the homes of the rich and picking the locks on their safes may not be condoned by British law enforcement, but World War II is in full swing, Ellie's cousins Colm and Toby are off fighting...
Data Juridica, Rechterlijke onafhankelijkheid...
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Publisher: Kluwer
Ch. J. Enschede , 'Rechterlijke onafhankelijkheid en ministeriele verantwoordelijkheid. Over werving, keuze en opleiding van toekomstige magistraten', N.J.B., nr. 32, 24 sept. 1977, p. 823-827 De gerechtelijke magistratuur is in ons land van oudsher door de Kroon benoemd. Maar van een samenhangend beleid t.o.v....
