Roger Ackroyd knew too much. He knew that the woman he loved had poisoned her brutal first husband. He suspected also that someone had been blackmailing her. Then, tragically, came the news that she had taken her own life with an apparent drug overdose. However, the evening post brought Roger one last fatal scrap of information, but before he could finish reading the letter, he was stabbed t…
An isolated Scottish island, accessible to the mainland only twelve hours a day. A famous (some might say infamous) artist whose notoriously unfaithful husband disappeared after visiting her twenty years ago. A present-day discovery that intimately connects three people and unveils a web of secrets and lies. A masterful and propulsive novel that asks searing questions of ambition, power, gen…
August, 1911: The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincent Peruggia. Exactly what happens in the two years before its recovery is a mystery. Many replicas of the Mona Lisa exist, and more than one historian has wondered if the painting now in the Louvre is a fake, switched in 1911. Present day: art professor Luke Perrone digs for the truth behind his most famous ancestor: Peruggia. His search attracts…
Apa yang ingin disampaikan oleh gadis itu? Gadis itu mati. Ketua Klub Sastra, Shiraishi Itsumi, mati. Di tangannya ada setangkai bunga lily. Pembunuhan? Bunuh diri? Tidak ada yang tahu. Satu dari enam gadis anggota Klub Sastra digosipkan sebagai pembunuh gadis cantik berkarisma itu. Seminggu sesudahnya, Klub Sastra mengadakan pertemuan. Mereka ingin mengenang mantan ketua mereka de…
Alex Rider is actually the end of the story. Yassen Gregorovich was the beginning. Alex Rider’s life changed forever with one bullet and the pull of a trigger. Alex Rider’s life changed forever with the silent pull of a trigger. When Ian Rider died at the hands of the assassin Yassen Gregorovich, Alex, ready or not, was thrust into the world of international espionage—the worldâ€â€¦