Mark Mills

Blood brothers or sworn enemies? You never forget what the fight was about...Ben Makepeace has barely thought of Jacob since school. What he remembers is a competitive, manipulative boy, impinging on his life like a cuckoo planted in a nest. Now Ben is the wrong side of forty with a young son to support and in need of a backer to bankroll his latest film script. A call to meet hedge-fund billionaire Victor Sheldon is promising, but there's a surprise in store - Victor is Jacob, now firmly entrenched in a gilded world of riches and glamour. History can cast a long shadow and while Ben believes his childhood is well over, he soon discovers the roots of the past dig deep, and some can't let it go.

Nel 1947 Amagansett, oggi spiaggia alla moda di Long Island, meta prediletta da stelle del cinema e miliardari, e ancora un villaggio di pescatori. Qui, un reduce pluridecorato, tornato a fare il pescatore, trova nella rete il cadavere della donna di cui e perdutamente innamorato. Non si dara pace fino a che non avra trovato e annientato i colpevoli. Non potendo svolgere le indagini in prima persona, Conrad insinua i propri dubbi a Tom Hollis, un detective di New York esiliato ad Amagansett per punizione. Il piano che escogitano insieme per punire i colpevoli e diabolico.

Young Cambridge scholar Adam Banting is in Tuscany, assigned to write a scholarly monograph about the famous Docci garden—a mysterious world of statues, grottoes, meandering rills, and classical inscriptions. As his research deepens, Adam comes to suspect that buried in the garden's strange iconography is the key to uncovering a long-ago murder. But the ancient house holds its own secrets as well. And as Adam delves into his subject, he begins to suspect that he is being used to discover the true meaning of the villa's murderous past.

El profesor Crispin Leonard es una institución en Cambridge con una deuda pendiente con su pasado: descubrir el misterio que encierra el jardín renacentista de Villa Docci, al sur de Florencia, con sus serpenteantes caminos y sus arroyuelos, sus estatuas, inscripciones y estructuras neoclásicas. Es 1958 y un lúcido estudiante surge en su camino: Adam Strickland. Sí, quizás él pueda descubrir 400 años después qué extraño mensaje esconde el jardín creado en 1577 en honor de Flora, la joven esposa del noble Federico Docci. Adam viaja dos semanas a Italia, invitado por la anciana Francesca Docci, y su vida cambiará para siempre.. Una sorprendente novela en la que el laureado autor de El crimen de Amagansett reúne una hermosa evocación del Renacimiento, una imposible historia de amor y asesinatos inconfesables.

Mark MillsSnow Falling on Cedars meets The Shipping News in this enthralling literary crime novel set in post World War II Long Island. In the small town of Amagansett, perched on Long Island's windswept coast, generations have followed the same calling as their forefathers, fishing the dangerous Atlantic waters. Little has changed in the three centuries since white settlers drove the Montauk Indians from the land. But for Conrad Clergue, a second-generation Basque immigrant recently returned from the Second World War, and his fellow fisherman Rollo Kemp, this stability is shattered when a beautiful New York socialite turns up dead in their nets. On the face of it, her death was accidental, but deputy police chief Tom Hollis - an incomer from New York - is convinced the truth lies in the intricate histories and family secrets of Amagansett's inhabitants. Meanwhile the enigmatic Clergue is pursuing his own investigation. In unravelling the mystery, this haunting and evocative novel captures a community whose way of life is disappearing, its demise hastened by war in Europe and the incursions of wealthy city dwellers in search of a playground.

Una novela repleta de ternura que explora la amistad, el amor, la soledad y ese vínculo tan especial y único que se crea entre un ser humano y su mascota.Dan está pasando un mal momento tanto profesional como personal. Su agencia de publicidad se ha arruinado, su director creativo ha desaparecido del mapa y Dan lleva ya seis meses sin trabajar. Por si eso fuera poco, su novia lo ha abandonado sin previo aviso y se ha marchado a Australia.Lo unico que le ha dejado es una carta repleta de recriminaciones y excusas sin mucho sentido y un perro pequeño, blanco y casi sin pelo al que todavia no han tenido tiempo de buscar un nombre en condiciones. Probablemente el perro mas feo que Dan haya visto jamas.Dan se ha convertido otra vez en un hombre soltero y un perro es la ultima cosa que quiere en su vida. Pero a veces los planes no funcionan como estaba previsto... y un amigo de cuatro patas puede ser exactamente lo que Dan necesita.La critica ha dicho...Solo tendras que leer dos frases para enamorarte de Doggo, y Dan tampoco se quedara atras. Una historia divertida, emocionante y verdaderamente unica, ¡no te la pierdas!HeatInteligente, original y con estilo.The ObserverUn viaje divertido y reconfortante hacia el descubrim...

Mills, MarkSnow Falling on Cedars meets The Shipping News in this enthralling literary crime novel set in post World War II Long Island.In the small town of Amagansett, perched on Long Island's windswept coast, generations have followed the same calling as their forefathers, fishing the dangerous Atlantic waters. Little has changed in the three centuries since white settlers drove the Montaukett Indians from the land. But for Conrad Labarde, a second-generation Basque immigrant recently returned from the Second World War, and his fellow fisherman Rollo Kemp, this stability is shattered when a beautiful New York socialite turns up dead in their nets.On the face of it, her death was accidental, but deputy police chief Tom Hollis - an incomer from New York - is convinced the truth lies in the intricate histories and family secrets of Amagansett's inhabitants. Meanwhile the enigmatic Labarde is pursuing his own investigation.In unravelling the mystery, this haunting and evocative novel captures a community whose way of life is disappearing, its demise hastened by war in Europe and the incursions of wealthy city dwellers in search of a playground.

Paris, 1937. Luke Hamilton - a junior air intelligence officer at the British Embassy - finds himself the target of an assassination attempt. A clear case of mistaken identity, or so it first appears. As Luke is hunted across a continent sliding towards war, he comes to learn that the answers lie deep in a past that predates his abandonment as a baby on the steps of an orphanage twenty-five years ago.From the author of the bestselling THE SAVAGE GARDEN, and set against a terrific backdrop of Europe on the cusp of the Second World War, this is a compelling novel, rich in adventure, espionage, secrets and lies.