On the twentieth anniversary of the death of Rebecca, the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter, family friend Colonel Julyan receives an anonymous parcel. It contains a black notebook with two handwritten words on the title page -- Rebecca's Tale -- and two pictures: a photograph of Rebecca as a young child and a postcard of Manderley. Rebecca once asked Julyan to ensure she was buried in the churchyard facing the sea: if she ended up in the de Winter crypt, she warned, she'd...

Halley's Comet night at Winterscombe in 1910 ends with a violent death which throws a giant shadow over three generations of the Cavendish dynasty.At the centre of events is the beautiful and dangerous Constance, who casts a spell - which may be a curse - on all the sons of the family.Following the destruction of two World Wars - and the passions, deceits and hatreds of the intervening peace - it is the coruscating power of Constance's personality, and the sinister secret a...

From the New York Times bestselling author Sally Beauman comes an intensely atmospheric, spellbinding re-creation of Lord Carnarvon's hunt for Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings.Sent abroad to Egypt in 1922 to recover from the typhoid that has killed her mother, eleven-year-old Lucy becomes swept up in the feverish excitement surrounding the search for Tutankhamun's tomb. Through her friendship with Frances, the daughter of an American archaeologist, Lucy wi...

It's Death on the Nile meets Downton Abbey, as the action moves between Highclere Castle and Egypt's Valley of the Kings . . . A gripping story touching on friendship, scholarship, love and family' Daily MailBased on a true story of discovery, The Visitors is New York Times bestselling author Sally Beauman's brilliant recreation of the hunt for Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings - a dazzling blend of fact and ficti...

Envoyée en Égypte en 1922 pour se remettre de la mort de sa mère, la petite Lucy, onze ans, est prise dans l’effervescence qui entoure la recherche obsessionnelle du tombeau de Toutânkhamon.Sa rencontre avec Frances, la fille d’un archéologue américain, bouleverse son existence. Alors que les deux fillettes épient les adultes pour percer à jour les secrets qu’ils gardent jalousement, se forge entre elles un lien d’amitié indestructible.Des décennies plus tard, hantée par les ...

One frosty January morning, an exquisitely dressed, beautiful blonde woman sends four identical parcels to four different destinations: Paris, New York, Venice and London. But this is no innocent transaction and the woman is not the person she claims to be.Photographer Pascal Lamartine receives his package in Paris: it contains a woman's black glove, scented and disturbing. In London, reporter Gini Hunter, opens her parcel to find even more threatening contents. And, within hours, ...

One Evening in Paris, Edouard de Chavigny becomes a man obsessed. A wealthy, notorious womanizer, he is captivated by a mysterious young Englishwoman, Helene Craig, and knows that she is the woman he has been searching for all his life.But Helene is not what she seems. While Edouard offers her wealth, freedom and passion, she must weigh these attractions against the demands of her own secret life and her determination to exact revenge for the destruction of her childhood world....

If I didn't spy, I'd be in the dark eternally. I live in a maze of unknowing -- Maisie's maze -- and I hate it. I need to be informed . . .'The summer of 1967, at a decaying house in the heart of Suffolk: an artist is painting a portrait of thirteen-year-old Maisie and her elder sisters, beautiful Julia and bookish Finn. Maisie embarks on a portrait of her own: she begins an account of her family and of her village friend Daniel Nunn, a young man she idolises, whom she watches over...

Journalist Lindsay Drummond is about to re-make her life: she plans to move out of London, change her job, and above all, cure herself of her hopeless love for her unfairly handsome colleague, Rowland McGuire. Deadline day is Hallowe'en - but an encounter then with Rowland's friend, Colin Lascelles, a man much less innocent than he seems, quickly teaches her that the best-laid plans can go delightfully awry...In New York, actress Natasha Lawrence is also trying to rebuild her life....

In France, a young man's heart misses a beat when the blue lights of a police car signal for him to pull his Mercedes off the autoroute. For inside the attache case on the passenger seat is a very special delivery bound for the Parisian headquarters of the world-renowned fashion house, Cazares, and for fashion doyenne Maria Cazares herself. And a similar, potentially lethal delivery, is about to disrupt the quiet of the English countryside.In London, journalist Gini Hunter, newly r...

Er weiß alles über dich … Der fesselnde Romantik-Thriller »New York Stalker – Eine tödliche Liebe« von Sally Beauman jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks. Die Welt der Reichen und Schönen – und ihre Abgründe ... Die junge Journalistin Lindsay verlässt London, um in New York noch einmal ganz neu durchzustarten. Ein Rechercheauftrag in New Yorks Filmwelt verspricht, ihre große Chance zu werden: Colin, der unverschämt gutaussehende Assistenten des Regisseurs Tomas Court, ist gerne bereit, ihr mit sei...

Eine Liebe wie keine andere: Die große Familiensaga »Erben des Schicksals« von Sally Beauman jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks. Ein verheißungsvoller Sommerabend in Paris gegen Ende der 50er Jahre: Edouard de Chavigny, Sohn einer berühmten Juweliersfamilie und Erbe eines gewaltigen Wirtschaftsimperiums, trifft auf Hèléne – und ist wie vom Donner gerührt. Ausgerechnet er, der jede Frau haben könnte, verfällt dieser rätselhaften Schönheit auf den ersten Blick … Doch obwohl Hèléne gleichermaßen vo...