New Releases by Sarah Dunant

Anna, a self-sufficient and reliable single mother, packs her bags one day for a short vacation to Italy. She leaves her beloved daughter at home in London with good friends. When Anna doesn’t return, everyone begins to make excuses, until the likelihood that she might not come back at all becomes chillingly clear. In this dazzling work of suspense, Sarah Dunant interweaves parallel narratives that are stretched taut with tension even as they raise difficult questions about love, trust, and accountability. We are challenged, unnerved, and ultimately exhilarated as Dunant redefines the boundaries of the psychological thriller.

Un jour, Anna quitte Londres pour un week-end. Sans dire où ni pourquoi. Le lundi, elle ne réapparaît pas. Tous les jours des gens disparaissent ainsi. Ils quittent leur maison, abandonnent leur existence pour s''évanouir dans le silence froid des statistiques. Pour ceux qu''ils laissent derrière eux, c''est l''heure du plus cruel des au revoir. La fille chérie d''Anna, âgée de six ans, se retrouve seule à la maison avec les meilleurs amis de sa mère. Mais l''absence d''Anna se prolonge. Plus le temps passe, plus chacun essaie maladroitement de trouver des explications. Et si Anna ne revenait jamais ? A-t-elle choisi de partir pour ne pas revenir ? Ou, plus terrible encore, quelqu''un a-t-il décidé pour elle ?

Una serie de macabros actos de sabotaje perturba la paz de un lujoso centro de estética y adelgazamiento.

A decade before her dazzling breakthrough novel, The Birth of Venus, Silver Dagger Award-winning author Sarah Dunant won critical acclaim for her Hannah Wolfe crime novels. In Under My Skin, private investigator Hannah Wolfe''s cushy new assignment takes her to the sumptuous Castle Dean health spa. While being plucked, crimped, steamed, and oiled, Hannah is ideally placed to probe some reported cases of sabotage -- fish in the Jacuzzi and steel nails in the massage heads. But spa owner Olivia Marchant has other problems besides sabotage. Someone is threatening her husband, Maurice, one of London''s leading cosmetic surgeons and the man responsible for reconstructing many of the world''s rich and famous. In a culture where no one wants to grow old and everyone seems to believe in the power of the knife, Hannah feels like an alien visitor. People will do anything in the name of beauty -- perhaps even commit murder.

Omdat haar vader bedreigd wordt door een groepering die strijdt voor de bevrijding van dieren, wordt een veertienjarig meisje ondergebracht bij een vrouwelijke detective.