Kirjahaku

"There must have been a reason why they both walked into the surf, but only the man came out; but it was not evident in the picture of a happy couple or the half-finished bottle of wine-a very expensive Napoleon 1850 Chablis-left on the beach." This begins the mystery of the American couple apparently enjoying their second honeymoon on the Italian Riviera, until the wife goes missing under suspicious circumstances. Was it murder in the waves or did she run away? A nation-wide manhunt finds nothing, but Inspector Jean Girard is determined to get the truth out of the husband, a movie producer in the States. What looks at first like a simple mystery may turn out to be "Love's Last mystery."

The Vatican, 1978: a little-known Cardinal from Venice is elected to succeed Pope Paul VI. A compromise candidate, he takes the name Pope John Paul I, and quickly shows himself to be the liberal the reactionaries within the Catholic Church most feared. Thirty-three days later he is dead. No official investigation is conducted, no autopsy is performed, and the Vatican's press release about the cause of death is found to be largely false. With a premiere at the Chichester Festival in April 2007 starring David Suchet, this gripping thriller goes behind the scenes at the Vatican, uncovering the bitter rivalries, the political manoeuvrings and the unspoken crises of faith that surrounded the death of 'the Smiling Pope'.

A year had passed since we had escaped from the cave of the Dragon Men, but we were still no closer to unraveling the mystery of the dragon's Tooth and the world it had come from. It seemed that my father had died in vain. There was only one thing to do: go to Belgium and search for the portal to the wormhole in the forest of the Ardennes. Alfie would join us there. As Kaylee and I made our plans for the summer, little did we know that others had also made plans for us, that we would meet a mysterious Belgium girl named Luna, and that four of us would end up jumping across the universe to a world of dragons and Viking men.