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Stef Penney - Gyengéd, mint a farkasok
Kanada 1867
Ahogy a tél egyre szorosabban markolta Dover River elszigetelt települését, egy asszony élete legveszélyesebb útjára indul. Egy férfit brutálisan meggyilkoltak, a nő tizenhét éves fia pedig eltűnt. Az erőszak régi sebeket tép fel, és lángra gyújtja a kisváros mélyen ülő feszültségeit. Vannak akik meg akarják oldani a bűntényt, mások csak ki akarják használni. Hogy fia nevét tisztára mossa, az asszonynak nincs más választása, mint, hogy kövesse a halott férfi kunyhójától induló nyomokat, és északnak induljon az erdőbe, és az azon túli kietlen tájra...
Stef Penney - Under a Pole Star
A whaler's daughter, Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve and fell in love with the cold and unforgiving terrain. In 1889, she sets out to become a scientist and explorer. Despite those who believe that a young woman has no place in this harsh world of men, her determination leads her back to northern Greenland at the head of a British expedition.
Yearning for wider horizons, American geologist Jakob de Beyn joins a rival expedition led by the furiously driven Lester Armitage. When the path of Flora's expedition meets theirs, the three lives become intertwined. All are obsessed with the north, a place where violent extremes exist side by side: perpetual night and endless day; frozen seas and coastal meadows; heroism and lies. Armitage's ruthless desire to be the true leader of polar discovery takes him and his men on a mission whose tragic outcome will reverberate for years to come.
Set against the stark, timeless beauty of northern Greenland, and fin-de-siecle New York and London, Under a Pole Star is a compelling look at the dark side of the golden age of exploration, a study of the corrosive power of ambition, and an epic, incendiary love story. It shows that sometimes you have to travel to the furthest edge of the world in order to find your true place in it.
Stef Penney - The Invisible Ones
Rose Janko is missing. It has been seven years since she disappeared, and nobody said a word.
Now, following the death of his wife, her father Leon feels compelled to find her. Rumour had it she ran off when her baby boy was born with the family's genetic disorder. Leon is not so sure. He wants to know the truth and he hires a private investigator to discover it - Ray Lovell.
Ray starts to delve deeper, but his investigation is hampered by the very people who ought to be helping him - the Jankos. He cannot understand their reluctance to help.
Why don't they want to find Rose Janko?
Stef Penney - The Tenderness of Wolves
It is 1867, Canada: as winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a man is brutally murdered and a 17-year old boy disappears. Tracks leaving the dead man's cabin head north towards the forest and the tundra beyond. In the wake of such violence, people are drawn to the township - journalists, Hudson's Bay Company men, trappers, traders -, but do they want to solve the crime or exploit it? One by one, the assembled searchers set out from Dove River, pursuing the tracks across a desolate landscape home only to wild animals, madmen and fugitives, variously seeking a murderer, a son, two sisters missing for 17 years, a Native American culture, and a fortune in stolen furs before the snows settle and cover the tracks of the past for good.
In an astonishingly assured debut, Stef Penney deftly waves adventure, suspense, revelation and humour into a panoramic historical romance, an exhilarating thriller, a keen murder mystery and ultimately, with the sheer scope and quality of her storytelling, one of the books of the year.
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