検索キーワード： 著者 "Eileen Enwright Hodgetts" すべてのカテゴリー

When a Peace Corps worker is murdered, a baby is kidnapped, and torrential rains cut off all contact with the outside world, Jensen finds herself in a desperate fight for survival she never sought. With no way to escape, she must rely on her instincts and courage to stand up to the local warlord and an unexpected fight with the CIA.

April 1912: Runaway aristocrats Poppy and Daisy Melville sign on as stewardesses for the Titanic’s maiden voyage. After their harrowing rescue by the Carpathia, they are forbidden from disembarking in New York and sent back to England with the other survivors of the Titanic’s crew.

It's 13th century England and the only hope for the people is that a long lost legendary sword appears and saves them from a tyrant king. King John of England fights for his throne while Athelstane, a Saxon stable boy, fights for his freedom.

The year is 1923, and the Jazz Age is in full swing. Evangeline Murray, a young widow from Ohio, is recruited by the Women’s Freedom Movement to represent the spirit of modern womanhood by going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Evangeline eagerly embraces her opportunity to achieve fame and fortune, until she sees the power of the river and begins to understand the risk she is taking. Joshua McClaren, an enigmatic battle-scarred veteran of World War I, and the best boatman of the Canadian shore of the Niagara, reluctantly agrees to launch the headstrong Evangeline.

Far from Earth in another galaxy, three lonely Earthmen follow a star on Christmas Eve. Are they the new wise men? What will they find in the stable? A short story that asks important questions about man's place in the universe.

December 1940: While London burns and bombs fall every night, Toby Whitby must save a man from hanging. Ralph Pemberton, a mild-mannered man with a weak heart, has been accused of looting. His fingerprints place him at the scene, and he refuses to offer an alibi. While Ralph waits in jail for the judge to pass sentence, Toby Whitby must try to find what Ralph was doing while the bombs were falling and the city was burning.

Solicitor Toby Whitby’s new client cannot remember his real name and calls himself Buddy. He was evacuated to Canada at the beginning of World War 2 carrying luggage belonging to a boy named Edward Powley, but when he returns 12 years later, he soon discovers that Edward Powley is the name of another boy; a boy who did not go to Canada.

England, 1952. A body washes up on Brighton beach, and lawyer Toby Whitby’s secretary swears she knows the corpse’s identity. One woman claims the man with no hands is the father of her child. Another woman swears that he is her son. Toby’s search leads him from a child stolen by gypsies in the First World War, to a faded film star who lies for a living, to London gangsters, and on to a notorious member of the British royal family.

Three separate and distinct thrillers: Whirlpool, The Serbian Solution, and Afric.

England, 1952. Lawyer Toby Whitby’s poor eyesight stole his chance to serve his country. When the lawyer’s boss is murdered, Toby inherits the case of a lifetime. But his opportunity to reunite an Earl’s daughter with her kidnapped child is anything but ordinary. After his search for the child reaches America, the people connected with the case start turning up dead. As the body count rises, Toby realizes there’s far more to his client’s story than she’s willing to share. Can Toby reunite a family, or will his pursuit of the truth get him killed?

In a drug induced dream, a woman in the US retrieves a suppressed memory from her European childhood. This memory leads to her own kidnapping and a wild chase across England and Wales in the company of a reluctant American doctor. In a tiny village in western England, a deluded old man dreams of becoming a king. And in a London apartment an old lady, born in the days of the Czars, maintains a guilty secret of tainted royal blood. Set amidst the turmoil at the end of the Cold War, The Serbian Solution is a tale of adventure and romance, culminating in a desperate final voyage.