Лучшие книги Гвен Бристоу

Настоящий сборник - тринадцатый в серии "Мастера детектива" - включает роман "Невидимый хозяин", созданный американской писательницей Гвен Бристоу в соавторстве с мужем Брюсом Маннингом; творчество Картера Брауна представлено романом "Бывшая жена", принесшим ему популярность: а роман "Зачем убивать дворецкого?" знакомит читателей с творчеством английской писательницы, автора 50 остросюжетных произведений, Джорджетты Хейер, которую называли "королевой таинственности".

The Civil War alters life for a Louisiana plantation mistress and a poor seamstress in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Jubilee Trail.

Corrie May Upjohn stands on the levee, watching men unload the riverboats and wishing she could travel far away. A poor preacher’s daughter, she is only fourteen and her life is already laid out for her: marriage in a year or two, and then decades of drudgery.

At nearby Ardeith Plantation, Ann Sheramy Larne lives in luxury, but feels just as imprisoned as Corrie May. Their lives could not be more different, but when the horrors of war and Reconstruction come to Louisiana and the Old South begins to fall, these two women will band together to survive.

From the bestselling author of Calico Palace, this is the second novel in the poignant Plantation Trilogy, which also includes Deep Summer and This Side of Glory.

The history of California in the mid-19th century comes alive in this captivating historical novel. Garnet Cameron, a fashionable young lady of New York, is leading a neat, proper life, full of elegant parties and polite young men, yet the