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1) The promise
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Language
English
Description
"Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life's unfulfilled promises; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by a nebulous feeling of guilt. Reunited by four funerals over three decades, the dwindling family...
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler/Atria Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Killing a bird with his slingshot as a boy, William Bellman grows up a wealthy family man unaware of how his act of childhood cruelty will have terrible consequences until a wrenching tragedy compels him to enter into a macabre bargain with a stranger in black.
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Dante Mancuso works for The Company, a security organization operating just this side of the law. Returning home to San Francisco's Little Italy to attend the funeral of his father, Dante finds himself being pursued by Frank Ying, a Chinese detective eager to know the secrets Dante hides.
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