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The echo

When a homeless man is found dead in a private garage in a ritzy neighbourhood. A number of suspicions and questions fall on the owner of the household.

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  • "When a homeless man is found dead in a private garage in a ritzy neighbourhood. A number of suspicions and questions fall on the owner of the household."@en
  • "Es ist schon seltsam, dass in der Garage der wohlhabenden Architektin Amanda Powell eines Tages ein Stadtstreicher tot aufgefunden wird. Noch seltsamer ist aber, dass Amanda die Bestattungskosten für den Unbekannten übernimmt. Das findet zumindest der Journalist Michael Deacon. Amanda und ihre mysteriöse Geschichte faszinieren ihn so sehr, dass er Nachforschungen anstellt. Und dabei gerät er immer tiefer in das Labyrinth einer düsteren Vergangenheit ... Minette Walters arbeitete lange als Redakteurin in London, bevor sie Schriftstellerin wurde. Seit ihrem Debüt 'Im Eishaus', das 1994 auf Deutsch veröffentlicht wurde, zählt sie zu den Lieblingsautoren von Millionen Leserinnen und Lesern in aller Welt. Alle ihre bisher erschienenen Romane wurden mit wichtigen Preisen ausgezeichnet und in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt. Minette Walters lebt mit ihrem Mann und ihren beiden Söhnen in Dorset, England."
  • "Mike Deacon, a cynical journalist is intrigued by the death of Billy Blake, an alcoholic vagrant and by the involvment of the wealthy woman who found his body in her garage___"
  • "It was the smell that Mrs Powell noticed first. Slightly sweet. Slightly unpleasant. It shocked her to find a dead man in the corner, his head slumped on his knees."@en
  • "Donation."@en
  • "When Billy Blake, a homeless alcoholic, turns up dead of starvation in the garage of wealthy Amanda Powell, Amanda, obsessed with her dead visitor, joins forces with cynical reporter Michael Deacon to uncover the truth."
  • "De belangstelling van een journalist is gewekt wanneer een zwerver aan ondervoeding sterft naast een gevulde vrieskist in de garage van een Londense villa."
  • "In this hypnotic novel of psychological suspense, a homeless man is found starved to death in the garage of a ritzy London home. The police chalk it up to an unfortunate accident, but a journalist, Michael Deacon, is intrigued. Amanda Powell, a socialite whose wealthy husband vanished five years ago after being accused of embezzlement, is just as interested as Michael in finding out who died in her garage. They have no idea that this simple story will unveil a web of deceit that is an appalling as the people behind it."@en
  • "A journalist in London investigates the mystery of a homeless man found dead in the garage of a wealthy woman. The woman is the wife of a merchant banker who absconded abroad with a vast sum of money. Not by chance her husband? The woman is not talking. By the author of The Ice House."
  • "A journalist in London investigates the mystery of a homeless man found dead in the garage of a wealthy woman. The woman is the wife of a merchant banker who absconded abroad with a vast sum of money. Not by chance her husband? The woman is not talking. By the author of The Ice House."@en
  • "Mike, a cynical somewhat discredited journalist begins an investigation into the curious death of Blake, an alcoholic vagrant. Could Amanada, who found him, have anything to do with it? And what about her husband, who absconded with ten million pounds?"@en
  • "When a dead homeless man is found in a wealthy woman's garage, a jounalist's curiosity about the case leads him on a chilling journey."@en

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  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Detective and mystery stories"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Detective and mystery stories, English"@en
  • "Powieść kryminalna angielska"
  • "Spannung"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl
  • "Mystery and detective stories"@en

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  • "Das Echo"
  • "回聲 = The echo"
  • "The echo"@en
  • "The echo"
  • "Echo"@pl
  • "Echo"
  • "Das Echo Roman"
  • "Resonances-- : Roman"
  • "Hui sheng = The echo"
  • "Ecos en la sombra"@es
  • "Ecos en la sombra"
  • "He ēchō"
  • "The Echo"
  • "The Echo"@en
  • "Hui sheng"
  • "回声 = The echo"
  • "Résonances : roman"
  • "回聲"
  • "Résonances--"
  • "Das Echo : Roman"
  • "De echo"
  • "Ekkoet : kriminalroman"@da
  • "回声"
  • "Résonances-- : roman"
  • "Hē ēcho"
  • "Kaiku"@fi
  • "Résonances"

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