Mary Stewart
4) Rose cottage
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Rose Cottage, a tiny thatched dwelling in an idyllic English country setting, would appear the picture of tranquility to any passerby. But when Kate Herrick returns to her childhood home, she uncovers a web of intrigue as tangled as the rambling roses in its garden. It is the summer of 1947. Kate, widowed in the war and comfortably settled in London, travels to Rose Cottage to retrieve some family papers for her grandmother. Curious as to the changes...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Arriving in the picturesque and remote Valley of the Storms in the French Pyrenees for a reunion with a young cousin about to enter a local convent, artist Jennifer Silver is stunned to discover that the young woman has supposedly died in a terrible car accident.
Author
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1879, a wealthy young woman elopes with an impoverished fisherman, leaving her family, who live on the volcanic island of Lanzarote, distraught. In 1968, 23-year-old Perdita West, secretary to the famous author Cora Gresham, visits Lanzarote, the strangest and most wild of the Canary Isles, on a research trip. They meet Cora's estranged son, Mike, and fall in love with the unusual, beautiful little island. While snorkeling, a landslide traps Perdita...
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003?]
Language
English
Description
The Greek isle of Crete is the setting for the final sale of a fortune in stolen emeralds by a ruthless, desperate thief. However, two youthful sleuths, an English girl on holiday with her aunt and a young man wrongly accused of the crime, set out to expose the criminal, and are drawn into a death-defying adventure.