Anne Rivers Siddons

1 Haben Sie auch schon mal Leute sagen hören: »Ich hab's gewußt, ich hab einen kalten Hauch im Nacken gespürt?« Damit sind jene plötzlichen Vorahnungen gemeint, die sich später als wahr herausstellen. Meine Mutter sagt das ständig, obwohl sie nicht immer recht hat. In meiner...

PROLOGUEThe South killed Lucy Bondurant Chastain Ven-able on the day she was bora. It just took her until now to die. It was a textbook murder, classical in concept, faultless in execution; a work of art, really, as such things go. And no wonder. It's what we do best, kill our women. Or maim them....

CHAPTER ONEO.'n the Outer Banks of North Carohna there is a legend about the ships that have come to grief in the great autumn storms off those hungry shoals. Over the centuries there have been many; the Banks have more than earned their reputation as the Graveyard of the Atlantic. Myths and...

CHAPTER ONE You know how people are always saying 'I knew it by the back of my neck' when they mean those occasional scalding slashes of intuition that later prove to be true? My mother is always saying it, though she is not always right. Nevertheless, in my half-Celt family, the back of one's...

Cfiapter 1 /AM never at my best in the early morning, especially the cold mornings you get in the Yorkshire spring, with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears. It was a cheerless time, and a particularly bad time to be...