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Cleverer Wirtschaftsthriller trifft auf packenden Krimi: Michael Ridpath sorgt erneut für Hochspannung! Für Simon läuft alles perfekt: er hat eine vielversprechende Karriere in einer Bostoner Finanzierungsgesellschaft vor sich und ist mit Lisa, der Tochter seines Chefs, verheiratet. Doch dann gerät Simons Welt aus den Fugen: sein Schwiegervater wird ermordet. Simon wird schnell zum Hauptverdächtigen und ist gezwungen, selbst Ermittlungen anzustellen: Welche Geheimnisse verbergen die mächtigen Konzerne der Stadt? Wer ist bereit, für Geld zu töten?

1936. Devastated by the death of her brother Hugh, Emma seeks to keep his memory alive by embracing his dreams of a communist revolution. But when she marries an ambitious diplomat, she must live within the confines of embassy life in Paris and Nazi Berlin. 1979. Emma's grandson, Phil, dreams of a tour of Europe, but is nowhere near being able to fund it. So when his beloved grandmother determines to make one last trip to the places she lived, and to try to solve a mystery that has haunted her since the war, he jumps at the chance to accompany her.

Alastair Cunningham wakes up in hospital with almost total amnesia. But he knows that something terrible happened in his past, something that haunts him still. A young family friend, Clemence, is called in to help rekindle his memory. Retreating with Alastair to his remote cottage, Clemence finds a peculiar manuscript hidden away from prying eyes. Reading the prologue, she discovers a murder by someone very much like a young Alastair. The victim? Clemence's grandmother, Sophie.

Iceland 1934: Two boys playing see something they shouldn't have. The consequences will haunt them and their families for generations. Iceland 2009: the credit crunch bites. The currency has been devalued, savings annihilated, lives ruined. Grassroots revolution is in the air, as is the feeling that someone ought to pay.... And in a country where everyone knows everybody, it isn't hard to draw up a list of exactly who is responsible. And then, one by one, to cross them off.