Bøger af Fiona Snyckers

Jasmine Bear has one goal in life - to stay out of trouble until she turns eighteen so she can be released from the California foster care system and start living life on her own terms. This does not include being kidnapped by a secretive couple calling themselves the Controllers. They recruit Jasmine to save the world, but what if she wants to save herself first? Then Jasmine gets to know the rag-tag group of misfits who are her new teammates and wonders if this is what it feels like to belong somewhere. Fans of time-travel adventure will love this exciting four-part series from an award-winning novelist.

"Strange things happen on Moonstone Island." Luna Larkspur's ancestor may have been the island witch, but Luna is determined not to follow in her footsteps. All she wants is to be left in peace to manage Charmed - the secondhand bookstore she inherited from her grandfather. But a dead body has turned up in the non-fiction section of the store and Luna finds herself using her special gifts to solve the mystery of his murder. Soon, she is having long conversations with her cat - convinced he understands every word she says - and baking cookies and growing her own herbs, like some kind of domestic goddess. Then the locals start asking for herbal remedies to ease their aches and pains. Does no one understand that Luna has no idea what she is doing? But when you are the last of the Larkspurs, it's impossible to reject your heritage. This delightful cozy mystery by an award-winning author will transport you to a spellbinding place.

Sunset Acres is an idyllic retirement estate where the well-heeled elderly of Bluebell Island go to enjoy their latter years in comfort and safety.When the residents start dying like flies, Fay Penrose has to confront the uncomfortable possibility that she has a serial killer on her hands.Meanwhile rumors abound of something large and dangerous stalking the village. Fay will have to answer one crucial question - exactly how many predators are loose on Bluebell Island this week?

The annual spring fair on Bluebell Island is all about cotton candy and Ferris wheels, not corpses and mysterious revolvers.Elizabeth Saville might have been one of the more annoying members of the village community, but her sudden death takes place on Fay Penrose's property, which makes it her business.How well did any of them really know Mrs. Saville? No one suspected she was wealthy, for one thing. And now several of the villagers have been named as her heirs. Did one of them murder her? And can Fay discover the truth before the killer slips out of her grasp forever?

Fay Penrose goes to the village library looking for murder - a murder mystery novel, to be precise. She doesn't expect to find an actual corpse.The dead man was researching an ancient medieval riddle when someone brought a candlestick down on his head. What does that riddle have to do with today's world and who is prepared to kill to keep it secret?Fay finds herself drawn into a nest of ruthless antiquarians for whom the past is more real than the present. They will stop at nothing to get what they want.

"People don't disappear. Not without help."Five years ago, girl-next-door Jessica Manilow vanished while on a spring-break visit to the tiny island of Monk's Cay. Now Eulalie Park has been hired to find out what happened to her.Monk's Cay is not a popular place with the locals of Prince William Island. Ever since it was abandoned by an order of Benedictine monks in the 1800s, rumors have run wild that it is haunted.It's not that Eulalie believes in ghosts - at least not in the cold light of day. It's just that she wouldn't choose to spend the night on Monk's Cay. Facing your fears is overrated.But before the mystery of Jessica's disappearance can be solved, she might have to.Praise for the Eulalie Park Mystery series: "A fun and fast-paced read" - The Sunday Times"Snyckers' books are fast-paced and exceptionally readable" - Beeld newspape

"I killed Rochelle Chirac. She was a bitch and she deserved to die."The cream of Prince William Island society has turned out for hatching day at the local school. Time capsules that were buried by the senior class fifteen years ago are due to be dug up and opened. One of them is empty, apart from this sinister message, written in a schoolgirl's handwriting.Ripples of shock are felt all over the island. Rochelle has been presumed missing for years - believed to have run away from home. After all this time, there is no evidence and no motive. Will this prove to be the perfect, unsolvable crime, or can investigator Eulalie Park crack the mystery of Rochelle's disappearance?Don't miss the final installment of The Eulalie Park Mysteries "H" series.

When Fay Penrose takes over her grandmother's B&B on Bluebell Island, she knows there will be some clean-up involved, but she doesn't expect that to include a dead body in one of the guest rooms.As a former police officer, Fay knows the man has been poisoned. What she doesn't know if who he is, what he was doing on the island, and what all this has to do with a four-hundred-year-old shipwreck.Forced to team up with the delicious but disapproving Dr. David Dyer, Fay is soon on the trail of a very old mystery. Fay has the skills, and David has the medical knowledge, but it's the cat that has the clue.Nominated four times for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize (South Africa), Fiona Snyckers is a gripping storyteller."Fiona Snyckers has got it just right." The Witness"Get yourself a blanket, some hot chocolate, and a sunny spot to curl up in, and immerse yourself in Snyckers' world." Mail & Guardian

Halloween fever has Bluebell Island in its grip.Among the bats, pumpkins, and witches' hats, no one expects to find a dead body - especially not one that has been stabbed by a sword.Fay Penrose feels compelled to investigate further. Between trying to identify a killer and rescue a stray cat in the woods, she hardly has time to keep up with her pumpkin pie baking. There's also the matter of who serves the best clotted cream in the village. Will this be the one mystery that defeats Fay, or will cream always rise to the top?

"It's all coming to light."The past is giving up its secrets and the dead refuse to stay buried. When a decades-old murder is revealed at a construction site, private investigator Eulalie Park has no idea how closely it will involve her and her family.Instead of laying low, the killer seems determined to go on another murderous spree, terrorizing women all over Prince William Island.As the body-count mounts, Eulalie will need all her investigative skills to stop the killer before he strikes again.See what critics have been saying about the Eulalie Park Mystery Series: "A fun and fast-paced read" - The Sunday Times"Fun, pacey thriller" - Beeld newspaper

While taking a group of tourists on a sunset tour of Bluebell Island, Fay Penrose finds the one thing no one ever expects - a human body. An elderly woman has tumbled from the top of Bluff Lighthouse onto the ground beneath. But did she fall or was she pushed?Never one to resist the lure of a mystery, Fay finds herself drawn into a deadly game of fraud and deception. Whoever is behind it might just be her most ruthless opponent yet.

"It feels as if everything is going wrong." Eulalie Park is under attack. The village of her birth is being threatened by developers. Her best friend has fallen victim to a conman. And the man she is dating is seeing someone else. Now a real estate developer has been found dead in the forest of Prince William Island, and all the evidence points to someone very close to Eulalie. If she doesn't solve the mystery soon, things could get ugly. Eulalie will need all her resourcefulness to get through one of the most challenging times of her life.

"A cry for reparations for Lucy Lurie. She is the victim of an act of terrible sexual violence that devastes her life. Afterwards, she becomes obsessed with the author John Coetzee, the man who wrote the scene of violence in which she was attacked. Withdrawn and fearful of crowds, Lucy nonetheless makes occasional forays into the world of men in her search for Coetzee himself. She means to confront him. The Lucy in his novel, Disgrace, is passive and almost entirely lacking agency. Lucy means to right the record, for she is the lacuna that Coetzee left in his novel--the missing piece of the puzzle. Lucy plans to put herself back in the story, to assert her agency and identity. For Lucy Lurie will be no man's lacuna. This riveting, feminist reply to the book considered to be Coetzee's masterwork is also a moving story of one woman trying to put her life back together after trauma."--Provided by publisher.

Now Following You is a clever, chilling and compelling read, which deals skilfully with relevant issues , most notably, the power social media gives to stalkers and others who intend harm. Jamie Burchell is a digital native , social media comes as naturally to her as breathing. She Instagrams, tweets and Facebooks her every move. Then a stalker starts using social media to track her movements. As his behaviour escalates, so does her fear. But her blog has never been more popular. The fans can,t get enough of reading about her stalker. She is closer than ever to achieving her dream of becoming a writer. Should she take herself offline, or should she refuse to be intimidated? Soon the stalker starts threatening the people she cares about. But now it,s too late for Jamie to go offline , he,s already following her in real life.

Life at boarding school is not all diets, dresses and dances, as Trinity Luhabe discovers when her parents move overseas for a term. She has hardly settled into Sisulu House when she finds herself caught up in the most unexpected love triangle of her life. Zach is the school sports hero, while James is different to anyone she's ever met. One of them wants to control her ... the other holds the key to an old secret that has been buried for a very long time. Will Trinity figure out who to trust before it's too late?