Bøger af Simone van der Vlugt

Düster und wendungsreich: in Simone van der Vlugts Thriller ist nichts, wie es scheint! Die junge Nathalie bangt um ihr Leben: sie ist Opfer der Gewaltausbrüche ihres Lebensgefährten Vincent. Als Vincent sogar ihr Kind bedroht, beschließt Nathalie, sich zur Wehr zu setzen und zu fliehen. Doch Vincent ist ihr dicht auf den Fersen, und um sie zu finden, geht er womöglich über Leichen. Ermittlerin Julia Vriens wird mit der Aufklärung der Morde beauftragt, und es scheint klar zu sein, wer Täter und wer Opfer ist – doch der Fall und seine Hintergründe erweisen sich als undurchsichtiger als gedacht. Die niederländische Autorin Simone van der Vlugt wurde 1966 geboren. Nach ihrem Studium wollte sie zunächst den Beruf der Lehrerin ergreifen, doch ihre Leidenschaft für kreatives Schreiben überwog. Schriftstellerische Erfolge feierte Simone van der Vlugt vor allem mit ihren historischen Jugendromanen, bevor sie mit dem Thriller „Klassentreffen" und weiteren Kriminalromanen bewies, dass sie auch in düsteren, spannenden Genres zu Hause ist. Gemeinsam mit ihrer Familie lebt Simone van der Vlugt in Alkmaar (Niederlande).

From Simone Van Der Vlugt comes her European bestselling novel of a young woman's rise as a painter in Holland's Golden Ageperfect for readers of The Miniaturist, Tulip Fever, and Girl with a Pearl Earring.Amsterdam 1654: against the backdrop of Holland's Golden Age, a dangerous secret threatens to destroy a young widow's new life. Following the sudden death of her husband, twenty-five-year old Catrin leaves her small village and takes a job as a housekeeper to the successful Van Nulandt merchant family. Amsterdam is a city at the peak of its powers: science and art are flourishing in the Golden Age and Dutch ships bring back exotic riches from the Far East. Madam Van Nulandt passes her time taking expensive painting lessons from a local master, Rembrandt van Rigin, and when Catrin takes up a brush to finish some of her mistress's work, Rembrandt realizes the maid has genuine talent, and encourages her to continue. When a figure from her past threatens her new life, Catrin flees to the smaller city of Delft. There, her gift as a painter earns her a chance to earn a living painting pottery at a local workshop. Slowly, the workshop begins to develop a new type of pottery to rival fancy blue-on-white imported Chinese porcelainand the graceful and coveted Delft Blue designs she creates help revolutionize the industry. But when tragedy strikes, Catrin must decide whether to defend her newfound independence, or return to the village that she'd fled.

Amsterdam 1654: a dangerous secret threatens to destroy a young widow's new life.Following the sudden death of her husband, twenty-five year old Catrin leaves her small village and takes a job as housekeeper to the successful Van Nulandt merchant family. Amsterdam is a city at the peak of its powers: science and art are flourishing in the Golden Age and Dutch ships bring back exotic riches from the Far East.When a figure from her past threatens her new life, Catrin flees to Delft. There, her painting talent earns her a chance as a pottery painter. Slowly, the workshop begins to develop a new type of pottery to rival the coveted Chinese porcelain - and Delft Blue is born. But when tragedy strikes, Catrin has a hard choice to make.Rich and engrossing, Midnight Blue is perfect for fans of Tulip Fever and Girl with a Pearl Earring.

A brilliantly paced psychological thriller, 'The Reunion' is a chilling story of just how difficult it can be to cope when the past comes back to haunt you...Sabine is twenty-four years old and has just returned to work following a nervous breakdown. Unsurprisingly, life in the office has changed since she left, and Sabine is now the brunt of her colleagues' cruel jokes, as well as the main topic of office gossip.It soon becomes clear, however, that Sabine's problems are far deeper than those she faces daily, at work. Unable to forget her friend Isabel, who went missing when the pair were at school, an approaching class reunion forces Sabine to think about what really happened all those years ago, and why. The terrifying flashbacks that she begins to experience make her all the more determined to solve the mystery of her friend's fate.A new love interest and her own brother soon fall under Sabine's suspicions. Do they know what happened to Isabel? Were they in fact present in the forest from which she vanished that fateful day? As the pieces of the puzzle slowly fall into place, Sabine realises that the answers lie even closer to home - much closer than she could ever have possibly imagined.Exciting, frightening and utterly compelling, 'The Reunion' is a psychological thriller that is impossible to put down.

Hendes instinkt siger, at hun skal søge tilflugt i sit eget hjem ... Men det er det sidste sted, hun kan vide sig sikker.Lisa, mor til femårige Anouk, befinder sig i den værst tænkelige situation: Hun bliver taget som gidsel i sit idylliske, afsidesliggende hjem, af den kvindefjendske morder Mick Kreuger, som er flygtet fra en psykiatrisk afdeling.Da Senta van Dijk kører op til Lisas hus for at spørge om vej, ser hun situationen gennem vinduet, og får øjenkontakt med en forslået og tydeligt skrækslagen Lisa. Dette splitsekund giver Lisa håb, og hun bliver overbevist om, at hjælpen er på vej.Men Lisa ved ikke, at Senta kører galt og vågner op på hospitalet, uden nogen hukommelse om hændelsen. Mens Senta kæmper for at huske hvad der lå forud for ulykken, må Lisa gøre alt hvad hun kan for at beskytte sig selv og sin datter mod den voldelige psykopat ...Hvor intet kan røre dig er indlæst af Rebekka Owe i 2015.