Bücher von Jacques de Hogdeville

Seventeen years after purchasing their grand residence, the narrator and his expanding family have comfortably settled into their dream home. Eager to enhance its beauty, they embark on a project to install a picturesque fountain in the garden. What seems like a straightforward task takes a mysterious turn when they unearth unexpected relics from the ground below. These discoveries reignite an old investigation they believed was long behind them. As they delve deeper, they realize the house - and perhaps their family - harbours secrets that refuse to stay buried. Just when they thought they had moved past the shadows of their past, they find themselves confronting unsettling truths that threaten to shatter their newfound tranquillity. Dive into a tale where the past's echoes can disrupt the present's harmony.

The small community in SC3 is facing a new challenge: next summer pupils from the Continent will come and stay for a couple of weeks with local families to learn or improve their English. Some of them will prove disappointing, not least one of their teachers. The narrator's family will get out of their way to help, but can they really assist the local police with all the trouble created by some unknown thief? Why should such things take place in such a peaceful group, and what can be done about them?

As a dying father gets in touch again with the adult daughter he abandoned when she was a new-born baby, he will sneak into her life and try to harm her again before it is too late... But does he realise that a disabled little boy in the background may be able to stop him and, without even realising, save a few people from that unknown great uncle's claws? Most important, will the boy be allowed enough time to save his young, wheelchair-bound aunt?

It's been quite a few years since Amma last flew from her home in Reykjavik to England. But now more than 100 years old, she won't miss the first wedding of one of her great grandsons for the world, gathering all the energy which is left in her to carry that precious heirloom which has always been meant to be his wedding present. But other passengers have boarded the same flight with weird ideas about the way things should happen onboard. When the hijackers demand volunteers to be executed first, Amma doesn't have to think very long, not imagining what chain of events she will trigger here and there, now and later. And who is that weird man speaking in the most unexpected fashion? Why is he there, and what is he planning to do about the whole situation? "Life is fragile, handle with prayer" is a motto which may take all its meaning in this story.

A few years have come and gone, and Ragnhild is now a teenager working hard for her A-levels. Together with her French "twin cousin" she has arranged for a "bilingual" girl guide summer camp to be organised in Brittany, with their friends from both sides of the Channel. But things will not quite happen as planned, as crime is watching and getting ready to strike again. While visits to the local hospital prove far more numerous than could reasonably be expected, will Ragnhild be able to help the local police to solve the mysteries of the disappearing materials from the tents, not to mention the girl missing from the camp?