Showing results for "Bitters" in Anthologies & Short Stories

From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Joan Johnston comes two classic stories of the unforgettable MEN OF BITTER CREEK. Cale Landry When THE MAN FROM WOLF CREEK leaves his secluded mountain refuge to seek revenge on the thief who robbed him, he never expected he’d end up taking...

Tiefgründig, schillernd, phantasievoll: Wie in seinem Bestseller "Das Buch vom Süden" erzählt André Heller ganz besondere, tiefgründige und schillernde Geschichten. Eine Weltmeisterschaft im Händefalten, Shlomo Herzmanskys wundersames Überleben dank Himmler und ein wildes nächtliches Durcheinander von Lipizzanern mitten in Wien. Alles ist möglich, selbst die Abschaffung des Todes kann einen nicht wirklich erstaunen, wenn man in die Erzählwelt von André Heller eintaucht.

Miss Marple meets Oscar Wilde in this series of cosy mysteries set in the picturesque Cotswolds village of Bunburry. A wealthy developer has turned up in the picturesque Cotswolds village of Bunburry with the aim of building a luxury golf course. It will mean buying up nearby farmland, and the locals are bitterly divided over the scheme. Then one of the leading opponents is found dead in a murder staged to look like an accident.

In the English language ‘bittersweet’ is that most pivotal of words. The mixture of sadness and happiness that suggest both but often bringing us smartly to earth, smack dab in-between them both, with little of either.