Annelise Sorensen Bücher

Seit fünf Jahrhunderten zieht das „Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten“ Reisende mit großen Träumen und Hoffnungen im Gepäck an. Wer immer die Vereinigten Staaten heute besucht, bringt nach wie vor ganz bestimmte Vorstellungen mit. Der amerikanische Einfluss ist weltweit so prägend, dass man beim ersten Besuch weniger das Gefühl hat, fremden Boden zu betreten, als vielmehr auf Schritt und Tritt Bekanntem zu begegnen. Längst vertraut aus Film und Fernsehen sind uns die Großstadt-Skylines, die gelben Taxis, das Geräusch der amerikanischen Polizeisirenen, die endlosen von Diners gesäumten Highways und die Briefkästen, die einem Peanuts-Comic entsprungen scheinen. Mit den vorliegenden Reiseführern USA Der Osten und USA Der Westen liegen zwei wertvolle Reisebegleiter aus der Reihe Stefan Loose vor. Beider Büche wurden in Zusammenarbeit mit dem englischsprachigen Reisehandbuch Rough Guide erarbeitet. Die Autoren stellen umfassend und detailiert, kenntnisreich und begeistert das Reiseland USA vor. Zahlreiche Farbfotos geben einen ersten Eindruck, zahlreiche Tipps zu Reisemöglichkeiten, Unterkünften und Restaurants runden die Vielfalt an Informationen ab. Neu ist der 16-seitige Farbatlas. Wie in allen Loose Travelhandbüchern kommen natürlich auch die Tipps für Einreise, die Hintergrundinformationen zu Land und Leuten, Politik und Umwelt nicht zu kurz.

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Der Vis-à-Vis Reiseführer Kalifornien stellt das Land an der Westküste der USA in all seinen Facetten vor. Zahlreiche Doppelseiten präsentieren spezielle Themen - von der Filmindustrie in Los Angeles und den Viktorianischen Häusern, Wandbildern und Cable Cars in San Francisco über Surfen, Strandkultur und kalifornische Autokultur bis zu den Weinen Nordkaliforniens. Unterstützt durch zahlreiche Fotografien, die bewährten Aufrisszeichnungen und informative Texte liefert dieser Reiseführer die perfekte Grundlage für einen unvergesslichen Aufenthalt in Kalifornien.

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide San Francisco and Northern California will lead you straight to the best attractions San Francisco and Northern California have to offer. Packed with information, detailed San Francisco and Northern California maps, beautiful cutaways and floor plans of all San Francisco and Northern California’s major sites, this guide explores every facet that makes San Francisco and Northern California a must visit. From the bustling alleys and restaurants of Chinatown to the verdant, expanses of Golden Gate Park, find San Francisco’s liveliest nightlife, or hike through Northern California’s exquisite scenery. Rely on this fully updated guide for comprehensive guidance on the best things to do in San Francisco and Northern California; from walking the Golden Gate Bridge and the famous Lombard Street to exploring the Napa Wine Country.The DK Eyewitness Travel Guide San Francisco provides all the insider tips every visitor to San Francisco and Northern California needs, with dozens of reviews for San Francisco hotels, recommendations for Californian restaurants, tips for shopping and all the best places for entertainment.Don’t miss a thing on your holiday with the DK Eyewitness Guide to San Francisco and Northern California.

"In her previous career as a nurse, Mattie Winston's job was to keep death at bay. Now, as a medicolegal investigator, she's required to study death intimately - to figure out causes and timing, and help deduce whether it was natural or suspicious. In the case of Montgomery "Monty" Dixon, a well-to-do realtor, there can be little doubt: broken pool cues do not embed themselves. Monty's body is found in the game room of his lavish house, the walls adorned with photos of Monty and various celebrities. But as Mattie and her husband, homicide detective Steve Hurley, both know, money and connections can't protect anyone from a killer. The first suspect is Monty's wife, Summer, who claims to have been at a cooking class at the time. When that alibi is served up as a fake, Summer moves to the top of the suspects list, but is soon joined by Monty's ne'er-do-well son, Sawyer, who has racked up gambling debts he hoped his dad would pay off. Monty's twin brother is engaging in shady financial deals. An affair, a Ponzi scheme, a disputed inheritance... there are as many motives as suspects, and soon Mattie and Hurley have turned up other, possibly related deaths. Balancing a high-profile case with the demands of their increasingly stressful household isn't easy. It'll take all of Mattie's skill - along with a lucky break or two - to stop a killer from racking up another victim..."--Publisher

A new murder victim with an old M.O. puts Mattie Winston on the trail of a killer who gives a grim new meaning to flower power . . . Spring is beginning to brighten Sorenson, Wisconsin, for Mattie and Steve Hurley and their family. While their son Matthew may be in his terrible twos and Steve's daughter Emily a moody teenager, the kids bring light to their lives when their work is dark by its nature—Steve is a homicide detective and Mattie is a medicolegal death investigator, aka medical examiner. They deal in corpses. The latest corpse, a Jane Doe, was clearly an addict, but drugs didn't kill her, at least not directly. She's been stabbed multiple times in a pattern that is disturbingly familiar to Mattie. When she discovers flower petals from yellow carnations stuffed into the stab wounds, she recognizes a very specific M.O.—belonging to a convicted serial killer who's currently serving a life sentence. The details of the flower petals were never made public in the last case, so it can't be a copycat crime. It looks like the wrong man is in prison, and the murderer is still at large. Now it's up to Mattie and Steve to get the case reopened—and catch the real carnation killer . . .

When social worker Hildy Schneider commits to an after-hours side job, she finds herself drawn into the darker side of small-town Sorenson, Wisconsin—and the twisted mind of an unnamed killer . . . Strange things have been happening since Hildy started moonlighting with local police, but a desperate late-night call involving a former patient from Sorenson General Hospital tops the list. Although Danny Hildebrand has been tormented by hallucinations for years, he swears he’s being haunted for real by the victim of a grisly murder . . . The rambling ghost story seems like another delusion. But after a body turns up in a neglected farmhouse crawling with secrets, Hildy and the magnetic Detective Bob Richmond rush to explain Danny’s knowledge of the incident. As the crime-solving partners unwittingly grow closer while examining a series of eerie leads, they realize that surviving past sunrise means shedding light on a criminal willing to do whatever it takes to stay in the shadows . . .

A new home, a new marriage, a new family. It's a lot to sort out. But before medicolegal death investigator Mattie can smooth out the unexpected chaos of her new life, duty calls. At the local ER, a battered and bruised teenage girl has been brought in by a mysterious man who claimed she'd fallen out of a car. The staff is suspicious, but while they attend to the teenager, the unidentified man slips out. Then the girl dies--but not before informing social worker Hildy Schneider that the man had her little sister as well.Mattie's exam reveals forensic evidence of long-term IV drug use and physical abuse, findings consistent with Hildy's suspicion that the girl was a victim of human trafficking. They are able to confirm her identity as a teen who went missing six months ago, along with her sister--facts that are deeply unsettling to Mattie who now shares a home with her husband's teen daughter.Working closely with Hildy and Sorenson homicide detectives, including her husband Steve Hurley, Mattie must delve into a dark underworld to stop the ruthless trafficking of human lives--before it's too late for another young girl . . . "The indomitable heroine overcomes a crazy quilt of stories and threads to tackle the problems of everyday practical living along with the high-profile crimes she's trying to solve." --Kirkus Reviews

Includes an excerpt from the author's Mattie Winson mysteries, Dead of winter.