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Ransom
Aug 6, 2025 5:24 AM

Author:Danielle Steel

Ransom

A powerful story about a mother’s courage in the face of overwhelming odds.

Fernanda Barnes’s life was once graced by security, success and stunning wealth. Now, widowed and with a mounting pile of debts, she is trying desperately to shield her three children from the rising panic within her.

When a file of press clippings and photos of the Barnes family is found in the desk of a convicted criminal, police detective Ted Lee is sent to protect them. He is a man of unshakable integrity but even he cannot prevent the devastating events that follow.

In a gripping race against time, Detective Lee is the only man who can save Fernanda and her children from a terrifying fate . . .

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Giono: he's a god. I rank him with Chateaubriand and Proust.

—— JEAN D’ORMESSON

Each page of Giono may be read as a poem.

—— BERTRAND POIROT-DELPECH, Le Monde

Giono's images of Provence have a hypnotic violence akin to Van Gogh at his most vivid, but he also provides a great story, not least one of love.

—— DAVID HUGHES, Mail on Sunday

A darkly comic meditation on life, death and the illusions of power

—— New Statesman

A quirky, original comedy

—— In Style Magazine
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