Mary Stewart's books won the hearts of millions of readers, while receiving high praise from critics who especially noted her skill in the genre of adventure novel. She, like no one else, managed to combine a lyrical theme, detective notes and truly cinematic suspense in the plot. Stewart's novels have been translated into many languages and still continue to captivate the reading public all over the world. The heroine of "Heavenly Thunder" Jennifer comes to a monastery at the foot of the Pyrenees mountains to visit her cousin and learns the terrible news of her death. But confusion in the nuns’ explanations makes Jennifer doubt that her sister is buried in the monastery cemetery... In the novel “The Ivy Tree,” passions boil over the English inheritance. Young Mary is drawn into a dangerous adventure, because the girl is like two peas in a pod like the granddaughter of the owner of the family nest who disappeared eight years ago... The events described in “The Abode of Thorns” also take place in England. Gili Ramsey moves to a secluded Victorian estate, where her beloved godmother left her a inheritance of a house and garden, fragrant with flowers, medicinal herbs and a little... witchcraft. Soon Gili learns that it was not for nothing that her godmother was known as a clairvoyant and healer, but simply a witch...