Arms of Nemesis (Roma sub Rosa 2)
It takes place during the Crano camp against the slave revolt of Spartaco in the year 72 BC. C.
It takes place during the Crano camp against the slave revolt of Spartaco in the year 72 BC. C.
Lonnie Kingman is in a bind. He's smack in the middle of assembling a civil suit, and the private investigator who was doing his pretrial legwork has just dropped dead of a heart attack. In a matter of weeks the court's statute of limitations will put paid to his case. Five years ago David Barney walked when a jury acquitted him of the murder of his rich wife, Isabelle. Now Kingman, acting as attorney for the dead woman's ex-husband and their child (and sure that the jury made a serious mistake)
The repeated disappearances of young couples suggest the existence of a methodical and calculator killer. When the victim is the daughter of the director of the National Anti-Drug Policy, such a hypothesis takes on a new dimension. Forensic doctor Kay Scapetta is facing a matter that presents clear guidelines. The most significant is a jot of hearts the killer leaves at the crime scene.
This delivery of the series on the private researcher of the Imperial Rome Marco Didio Falco, moves between the detectivisca plot and the loving entanglements. While Marco Didio travels to the ends of the empire to clarify the performance of the army elite in the insurrection that emerged in Germania, Helena Justina, Marco's girlfriend, is courted by Tito César, the son of the Vespasian Emperor.
The protagonist and narrator, Juan Ranz, a translator and professional interpreter, is now the newly married, and on his own journey of boyfriends, in Havana, looking at the balcony, is confused by an unknown woman waiting on the street, and unintentionally listens to a hotel conversation. From then on, "disaster presences" will involve your marriage. But the key to that discomfort may be in the past, because his father had to marry three times so that he could be born.
The life of a monster-hunter witch is not easy. As soon as you can have to get up to your neck in a pellet to eliminate the scavenger beast that threatens the city, trying not to catch an incurable infection, as you can find yourself attached to the hunt for one of the last dragons, in which the question is not whether the hunters will be able to kill the poor beast, but what will happen when they have to split the loot.
The computer game programmer Step Fletcher, along with his family, moves to Steuben, a small town in North Carolina (USA). The family, of Mormon religion, must overcome the problems of daily life, aggravated by the need to integrate into the new work, the new school and the new community
"El última coto," the last book of Miguel Delibes, rerecorded his hunts from 1986 to 1991, but also his growing concern for the deterioration of nature and for the species that disappear. In the last lines of this work Delibes said goodbye to his inseparable, for so many years, red perdiz: "The last point has fulfilled his mission and I find myself in the face of that brave red patirred hillside that so many satisfaction has made me stop during sixty years of cynical exercise.".
The corridor of the imposing Roman palazzo is short, but we will never reach its end. The zaguan of the magnificent villa is wide, and there we have it, inviting us to enter, deceiving us with an offer of ease. If you throw yourself into the world to learn admiration, where should you go.
In Barcelona, a prostitute who is entering old age trains her dog to cry at the grave she has chosen for herself. In Vienna, a woman takes advantage of her gift of seeing the future to become the fortune teller of a rich family. In Geneva, an ambulance driver and his wife welcome the abandoned and apparently dying former president of a Caribbean country, only to discover that their political ambitions remain intact.
At Christmas 1377 London is caught by cold and snow, and even Thames is ice from one shore to another. Revenge lurks around the Tower of London, where its constable, Sir Ralph Whitton, appears brutally killed in the most strange circumstances. Fray Athelstan and the city's forensic obese, Sir John Cranston, a lover of good life and good wine, are commissioned to investigate this mystery.
In the early summer of 1379, Sir John Cranston, a coroner of the city of London, was invited to a great banquet at the regent's palace on the banks of the Thames. There the noble Galeazzo, Lord of Cremona, challenges him to solve a mysterious murder within two weeks. Understanding that all his fame and future wealth depend on the clarification of that mystery, Cranston requests the help of FrayAthelstan. The Dominican, however, has its own serious riddles to clarify in his parish and in the convent of his order.
The famous conductor Helmut Wellauer appears dead, poisoned with potassium cyanide, during a representation of La Traviata in the famous Venetian theatre of La Fenice.
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