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Date: 1993

Fiction Fiction The prince of the fog

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

1993

A diabolical Prince able to grant any desire... at a high price. The new Carver home is surrounded by mystery. In it is still the spirit of Jacob, the son of the former owners, who died drowned. The strange circumstances of that death only begin to be clarified by the appearance of a diabolical character: the Prince of the fog, able to grant any wish to a person at a high price...

Portada de J is for Judgement de Sue Grafton
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Crime Crime J is for Judgement

Sue Grafton

1993

When they found Wendell Jaffe's yacht drifting, everything indicated that it had been thrown overboard. It was not only confirmed by the note he had left, but also by his disastrous financial situation.

History History Fortune's favorites

Colleen McCullough

1993

From the year 83 to 69 before Christ, the main events of the history of ancient Rome in a fascinating novelistic mosaic that scrupulously respects the truth of the facts, although narrating them with the amenity of the best of the novels. Many characters appear in the story, but the one with the greatest protagonism is a teenage Julius Caesar who gets rid of his priestly duties to demonstrate to all his extraordinary intelligence and courage, that h

Mystery Mystery The law of the desert

Christian Jacq

1993

The main protagonists live adventures separately, Judge Pazair and his wife Neferet will ascend steps in the extensive and complex bureaucracy of the Egypt of Ramses the great, and at the same time will be held accountable.

Portada de Cruel and unusual de Patricia Cornwell
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Crime Crime Cruel and unusual

Patricia Cornwell

1993

Ronnie Joe Waddell is going to be executed for a horrible crime and Dr. Scarpetta, who doubts about her guilt, is waiting to perform the autopsy. A few hours after the execution, police find a body on the street with similar injuries to the alleged Waddell victim.

Crime Crime Poseidon’s Gold (Falco 5)

Lindsey Davis

1993

If Marco Didio Falco already had problems being accepted by his girlfriend's family, the only thing he needed to end him in misery was to become the main suspect of the murder of a former legionnaire. But it can still be worse: her beloved Helena Justina is arrested for alleged complicity.

Fiction Fiction The last wish

Andrzej Sapkowski

1993

Geralt de Rivia, a sorcerer and a superhuman mutant, makes a living as a monster hunter in a land of magic and wonder: with his two swords on the shoulder - of steel for men, and of silver for kisses - he realizes stripes, manticoras, taps, vampires, chimeras and dragons, but only when they threaten peace.

Crime Crime The haunt of Shanghai

Juan Marsé

1993

In the Barcelona of 1948, the apparitions and disappearances of the Maquis, which come from across the border, and the account of their adventures are the only thing that encourages the grey environment of the toughest post-war era. The story of the adventure of one of those mythical heroes, who embarks on Shanghai to carry out a very risky mission among gunmen, ex-Nazis, beautiful women and sinister nightclubs, gives meaning to the lives of two teenagers, Daniel and Susana, until reality makes them wake up from the haunt.

Science fiction Science fiction The Hammer of God

Arthur Charles Clarke

1993

The plot recounts the approach of an asteroid called Kali (discovered by Dr. Angus Miller, an amateur astronomer of Mars), which is on a collision with the Earth. Captain Robert Singh of the Goliath spacecraft is sent on this one to divert him.

Mystery Mystery The Anger of God

Paul C. Doherty

1993

In the autumn of 1379, the power of the crown is in the hands of John of Ghent, Duke of Lancaster, and in the kingdom discontent grows. The French attack the ports of the south and the economic difficulties are felt in the field, where a rebellion is built led by the mysterious head of the Great Community of the kingdom, who proclaims himself Ira Dei, that is, the cholera of God. Ambushed by all this and an unexplained series of crimes, Ghent has no solution but to resort to John Cranston and Fray Athelstan.

Crime Crime Death in a Strange Country,

Donna Leon

1993

Barra the finding of a body in one of the city's channels, belonging to an American military, in whose investigation Brunetti discovers the corruption and relations between the armed forces of his country (Italy), the American and the Mafia in the industrial-military complexes, in addition to the fate given to toxic waste.