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Date: 1999

Portada de Rubicon (Roma sub Rosa 7) de Steven Saylor
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History History Rubicon (Roma sub Rosa 7)

Steven Saylor

1999

Environmented in the year 49 a. C., when Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, thus fighting civil war in the Roman Republic. At the same time that one of Pompey's favorite cousins has been killed, Pompey and the other Optimats leaders are leaving Rome to gather forces against Caesar. But Pompey forces Gordiano to accept the work of solving the murder. To make sure that Gordiano will act diligently, he takes his son-in-law and makes him join the army of Pompey, while the adopted son of Gordiano, Meton, secretary of Caesar, is part of the other army, who approaches Rome.

Portada de Navy de Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Fiction Fiction Navy

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

1999

Marina reveals to us the secret of the character Oscar Drai, who after years of fleeing his great adventure as a young man, decides to return to his hometown Barcelona to tell us a love story that will never stop tormenting him. The story goes on in a short space of time, to be more accurate from the end of September 1979 to May 1980, but the character does not decide to tell us his adventure until 15 years later, when he realizes that he cannot escape his past.

Portada de O is for Outlaw de Sue Grafton
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Crime Crime O is for Outlaw

Sue Grafton

1999

The call comes on a Monday morning from a guy who scavenges defended storage units at auction. The weekend before, he'd bought a stack of cardboard boxes. In one, there was a collection of childhood memorabilia with Kinsey's name all over it. For thirty bucks, he was offering Kinsey the lot.

Portada de The gift of Caesar de René Goscinny

Comic Comic The gift of Caesar

René Goscinny

1999

The story begins in Rome, in a tavern where the drunken Legional Romeo omontescus is arrested, just hours from receiving his honest missio for the 20 years of service to the Roman Legion, and under the charge of having insulted the very same Julius Caesar. Because of this, Caesar decides to offer him an honest missio to Romeo, in a small detail: it is the small town where Asterix and his friends live.

Portada de Black Notice de Patricia Cornwell

Crime Crime Black Notice

Patricia Cornwell

1999

Kay is a victim of the dirty game of a stranger who claims to ruin his career. The remains of a man's body found in a container of a ship from Belgium are surprising: the X-rays reveal deep scars and strange hairs, similar to those of an animal, appear in his clothes.

Portada de A Virgin too many (Falco 11) de Lindsey Davis

Crime Crime A Virgin too many (Falco 11)

Lindsey Davis

1999

A newly appointed procurator of the sacred and ascended birds of social category, Marco Didio Falco receives an enigmatic visit: a young woman who is repellent and malnourished wants to hire her services as a researcher, as she fears that a member of her family will kill her. Falco's investigations will lead him to dig up the best kept secrets of a rich promiscuous and powerful family, and to know closely the ever mysterious world of vestal virgins and arval brothers.

Portada de The Field of Blood de Paul C. Doherty

Mystery Mystery The Field of Blood

Paul C. Doherty

1999

When a prostitute and a preacher decide to spend the night in a house in ruins, the last thing they expect is to witness a crime and that cost them their lives. No less surprising it is to Fra Athelstan that three bodies appear at the door of his parish. In case of little, the confession of a young woman accused of murder reveals the existence of several human remains in a meadow next to the Thames. The dead accumulate and John Cranston is desperate: he cannot take a step without stumbling into a new deceased. The city of London has become a blood field where all are suspected of murder.

Portada de The Night of Montalbano de Andrea Camilleri
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Crime Crime The Night of Montalbano

Andrea Camilleri

1999

From the morning of a rainy day, when before taking the coffee it gets in a dark mood like ink, until midnight when, exhausted, it leads to your house of Marinella as it is pleased in the expected enjoyment of an hour of fresh solitude on its small terrace on the sea side, Montalbano exhibits that mixture of wisdom of life and courage that we all want to possess.

Portada de Messengers of the dark de Alicia Giménez Bartlett

Crime Crime Messengers of the dark

Alicia Giménez Bartlett

1999

Someone sends the Inspector Delicado some packages with a very peculiar content: amputated penises. Next to the subinspector Garzón will realize a monstrous reality: the shipments are not the product of a disturbed mind or an alienated one, it is something of much more disturbing proportions...