Historias sobre matrimonios asfixiantes, decisiones pequeñas que cambian vidas enteras y personajes atrapados entre deseo y costumbre. El relato que da título al libro, “Runaway”, es una obra maestra sobre una mujer joven que intenta escapar de una relación tóxica. También incluye la trilogía de Juliet, uno de los grandes personajes de Munro.
In 48 B.C. the Roman generals Caesar and Pompey are engaged in a battle to rule the world. Now, as Pompey plots a reckless stand on the banks of the Nile, Gordianus the Finder - who has brought his dying wife Bethesda to the Nile seeking a cure from its sacred waters - finds himself suddenly at the heart of a series of treacherous and historic events. While Caesar and Cleopatra embark on a legendary romance, Egypt remains raved by the brutal answer between the Queen and her brother Kin
Oxenford Medical is a Scottish biological experimentation company. The extreme and modern security measures to avoid any incident fail when Christmas night under an intense snow season, a very dangerous virus disappears. The theory that it can be an act of terrorism is being confirmed to become a certainty. Family problems, debts, gambling, loves and extreme weather events are the ingredients of this police thriller that develops the plot in just two days around Christmas.
Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Nord Lafferty was already in his fifties when Reba was born, and he could deny her nothing. Over the years, he quietly settled her many scrapes with the law, but he didn't there for her when she was convicted of beatings and sent to the California Institute for Women. Now, at thirty-two, she is about to be paroled, having served twenty-two months of a four-year sentence.
After many years of absence, young writer Erica returns to her hometown, where she has inherited the house of her recently deceased parents. Erica decides to take a walk in the streets where she spent the first years of her life, but after the warning of some neighbors, she finds that her childhood friend, Alex, has just committed suicide. She was shocked, she started an investigation and found out Alex was pregnant. The story gives a new turn when the autopsy reveals that her friend did not commit suicide
Kay Scarpetta returns to the forensic clinic in Richmond, Virginia - which was her work center for years - to participate in the investigation into the death of a teenager. Gilly Paulsson was found dead in her bed without apparent signs of violence; however, the fact that the autopsy is being postponed more than planned and that the FBI is interested in knowing the results of it arouses the forensic's mistrust.
On this occasion the stage of the Corrias de Marco Didio Falco is the beach of Ostia, where it is removed for the purpose of making some family visits and rest, and the case it faces is the mysterious disappearance of Infamia, a famous commentator of the amorites and misfortunes of the main Roman citizens. Of course, it is clear that many benefit from this timely disappearance, but the inquiries soon put Falco behind the lead of an enigmatic
First novel about Dexter Mortan: a Hannibal Lecter dressed as a lamb, a monster who shudders in the sight of the blood, but who is also a serial killer whose golden rule makes him a very nice one: he only kills the bad.
In this seventeenth delivery of the series, Salvo Montalbano is in bed, convalescent of the wounds received in his last case. The Commissioner is confused, the weight of the years overwhelms him and a heartbreaking melancholy leads him to question the ultimate sense of justice and the "law," to which he has dedicated his entire career. In such a state Montalbano is found when he is informed of the abduction of young Susanna Mistretta, and while the investigations are the matter of Commissioner Minutolo, something makes him jump out of bed. It may be the need to prove itself that it still retains all its ability to react, or perhaps the unusual circumstances of the kidnapping, since the young woman's family had lost all its fortune years ago in a sudden and mysterious way.
The Danes have so far launched their most fierce attack on Alfred's kingdom. Uhtred's marriage binds him more to the cause of the Western Saxons, but when his wife and son disappear in the chaos of a Danish invasion, Uhtred is forced to face the greatest of Vikings in a battle by the sea.
The two weddings is the new and surprising delivery of the memories of the Marquis de Sotoancho. In this deafening adventure, we will witness the shock of the arrival at the Jaralera of the wedding invitation of the Prince of Asturias; the long-awaited revenge of the Marquis towards his mother by denying him the attendance at such an exceptional event and the assault by the widow marquesa to La Zarzuela along with a horrified Don Crispin, his inseparable chaplain, as well as his passing through the courts accused of terrorism.
Swing off the Jersey Turnpike and you'll be in bony hunter Stephanie Plum's neighbourhood. You'll know it because all hell will be breaking loose. Not that she looks for trouble - it just seems to follow her. In Ten Big Ones it explores at a deli, and when Stephanie pekes a robber as a member of a vicious Trenton gang, they peg her as dead. Vice cop Joe Morelli fears she's in way too deep - even with the help of crime-solving, cross- dressing, bus driver Sally Sweet, and Stephanie's friend Lula ripping shot as backup. With a notorious killer on her tail, Stephanie figures the best hideout is Ranger's secret lair...
The novel begins when the protagonists are already adults. María José Sánchez works as an art taster in a Madrid auction house. One day he received a call from a former partner and lover, Jaime González, announcing that his common friend, the famous painter Molina Schulz, had committed suicide. But this is not the important thing about the novel, the news returns the narrator to her time as a student of Fine Arts, specifically 1984-1985, the time of the move. Through a love triangle, Almudena tries to transmit the geist or spirit of those years. They were flashes of intense, true happiness, which only ended up overshadowing the jealousy of lovers and the unjust negotiation with the talent of the three artist apprentices.
Maisie Dobbs, a psychologist and researcher, after learning with the renowned Maurice Blanche, Maisie set up his own research business. His first case, apparently about infidelity, takes her not only after a killer's lead, but back to his memories as a nurse in France during World War I.
Comfortable story about the last inhabitant of the planet in a disturbing post-apocalyptic world.
Sixth case of Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy Inspector Fermín Garzón.
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