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Date: 2008

Portada de The girl who dreamed of a match and a gas bottle de Stieg Larsson

Crime Crime The girl who dreamed of a match and a gas bottle

Stieg Larsson

2008

Lisbeth Salander has taken a while: he needs to get away from the focus and leave Stockholm. Try to follow a strict discipline and not answer the calls and messages of a Mikael who does not understand why he has disappeared from his life without giving any explanation. The wounds of love are healed by Lisbeth in solitude, even if he tries to disenchantment with the study of mathematics and certain happy pleasures on a Caribbean beach. And Mikael? The great hero, the super Blomkvis

Portada de The Triumph of Caesar (Roma sub Rosa 12) de Steven Saylor

History History The Triumph of Caesar (Roma sub Rosa 12)

Steven Saylor

2008

The Roman civil war has come to its conclusion - Pompey is dead, Egypt is firmly under the control of Cleopatra (with the help of Rome's legions), and for the first time in many years Julius Caesar has returned to Rome itself. Appointed by the Senate as Dictator, the city abounds with rumors asserting that Caesar wishes to be made King - the first such that Rome has had in centuries. And that not all of his opposition has been crossed.

Portada de The Game of the Angel de Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Fiction Fiction The Game of the Angel

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

2008

The angel's game is the second delivery of a cycle of four interconnected and set novels in the mysterious and Gothic Barcelona that goes from the age of the industrial revolution to the years after the Spanish civil war. The four independent and self-sufficient stories will share some characters and scenarios, focused on the cemetery of forgotten books, the Sempere family and its bookstore, Mr. Barceló, Isaac Monfort, the guardian, and Don Anacleto

Portada de Scarpetta de Patricia Cornwell

Crime Crime Scarpetta

Patricia Cornwell

2008

Kay Scarpetta accepts a mission in New York, where the police have requested her in the psychiatric prison to examine a wounded person. The patient, Oscar Bane, suffering from enanism, refuses to be recognized by any other doctor. When Kay begins to examine him, Bane tells him an absolutely rock story. Is Bane a stalker obsessed with Scarpetta? Or perhaps his paranoid story is true, and it is he who is spied, persecuted and harassed? The only thing Scarpetta knows

Portada de The Shouts of the Past de Camilla Lackberg

Crime Crime The Shouts of the Past

Camilla Lackberg

2008

In the middle of the summer season in the small coastal town of Fjällbacka, a child discovers the body of a cruelly tortured German tourist. Very close, the police find the skeletons of two missing women 20 years ago.

Portada de Shadows about Berlin de Volker Kutscher

Crime Crime Shadows about Berlin

Volker Kutscher

2008

Gereon Rath is a young Commissioner of Cologne who, after a fatal incident that never became clear, is sent to Berlin to work in the sex crime department. But the real vocation of the police is to investigate crimes and soon entangled in a plot full of corruption and bodies,

Portada de White poppy field de Gonzalo Hidalgo Bayal

Fiction Fiction White poppy field

Gonzalo Hidalgo Bayal

2008

This story begins with the adventures of two children at the school of the herdexian parents in the city of Murania and concludes with the fortuitous encounter on the street, many years later and also in Murania, with a man who is taciturous and desolate who awakens in the narrator the memories of those past days.

Portada de The cursed legions de Santiago Posteguillo

History History The cursed legions

Santiago Posteguillo

2008

The cursed legions is the second part of the novel Africanus: the son of the consul, with whom the Spanish author Santiago Posteguillo began his trilogy on the Roman statesman and military Scipion the African winner of Anibal in the battle of Zama.

Portada de Uninhabited paradise de Ana María Matute

Fiction Fiction Uninhabited paradise

Ana María Matute

2008

"I was born when my parents no longer loved each other," Adriana recalls, long after everything happened. The girl therefore creates her own paradise, populated by imaginary friends and a family of her choice. This custom happiness is disturbed when Adriana must start the school trip and enter definitely into the adult world, an environment that is alien to her when not hostile. However, there is always a shelter under the shining stars hidden in the glass of the living room lamp.

Portada de The amazing journey of Pomponio Flato de Eduardo Mendoza

Fiction Fiction The amazing journey of Pomponio Flato

Eduardo Mendoza

2008

In the first century of our era, Pomponio Flato travels through the confines of the Roman Empire in search of waters with portentous effects. The chance and precariousness of his fortune take him to Nazareth, where the carpenter of the people will be executed, convicted of the brutal murder of a rich citizen. To his regret, Pomponio is immersed in the solution of the crime, hired by the most extraordinary of the clients: the carpenter's son, a candorous and unique child, convinced of the innocence of his father, a man in peaceful appearance and tacitre, who hides, however, a great secret.

Portada de Olive Kitteridge de Elizabeth Strout

Fiction Fiction Olive Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout

2008

Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher, deplores the changes in her small town of Crosby, Maine, and the world in general. As people in the people deal with their problems, mild and terrible, Olive acquires a deeper understanding of himself and his life, sometimes painfully, but always with ruthless honesty.

Portada de The potter's field de Andrea Camilleri
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Crime Crime The potter's field

Andrea Camilleri

2008

In the stony alleys of Pizzutello, the rain has returned to the light a body with signs of being killed for treason. Without fingerprints and with a disfigured face, the characteristics do not correspond to those of any missing person. And when Mimì Augello insists very strangely on taking over the case personally, the alarms of Montalbano are on.

Portada de The age of doubt de Andrea Camilleri
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Crime Crime The age of doubt

Andrea Camilleri

2008

With the early morning lights, Commissioner Salvo Montalbano wakes up startled by a distressing nightmare. In her, the fiery chapel of her own funeral is installed in her office and all her co-workers give her the condolences for her recent death. And the worst thing is that Livia tells him that he has no intention of attending the funeral, for although he has loved him so much in life, he cannot "miss that opportunity.".