En el Nueva York de finales de los años treinta, Katey Kontent, una joven secretaria de origen humilde, ve cambiar su vida tras conocer a un carismático banquero. Entre fiestas, amistades y oportunidades inesperadas, la novela retrata la ambición, las diferencias de clase y las decisiones que marcan el rumbo de una vida.
Detective Kinsey Millhone is facing a complicated and dangerous caseload. While a woman of past murmur suicides herself in strange circumstances, a pitiful boy who has been pitied by the gambling debts thinks he can make fun of the system, and the life of a lovely young woman is about to break into a thousand pieces. But, in addition, Kinsey runs into a network of professional robbers who work for the mafia; with an unfaithful, rich and ruthless husband; with a corrupt cop; with a sinister and brutal gangster; and with a lonely widower who weeps the death of his lover.
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a so-called forensic pathologist, director of the Cambridge Forensic Center (Massachusetts) and a collaborator of the Department of Defense, is facing a difficult crossroads: the logical resolution of a series of brutal murders being committed by a twisted criminal mind in Savannah, Georgia, and her female instinct, which dictates standards that go beyond imputable evidence and forensic science. Far from your laboratory, Scarpetta will have to rely more on your
The summer comes to an end and writer Erica Falck returns to work after maternity leave. Now it's your partner, Commissioner Patrik Hedström, to take some time off to take care of little Maja. But the crime never rests, even in the quiet city of Fjällbanka, and when two teenagers discover Erik Frankel's body, Patrik will share his daughter's care with his interest in the murder of this historian specialized in World War II.
Devotee husband, father of three kids, forensic investigator... and serial killer. No doubt, nothing more complicated and twisted than Dexter Morgan's life. But things can always get more complicated. First, someone has seen him dismembered a pedophile clown. Then your sister must investigate the murder of two cops who have been broken all the bones in the body. Meanwhile, his own wife gives herself to alcohol because she suspects that Dexter is being unfaithful. And, like that's little
Extremadura 1941 / Barcelona 1981 Two trams are developed in parallel; one in Extremadura in 1941; the other in Barcelona in 1981. A crime committed during the Spanish post-war period has consequences for three generations of the Alcalá family and for those who have crossed their lives for forty years.
Diego Alatriste came down from the carriage and looked around, fiddling. It was a healthy habit, before entering an uncertain place, to establish where he was going to go, or to try, if things ended up getting complicated. The ticket that ordered him to accompany the man in black was signed by the major sergeant of the third of Naples, and he admitted no discussion; but nothing else was clarified in him.
Dragons dance follows where Sword Storm remained with events simultaneous to those in Festín of crows.
Pemberley, year 1803. It's been six years since Elizabeth and Darcy got married, creating a perfect world that seems invulnerable. But suddenly, on the eve of a dance, it all turns. A carriage leaves the residence in a hurry, taking Lydia, Elizabeth's sister, with her husband, the unfortunate Wickham, who has been expelled from Darcy's domain. However, Lydia is soon to return, shocked, screaming that her husband has been killed. Without notice, Pemberley is diving into a chilling mystery.
Trajano, the first Hispanic emperor in history, is known mainly for leading the Roman empire to its maximum extent.
Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what is clear is that Stephanie’s name is on the killer’s list. Short on time to find the murderer, Stephanie is also under pressure from family and friends to choose between her on-again-off-again boyfriend, Trenton cop Joe Morelli, and the bad boy in her life, security expert Ranger. Stephanie’s mom wants her to dump them both for a former high school football star who’s just returned to town. Stephanie’s sidekick, Lula, suggests a red-hot boudoir “bake-off.” And Joe’s old-world grandmother gives Stephanie “the eye,” which may mean that it’s time to get out of town.
December 1380. Sir Robert Kilverby appears dead in a closed room inside. He had a valuable relic made of "blood stone" that he was planning to donate to the Abbey of Saint Fulcher-on- Thames, but the relic has disappeared. Fray Athelstan suspects Sir Robert's former comrades who - along with him - stole the stone during the war against France
The Van Kieren family is on the brink of chaos. The mother's bookstore, Emma, is bankrupt; the father works too much; the teenage daughter does not approve a subject, and the little son the girl who likes it humbles him. To top it off, after a party, a witch haunts the Van Kieren and condemns them to become the character they are disguised as: suddenly they are a vampire, Frankenstein, the mummy and the werewolf. To break the spell, this unique quartet will start looking for the witch throughout the world. And on the way you will find a lot of real monsters: vampires, giant lizards and German tourists on organized travel.
In animals to gods Yuval Noah Harari draws a brief history of humanity, from the first humans who walked on Earth to the radicals and sometimes devastating advances of the three great revolutions that our species has played: cognitive, agricultural and scientific.
The explosion of a small artifact in front of an empty warehouse in the middle of Vigàta, and the subsequent research launched by Commissioner Montalbano and his team, precipitate a series of events that take place chaotic and vertiginous: contradictory tracks, anonymous letters, mysterious delations... Montalbano has the feeling that someone intends to guide his steps, confuse him and handle him as a puppet, taking him away from the truth of the facts. And when he also enters the scene of Liliana, his new neighbor, a woman of break and tear whose husband is often absent for reasons of work, except will be immersed in a sea of confusion that will make it difficult for him to work beyond the tolerable.
What do the gods of Olympus play for? Gea, Mother Earth, is waking up an army of monsters to put an end to humanity... and they are entertaining by wailing the demigods, the only ones who can defeat their perverse plans.
A mute, intelligent, bold girl. A violinist father who works writing epitaphs. A life of little congratulations, love and games. A missing mother. A totalitarian and invisible government. A couple of old puppies.
Commissioner Ricciardi has a strange gift that gives him much suffering but helps him in his work as an investigator.
Jack Reacher must investigate the murder of a young woman in which soldiers from a nearby military base might be involved.
Bruna is a combat android that feels a great grudge towards the humans who have created it to have a very short life.
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