La inspectora Petra Delicado y el subinspector Fermín Garzón han heredado un muerto que había permanecido cinco años mudo: Alfonso Siguán, un empresario textil barcelonés de 70 años, liquidado en circunstancias sexuales escabrosas. Noveno caso de la Inspectora Petra Delicado y el subinspector Fermín Garzón.
There's little left for Christmas to come and Greg's worried that Santa can see everything he does and not bring him gifts. Besides, Santa's might have a dummy-shaped spy leprechaun to watch what Greg does and tell him later. Christmas is not always as nice as it seems and other years Greg has received gifts that have not made him too much illusion, as when they gave to Alfrendo, the toy of the year, a "realistic doll for boys who cry, eat, pee and h
Join Gordianus as he travels to the fabled cities of Greece and Asia Minor, then to Babylon and Egypt. Witness the Olympic Games, take part in exotic festivals, and marvel at the most spectacular constructions ever devoured by mankind - opposing murder, witchcraft, and ghostly hauntings along the way.
In 1933, Berlin was a focus of political and social unrest. Lady Maud, now Walter von Ulrich's wife and mother of two children, publishes articles in a weekly magazine that ridicule the Nazi party while her husband expresses opposition in the government. However, it seems that nothing can stop the ascending power of Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
With this novel, Belén Gopequi invites us to reflect on the role of each of us in achieving a better future.
The anonymous detective of The Mystery of the Bewitched Cult, The Labyrinth of the Olives and The Adventure of the Toilet of Ladies returns to action 2 ‐ in times of crisis. Against his will, that is to say, moved by friendship and without a euro in his pocket, he once again acts as an unsuspected hound in Barcelona today in a counter-watch race for disarming a terrorist action before the State security services intervene.
An eminent paleontologist disappears without a trace in a remote region of Canada, while digging for dinosaur bones. The case tracks travel thousands of miles and reach the hands of Kay Scarpetta in Boston. And events are hasty when in the port of the city the mummified remains of an unidentified amujer are recovered. The coroner will soon suspect that the disappearance of the paleontologist could be connected to several unsolved crimes
A man disappears in Fjällbanka without a trace. Although Patrik Hedström and his police colleagues have done their best to find him, no one knows whether he is alive or dead. After three months, they find it finally frozen in the ice. When they find out that the writer Christian Thydell, one of the victim's friends, has been receiving anonymous letters full of threats for over a year, everything gets complicated
Description It is 1953 and Kilian leaves the snow of the Oscense mountain to begin with his brother, James, the one-way trip to an unknown, distant and exotic land, the island of Fernando Poo. In the bowels of this lush and seductive territory, his father, a veteran of the Sampaka estate, is waiting for him, the place where one of the best cacaos in the world is grown and tasted. In this eternally green, warm and voluptuous land, young brothers discover the lightness of the social life of
In New York City, in the spring of 2008, as the United States hastens to the presidential elections, Marcus Goldman, a successful young writer, is at a time of agitation: he cannot write the new novel he must deliver to his editor in a few months. His friend and former university professor, Harry Quebert, one of the country's most respected writers, is caught in his past and is accused of murdering Nola Kellergan, a young woman with whom he allegedly had an affair, in 1975. Convinced of Harry's innocence, Marcus renounces everything to travel to New Hampshire to investigate. Events get over it quickly: the investigation sinks and he is threatened. To clear Harry's name and save his writer's career, he must answer three questions: Who killed Nola Kellergan? What happened in New Hampshire in the summer of 1975? And how do you write a successful novel?
Hazel and Gus are two cancer-diagnosed adolescents who know each other in a self-help group and together take a trip to Amsterdam to meet Peter Van Houten, a crooked writer who authored a shocking book with an uncertain end.
August "Auggie" Pullman is a 10-11 year-old boy born with Treacher Collins' Syndrome, a genetic disorder characterized by craniofacial malformations. His parents overprotect him and treat him like a little boy, which makes his older sister, Olivia, sometimes feel displaced. Due to several surgical interventions and the required care, he has never attended school, receiving domestic education from his mother.
Before Stephanie can even step foot off Flight 127 from Hawaii to Newark, she's knee deep in trouble. Her dream vacation turned into a nightmare, she's flying back to New Jersey alone, and someone who sounds like Sasquatch is snoring in row 22. Worse still, her husband never returned to the plane after the L.A. layover. Now he's dead, in a garage can, waiting for curside pickup. His killer could be anyone. The FBI, the fake FBI, and guns-for-hire are all looking for a photograph the dead man was supposed to be carrying.
After a slow summer of chasing low-level skips for her cousin Vinnie’s bail bonds agency, Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment that could put her checkbook back in the black. Geoffrey Cubbin, facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton’s premier assisted-living facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy. Now it’s on Stephanie to track down the con man. Unfortunately, Cubbin has disappeared without a trace, a witness, or his money-hungry wife. Rumors are stirring that he must have had help with the daring escape . . . or that maybe he never made it out of his room alive. Since the hospital staff’s lips seem to be tighter than the security, and it’s hard for Stephanie to blend in to assisted living, Stephanie’s Grandma Mazur goes in undercover. But when a second felon goes missing from the same hospital, Stephanie is forced into working side by side with Trenton’s hottest cop, Joe Morelli, in order to crack the case.
Lolle, a cow in northern Germany, is going through a rather bad stage: not only has she discovered that her very dear bull Champion is cheating on her with that stupid cow from Susi. No, he also learned that the farmer wants to sell the farm and that all the cows in the flock will end up between two slices of bread. But there's still hope. An Italian cat from the world tells him that there is a paradise for cows: India! So Lolle decided to put feet in dusty that same night with her two best friends and take the dangerous journey to the promised land.
On the margins of the Baztán River, in the Navarra Valley, the naked body of a teenager appears in circumstances that put it in connection with a murder in the vicinity a month ago. The inspector of the murder section of the Foral Police, Amaia Salazar, will be responsible for conducting an investigation that will take her back to Elizondo, a small population from which she is native and from which she has tried to flee her whole life. Faced with the increasingly complicated derivations of the case and with its own family ghosts, Amaia's research is a counter-clock race to give with a killer who can show the most terrifying face of a brutal reality while convoking the most disturbing beings of the Northern legends.
In the summer of 1978, when Spain has not yet left Franco and does not end up entering democracy and social and moral borders seem more porous than ever before, a teenager named Ignacio Cañas by chance knows the Zarco and Tere, two criminals of his age, an encounter that will change his life forever. Thirty years later, a writer is commissioned to write a book on the Zarco, which by then became a myth of the juvenile crime of the Transition, but what the writer finally finds is not the concrete truth of the Zarco, but an unexpected and universal truth, which concerns us all. Thus, through a story that does not grant an instant of truce, hiding its extraordinary complexity under a transparent surface, the novel becomes a passionate inquiry into the limits of our freedom, the inscrutable motivations of our acts and the inasible nature of truth. It also confirms Javier Cercas as one of the indispensable figures of contemporary European narrative.
The often stormy relationship between Lila and Nanu has around it a chorus of voices that give shape to its history and show us the reality of a poor neighborhood, inhabited by humble people who simply abide by the law of the strongest, but the great friend is much more than a work of social realism: what we have here are some characters of flesh and blood, who intrigue the reader and dazzle us by the strength and urgency of his emotions.
harlie is 15 years old and has been left alone after the suicide of his best friend. She lives with her parents, her popular and beautiful sister and an older brother who is a football star and is about to start college. His language teacher is convinced that Charlie has a great intellectual capacity. After meeting Sam and Patrick begins to understand what it's like to be a teenager, and begins a journey to maturity that will lead him to go on new and unexpected paths.
She's a beautiful, crazy woman, and her name is Lila. She's the same girl we met in The Great Friend, the first take of this splendid trilogy and now, just after the age of 16, she just married a man she despises. The other, who listens, follows her and unintentionally imitates her, is Nanu, a brilliant student, determined to learn from the books everything Lila learns from life to dry.
First, Marian De Rosa, Milanese, owner of an art gallery, an elegant and experienced woman, an authentic femme fatale to which Montalbano immediately falls. In his inner court, Salvo knows that his attraction to Marian is not an adventure; it is something different, like an invisible force that disrupts him and threatens to disrupt his lucidity. Livia becomes just one voice on the other side of the phone and Salvo is unable to be honest with her, using tactics and subterfuges to postpone a decision. And while it is discussed in the whirlwind of his feelings, three important cases require his attention: on the one hand, the young wife of Salvatore di Marta, the owner of a supermarket, is the victim of a robbery; on the other, two Tunisians working on an agricultural farm disappear in what appears to be a matter of arms trafficking; and finally, a criminal operation of high flights lands in Vigita.
On the day of his fifty-eight birthday, Commissioner Salvo Montalbano has an altercation on the highway with an reckless driver, a young man who will prove to be the son of the provincial president. That same night there was a strange robbery in a supermarket controlled by the Cuffaro family, one of the most notorious of the local mafia. When Guido Borsellino, the director of the establishment, suicides himself after the very hard interrogation of Montalbano and Mimì Augello, who accuse him of having rigged the robbery, public opinion will put the commissioner and his men against the ropes
Unable to reclaim her own pieces, Professor Blanca Perea accepts the desperate what she anticipates as a tedious academic project. His personal stability has just collapsed, his marriage has jumped through the air. Confuse and devastated, the flight to the insignificant California University of Santa Cecilia is their only option. The campus that hosts it is, however, much more seductive than expected, agitated in those days by a civic movement contrary to the destruction of a legendary site in order to build a huge shopping center in it. And the work that absorbs it - the cataloguing of the legacy of his old compatriot Andrés Fontana, who died decades ago - is far from being as insubstantial as he promised.
Gaius Vinius is a relutant Praetorian Guard the Emperor's personal guard and a man with a disastrous marriage history. Flavia Lucilla is also in the imperial court and she is responsible not only for having created the ridiculous hairstyle worn by the imperial ladies but for also making toupees for the shooting and increasingly paranoid emperor.
The fate of humanity lies in a thread: Gea, Mother Earth, has opened up the Doors of Death to free their ruthless monsters and the only ones who can close them are the team of demigods chosen by ancient prophecy.
Desperation leads a normal person to hold eight hostages in an apartment for sale, after failing to hold a bank.
It's 1932. The spring has come to Naples, and the streets are filled with people willing to premiere light dresses and pamelas, but Ricciardi is too busy solving a new case to realize that the air is now lighter: Rosaria, a 25-year-old girl, has been suffocated in her room of the famous Paradise brothel with a pillow.
History of a child who, in the late 1960s, lives in San Sebastián with his uncles, observing the family and social tensions of the time, marked by religion, politics and indoctrination. Through memories and reflections on the transformation of personal experience into narrative, the novel offers a deep portrait of a family trapped in a turbulent historical context.
Anne Forestier, Verhoeven's couple, escapes a violent robbery in a jewelry store by miracle.
It runs the year 2012. Iago del Castillo, a charismatic longevum of 10,300 years at the head of the Museum of Archaeology of Cantabria, is forced, against his will, to conduct a genetic research: his brothers Nagorno - a conflictive spate of almost 3,000 years - and Lyra - a 2,500-year-old Celtic flight -, tired of burying their ephemeral families for centuries, are obsessed with identifying their rare mutation and having long-term children.
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