Una fr?a noche, poco antes de Navidad, un vendedor ambulante africano es asesinado mientras intenta vender imitaciones de bolsos de dise?o a unos turistas. ?Por qu? querr?a alguien matar a un inmigrante ilegal? La respuesta m?s obvia es la primera aceptada: un ajuste de cuentas entre ellos. Pero cuando Brunetti y sus fieles aliados, Vianello y la signorina Elettra, investigan en los bajos fondos venecianos descubren que entre la sociedad inmigrante hay en juego asuntos de mucho mayor calado. El descubrimiento de pruebas cr?ticas y las oportunas advertencias de su superior para abandonar el caso no hacen sino aumentar la determinaci?n de Brunetti para esclarecer este misterioso asesinato.Con catorce casos resueltos y un clamoroso ?xito internacional, Donna Leon est? considerada una de las m?s importantes damas de la novela negra actual.
Dave Delano conoce la libertad despu?s de cinco a?os alojado a costa del estado. Un alojamiento que ha merecido por encubrir a un apreciado mafioso de Florida, Tony Nudelli, al cual, desde luego, no le hace ninguna ilusi?n la liberaci?n de Delano: despu?s de cinco a?os a la sombra, uno puede volverse un tanto vengativo…Pero el ex preso viene con las mejores intenciones. De hecho, propone a Nudelli un plan para hacerse en alta mar con un fabuloso env?o de dinero -negro, por supuesto- que va a remitirse a Rusia. Una cantidad que arreglar?a la vida de los m?s exigentes. La que tambi?n quiere cambiar su vida es Kate Furey, agente del FBI destinada en Miami, que ha detectado un cargamento de coca?na que va a ser enviado a Europa. Interceptarlo significa para Kate no s?lo un ?xito profesional sino, sobre todo, escapar de la rutina de un trabajo burocr?tico.
Fire – It consumes futures and pasts in a terrified heartbeat, devouring damning secrets while leaving even greater mysteries in the ashes. The night sky is ablaze as flames engulf two barges moored side by side on an otherwise empty canal. On board are the blackened remains of two human beings. To the seasoned eye, this horror was no accident, the method so cruel and calculated that only the worst sort of fiend could have committed it. There are shocking secrets to be uncovered in the charred wreckage, grim evidence of lethal greed and twisted hunger, and of nightmare occurrences within the private confines of family. A terrible feeling is driving police inspector Alan Banks in his desperate hunt for answers – an unshakable fear that this killer’s work will not be done until Banks’s own world is burned to the ground.
Ce court recueil de nouvelles polici?res fait figure de «chef-d’?uvre inconnu» dans l’?uvre de Mark Twain. L’auteur s’y joue avec maestria des r?gles du genre en les moquant, en d?poussi?rant les codes en vigueur dans l’ancien monde – celui que Sherlock Holmes incarne ? merveille!Et il se donne autant de pr?textes pour afficher la fra?cheur, la force et la jeunesse du Nouveau Monde, le sien, et le lieu de cette aventure r?elle.
Jeden z najwi?kszych statk?w pasa?erskich na ?wiecie, "Titanic", kt?ry zaton?? w 1912 roku, le?y na g??boko?ci dw?ch i p?? mili na dnie Oceanu Atlantyckiego. W jego ?adowni znajduje si? zapas rudy niezwykle rzadkiego minera?u, umo?liwiaj?cego skonstruowanie broni przysz?o?ci. Aby zdoby? ?adunek, Rosjanie nie cofn? si? przed niczym… Dirk Pitt musi podj?? si? najbardziej niebezpiecznej i trudnej misji w swojej karierze…
When a mysterious suicide follows an outbreak of poison pen letters in the quiet village of Tilling Green, Detective Inspector Frank Abbott of Scotland Yard dispatches Miss Silver to investigate. Disguised as a vacationer, the retired governess stays with Renie Walsh, the town gossip, and learns of the marital and financial difficulties among the Reptons at the Manor House as well as all the petty details of life among the other village inhabitants.It soon becomes apparent to Miss Silver that the suicide was murder and that there is a vicious and demented killer at work. The officious letters still come, exposing or accusing, and the terror mounts with two more seemingly unconnected murders. Miss Silver almost becomes a fourth victim, but outwits the killer with her usual straight-spined aplomb.
While investigating a sorority member's death at her daughter's college, Claire Malloy discovers the sorority sisters are participants in many bizarre rituals and illegal activities-the kind Claire would not want her daughter to be caught dead in.
Una joven estudiante, hija de un profesor universitario, se convierte en el eje de una compleja trama. Las equ?vocas relaciones que Elena Weaver mantiene con sus amigos y amantes despiertan un abanico de oscuros sentimientos: celos, obsesi?n, amor, pasi?n, envidia. Un profesor casado la acosa sexualmente, un joven sordo le profesa devoci?n, un especialista en Shakespeare la persigue, la primera esposa y la joven amante del profesor Weaver le guardan rencor… La muerte de Elena, asesinada mientras hac?a footing una neblinosa ma?ana, tal vez solo fue la consecuencia inevitable de la extra?a atracci?n que ejerc?a en hombres y mujeres. Ambientada en Cambridge, esta novela radiograf?a las inextricables facetas emocionales que solapadamente marcan el destino de las personas.
The Portobello area of West London has a rich personality – vibrant, brilliant in colour, noisy, with graffiti that approach art, bizarre and splendid. An indefinable edge to it adds a spice of danger. There is nothing safe about Portobello…Eugene Wren inherited an art gallery from his father near an arcade that now sells cashmere, handmade soaps and children's clothes. But he decided to move to a more upmarket site in Kensington Church Street. Eugene was fifty, with prematurely white hair. He was, perhaps, too secretive for his own good. He also had an addictive personality. But he ...
Joe Alex, popularny autor powie?ci kryminalnych, wyrusza do posiad?o?ci swego przyjaciela, Iana Drummonda, gdzie w ciszy i spokoju zamierza napisa? kolejn? ksi??k?. W trakcie jego pobytu u profesora dochodzi jednak?e do morderstwa, a w?r?d podejrzanych ukrywa si? sprawca…
El verano llega a su fin en una peque?a localidad rural de Noruega. Sus habitantes, acostumbrados a la tranquilidad de sus urbanizaciones rodeadas de bosques y lagos, no est?n preparados para lo que se avecina. Peque?os y terribles malentendidos comienzan a sucederse: llamadas de hospitales anunciando accidentes que no han ocurrido, peri?dicos que publican esquelas de ancianos que siguen vivos… presagios de que algo terrible est? a punto de ocurrir. El mismo d?a que comienza todo, el inspector de polic?a Sejer recibe una extra?a nota: «El infierno empieza ahora». ?l y su ...
Murder in the city of sin…Brett Kavanaugh is a tattoo artist and owner of Vegas's hottest tattoo shop, The Painted Lady. And in her spare time, she does some sleuthing. After Brett and company ink Sin City's newest drag queens, they're invited to opening night at the strip's glamorous Nylon and Tattoos show-which ends in disaster when a stranger with a Queen of Hearts tattoo fatally injures Britney Brassieres with a champagne cork. And when another drag queen is found poisoned, it looks like someone's targeting Vegas's fabulous femmes…
Mary Higgins Clark, ameryka?ska kr?lowa suspensu, i jej c?rka, autorka bestseller?w Carol Higgins Clark, po raz pierwszy po??czy?y si?y, by stworzy? b?yskotliw? i ekscytuj?c? opowie?? o skomplikowanej intrydze osnutej wok?? porwania, kt?re odbywa si? w bo?onarodzeniowej scenerii.Trzy dni przed ?wi?tami Bo?ego Narodzenia w Nowym Jorku zostaje uprowadzony dla okupu Luke Reilly, bogaty przedsi?biorca pogrzebowy. Wraz z nim zak?adniczk? porywaczy staje si? jego pracownica Rosita, wychowuj?ca samotnie dw?ch ma?ych synk?w. ?ledztwo w sprawie ustalenia to?samo?ci przest?pc?...
One afternoon after school, nine-year-old Emilie doesn't come home.After a frantic search, her father finds her backpack in a deserted alley.it is the backpack her deceased mother had given her a month before she died.Emilie would never leave that backpack behind voluntarily.A week later, a five-year-old boy goes missing.And then another.Meanwhile, Johanna Vik, a former FBI profiler with a troubled past and a difficult young daughter, is buried in crimes of the past, trying to overturn a decades-old false murder conviction. Police Commissioner Stubo has personal reasons for wanting to solve the case ...
El jugador de los halcones Negros de Chicago, Boom Boom Warshawski, fue una leyenda del hockey. M?s de mil personas asisten a su funeral, consternados al enterarse de que ha resbalado en un muelle y se ha ahogado. La polic?a se apresura a declarar que ha sido un accidente. Y no les gusta la idea de que V.I. Warshawski, meta su nariz femenina en un caso tan evidente. Pero entre atentados contra su propia vida y tragos de scotch, la intr?pida e ingeniosa detective, se abre camino a trav?s de un mundo de silos de cereal y cargueros de mil toneladas. Se introducir? en una senda que le har? descubrir si se est? tomando las cosas de un modo demasiado personal o si su adorado Boom Boom fue en realidad asesinado…
When asked to help identify a young woman who may not survive an attempted murder, Abby discovers a possible connection between the girl and a prominent Houston family-the questions about her past are getting stickier than pecan pie. Abby's about to learn the hard way that when she crawls out on a limb, she'd better be certain there's not someone behind her with a saw and a mean spirit...
En la peque?a localidad noruega de Finnemarka, la anciana granjera Halldis Horn es hallada muerta de un hachazo en su caba?a. El sospechoso principal es Errki, un muchacho esquizofr?nico, al que las habladur?as acusan tambi?n de haber matado a su madre. El carism?tico comisario Sejer es encargado del caso.
Returning from Johansen's New York Times bestselling thriller, Stalemate, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is still obsessed with finding her daughter, Bonnie. No stranger to looking for clues where there seem to be none, Eve enlists the unique skills of the mysterious Dr. Megan Blair to help bring Bonnie's elusive killer to justice. The tension and danger escalates as Eve and Joe Quinn go on a hunt that can either bring them the revenge and closure that Eve has long sought or the destruction of everything she holds dear.
What if your dance partner, business partner, and fiance was stepping out with another woman? That's exactly what happens to Stacy Graysin, who shares ownership of a ballroom dance studio with the man who broke her heart, Rafe Acosta.But when Stacy discovers Rafe's dead body in the studio one dark night, the police suspect her of killing him. To clear her name and save her studio, Stacey teams up with Rafe's estranged cousin from Argentina, Tav, to find the real killer. And if Stacy doesn't watch her step, the killer may make this dance her last.
It's Quiller's most dangerous mission yet, and is also his last for the British intelligence agency so secret that it has no name. No matter that its orders originate at the Prime Minister level; if detected, it would be denied at that and every other level of the government. Quiller's orders this time take the pseudonymous operative to post-Cold War Russia to infiltrate the powerful and omnipresent mafiya that controls every sector and ruble of the country's fragile economy. More ruthless than the Sicilian brotherhood and as conscienceless as the Colombian drug cartels, the mafiya owns top politicians, judges, ...
