Todo comenz? un d?a cualquiera para aquellas tres adolescentes de Belham, Massachusetts. Ellas iban a pasar un d?a como cualquier otro, en el bosque bebiendo cerveza y fumando un poco. Todo iba bien, hasta que presenciaron aquella escena. Ellas no estaban preparadas para ver algo as?, les arranc? la inocencia de cuajo, quebr? su amistad, y se convirti? en un reguero de sangre y dolor, mucho dolor…Han pasado veinticinco a?os desde que ocurriera aquello, y el secuestro de Carol Cranmore, una adolescente de Belham, ha puesto en guardia a la polic?a y al ...
Considerado por la Academia Sueca uno de los autores de mayor talento, aclamado por la cr?tica como el nuevo Stephen King y considerado por los lectores el sucesor de Stieg Larsson, el maestro escandinavo del terror se imagina en su nueva novela qu? pasar?a si Estocolmo fuese tomado por los zombies.Algo muy extra?o est? ocurriendo en la capital de Suecia: en medio de una inusual ola de calor, la gente se da cuenta de que no puede apagar la luz ni los aparatos el?ctricos. De repente, una noticia sacude a la naci?n: en la morgue los muertos est?n resucitando. ?Qu? es lo que quieren? L?gicamente, volver a casa…
A supernatural thriller from the master of suspense.Californian James Falcon's compelling Romanian mother told him so many folk stories that by the time he reaches college in 1943, he is something of an expert on the strigoi, the legendary, undying vampires who infested the most isolated forests of Wallachia. Mostly as a joke, he writes a term paper on the strigoi. But the joke turns serious when US counterintelligence approach him to recruit his expertise. James hunts down strigoi murderers in war-ravaged Europe, Nazi assassins hired to run down run down the French and Belgian resistance in exchange ...
Le gars qui pourrait me prouver par a + b qu'il a, au cours de son existence, ex?cut? une besogne plus d?bectante que celle ? laquelle je me livre depuis une huitaine de jours aurait droit, selon moi, au salut militaire, au salut ?temel et ? une place assise dans les chemins de fer. Faut vraiment avoir le palpitant arrim? avec du gros filin pour tenir le choc. Et je le tiens, moi, le choc, parce que mon job c'est justement de ne pas faire la fine bouche. Voil? une semaine que je visite les morgues de France ? la recherche d'un cadavre…
Desde Rusia con amor es la quinta novela de James Bond escrita por Ian Fleming. La inteligencia sovi?tica planea un golpe contra la inteligencia occidental, para esto han escogido como blanco al agente 007 de MI6. La agente Tatiana Romanova es inducida por la coronel Rosa Klebb para que le ofrezca a Bond un decodificador sovi?tico a cambio de que ?l la lleve a Inglaterra. El agente Grant se asegurar? de que no falle la misi?n. Bond ser? ayudado por Kerim Bey, un musulm?n que se encubre bajo la identidad de un vendedor de tapetes. El desenlace final ser? que Kerim Bey morir? a manos de Grant en el Expreso de Oriente, Grant ser? eliminado por Bond y Rosa Klebb ser? arrestada, no sin antes herir a Bond con un cuchillo escondido en su zapato. El desenlace de esto se ve en la novela Dr. No, en donde Bond se cura.
Life is good for Joanna Brady in the small desert community of Bisbee. She has Jenny, her adored nine-year-old daughter, and solid, honest, and loving husband, Andy, a local lawman who's running for Sheriff of Cochise County. But her good life explodes when a bullet destroys Andy Brady's future and leaves him dying beneath the blistering Arizona sun.The police brass claim that Andy was dirty-up to his neck in drugs and smuggling-and that the shooting was a suicide attempt. Joanna knows a cover-up when she hears one…and murder when she sees it. But her determined effort to track down an assassin and clear her husband's name are placing herself and her Jenny in serious jeopardy. Because, in the desert, the truth can be far more lethal than a rattler's bite.
Slumped on a seat under an oak tree is old Sampson Warrenby, with a bullet through his brain. He is discovered by his niece Mavis, who is just one of ten people in the village in the running for chief suspect, having cause to dislike Warrenby intensely. Only Chief Inspector Hemingway can uncover which of the ten has turned hatred into murder.
Peter Diamond to ostatni prawdziwy detektyw. Gliniarz z niez?omnymi zasadami. Kieruje si? sztuk? dedukcji, nie ufa technice i komputerom. Nie wierzy w skuteczno?? metod nowoczesnych laboratori?w. ?ledztwo prowadzi zawsze po swojemu.Jego metody zostaj? wystawione na pr?b?, kiedy w jeziorze policja znajduje nagie cia?o kobiety. Patolodzy i genetycy uznaj? wkr?tce, ?e maj? do?? dowod?w, by wskaza? podejrzanego. Ale Diamond nie przerywa ?ledztwa…
An anthology of stories“Martin has assembled an impressive array of writers… Progressing through the decades, Wild Cards keeps its momentum to the end… I’m looking forward to the next episodes in this saga of mutant Americana.” – Locus“Well written and suspenseful and a good read… The authors had a lot of fun rewriting recent American history.” – Aboriginal Science Fiction“Commendable writing… a zany premise… narrated with rueful humor and intelligence.” – Publishers Weekly***The first fifteen volumes of the Wild Cards series concerned themselves primarily with aces (those given superhuman powers by the ...
Tras dos a?os a la espera de un donante compatible, Terry McCaleb se recupera de un trasplante de coraz?n que le ha obligado a cambiar por completo de estilo de vida. Su ?nica meta es reparar el velero en el que se ha retirado y dejar definitivamente atr?s sus d?as como agente del FBI especializado en casos de asesinos en serie. Sin embargo, antes de empezar una nueva vida deber? zanjar un asunto pendiente: resolver el asesinato de Gloria Rivers, la mujer cuyo coraz?n late en su pecho.
St?phanie Plum est chasseuse de prime. Sa sp?cialit? : ramener les lib?r?s sous caution r?calcitrants au tribunal. Un job sans grande surprise, sauf quand il s'agit de mettre la main sur Kenny Mancuso. Un vrai coriace tremp? dans une affaire de trafic d'armes, qui passe son temps ? d?couper des cadavres et ? envoyer les morceaux ? St?phanie. Sans compter les quarante cercueils disparus d'une entreprise de pompes fun?bres. Un vrai casse-t?te. ?videmment, tout irait mieux si Morelli, flic et pot de colle, n'?tait pas toujours pendu ? ses basques. Heureusement, St?phanie ? une grand-m?re qui s'y conna?t en flingues et en salons fun?raires.
Featuring the famous Commander Adam Dalgliesh, Devices and Desires is a thrilling and insightfully crafted novel of fallible people caught in a net of secrets, ambitions, and schemes on a lonely stretch of Norfolk coastline.Commander Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard has just published a new book of poems and has taken a brief respite from publicity on the remote Larksoken headland on the Norfolk coast in a converted windmill left to him by his aunt. But he cannot so easily escape murder. A psychotic strangler of young women is at large in Norfolk, and getting nearer to Larksoken with every killing. And when Dalgliesh discovers the murdered body of the Acting Administrative Officer on the beach, he finds himself caught up in the passions and dangerous secrets of the headland community and in one of the most baffling murder cases of his career.
In a house under renovation, a plumber uncovers a cellar no one knew about, and makes a rather grisly discovery – a decapitated chicken, animal bones, and cauldrons containing beads, feathers, and other relics of religious ceremonies. In the center of the shrine, there is the skull of a teenage girl. Meanwhile, on a nearby lakeshore, the headless body of a teenage boy is found by a man walking his dog.Nothing is clear – neither when the deaths occurred, nor where. Was the skull brought to the cellar or was the girl murdered there? Why is the boy’s ...
From the critically acclaimed, award-nominated author comes a new noir crime classic about one of the most notorious trials in American history.Critics called Ace Atkins's Wicked City 'gripping, superb' (Library Journal), 'stunning' (The Tampa Tribune), 'terrific' (Associated Press), 'riveting' (Kirkus Reviews), 'wicked good' (Fort Worth Star-Telegram), and 'Atkins' best novel' (The Washington Post). But Devil's Garden is something else again.San Francisco, September 1921: Silent-screen comedy star Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle is throwing a wild party in his suite at the St. Francis Hotel: girls, jazz, bootleg hooch… and a dead actress named Virginia Rappe. The D.A. ...
There's Nothing To Fear But Fear Itself…And Billi SanGreal.As the youngest and only female member of the Knights Templar, Bilquis SanGreal grew up knowing she wasn't normal. Instead of hanging out at the mall or going on dates, she spends her time training as a soldier in her order's ancient battle against the Unholy.Billi's cloistered life is blasted apart when her childhood friend, Kay, returns from Jerusalem, gorgeous and with a dangerous chip on his shoulder. He's ready to reclaim his place in Billi's life, but she's met someone new: amber-eyed Michael, who seems ...
When prosecutor Vicki Allegretti arrives at a rowhouse to meet a confidential informant, she finds herself in the wrong place at the wrong time – and is almost shot to death. She barely escapes with her life, but cannot save the two others gunned down before her disbelieving eyes. Stunned and heartbroken, Vicki tries to figure out how a routine meeting on a minor case became a double homicide.Vicki's suspicions take her to Devil's Corner, a city neighborhood teetering on the brink of ruin – thick with broken souls, innocent youth, and a scourge that preys on both. But the deeper Vicki probes, the more she becomes convinced that the murders weren't random and the killers were more ruthless than she thought.When another murder thrusts Vicki together with an unlikely ally, she buckles up for a wild ride down a dangerous street – and into the cross-hairs of a conspiracy as powerful as it is relentless.
A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores- when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster- when their boat explodes. What is happening in that part of the world? As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA(r) Special Assignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical power, and an unimaginably audacious plan to extort the world's major nations. Their penalty for refusal? The destruction of their greatest cities.
Being a blood spatter analyst who hates the sight of blood has always made Dexter's work for the Miami PD tough. But it means he's very neat when it comes to his out-of-hours hobby: murder. Of course, the fact Dexter only kills bad people helps too. Now Dex is facing a disturbing situation. He's used to blood at work, and blood when he's out with the dark passenger (the voice that guides him on his deadly outings). But he's not sure what to make of the man who says blood is art. Using bodies as his canvas, someone ...
Il ne fait pas bon ?tre un touriste ? Miami. Un tueur particuli?rement inspir? s’est mis en t?te de transformer les saisonniers en paniers garnis, prenant bien soin de mettre les tripes de c?t?. Excellente remise en jambe pour Dexter. Les choses se corsent lorsque Deborah apprend le p?ch? mignon de son fr?re avant d’?tre poignard?e et qu’une vid?o sur You Tube menace de r?v?ler la v?ritable nature de Dexter…
Dexter Morgan no soporta la sangre. Curiosa mania para un forense del Departamento de Policia de Miami. Mas teniendo en cuenta que Dexter aprovecha las noches de luna llena para cortar en pedacitos a otros como el, asesinos en serie que han escapado a la accion de la justicia. Pero es posible que a partir de ahora su vida de un giro decisivo. Es que Dexter le ha dado el si a Rita y esta a punto de convertirse en un marido respetable, la figura paterna a la que imitaran Ashtor y Cody, los hijos de su pareja. Y, en caso de que la vida matrimonial no resultara amenaza suficiente para sus correrias nocturnas, una sucesion de asesinatos rituales podria llevarlo a reconsiderar su propia adiccion al homicidio.
Dexter diventa pap? di una bimba, la piccola Lily Anne, e qualcosa in lui cambia radicalmente: per la prima volta prova un vero sentimento d’amore, emozioni e affetto; e soprattutto non sente pi? la voce dentro di s? che lo obbligava a uccidere. Decide cos? di non dedicarsi pi? al suo “hobby” notturno. Ma concentrarsi sulle gioie della vita familiare non ? cos? facile per lui, soprattutto quando sua sorella Debbie lo coinvolge nelle indagini su un caso di rapimento che presto apre uno squarcio su una terrificante vicenda di cannibalismo…
