Herido en acto de servicio, John Corey, detective de la brigada de homicidios de la polic?a de Nueva York, se recupera en un pueblecito de Long Island habitado por agricultores, pescadores y, por lo menos, un asesino. Tom y Judy Gordon, una joven y atractiva pareja de bi?logos conocidos de Corey, han sido hallados en su jard?n con sendas balas en la cabeza. Los primeros indicios apuntan a un robo frustrado, pero el rumor de guerra bacteriol?gica que salpica al centro de investigaci?n de patolog?as animales de Long Island hace que circule el ...
From the acclaimed, bestselling author of Stardust, The Good German, and Los Alamos – a gripping tale of an American undercover agent in 1945 Istanbul who descends into the murky cat-and-mouse world of compromise and betrayal that will come to define the entire post-war era.A neutral capital straddling Europe and Asia, Istanbul has spent the war as a magnet for refugees and spies. Even American businessman Leon Bauer has been drawn into this shadow world, doing undercover odd jobs and courier runs for the Allied war effort. Now as the espionage community begins to pack up and an apprehensive ...
County prosecutor Trish Jones has had it with smooth-talking, under-performing suits. And though she's never had a thing for big, brawny guys, one look at Caleb Vancouver's bulges makes her think she might have been missing out. One Harley ride later they're back at her place, and she realizes that she has been missing out… on quite a lot…
Cuando encontraron el yate de Wendell Jaffe a la deriva, todo indicaba que se hab?a tirado por la borda. No s?lo lo confirmaba la nota que ?l hab?a dejado, sino tambi?n su desastrosa situaci?n financiera. Aun as?, poco antes, hab?a suscrito con la compa??a para la que trabaja Kinsey Millhone un seguro de vida de quinientos mil d?lares a nombre de Dana, su mujer, quien, sin embargo, al haber desaparecido el cad?ver de su marido, tuvo que esperar cinco a?os hasta que fuera dado oficialmente por muerto. Pero quiso el azar que un d?a un agente de la compa??a de seguros descubriera a Jaffe en la barra de un bar miserable de la costa mexicana, justo dos meses despu?s de que Dana cobrara el seguro de su marido. Por supuesto, la compa??a quiere deshacer en entuerto y contrata a Kinsey para investigar el caso. Pero cuanto m?s se adentra ella en el misterio que rodea al supuesto suicidio de Wendell Jaffe, m?s hondo excava tambi?n en su propio pasado…
"Full of thrills and tension, but smart and human, too. Kim Otto is a great, great character – I love her." Lee Child, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of Jack Reacher Thrillers
Dis, tu connais la nouvelle ?Je vais me marier !Non, non, c'est pas du bidon : je suis sur le point de convoler.Tu me vois, loqu? en convoleur de charme ? ?a va faire couler de l'encre, entre autres, non ?San-A.-la-bague-au-doigt !Lui qui arborait plut?t un parabellum en guise de bijou.Enfin : comme l'affirme le pape auquel je rends un sacr? service dans ce livre. Et dire que si B?ru n'avait pas eu un pote cardinal, rien de tout cela ne serait arriv?…Surtout me raconte pas que tout ce bigntz est impossible.Car tu vois, pour en avoir le c?ur net, j'ai essay?.Et tu sais pas ?On peut !
En Portland, Oreg?n, las esposas de varios destacados hombres de negocios han desaparecido sin dejar m?s rastro que una rosa negra con un simple mensaje: "Jam?s me olvidaran".Diez a?os antes, en Nueva York, se hab?an producido otras desapariciones similares, pero el asesino fue atrapado y el caso qued? cerrado.Nancy Gordon, detective de homicidios del departamento de Polic?a de Nueva York y miembro original del grupo de investigaci?n del "asesino de la rosa", lleva diez a?os acosada por pesadillas con un s?dico asesino que, asegura, a?n anda suelto…Alan Page, abogado del distrito de Oreg?n, est? tratando de encontrar sentido a la misteriosa serie de desapariciones. Una noche llama a su puerta Nancy Gordon con la intencion de contarle una terrrible historia…
The coachman tried to warn her away from the ruined, forbidding place on the rainswept Cornish coast. But young Mary Yellan chose instead to honor her mother's dying request that she join her frightened Aunt Patience and huge, hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn at Jamaica Inn. From her first glimpse on that raw November eve, she could sense the inn's dark power. But never did Mary dream that she would become hopelessly ensnared in the vile, villainous schemes being hatched within its crumbling walls — or that a handsome, mysterious stranger would so incite her passions… tempting her to love a man whom she dares not trust.
Moving into Chawton Cottage, Jane Austen gets an unexpected and mysterious Bengal chest as a legacy. But before she has time to study its contents, a corpse is found…
Three years after news of her scandalous husband’s death, Adelaide Fiske is at the altar again, her groom a soldier on the Marquis of Wellington’s staff. The prospects seem bright for one of the most notorious women in Kent—until Jane Austen discovers a corpse on the ancient Pilgrim’s Way that runs through her brother Edward’s estate. As First Magistrate for Canterbury, Edward is forced to investigate, with Jane as his reluctant assistant. But she rises to the challenge and leaves no stone unturned, discovering mysteries deeper than she could have anticipated. It seems that Adelaide’s previous husband has returned for the new couple’s nuptials—only this time, genuinely, profoundly dead. But when a second corpse appears beside the ancient Pilgrim’s Way, Jane has no choice but to confront a murderer, lest the next corpse be her own.
The book cleverly blends scholarship with mystery and wit, weaving Jane Austen's correspondence and works of literature into a tale of death and deceit.
The restorative power of the ocean brings Jane Austen and her beloved brother Henry, to Brighton after Henry's wife is lost to a long illness. But the crowded, glittering resort is far from peaceful, especially when the lifeless body of a beautiful young society miss is discovered in the bedchamber of none other than George Gordon - otherwise known as Lord Byron. As a poet and a seducer of women, Byron has carved out a shocking reputation for himself - but no one would ever accuse him of being capable of murder. Now it falls to Jane to pursue this puzzling investigation and discover just how 'mad, bad, and dangerous to know' Byron truly is. And she must do so without falling victim to the charming versifier's legendary charisma, lest she, too, become a cautionary example for the ages.
If Jane Austen really did have the ‘nameless and dateless’ romance with a clergyman that some scholars claim, she couldn't have met her swain under more heart-throbbing circumstances than those described by Stephanie Barron.
A skillfully told tale with a surprising ending. The narrative is true both to what's known about Jane's activities at the time and to her own private journalistic voice.
A chilling mystery with a solution that will leave you spellbound. Stephanie Barron does an excellent job of creating Jane Austen’s world. Details of early 19th-century country life of all cases ring true, while the story line is clear, yet full of surprises.
A light-hearted mystery… The most fun is that ‘Jane Austen’ is in the middle of it, witty and logical, a foil to some of the ladies who primp, faint and swoon.
For this diverting mystery of manners, the third entry in a genteelly jolly series by Stephanie Barron, the game heroine goes to elegant parties, frequents the theater and visits fashionable gathering spots — all in the discreet service of solving a murder.
