La historia de tres generaciones de mujeres, sus complejas vidas, sus misterios, sus pecados, y al hombre que lo sabe todo sobre ellas y puede desvelar los m?s ocultos secretos.Lily Pierron es una legendaria madame que sabe que en la c?lida Nueva Orleans se puede cometer cualquier pecado a cambio de un alto precio. Para ella, el precio es su hija Hope.Hope Pierron St. Germaine es la elegante y piadosa mujer de una acaudalado hotelero y la dedicada madre de Glory durante el d?a, pero por la noche sucumbe a las pasiones carnales que amenazan con destruirla.Glory St. Germaine ignora los vergonzosos secretos de su familia, pero sufre las consecuencias de una oscuridad cuya existencia desconoce. Obstinada y atolondrada, Glory encuentra el amor prohibido en el hombre que lo sabe todo sobre las Pierron.
Clay was an honest New York City cop driven to bring down the mob and make his city a little safer, even when it seemed like nothing he did made any difference. He always played by the rules until a two-bit junkie hit man destroyed his family and left him for dead. But Clay won’t let himself lie down until he gets one last thing: revenge.Praise for Fuckin’ Lie Down AlreadyJack Ketchum, author of RED and THE LOST: “This is a small masterpiece. It’s said that the devil’s in the details and ...
Conner Vega, f?sica y emocionalmente marcado por su pasado, ha vuelto al paisaje exuberante y ex?tico de la selva de Panam?; su lugar de nacimiento, y esperanzadoramente un lugar en el que escapar de la culpa que lo consume. Libre para vagar por fin, el leopardo en ?l anhela tomar el control, pero sabiendo lo peligroso que esto ser?a, Conner debe resistir.Sin embargo, hay cuestiones m?s serias que tratar. Conner ha sido tra?do de regreso para un prop?sito espec?fico: ayudar a salvar a su pueblo del mal que amenaza la existencia de este, y para vengar el brutal asesinato de su madre. Y esta vez piensa encargarse del asunto.
Nacido en un mundo de monstruos retorcidos, Jake Bannaconni se ha formado y moldeado en la fr?a venganza. Afilado en los fuegos del infierno, ?l controla su mundo y las reglas con una mano de hierro. Tiene todo y cualquier cosa que el dinero puede comprar. Es despiadado, sin compasi?n y se considera un hombre al que dejar solo. Su legado oculto, el ser un cambiaformas, le hace doblemente peligroso en el mundo corporativo.Emma Reynolds es una mujer que sabe c?mo amar y amar bien. Cu?ndo sus dos mundos chocan, los planes de Jake para una completa absorci?n pueden venirse abajo.
Cuando el mestizo Jim Mackenzie regresa a su pueblo natal, en Arizona, para asistir al funeral de su abuelo, jefe de los indios Navajos, todos sus recuerdos de infancia se ven sacudidos por una escalofriante realidad: una oleada de atroces asesinatos rituales asola la comunidad. Su llegada parece haber despertado misterios hasta el momento ocultos en la sombra; misterios relacionados con la tierra, las ra?ces y la tradici?n cham?nica que Mackencie tiene que desvelar si quiere poner fin a la mort?fera cadena.
No en todos los deportes o competencias h?picas se puede permanecer m?s all? del tiempo natural de actividad. Cada uno exige cierto l?mite. Uno de esos oficios es ser jinete de caballos entrenados para carrera de obst?culos y, para Freddy Croft, con haber pasado los treinta a?os result? suficiente.Encara entonces el negocio de transporte de caballos con cierta fortuna, hasta que un d?a, dentro de su cami?n, encuentra un cad?ver.No toda esa complicaci?n termina todav?a cuando, de pronto, asesinan a uno de sus empleados y, el ex jockey, ya no tuvo ninguna duda de que alguien lo quer?a perjudicar.Inicia una investigaci?n por su cuenta, creyendo que podr? llegar hasta las puertas mismas del extra?o complot.
Amanda Jaffe, the heroine of Wild Justice and Proof Positive, is back – in this tale of international intrigue and murder that leads her deep into the past… and into the crosshairs of a killer.Charlie Marsh, a petty crook and con man, becomes a national hero when he rescues the warden of a state penitentiary during a prison riot, but it doesn't take long before Charlie is wanted in connection with the death of a United States congressman. Now, after living twelve years in the African nation of Batanga, at the mercy of power-mad dictator Jean-Claude Baptiste, Charlie ...
An anthology of storiesMove over, vampires. Make room for the hottest creatures in fantasy: werewolves. Most people think werewolves are creatures of ancient legend, associated with prowling darkened forests and terrifying peasants in medieval cottages. But what about today's werewolf in modern society? Has twenty-first century life changed the rules and lifestyles of the contemporary lycanthrope? Are wolf packs communicating online via social networks? Could the person who at first glance looks like an average commuter (on the early train, to avoid the rising of the full moon) be one of them? Have werewolves infiltrated every level of government? Full Moon City answers these questions, and many more. Featuring contributions from bestselling fantasy luminaries, this collection of spellbinding stories puts the fun back into dark fiction.
Bad boys are on the menu is this delightfully decadent trio of stories that includes Erin McCarthy's Fuzzy Logic, in which shopaholic Ashley Andrews discovers a new side to her scientist neighbor when her package containing romance-enhancing products is accidentally delivered to him.
Anthony and Macavity Award finalist J.A. Konrath returns with the latest gripping – and hilarious – Jack Daniels mystery.Things are going well for Lieutenant Jacqueline “Jack” Daniels of the Chicago Police Department. She has solved some of the city’s toughest and most high-profile homicides. Her personal life is finally in order. Her friends and family are safe and happy. And she just got a call that eased her mind like nothing else could: Alex Kork, one of the most dangerous criminals Jack ever arrested, killed herself while in jail.But things sour quickly when a group of vigilantes on a murderous spree decide to take down a cop and the people she cares about… and they turn downright awful when Jack discovers that Kork may not be dead after all.The next eight hours will be the worst of Jack’s life. And that’s saying something.Fuzzy Navel is perfect for readers who like their mysteries with a shot of humor.
On 5th May, Kinsey Millhone celebrates her birthday, moves back into her apartment and is hired to bring Mrs Clyde Gersh's mother back from the Mojave desert. She also finds out that she has made it into Tyrone Patty's hit list. This is the seventh book featuring Kinsey Millhone.
Czwarta powie?? z komisarzem Salvem Montalbanem w roli g??wnej – czwarta sprawa, w kt?rej w r?wnym stopniu nietypowa jest zbrodnia, co posta? prowadz?cego ?ledztwo.Podczas prywatnej podr??y s?u?bowy samoch?d Montalbana potr?ca zielone twingo. Zaintrygowany brakiem reakcji ze strony w?a?ciciela, komisarz zakrada si? do willi, przed kt?r? dosz?o do incydentu. Podczas tej nieformalnej wyprawy odkrywa zw?oki pi?knej, m?odej blondynki. I oto, podobnie jak w poprzednich powie?ciach, wskutek niekonwencjonalnego post?powania policjanta, z jednej sprawy robi? si? dwie – trzeba odkry? zab?jc?, lecz r?...
Agent FBI, Jack Crowne leci rz?dowym samolotem nad Appalachami. Na pok?adzie ma wa?nego pasa?era: znanego psychiatr?, doktora Timothy MacLeana. Celem ich podr??y jest miasto Waszyngton. W czasie lotu samolot ulega wypadkowi, cudem ocaleni Jack Crowne i doktor Timothy trafiaj? do kliniki w Parlow.Jakie tajemnice skrywa jedyny ?wiadek katastrofy Rachael Abbot?Kim oka?? si? wrogowie doktora Timothy MacLeana?
In the most ingenious and provocative thriller yet from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver, a conscience-plagued mobster turned government hitman struggles to find his moral compass amid rampant treachery and betrayal in 1936 Berlin.Paul Schumann, a German American living in New York City in 1936, is a mobster hitman known as much for his brilliant tactics as for taking only “righteous” assignments. But then Paul gets caught. And the arresting officer offers him a stark choice: prison or covert government service. Paul is asked to pose as a journalist covering the summer Olympics taking place ...
Maureen O'Donnell wasn't born lucky. A psychiatric patient and survivor of sexual abuse, she's stuck in a dead-end job and a secretive relationship with Douglas, a shady therapist. Her few comforts are making up stories to tell her psychiatrist, the company of friends, and the sweet balm of whisky. She is about to end her affair with Douglas when she wakes up one morning to find him in her living room with his throat slit.Viewed in turn by the police as a suspect and as an uncooperative, unstable witness, Maureen is even suspected by her alcoholic mother ...
Enero de 1944. Las tropas aliadas se prepararan para el d?a D y el mundo entero espera la invasi?n aliada de Europa. Pero en Inglaterra, Winston Churchill ha descubierto que los cient?ficos nazis han desarrollado un gas nervioso t?xico que puede repeler y eliminar cualquier fuerza invasora, el arma qu?mica final. S?lo una jugada desesperada puede evitar el desastre.Para salvar el planificado asalto, dos hombres muy diferentes pero igualmente decididos -un m?dico pacifista estadounidense y un fan?tico sionista – son enviados a infiltrarse en el campo de concentraci?n secreto donde ...
As a Chinese adoptee in St. Louis, teenage Daiyu often feels out of place. When an elderly Asian jewelry seller at a street fair shows her a black jade ring – and tells her that 'black jade' translates to 'Daiyu' – she buys it as a talisman of her heritage. But it's more than that; it's magic. It takes Daiyu through a gateway into a version of St. Louis much like 19th century China. Almost immediately she is recruited as a spy, which means hours of training in manners and niceties and sleight of hand. It also means stealing time to be with handsome Kalen, who is in on the plan. There's only one problem. Once her task is done, she must go back to St. Louis and leave him behind forever…
That's right: Serge and Coleman do spring break!It's been a long time coming, but they're at the party now – and you'll never look at a Frisbee the same way again.One spring break location obviously isn't enough for Serge, so he must hit them all, traveling through various historic locales, spewing nuggets of history at anyone who won't run away and dispensing his own signature brand of Sunshine State justice.Along the way he and his sidekick, Coleman, attract a growing following of the nation's top college students… and a mysterious gang that leaves a ...
Photojournalist Mike Burke carried his camera into every war zone and hellhole on earth – and came back with the pictures (and battle scars) to prove it. He was flying high until, quite suddenly, he wasn’t. When Burke’s helicopter crashed and burned in Africa, he came away with his life but lost his heart to the beautiful woman who saved him. That’s when he decided it was time to stop dancing with the devil. But a wicked twist of fate puts an end to Burke’s dreams, leaving him adrift in Dublin with bittersweet memories… and no ...
