Things aren't always as they seem.After Alex Wales crash lands on a planet that doesn't even show up on her navigational map and her ship is damaged, all she wants to do is get help and leave the planet as soon as she can. She's got something to deliver and time is running out. Instead, she stumbles onto a very alluring man who takes her to his village-a seemingly utopian society led by a Priestess.Stuck on this planet with no way of getting off, Alex finds herself drawn to the alluring Damon. But when locals start turning up dead after being mauled and eaten by some sort of monster, she's thrust into the middle of the investigation.As the layers of the mystery slowly unravel, Alex and Damon find themselves facing their pasts, and the many lies woven around the planet of Eden.
Brujas, hechiceros, vampiros… Descendientes de una antigua raza que lucha por su supervivencia en un mundo hostil.Cuando a Paige Winterbourne la obligan a renunciar a su cargo de L?der del Aquelarre Norteamericano de Brujas, lo ?nico que quiere hacer es alejarse del mundanal ruido durante una buena temporada y pensar en la posibilidad de formar un aquelarre alternativo con sus seguidoras. Pero, claro est?, el destino tiene otros planes para ella.Un psic?pata con poderes sobrehumanos e imparables deseos de venganza anda suelto. Al enterarse de que las v?ctimas del despiadado asesino son ...
Conocida como la Reina de Hielo en los juzgados de Chicago, la joven abogada Kristen Mayhew vive por y para su trabajo. Posee el ?ndice m?s alto de casos ganados en la fiscal?a. Es una mujer fuerte, una profesional, incorruptible, apreciada por su tenacidad y dedicaci?n. Pero ahora acaba de descubrir que tiene un peligroso admirador secreto.Lleva tiempo observ?ndote. Conoce todos sus movimientos, todos sus pensamientos. Le env?a cartas. Y ha empezado a asesinar, en su nombre, a los delincuentes y criminales que ella no logr? meter entre rejas.Abe Reagan ...
One horrible murder. Two people destined for love or tragedy. Emotions explode in the novel Julia Spencer-Fleming's readers have been clamoring for.Police Chief Russ Van Alstyne's first encounter with Clare Fergusson was in the hospital emergency room on a freezing December night. A newborn infant had been abandoned on the town's Episcopal church steps. If Russ had known that the church had a new priest, he certainly would never have guessed that it would be a woman. Not a woman like Clare. That night in the hospital was the beginning of an attraction so fierce, so forbidden, ...
The good young Englishwoman knows that her destiny depends upon a good marriage match. But Isabella Goodrich is not your typical good young Englishwoman. After an encounter with those less fortunate than she, witty and fun-loving Isabella makes a shocking decision. Against everyone's advice and wishes, she is going to become a missionary in the Far East. Fighting against cultural expectations, common sense, and a mentor who is not as he seems, Isabella leaves her predictable Oxford life behind and sets sail to a new world fraught with danger. Can she trust the mysterious missionary Phineas Snowe? Or will her adventure end before it even begins? This first novel in the Rollicking Regency series will delight readers who like high adventure, twisting plots, and a fun bit of romance.
A classic Christmas tale from the bestselling Queen of Suspense At the heart of the novel are two of Mary Higgins Clark's most loved characters: Alvirah, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and her husband, Willy, who are caught up in a Christmas mystery that calls on all of their skills and experience. Willy has been looking forward to playing Santa at the after-school centre recently set up to care for the children of working parents on New York's Upper West Side, and Alvirah has been busy with rehearsals for the Christmas pageant. But suddenly a shadow falls upon ...
Карло Лукарелли в сегодняшней Италии – автор триллеров номер один!Блестящий стилист, ученик знаменитого Алессандро Баррико, Лукарелли возвел расследование кровавых преступлений в область искусства и, как Акунин в России, сделал для итальянцев чтение детективов модным занятием.Среди множества бестселлеров Лукарелли особой популярностью пользуются романы о полицейском инспекторе Грации Негро – красивой и отважной женщине, которая расследует ужасающие своей жестокостью преступления серийных убийц-маньяков.Как героиня Джоди Фостер из бессмертного «Молчания ягнят», она вступает в яростный интеллектуальный поединок с преступником. Ежечасно рискуя жизнью, балансируя на грани дозволенного, Грация Негро дразнит убийцу и выманивает его на свет, как хищного зверя. Провокационно-двусмысленные отношения между ними создают напряжение такого накала, что финала-взрыва ждешь, как глотка долгожданного воздуха…Предупреждаем: Карло Лукарелли – мастер совершенно неожиданного финала!
NYPD sharp-shooter Bobby is called to a domestic incident. It's an address the police have visited before – a volatile husband and wife who routinely battle out their marriage. But this time it's different. Through his sights from the building opposite, Bobby can see the husband pointing a gun at his wife and child. As the husband moves to shoot his wife, Bobby gets a clear shot and shoots the man in the head. The wife, shaking and terrified, turns to face Bobby through the shattered window and mouths the words 'thank you'. Then all hell breaks loose. The man ...
Myron Bolitar siempre ha so?ado con la voluptuosa mujer fatal que acaba de entrar en su despacho para pedirle ayuda. Tiene unas curvas de locura, pero est? embarazada de ocho meses, y eso pone fin a todas las posibles fantas?as de Bolitar. La antigua estrella del tenis Suzze T y su marido, Lex, una estrella del rock, son clientes, y a lo largo de los a?os Myron ha negociado multitud de contratos para la preciosa pareja. Pero ahora Lex ha desaparecido y la muy embarazada Suzze llora, convencida de que los rumores colgados en la red poniendo en duda la paternidad del beb? hayan alejado al hombre que ella jura es el padre de su hijo.“Harlan Coben es el maestro moderno del “ag?rrate y no te menees” desde la primera p?gina, para dejarte completamente noqueado en la ?ltima.” Dan Brown
Following the fall of Baghdad, two Iraqi boys stumble upon armed men looting the city zoo. The floodgates have been opened for the smuggling of hundreds of exotic birds, mammals, and reptiles to Western nations, but this crime hides a deeper secret. Amid a hail of bullets, a concealed underground weapons lab is ransacked – and something even more horrific is set free.Seven years later, Louisiana state veterinarian Lorna Polk stumbles upon a fishing trawler shipwrecked on a barrier island. The crew is missing or dead, but the boat holds a frightening cargo: a caged group of exotic ...
Il cadavere di una donna dalle mani spappolate viene ritrovato al Central Park di Manhattan. In assenza di impronte e di documenti il detective Palanski identifica la vittima in base al nome sull'etichetta della giacca: ? Cathy Mallory, geniale e irriducibile cane sciolto della sezione Crimini Speciali della Polizia di New York, recentemente sospesa dal servizio per motivi disciplinari. Quando il notiziario di mezzogiorno la informa della propria morte, Mallory si getta nelle indagini con foga. E scopre che la vittima ? in realt? Amanda Bosh, venticinquenne da tempo coinvolta nella relazione con un facoltoso uomo sposato. Per stanare l'assassino Mallory ? pronta a tutto, persino a trasformarsi in un vera e propria esca umana.
Roberto Bola?o publica ahora una novela que escribi? 22 a?os atr?s y que reconoce como un juguete a la medida de sus curiosidades de entonces: Amberes. Estructurada a partir de cap?tulos breves que se entrecruzan, la novela acude a un uso embrionario de recursos que en el futuro expresar? a plenitud: los personajes exc?ntricos y las situaciones raras de la vida n?mada, donde brilla una prosa de enorme calidad. La anarqu?a feliz.Un polic?a perdido entre Castelldefels y Barcelona, una pelirroja de la que todos hablan pero nadie ha visto, un ...
Thane Coder lleva una existencia que muchos envidiar?an: un buen trabajo en la poderosa compa??a King Corp, una mujer hermosa, un generoso salario… Un sue?o hecho realidad pero que, como ?l mismo confiesa, no es suficiente. Cuando el due?o de la compa??a anuncia que ceder? el mando de la empresa a su hijo Scott, Thane decide que el puesto ha de ser suyo al coste que sea. Espoleado por la ambici?n de su esposa y c?mplice, recurre al asesinato, al enga?o, a los contactos con criminales… Matar le resulta cada vez m?s f?cil, incluso tanto como enga?ar al FBI y a la mafia, pero pronto queda claro que Thane ha entrado en una espiral de locura para la que s?lo hay un final.
Ambrose Bierce y la Reina de Picas: San Francisco, finales de la d?cada de 1880. Un joven auxiliar de imprenta y aspirante a reportero, Tom Redmond, se une al temido escritor y editor del semanario sat?rico The Hornet, Ambrose Bierce, para investigar una serie de brutales asesinatos de prostitutas cometidos en un barrio de la emergente ciudad. El asesino, conocido como el Destripador de Morton Street, deja siempre un naipe del palo de picas sobre los cuerpos desnudos de sus v?ctimas. Las conjeturas iniciales, as? como las pruebas practicadas, apuntan a que tras la salvaje cacer?a ...
Log Line: A professor sends a graduate student back in time to 1933 to kill Adolf Hitler, only to find her actions have unintended consequences.FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — Todd Colby Pliss vividly imagines the nightmarish scenario of a professor who sends a student back in time to 1933 to kill Adolf Hitler, only to find her actions have unintended consequences, with his new novel, , now available on Amazon.com.Wayne Goldberg, graduate student at NYU, is asked by his physics professor, Dr. Lisa Hoffmann, to stop by her lab and is shown a strange contraption that he is informed ...
Bestselling author David Hosp returns with his most thrilling novel yet…AMONG THIEVESIn 1990, $300 million worth of paintings were stolen from Boston 's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in what remains one of the greatest unsolved art thefts of the twentieth century. Now, nearly twenty years later, the case threatens to break wide open. Members of Boston 's criminal underground are turning up dead. But these are no ordinary murders. The M.O. of the attacks suggests the involvement of someone trained by the IRA. But when Scott Finn learns that one of his clients, Devon Malley, was part of the heist, he's quickly drawn into the crossfire, and into the renewed hunt for the missing artwork-a hunt that may cost Finn and his colleagues their lives.
