Natalie Greco loves being a law professor, even though she can't keep her students from cruising sex.com during class and secretly feels like Faculty Comic Relief. She loves her family, too, but as a bookworm, doesn't quite fit into the cult of Greco football, headed by her father, the team captain. The one person she feels most connected to is her colleague, Angus Holt, a guy with a brilliant mind, a great sense of humor, a gorgeous facade, and a penchant for helping those less fortunate. When he talks Nat into teaching a class at a local prison, ...
El cubano (La Habana, 1959) Jos? Carlos Somoza qued? finalista del Nadal del 2.000 con esta complicada novela donde se plantea el conflicto entre el mundo `real` y el literario. La sociedad que imagina Somoza, aunque no necesariamente ut?pica ni ucr?nica (transcurre en un Madrid reconocible y en tiempos contempor?neos), es la de la preponderancia de lo literario, de lo narrativo. Hay una macroeditorial, SALMACIS, omnipotente que adem?s es s?lo la terminal ib?rica de una todav?a mayor multinacional. En esta sociedad donde `todo el mundo escribe`, un escritor de fama, Juan Cobo, ha sufrido ...
El hallazgo de los cad?veres de dos mujeres en el Bronx despierta la preocupaci?n de la polic?a. El asesino se ensa?? con las v?ctimas, las destrip? y con su sangre pint? un lienzo que dej? como macabra firma personal en la escena del crimen. Kate McKinnon historiadora del arte y ex polic?a es contactada para llevar a cabo la investigaci?n. Aunque reacia en un principio a involucrarse en el tema, McKinnon se ver? empujada a hacerlo cuando el asesino, de forma brutal, reclame su atenci?n. A medida que se suceden los cr?...
The hostages are young: a bus full of teenagers on a church mission. The ransom demands are explicit: deliver three million dollars-with zero involvement from law enforcement-or all captives will be executed. But rescue specialist Jonathan Grave doesn't believe in ultimatums. For him and his elite team at Security Solutions, it's all about protecting the innocent. Now Grave must face the chilling possibility that someone within the U.S. government has a deadly secret to protect-one that could jeopardize national security like never before…
El comisario Harald se enfrenta al caso m?s dif?cil de su carrera: en un apacible paraje de la ciudad de Forsh?lla, en Finlandia, ha sido hallado el cad?ver de una mujer joven, sin ojos y con una «A» grabada en el est?mago. A este cad?ver le siguen otros dos que presentan mutilaciones similares.El veterano polic?a, famoso por meterse en la piel del asesino m?s all? de los l?mites de lo razonable, solo cuenta con una pista: unas cartas halladas en casa de las v?ctimas donde estas confiesan sus secretos m?s ?ntimos, sus culpas y sus pecados. Cuando ?l tambi?n recibe una carta, la trama da un giro inesperado que conducir? al desconcertado lector a descubrir al asesino, antes que el propio comisario Harald, en un sorprendente final.
Agent Pendergast has become one of crime fiction's most endearing characters. His greatest enemy is one who has stalked him all of his life, his cunning and diabolical brother Diogenes. And Diogenes has thrown down the gauntlet. Now, several of the people closest to Pendergast are viciously murdered, and Pendergast is framed for the deeds. On the run from federal authorities, with only the help of his old friend NYPD Lieutenant Vincent D'Agosta, Pendergast must stop his brother. But how can he stop a man that is his intellectual equal-one who has had 20 years to plan the world's most horrendous crime?
It was the revelation of the millennium: witches, werewolves, vampires and other supernaturals are real. Fast-forward 13 years: TV reporter Delilah Street used to cover the small-town bogeyman beat back in Kansas, but now, in high-octane Las Vegas – which is run by a werewolf mob – she finds herself holding back the gates of Hell itself. But at least she has a hot new guy and one big bad wolfhound to help her out…
The greatest superpower of all isn't to be part spider, part man, or to cast magic spells – the greatest power is the power to create.Daniel has that power.Daniel's secret abilities – like being able to manipulate objects and animals with his mind or to recreate himself in any shape he chooses – have helped him survive. But Daniel doesn't have a normal life. He is the protector of the earth, the Alien Hunter, with a mission beyond what anyone could imagine.From the day that his parents were brutally murdered in front of his very eyes, Daniel has used his unique gifts to hunt down their assassin. Finally, with the help of The List bequeathed to him in his parents' dying breath, he has located the killer.Now, on his own, he vows to take on his father's mission-and to have vengeance in the process.
An anthology of storiesExtreme sports. Extreme future. Extreme collection.Science fiction's most expert dreamers envision the computerized, high-risk games of the future in this winning collection. Features Robert Sheckley, Cory Doctorow, Kate Wilhelm, Alastair Reynolds, Vernor Vinge, Jonathan Letham, Gwyneth Jones, William Browning Spencer, Allen Steele, Terry Dowling, and Jason Stoddard.
The third of the castle novels will take the reader ever deeper into a world of beauty and terror. A world led by an immortal emperor and the circle; his 50 immortal helpers. It is a world with an absentee god, a world that has been fighting a war against giant insects. A world like no other. There will be more insights into Jant, the emperors vain winged messenger, and the shift, the surreal other life Jant enters when he overdoses on his drug of choice and where he meets the dead in a land that defies logic. This is a fantasy series like no other – a literary fantasy with the verve and originality to stand alongside the best of Mervyn Peake, M. John Harrison and China Mieville.
DESCRIPTION: From some of the greatest literary minds of our time comes a collection of stories about dangerous women.With an unprecedented lineup of authors, Mysterious Press proudly presents an extraordinary collection of short stories. Lorenzo Carcaterra, Michael Connelly, John Connolly, Jeffery Deaver, Nelson DeMille, J.A. Jance, Andrew Klavan, Elmore Leonard, Laura Lippman, Ed McBain, Jay McInerney, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Perry, Ian Rankin, S.J. Rozan, and Thomas H. Cook combine their talents in a collection which is certain to find a large audience eager to read stories by some of the most distinguished names in the genre.
Jordan Buchanan est? encantada de que su hermano Dylan y su mejor amiga Kate MacKenna se casen. Durante la boda, un exc?ntrico profesor de historia medieval advierte que entre los clanes de la pareja existe una enemistad que se remonta a una antigua disputa que se origin? en Escocia, cuando los Buchanan robaron un codiciado tesoro de los MacKenna…Un maleante poderoso y amenazador, un hombre que esconde un secreto y una inesperada historia de amor son los fascinantes elementos con los que Julie Garwood crea esta novela de suspense rom?ntico. Una obra que encantar? a las fans de la serie Buchanan y que, como se puede leer de forma independiente, le har? ganar a?n m?s seguidoras.
Siedemnastoletnia Megan, c?rka prokuratora Tate'a Colliera, po rozwodzie rodzic?w nie najlepiej radzi sobie z rzeczywisto?ci?. Decyduje si? na wizyt? u znanego psychiatry, doktora Aarona Matthewsa, ale nigdy nie dociera do jego gabinetu. Przera?eni znikni?ciem dziewczyny rodzice wzywaj? na pomoc policj?.W poszukiwania w??cza si? b?yskotliwy detektyw, kt?ry wiele zawdzi?cza ojcu Megan. Szybko orientuje si?, ?e nie chodzi o zwyk?? ucieczk? z domu. B?dzie musia? stawi? czo?a porywaczowi, kt?ry nie zawaha si? przed niczym. Rozpoczyna si? mro??cy krew w ?y?ach wy?cig z czasem i z szale?stwem maniaka religijnego.
Susan Pulaski loves Las Vegas, she is the perfect fit for the city and for her job: unraveling the minds of deviant personalities- until a killer begins decorating Sin City with the horribly disfigured bodies of once beautiful young wom en. White- knuckling her way to the center of the case, Pulaski becomes the key player in a desperate hunt for a killer who believes he has found divine inspiration in the works of Edgar Allan Poe. But even with the assistance of Darcy O'Bannon, a twenty-five-year-old autistic savant astonishing skills, Pulaski is in more danger than she knows. Bernhardt is the author of "Primary Justice" and "Murder One".
New enemies, new romance, and new horrors,Billi's back, and it seems like the Unholy just can't take a hint.Still reeling from the death of her best friend, Kay, Billi's thrust back into action when the Templars are called to investigate werewolf activity. And these werewolves are like nothing Bilil's seen before.They call themselves the Polenitsy – Man Killers. The ancient warrior women of Eastern Europe, supposedly wiped out centuries ago. But now they're out of hiding and on the hunt for a Spring Child – an Oracle powerful enough to blow the volcano at Yellowstone – ...
Stone Barrington investigates the secrets of a CIA officer's suicide in this next thriller in the bestselling series.Stuart Woods's newest bestseller, Dark Harbor, brings us the perfect mix of sexy intrigue and swift suspense that have earned him legions of fans over the years. In this latest thriller, Stone enters the picturesque town Dark Harbor off the coast of Maine, where the shocking deaths of three people have cast a long shadow over this island haven-a locale as mysterious as it is exclusive.Stone Barrington hasn't heard from his cousin, Dick Stone, in years-though he has ...
Grieving over the murder of his family, private detective Charlie "Bird" Parker returns to Maine in search of refuge, and becomes caught up in the murders of a young mother and her child, a crime that could be linked to the troubled history of Parker's own grandfather.
Elena Estes's stubborn risk taking has cost her dearly: her job, her confidence, her career in the Miami PD and, most importantly, the life of a fellow cop. Now in retreat in Florida with only the soothing presence of horses for company, Elena begins to find some peace. But then a visitor comes calling. Twelve year old Molly Seabright believes something terrible has happened to her older stepsister. Erin, eighteen and trouble, is a groom at the Wellington show grounds but hasn't been seen for several days. Elena isn't interested in the case but Molly convinces her to make one trip to the show grounds. What's the harm in asking a few questions? Elena finds herself in a world populated by the ultra rich and the ultra ruthless. She must find out what's happened to Erin before it's too late to save the girl and herself.
It is night in Manhattan. The President of the United States is scheduled to have dinner with an old friend, but in the building across the street, a man has disabled the security and stands at a window, a rifle in his hand.Fortunately, he is not successful – but this is only the beginning. Someone is recruiting a shadowy network of agents with the intention of creating terror. Their range is broad, their identities masked, their methods subtle. White House operative Blake Johnson and his opposite number in British Intelligence, Sean Dillon, set out to trace the source of the havoc, but behind the first man lies another, and behind him another still. And that man is not pleased by the interference. Soon he will target them all: Johnson, Dillon, Dillon’s colleagues. And one of them will fall…
