Laura Grimaldi Libros

Knisternde Spannung und die Wohlanständigkeit der gepflegten Kreise sind die Ingredenzien dieses Thrillers, der fein ziselierte Psychologie mit literarischer Meisterschaft verbindet. In einem Wechselspiel von verdrängten Gefühlen und sich überstürzenden Ereignissen entsteht ein Szenario ohne jeden vermeintlichen Ausweg.

Kriminální román vychází ze skutečné události vražd mileneckých párů ve Florencii.

In life she was a high-profile model. In death she is the focus of a media firestorm that's demanding action from Lucas Davenport. One of his own men is a suspect in her murder. But when a series of bizarre, seemingly unrelated slayings rock the city, Davenport suspects a connection that runs deeper than anyone had imagined --- one that leads to an ingenious killer more ruthless than anyone had feared ...

Lionel Essrog, a.k.a. the Human Freakshow, is a victim of Tourette's syndrome (an uncontrollable urge to shout out nonsense, touch every surface in reach, rearrange objects). Local tough guy Frank Minna hires the adolescent Lionel and three other orphans from St Vincent's Home for Boys and grooms them to become the Minna Men, a fly-by-night detective-agency-cum-limoservice. Then one terrible day Frank is murdered, and Lionel must become a real detective. With crackling dialogue, a dazzling evocation of place, and a plot which mimics Tourette's itself in its freshness and capacity to shock, Motherless Brooklyn is a bravura performance: funny, tense, touching, and extravagant.

Μια ανεξήγητη όσο και επίμονη ανησυχία κυριεύει τη Ματίλντε Μοντερίσπολι όταν παρατηρεί πως η θήκη με τα νυστέρια του συζύγου της έχει μετακινηθεί πάνω στο τζάκι. Αυτό το στοιχείο, σε συνδυασμό με μία απρόσμενη επίσκεψη της αστυνομίας στο σπίτι της, την οδηγεί στο συμπέρασμα πως ο γιος της ο Αινείας -ένας μεσήλικας με παράξενη συμπεριφορά- θα μπορούσε να είναι ο περιώνυμος «δράκος της Φλωρεντίας» που κατακρεουργεί νεαρά ζευγάρια τις νύχτες. Όσο ο δράκος συνεχίζει ανενόχλητος τη δράση του τόσο η Ματίλντε βλέπει να πληθαίνουν τα ενοχοποιητικά στοιχεία κατά του γιου της. Η αρχική υποψία μετατρέπεται σιγά σιγά σε βεβαιότητα και η Ματίλντε αποφασίζει να φτάσει στα άκρα... Μέσα από τα (λιγοστά) λόγια και τις (παρατεταμένες) σιωπές της ηρωίδας της, η Λάουρα Γκριμάλντι δημιουργεί ένα λεπτοδουλεμένο ψυχολογικό θρίλερ που αποτελεί σημείο αναφοράς στο είδος της «μαύρης» λογοτεχνίας.

In the author's words, this novel is an attempt at a comic family epic of little England into which an explosion of ethnic colour is injected. It tells the story of three families, one Indian, one white, one mixed, in North London and Oxford from World War II to the present day.

The third novel in the award-winning Reykjavik Murder Mysteries. The Christmas rush is under way in a big Reykjavik hotel when the police are called to the scene of a murder. The hotel doorman (and long-time resident of its basement) has been stabbed to death. With the hotel fully booked, the manager is desperate to keep the murder under wraps and his reputation intact. Detectives Erlendur and Sigurdur Oli discover that the dead man had had a childhood brush with fame and that two old 45s on which he had sung have become prized collectors’ items. Estranged from his family for decades, why had the man continued to pay secret visits to his boyhood home? As Detective Elinborg investigates a separate case of child abuse, and Erlendur continues to struggle both with his troubled family relationships and the ghosts of his own youth, their parallel stories probe deeper into the riddle of this latest Reykjavik Murder Mystery.

In New York City, 1871, where crime and vice flourish, corruption is king, wealth stands on the shoulders of unspeakable want, there are no limits to larceny. The disinherited son of a millionaire sees his dead father alive and sets off a train of mystery and revelation that takes the reader into the heart of evil.

Una de las novelas mas esperadas de la decada, Hannibal nos introduce ene los meandros del pensamiento de este personaje hipnotico, ambiguo, capaz de las mas inimaginables vilezas y de los gestos mas sublimes, un ser que nos arrastra, aun a pesar nuestro, a los abismos del terror.

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