Laura Grimaldi Libros

Seit Jahren werden in Florenz Liebespaare auf grausame Weise ermordet. Als sich die Polizei bei der Witwe Matilde nach ihrem Sohn Enea erkundigt, nistet sich ein schrecklicher Verdacht in Matilde ein.

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

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN IS RELEASED IN CINEMAS DECEMBER 2019 'A detective novel of winning humour and exhilarating originality.' Sunday Times Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourette's Disease drives him to bark, count, and rip apart our language in startling and original ways. Together with three veterans of the St Vincent's Home for Boys, he works for mobster Frank Minna. But when Frank is fatally stabbed and his widow skips town, Lionel attempts to untangle the threads of the case.

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.

At a grand Reykjavik hotel the doorman has been stabbed in the dingy basement room. As the manager tries to keep the murder under wraps, a glum detective takes up residence in his hotel. As Erlendur quietly surveys the cast of grotesques who populate the hotel, the web of malice, greed and corruption that lies beneath its surface reveals itself.

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.