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Laura Grimaldi

    1 de enero de 1928 – 3 de julio de 2012
    Voices
    White Teeth
    Motherless Brooklyn * Film Tie In
    Podezření
    Tod einer Anwältin
    Das Monster von Florenz
    • 2010

      Voices

      • 368 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      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.

      Voices
    • 2009

      On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his vehicle. Archie - working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt - is calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a coin. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop (annoyed that Archie's car is blocking his delivery area) comes out and bangs on the window, he gives Archie another chance at life and sets in motion the events of the story. Set in post-war London, this novel of the racial, political, and social upheaval of the last half of the twentieth century follows two families - the Joneses and the Iqbals, both outsiders from within the former British empire - as they make their way in modern England

      White Teeth
    • 2001

      Motherless Brooklyn * Film Tie In

      • 320 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      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.

      Motherless Brooklyn * Film Tie In
    • 2000

      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.

      Hannibal
    • 1996

      The Waterworks

      • 349 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      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.

      The Waterworks
    • 1994

      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.

      Das Monster von Florenz
    • 1992

      Vina

      • 254 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura
      Vina