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    Deep Water: Just What Kind of Mother Are You?
    1st to die
    7th Heaven
    Solsticio de invierno
    10th Anniversary
    3rd degree
    • Invisible Girl

      • 432 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      When Saffyre Maddox was ten, something terrible happened, and she's carried the pain of it ever since. The man who she thought was going to heal her didn't, and now she hides, learning his secrets, invisible in the shadows. Owen Pick is invisible too. He's never had a girlfriend; he's never even had a friend. Nobody sees him. Nobody cares. But when Saffyre goes missing from opposite his house on Valentine's night, suddenly the whole world is looking at Owen. Accusing him, holding him responsible for Saffyre's disappearance

      Invisible Girl2022
      3,8
    • A powerful, compelling, vividly written Australian crime novel, perfect for fans of Peter May and Jane Harper

      Scrublands2021
      4,1
    • The Shape of Night

      • 368 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      We've all done things we're ashamed of... When Ava arrives at her summer escape, Brodie's Watch, she thinks she's found the perfect place to hide from her past. All she wants is to forget. But the old house on the hill both welcomes and repels her, and Ava quickly begins to suspect she is not alone. Either that or she is losing her mind. The house is full of secrets, but is the creeping sense of danger coming from within its walls, or from somewhere else entirely?

      The Shape of Night2020
      3,2
    • Award-winning author Elizabeth George delivers another masterpiece of suspense in her Inspector Lynley series: Lynley and his pugnacious and deeply loyal Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers find themselves up against one of the most sinister murder cases they have ever encountered.When a Member of Parliament shows up at New Scotland Yard requesting an investigation into the suicide of the son of one of his constituents in the beautiful town of Ludlow, the Assistant Commissioner sees two opportunities in this request: the first is to have an MP owing him a favour, and the second is to get rid of Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, whose career at the Met has been hanging by a thread for quite some time. So he assigns Havers to the case and for good measure partners her with the one person who shares his wish to see the back of her, Detective Chief Superintendent Isabelle Ardery.But Ardery has her own difficulties. She is not happy to be sent away from London and as a result is in a rush to return. This causes her to overlook things, important things, and prevents her from uncovering an earlier crime that set everything in motion.

      The Punishment She Deserves : An Inspector Lynley Novel: 172019
      4,1
    • 14th Deadly Sin

      • 336 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      With San Francisco under siege and every cop a suspect, the Women's Murder Club must risk their lives to save the city-and each other. With a beautiful baby daughter and a devoted husband, Detective Lindsay Boxer can safely say that her life has never been better. Things seem to be going well for a change when all the members of the Women's Murder Club gather to celebrate San Francisco Medical Examiner Claire Washburn's birthday. But the party is cut short when Lindsay is called to a gruesome crime scene, where a woman has been murdered in broad daylight. As Lindsay investigates, shocking video footage of another crime surfaces: the video is so horrific that it shakes the city to its core. Their faces obscured by masks, the cold blooded criminals on the tape could be anyone-and now all of Lindsay's co-workers are suspects. As a rash of violence sweeps through San Francisco, and public fear and anger grows, Lindsay and her friends must risk their lives in the name of justice, before it's too late. With shocking twists and riveting suspense, 14th Deadly Sin proves yet again that when it comes to suspense fiction, "nobody does it better" than James Patterson (Jeffrey Deaver).

      14th Deadly Sin2018
      4,0
    • Bonfire

      • 288 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      In Abby Williams Ritter has created an appealingly feisty yet vulnerable heroin...An excellent debut The Times

      Bonfire2018
      3,5
    • No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell delivers the twenty-fourth engrossing thriller in her high-stakes series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Someone is following you... One summer evening in New England, two young girls stumble upon a body. Forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta arrives at the scene to find a young woman has been attacked with almost superhuman force. Someone is taunting you... Meanwhile, people close to Scarpetta start receiving suspicious calls. Could they be linked to Scarpetta's anonymous cyber stalker, Tailend Charlie? Someone wants to destroy you... A second death shocks Scarpetta to her core. Because analysis of the body shows a material that doesn't exist on earth. And it's clear that someone, or something, is coming for her, and is hell-bent on creating chaos...

      Chaos2016
      3,6
    • The No. 1 bestselling series starring medical examiner Dr. Kay Scarpetta.

      Depraved heart2015
      3,6
    • Kay Scarpetta 22. La marca de la sangre

      • 432 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      La doctora Kay Scarpetta se ve envuelta en la investigación de un homicidio en Cambridge, donde un profesor de música es asesinado con una precisión aterradora. Al mismo tiempo, descubre monedas misteriosas en su casa. La búsqueda de un francotirador en serie revela una verdad sorprendente relacionada con su sobrina Lucy.

      Kay Scarpetta 22. La marca de la sangre2014
      3,5
    • Un Acto De Maldad

      • 688 páginas
      • 25 horas de lectura

      Cuando el profesor Azhar descubre que su hija de nueve años ha desaparecido de su casa en Londres junto con casi todas sus pertenencias, no tiene más opción que pedir ayuda a su vecina y amiga, la sargento Barbara Havers. Pronto se revela que la madre se ha llevado a la niña a Italia, a Lucca, para seguir a su nuevo amor. En un tira y afloja entre sentimientos y razón, Barbara se compromete a investigar el caso de manera oficiosa, lo que la lleva a problemas con sus superiores debido a sus ausencias injustificadas. Meses después, la niña desaparece realmente de un mercado local, atrayendo la atención de los medios. Scotland Yard es llamado, y Thomas Lynley, mentor de Barbara, se encarga de investigar el probable secuestro. Mientras tanto, Havers arriesga su carrera y mucho más, cuestionándose qué oculta Azhar tras la imagen del padre afligido. Junto a un obstinado inspector italiano, Lynley y Havers deben enfrentar una situación delicada, marcada por cuestiones raciales, dificultades lingüísticas y prejuicios culturales, que se complica aún más con el misterio de una muerte misteriosa.

      Un Acto De Maldad2014
      3,7
    • There were four of us down there for the first thirty-two months and eleven days of our captivity. And then, very suddenly and without warning, there were three. Even though the fourth person hadn't made any noise at all in several months, the room got very quiet when she was gone. For a long time after that, we sat in silence, in the dark, each of us wondering what this meant for her and for us, and which of us would be the next in the box.

      The never list2014
      3,5
    • Cross Fire

      • 372 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Wedding bells ring Detective Alex Cross and Bree's wedding plans are put on hold when Alex is called to the scene of the perfectly executed assassination of two of Washington D.C.'s most corrupt: a dirty congressmen and an underhanded lobbyist. Next, the elusive gunman begins picking off other crooked politicians, sparking a blaze of theories--is the marksman a hero or a vigilante? A murderer returns The case explodes, and the FBI assigns agent Max Siegel to the investigation. As Alex and Siegel battle over jurisdiction, the murders continue. It becomes clear that they are the work of a professional who has detailed knowledge of his victims' movements--information that only a Washington insider could possess. Caught in a lethal cross fire As Alex contends with the sniper, Siegel, and the wedding, he receives a call from his deadliest adversary, Kyle Craig. The Mastermind is in D.C. and will not relent until he has eliminated Cross and his family for good. With a supercharged blend of action, deception, and suspense, Cross Fire is James Patterson's most visceral and exciting Alex Cross novel ever.

      Cross Fire2014
      4,1
    • Deep Water: Just What Kind of Mother Are You?

      • 384 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      The basis for DEEP WATER, now a major ITV TV series, starring Anna Friel. 'One of the most hypnotically gripping books I've read in a long, long time.' TESS GERRITSEN Your friend's child is missing. It's your fault. No family is perfect. A husband, three children and a full-time job, so many plates to keep spinning. No wonder you forgot you were supposed to be looking after your friend's daughter. But no one has seen her since yesterday. And she's not the first to go missing from your small town. So who's hiding something? 'She writes with a singular voice and a passion that roars off the page . . . With a sharp, double-twist ending it announces Daly as a potential star' Daily Mail 'Fiendishly addictive' Guardian 'Riveting! Daly plunges straight into the heart of every parent's worst nightmare with page-turning results' Lisa Gardner 'The sort of book that causes you to lose half a day without even noticing' Elizabeth Haynes, author of Into the Darkest Corner

      Deep Water: Just What Kind of Mother Are You?2014
      4,1
    • Polvo

      • 464 páginas
      • 17 horas de lectura

      La doctora forense Kay Scarpetta regresa de Connecticut, donde fue testigo de uno de los asesinatos más masivos en la historia de Estados Unidos. En el campus del Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts, se encuentra un cuerpo envuelto en una extraña sábana. La víctima es la ingeniera Gail Shipton, vista por última vez en un bar la noche anterior. Se descubre que fue asesinada semanas antes de un importante juicio contra su exgerente financiero. La doctora Scarpetta sospecha que no es una coincidencia y teme que el asesinato esté relacionado con su brillante sobrina Lucy. A primera vista, la causa de la muerte de Gail no es clara; su cuerpo está cubierto de un fino polvo que brilla en colores vivos bajo luz ultravioleta. Alguien ha colocado el cuerpo en una posición simbólica. Scarpetta intuye que el caso está vinculado a otros asesinatos recientes en el condado de Washington. El asesino de Gail los lleva a un mundo de violencia y traición, disfrutando de un macabro espectáculo ante su público.

      Polvo2014
      3,6
    • I, Alex Cross

      • 374 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Determined to capture the psychopath responsible for murdering his niece, Alex Cross discovers that the young woman was among a dangerous group of people and was not the only one to have disappeared, a case that draws Alex into the heart of an underworld fantasy club, in a book by a best-selling author.

      I, Alex Cross2013
      4,0
    • 10th Anniversary

      • 512 páginas
      • 18 horas de lectura

      Detective Lindsay Boxer finally gets married. But a missing newborn and a series of violent attacks push the Womens Murder Club back to full throttle before the wedding gifts are even unwrapped.

      10th Anniversary2012
      4,2
    • Red Mist

      • 501 páginas
      • 18 horas de lectura

      The nineteenth book in the Kay Scarpetta series, from No. 1 bestselling author Patricia Cornwell. 'America's most chilling writer of crime fiction' The Times Kay Scarpetta has arranged to meet an inmate at the high-security Georgia Prison for Women. The prisoner is a convicted sex offender and the mother of a vicious and diabolically brilliant killer. Against advice, Scarpetta is determined to hear this woman out - she believes she may hold some answers to the murder of her former deputy. But soon she finds connections to a string of grisly killings. As she learns more, Scarpetta is compelled to conclude that this is only the beginning of a terrifying terrain of conspiracy on an international scale. And she is the only one who can stop it . . . Praise for the groundbreaking series: 'One of the best crime writers writing today' Guardian 'Devilishly clever' Sunday Times 'The top gun in this field' Daily Telegraph 'Forget the pretenders. Cornwell reigns' Mirror 'The Agatha Christie of the DNA age' Express

      Red Mist2012
      3,8
    • The postcard killers. A novel

      • 464 páginas
      • 17 horas de lectura

      Europe is stunning in the summer . . . but NYPD detective Jacob Kanon isn't there for the beauty. He's on a mission: to track down his daughter's killer. NYPD detective Jacob Kanon is on a tour of Europe's most gorgeous cities. But the sights aren't what draw him-he sees each museum, each cathedral, and each cafe through the eyes of his daughter's killer. Kanon's daughter, Kimmy, and her boyfriend were murdered while on vacation in Rome. Since then, young couples in Paris, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, and Stockholm have been found dead. Little connects the murders, other than a postcard to the local newspaper that precedes each new victim. Now Kanon teams up with the Swedish reporter, Dessie Larsson, who has just received a postcard in Stockholm-and they think they know where the next victims will be. With relentless twists and unstoppable action, The Postcard Killers may be James Patterson's most vivid and compelling thriller yet.

      The postcard killers. A novel2011
      3,8
    • The Scarpetta Factor

      • 494 páginas
      • 18 horas de lectura

      It is the week before Christmas and Dr Kay Scarpetta has offered her services pro bono to New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. But in no time at all, her increased visibility seems to precipitate a string of dramatic and unsettling events. She is asked live on the air about the sensational case of Hannah Starr, who has vanished and is presumed dead. Moments later during the same broadcast, she receives a startling call-in from a former psychiatric patient of Benton Wesley’s.When she returns after the show to the apartment where she and Benton live, she finds a suspicious package - possibly a bomb - waiting for her at the front desk. Soon the apparent threat on Scarpetta’s life finds her embroiled in a deadly plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom Scarpetta's niece Lucy seems to have shared a secret past….

      The Scarpetta Factor2011
      3,7
    • The Front

      • 240 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      "And in The Front, peril is what comes to them all. D. A. Lamont has a special job for Garano. As part of a new public relations campaign concerning the dangers of declining neighborhoods, she's sending him to Watertown to come up with a "drama," and she thinks she knows just the case that will serve. Garano is very skeptical, because he knows that Watertown is also the home base for a loose association of municipal police departments called the FRONT, set up so that they don't have to be so dependent on the state - much to Lamont's anger. He senses a much deeper agenda here - but he has no idea just how deep it goes. In the days that follow, he'll find that Lamont's task, and the places it leads him, will resemble a house of mirrors - everywhere he turns, he's not quite sure if what he's seeing is true."--BOOK JACKET.

      The Front2011
      3,1
    • Il silenzio della musa

      • 384 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Copenhague, 1905. Severine Riis, esposa del pintor danés Viktor Riis, posa para él, siempre de espaldas. Para sobrellevar el silencio de las sesiones, comienza a escribir un diario con sus reflexiones íntimas. Bucarest, 1985. Joen Alsted, embajador de Dinamarca, hereda seis cuadros de Viktor y se relaciona con la familia Moore, donde su hija Freya cautiva a Sophia, su esposa, quien anhela ser madre. Londres, 2005. Tras la muerte de su marido, Sophia decide vender las obras de Riis, y el joven historiador del arte Peter Finch se encarga de su documentación. Freya, ahora casi treintañera, es invitada a la casa de Sophia, donde descubre los diarios de Severine. Esto desata una investigación sobre la vida y obra de Riis, con consecuencias inesperadas. Paula Vene Smith presenta una historia cautivadora en la que seis cuadros enigmáticos impactan la vida de varios personajes a través del tiempo. La autora explora la relación entre arte y vida, creando un caleidoscopio de emociones que atrapa al lector desde el inicio.

      Il silenzio della musa2010
      3,0
    • The 6th target

      • 328 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      The next thrilling novel in the Women's Murder Club series. After a dramatic shoot out at a ferry dock, Detective Lindsay Boxer is called to the scene to find that three people have been killed, and one of her closest friends, Claire, has been shot and lies bleeding, whilst the murderer is on the run. Lindsay promises Claire that she'll hunt down this killer and bring him to justice, but sadly, it doesn't prove to be so straightforward. A man comes forward claiming to be the ferry murderer and Yuki Castellano, one of the Women's Murder Club, prepares to set out the charges against him. But it's not all over, a child has been abducted and is still missing. To increase the mystery and confusion, there are a series of suspicious and unexplained deaths in the building where Cindy lives - another member of the Women's Murder Club is in danger. Lindsay discovers yet more abducted children, and the hunt begins in earnest to find the children.

      The 6th target2010
      4,1
    • Join the Women's Murder Club on an exhilarating thrill ride as love and murder test their friendships like never before. Someone is killing the richest people in the city-and the Women's Murder Club will pay a high price for hunting him. At the party of the year, San Francisco's most glamorous couple is targeted by a killer-and it's the perfect murder. While Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the high-profile killings, a saintly street preacher is brutally executed. Reporter Cindy Thomas inquires into this neglected case and discovers the victim may have had very dark secrets. As the search for two criminals tests the limits of the Women's Murder Club, Lindsay sees sparks fly between Cindy and Lindsay's partner, Detective Rich Conklin. The Club now faces its toughest challenge: Will love destroy all that the four friends have built?

      The 8th Confession2010
      4,1
    • Scarpetta

      • 500 páginas
      • 18 horas de lectura

      Leaving behind her forensic pathology practice in South Carolina, Kay Scarpetta takes up an assignment in New York City, where the NYPD has asked her to examine an injured patient in a psychiatric ward. The handcuffed and chained patient, Oscar Bane, has specifically asked for her, and when she literally has her gloved hands on him, he begins to talk - and the story he has to tell turns out to be one of the most bizarre she has ever heard. He says his injuries were sustained in the course of a murder ... that he did not commit. Is Bane a criminally insane stalker who has fixed on Scarpetta? Or is his paranoid tale true, and it is he who is being spied on, followed and stalked by the actual killer? The only thing Scarpetta knows for certain is that a woman has been tortured and murdered - and that more violent deaths will follow...

      Scarpetta2010
      3,8
    • 7th Heaven

      • 384 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Two cases have pushed Detective Lindsay Boxer to the limit. A string of fatal arson attacks have broken out in San Fransisco. The targets have one thing in common: they are all rich, successful, married couples. With four couples dead, Lindsay is determined to put a stop to the killings and trace the murderer.

      7th Heaven2009
      4,1
    • London Bridges

      • 416 páginas
      • 15 horas de lectura

      Alex Cross must face the world's most dangerous agents, criminals, and assassins. The fate of the world rests in his hands. In broad desert daylight, a mysterious platoon of soldiers evacuates the entire population of Sunrise Valley, Nevada. Minutes later, a huge bomb detonates a hundred feet above the ground and lays waste to homes, cars, and playgrounds: a town annihilated in an instant. The Russian supercriminal known as the Wolf claims responsibility for the blast. Alex Cross is on vacation in San Francisco with his girlfriend, Jamilla Hughes, when he gets the call. World leaders have just four days to prevent an unimaginable cataclysm. Racing down the hairpin turns of the Riviera in the most unforgettable finale James Patterson has ever written, he confronts the truth of the Wolf's identity, a revelation that even Cross himself may be unable to survive.

      London Bridges2008
      4,0
    • Conviction

      • 500 páginas
      • 18 horas de lectura

      "When the bady of eleven year old Thuy Sen is found in San Francisco bay, the police qwiftly charge Rennell and Payton Price with her grisly murder. A twelve person jury, helped along by an incompetent lawyer for the defence, is quick to find the brothers guilty - and to sentence them both to die for their crimes.

      Conviction2008
      3,9
    • A beautiful summer ́s evening in a Kent field and around their two caravans a group of strawberry pickers celebrates a birthday. An idyllic scence. But this is a group leading dangerous lives - exploitative employers, British regulations and gang masters with guns will all threaten them as they take to the caravan road to find their destinies.

      Two Caravans2008
      3,6
    • El libro de los muertos

      • 440 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      Bestseller Cornwell's 15th novel to feature Dr. Kay Scarpetta (after 2005's Predator) delivers her trademark grisly crime scenes, but lacks the coherence and emotional resonance of earlier books. Soon after relocating to Charleston, S.C., to launch a private forensics lab, Scarpetta is asked to consult on the murder of U.S. tennis star Drew Martin, whose mutilated body was found in Rome. Contradictory evidence leaves Scarpetta, the Italian carabinieri and Scarpetta's lover, forensic psychologist Benton Wesley, stumped. But when she discovers unsettling connections between Martin's murder, the body of an unidentified South Carolina boy and her old nemesis, the maniacal psychiatrist Dr. Marilyn Self, Scarpetta encounters a killer as deadly as any she's ever faced. With her recent switch from first- to third-person narration, Cornwell loses what once made her series so compelling: a window into the mind of a strong, intelligent woman holding her own in a profession dominated by men. Here, the abrupt shifts in point of view slow the momentum, and the reader flounders in excessive forensic minutiae. Reed Business Information

      El libro de los muertos2008
      3,7
    • The big bad wolf

      • 432 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered - a predator known only as "the Wolf. "Alex Cross's first case since joining the FBI has his new colleagues stymied. Across the country, men and women are being kidnapped in broad daylight and then disappearing completely. These people are not being taken for ransom, Alex realizes. They are being bought and sold. And it looks as if a shadowy figure called the Wolf - a master criminal who has brought a new reign of terror to organize crime - is behind this business in which ordinary men and women are sold as slaves. Even as he admires the FBI's vast resources, Alex grows impatient with the Bureau's clumsiness and caution when it is time to move. A lone wolf himself, he has to go out on his own in order to track the Wolf and try to rescue some of the victims while they are still alive. As the case boils over, Alex is in hot water at home too. His ex-fiancee, Christine Johnson, comes back into his life - and not for the reasons Alex might have hoped.

      The big bad wolf2007
      4,0
    • Mamá

      • 384 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Nikki Eaton, single, thirty-one, sexually liberated, and economically self-supporting, has never particularly thought of herself as a daughter. Yet, following the unexpected loss of her mother, she undergoes a remarkable transformation during a tumultuous year that brings stunning horror, sorrow, illumination, wisdom, and even—from an unexpected source—a nurturing love.

      Mamá2007
      3,6
    • A 'one-off' from the best-selling creator of the Dr Kay Scarpetta series, based on the serialisation in the New York Times. Moving between the chill of Cambridge, Massachusetts and the sultry humidity of Knoxville, Tennessee, Winston Garano, a police investigator, is instructed to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. Although Win reckons there are many more pressing current cases which should have higher priority, he gets on with the task, unaware of the can of worms he will prise open. With her hallmark qualities of deft characterisation, perfect research and tense story-telling, Patricia Cornwell has created a novella which entertains, intrigues and satisfies.

      At Risk2007
      3,4
    • Saggi: I bambini non sono pigri

      • 313 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      "Definire "pigro" un bambino significa non aver capito nulla di lui." Quello che spesso chiamiamo "pigrizia" è in realtà uno stato psicofisico che ha delle ragioni accertabili, molto simili a ingranaggi inceppati, ad anelli deboli della catena che regola il buon funzionamento della mente e del corpo di ognuno di noi. MeI Levine, esperto dei problemi dell'apprendimento, individua otto cause di scarso rendimento, e le illustra una per una con il racconto di un caso esemplare: disfunzione motoria; difficoltà di memoria a lungo termine; scarsa capacità di controllo dell'"energia mentale"; impulsività e frenesia sociale; inadeguatezza linguistico-espressiva; difficoltà di ideazione e di elaborazione di pensiero critico e creativo; problemi di organizzazione. Che fare una volta individuata l'origine del problema? Il passo successivo, come ci mostra Levine, è stabile alcune modalità di intervento, in grado di esaltare i punti di forza della personalità di ciascuno e spingerlo così ad affrontare ogni ostacolo con l'energia ritrovata dell'ottimismo. La pigrizia non è un male incurabile. Come ci insegna questo libro, semplicemente non esiste. Esistono piuttosto tecniche e strategie per valorizzare e potenziare tutti quegli aspetti che consentono ai presunti pigri di sfruttare al meglio conoscenze, abilità e doti peculiari. Facendo di ogni bambino l'eroe di uno sforzo produttivo e felice.

      Saggi: I bambini non sono pigri2005
    • Bestsellers - 1554: Calliphora

      • 416 páginas
      • 15 horas de lectura

      È impossibile, nella carriera di un detective, dimenticare il disordinato, incessante movimento delle mosche necrofaghe su un cadavere umano. Uno spettacolo orribile che prima o poi un poliziotto è costretto a contemplare. Adesso le mosche Calliphora potrebbero essere un lontano ricordo per Kay Scarpetta che, lasciati Richmond e l'Istituto di medicina legale della Virginia, si è trasferita a Delray Beach, in Florida. Un lavoro da consulente free lance, decisamente più tranquillo. Ma gli spettri, si sa, ritornano. La strana morte in Louisiana di una ricca signora, apparentemente per overdose, ben presto mostra inquietanti collegamenti con la scomparsa di numerose donne nella zona di Baton Rouge.

      Bestsellers - 1554: Calliphora2005
      3,2
    • 3rd degree

      • 384 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      The blockbusting new thriller in the Women's Murder Club series from number one bestselling author James Patterson

      3rd degree2005
      4,5
    • En un laboratorio de maxima seguridad, aparece asesinado un cientifico con un extrauo simbolo grabado a fuego en su pecho. Para el profesor Robert Langdon no hay duda: los Illuminati, los hombres enfrentados a la Iglesia desde los tiempos de Galileo, han

      Ángeles y demonios2005
      4,0
    • 1st to die

      • 480 páginas
      • 17 horas de lectura

      As the only woman homicide inspector in San Francisco, Lindsay Boxer has to be tough. But nothing has prepared her for the brutal maniac who has begun a killing spree - slaughtering newlywed couples. Lindsay is sickened by the deaths, but her determination to bring the murderer to justice is threatened by a personal tragedy. So she turns to Claire Washburn, a coroner, Cindy Thomas, a journalist, and Jill Bernhardt, an attorney, for help with both crises, and the Women's Murder Club is born.

      1st to die2004
      4,1
    • Jack Mullen is a driven student of the law. His brother Peter is a servant of the rich, parking the cars of the Hamptons' elite-and perhaps satisfying their more intimate needs as well. Then Peter's body is found on the beach. Jack knows the drowning was no accident, but someone's unlimited power and money have bought the cops, the judges, the system. Now Jack is learning a lesson in justice he never got in law school ... and his astonishing plan to beat the billionaires will have you reeling-and cheering-to the very last page.

      The Beach House2004
      3,9
    • Vengador

      • 366 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      Attorney Calvin Dexter hangs his shingle in a quiet New Jersey town, has a reasonably successful practice, and takes the hills strong while triathalon training. But Dexter is no ordinary man. The summer before he goes to college, Ricky Colenso travels to Bosnia to volunteer as an aid worker. A few weeks later, he disappears and is never heard from again. A family grieves and is offered little hope--in the fog of that horrible time and place, the killer, too, has vanished. Or so it would seem. For in a world that has forgotten right and wrong, there are few like Cal Dexter who can settle the score. And so, years later, a worldwide chase is on and Dexter begins to draw a net around the killer. But this time CIA agent Paul Devereux must find a way to stop Dexter before his quest for vengeance throws the world into chaos. A heart-stopping novel of murder and mystery, double-cross and triple-cross, old loyalties and new hatreds, Avenger has all of Frederick Forsyth's page-turning trademarks.

      Vengador2004
      4,0
    • Chris Paget'S Well Ordered World Is Blown Apart By His Love For His Assistant, Terri, In The Sequel To Degree Of Guilt. Terri'S Ex Husband, Ricky, Is Determined To Destroy Them Both And Instigates A Child Custody Battle For Terri'S Four-Year Old Daughter, Accusing Terri Of Neglect And Paget'S Teenage Son Of Sexual Molestation. Then Ricky Is Murdered And Paget Finds Himself The Principle Suspect, On Trial For His Life. Eyes Of A Child Demonstrates Why North Patterson Is An International Bestselling Author. The Pace Is Superb, The Court Room Scenes Unsurpassable, But Most Importantly The Compelling Characters, Particularly Ricky, Terri'S Cunning And Amoral Husband, Show North Patterson As One Of The Strongest Storytellers Writing Today.

      Eyes of a Child2003
      4,0
    • Solsticio de invierno

      • 503 páginas
      • 18 horas de lectura

      Allí, el destino la une a Oscar Blundell, un hombre sumido en la mayor desolación tras perder a su esposa y su hija. Juntos, Elfrida y Oscar se trasladan a Escocia, donde el paisaje, la gente, el clima y el whisky se aúnan para crear un ambiente mágico donde el amor es posible a todas las edades y ante las circunstancias más adversas.

      Solsticio de invierno2002
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    • Tutto ha inizio al Deep Water Terminal di Richmond, quando, in un container di un cargo proveniente da Anversa, viene rinvenuto il cadavere di un uomo in avanzato stato di decomposizione. L'autopsia, eseguita da Kay Scarpetta, non riesce a stabilire con certezza la causa di morte dell'uomo e la polizia non è in grado di identificarlo dai pochi effetti personali ritrovati. Unica traccia ritrovata, quella che potrebbe essere la firma dell'assassino su uno scatolone all'interno del container: Loup-Garou. Sarà questa misteriosa firma a portare Kay Scarpetta oltreoceano, in Francia, dove l'Interpol sta da qualche tempo indagando su una serie di raccapriccianti omicidi riconducibili appunto a Loup-Garou.

      Oscar bestsellers - 1151: Cadavere non identificato: Traduzione di Annamaria Biavasco2001
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    • At the peak of his legal career, Tony Lord is suddenly called to defend his friend, Sam Robb, who is charged with murder. However, Lord has regrets about returning to Lake City, Ohio, where he too, was suspected of murder. Yet, knowing the pain of unjust accusation, he feels compelled to help Sam.

      Silent witness2000
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    • Virginia's chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta matches wits with a wily killer who uses fire to mask his crimes. The case begins with a fire in which many horses die and the embers yield a human body

      Point of Origin2000
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    • Star Wars Young Jedi Knights: Die Verlorenen

      • 211 páginas
      • 8 horas de lectura

      Während eines Besuchs auf ihrem Heimatplaneten Coruscant treffen Jacen und Jaina ihren alten Freund Zekk wieder. Er ist ein Waisenjunge, in dem ungeahnte Fähigkeiten stecken. Das bleibt auch einem skrupellosen Wesen nicht verborgen, dass weiß, wie verlockend die dunkle Seite der Macht für jemandem ist, der nichts zu verlieren hat...

      Star Wars Young Jedi Knights: Die Verlorenen1999
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    • A “gem of a novel” that sends up marriage, academia, and literary stardom, by the New York Times–bestselling author of They May Not Mean To, But They Do (Publishers Weekly). In this delightful novel from an author who “has been favored in so many ways by the muse of comedy,” we meet Margaret Nathan, the brilliant but forgetful author of an unlikely bestseller (The New York Review of Books). Happily married to a benevolently egotistical, slightly dull but sexy professor, Margaret seems blessed—until she finds herself seduced by an eighteenth-century novel she discovers in the library. Wrapped in its lascivious world, Margaret begins to imitate its protagonist, embarking on a hilarious jaunt around Manhattan in search of renewed passion. Will she find fulfillment through her escapades or settle for her husband? Part romantic comedy, part intellectual parody, Rameau’s Niece is wise, affecting, and thoroughly entertaining.

      Rameau's Niece1998
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    • Star Wars. Jedi search

      • 354 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      As the war between the Republic and the scattered remnants of the Empire continues, two children--the Jedi twins--will come into their powers in a universe on the brink of vast changes and challenges. In this time of turmoil and discovery, an extraordinary new Star Wars saga begins.... While Luke Skywalker takes the first step toward setting up an academy to train a new order of Jedi Knights, Han Solo and Chewbacca are taken prisoner on the planet Kessel and forced to work in the fathomless depths of a spice mine. But when Hans and Chewie break away, they flee desperately to a secret imperial research laboratory surrounded by a cluster of black holes--and go from one danger to a far greater one.... On Kessel, Luke picks up the trail of his two friends, only to come face to face with a weapon so awesome, it can wipe out an entire solar system. It is a death ship called the Sun Crusher, invented by a reclusive genius and piloted by none other than Han himself...

      Star Wars. Jedi search1996
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    • Luke Skywalker finds his academy threatened by untold dangers when his most talented and rebellious student, Kyp Durron, delves dangerously into the Dark Side of the Force, aided by an evil and deadly enemy. Original.

      Star Wars. The Jedi Academy vol. 2 : Dark Apprentice1996
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    • Star Wars: The Courtship of Princess Leia

      • 400 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Seeking rich, powerful allies to bring into the Rebel Alliance and a new home planet for the refugees of her native Alderaan, Princess Leia considers a proposal that could tip the balance of power against the evil Empire. The Hapes Consortium of 63 worlds is ruled by the Queen Mother, who wants Leia to marry her son, the dashing and wealthy Prince Isolder. Han Solo has always dreamed of marrying Leia himself, and now he makes a desperate last gamble to win her back. Soon he, Isolder, Luke Skywalker and Artoo will be at the center of an adventure leading to an awesome treasure, a group of Force-trained "witches," and a showdown with an invincible foe. Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!

      Star Wars: The Courtship of Princess Leia1995
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