Olivia studeert aan de universiteit van Cambridge. Ze is mooi, veelbelovend en heeft al twee jaar een relatie met Nick. Maar wat de buitenwereld niet weet, is dat ze een zwaar jeugdtrauma heeft. Als ze samen met Nick naar het meifeest gaat, vindt ze het toegetakelde lichaam van een medestudente: June. Olivia is in shock. Vooral omdat dit niet de eerste moord op de campus is. Haar angsten uit het verleden komen in volle hevigheid terug… Later blijkt dat Olivia alle slachtoffers persoonlijk kende.
November in the West Country, and evening is closing in as DI Jack Caffery arrives to interview the victim of a stolen car. But this is no ordinary theft. The man who's stolen the car was wearing a Santa Claus mask. And, on the back seat, packing away the shopping, was an eleven year-old girl. And she's still missing.
Student Grey Hutchins has come to Tokyo because of an obsession. Vulnerable and on the edge, she is searching for a fragment of film supposedly taken during the notorious Nanking Massacre in 1937 when the Japanese murdered 300,000 civilians. Some say the film doesn't exist. The only man who can help is a survivor of the Massacre. He works at the university, immersed in his books and wary of strangers, he will at first have nothing to do with Grey. Increasingly desperate and alone in this alien city, she accepts a hostess job at an exclusive nightspot catering for businessmen and gangsters and it is there she comes to the attention of one particular man. Ancient, wheel-chair bound and guarded by a terrifying nurse, it is rumoured he relies on a strange elixir for his continued well-being - an elixir others want, at any price. It is from here that will Grey unearth the horror that links the present with the past... With its heady atmosphere of overt violence, lurking fear and sexual tension, TOKYO grabs the reader and refuses to let go until its shattering final pages.
VINTAGE JAPANESE CLASSICS - five masterpieces of Japanese fiction in gorgeous new gift editions. In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives. A young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her philandering, gambling husband. She confesses her crime to her colleagues and unexpectedly, they agree to help. But then the dismembered body parts are discovered, the police start asking questions and more dangerous enemies begin to close in. OUT is a psychologically taut and unflinching foray into the darkest recesses of the human soul, an unsettling reminder that the desperate desire for freedom can make the most ordinary person do the unimaginable.
The government abandoned him. Now they're asking for his help. But they're not going to like his answer. A secret department of Homeland Security is recruiting agents to work undercover in the Middle East, and the director wants his second-in-command, Matt Egan, to bring aboard an old friend, Salam Al Fayed-better known as Fade. He seems perfect for the job: A New Yorker and ex-Navy Seal, he is the son of immigrants and he speaks perfect Arabic. Trouble is, he's "retired;" he got shot in the back in the line of duty, and the U.S. government refused to pay for the risky surgery that could have helped him. Now Fade lives the life of a hermit, walking around with a bullet lodged near his spine and liable to shift at any moment, and the last thing he wants to hear is that his country needs him-least of all, his ex-best friend Matt Egan, whom he sees as responsible for his present condition. Against Egan's wishes, the director forces the issue and tries none too subtly to "persuade" Fade to join the team. But Fade, angry and hopeless, is prepared to fight back at any cost; the ensuing confrontation is a bloody one. And the chase is on-will Matt be able to find his friend-turned-fugitive before Fade can take the ultimate revenge? Fade is a remarkable, take-no-prisoners read from an unparalleled writer at the height of his talents.
La joven reportera Ellie intentará resolver el asesinato de su hermana Andrea acaecido veintitrés años atrás cuando esta tenía quince. Rob un chico proveniente de una acaudalada familia y supuesto culpable que siempre ha proclamado su inocencia acaba de salir de la cárcel. Ellie obtendrá sorprendentes revelaciones acerca del caso entre las que se incluye otro asesinato cometido por Rob al tiempo que debe enfrentarse a su pasado encarnado en la figura de su padre y a su sentimiento de culpa.
The Victim: A teenage girl has been brutally murdered on her way home from school. The cryptic message ' all like her ' is crudely written on her body. The Silence: The dead girl's friends are deeply shocked and upset, but they all refuse to reveal anything about her last movements. Who are they protecting? And what more do they know? The Fear: Headstrong Detective Inspector Zoë Benedict knows exactly how she wants to work this case. But Zoë's own dark past, if exposed, may jeopardize the search for justice . . . and destroy her too. Tense, thrilling and brilliantly original, Hanging Hill reveals the evil side of human nature and the terrible things normal people can do...
En el corazón de Italia, el catedrático de Simbología de Harvard Robert Langdon se ve arrastrado a un mundo terrorífico centrado en una de las obras maestras de la Literatura más imperecederas y misteriosas de la Historia: el Infierno de Dante. Con este telón de fondo, Langdon se enfrenta a un adversario escalofriante y lidia con un acertijo ingenioso en un escenario de arte clásico, pasadizos secretos y ciencia futurista. Apoyándose en el oscuro poema épico de Dante, Langdon, en una carrera contrarreloj, busca respuestas y personas de confianza antes de que el mundo cambie irrevocablemente.
Barcelona. 23 cm. 413 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Cornwell, Patricia Daniels 1956-. Traducción de Laura Paredes. Traducción de: Blow fly .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-672-0855-4
Als Kate Benson de recente vakantiefoto's van vrienden bekijkt, krijgt ze de schrik van haar leven: haar man Charlie staat op de foto. Dat is onmogelijk, hij is namelijk overleden. Maar Kate weet zeker dat het haar grote liefde is die op de achtergrond staat. Ze besluit terug te keren naar de plaats waar hij een jaar eerder op mysterieuze wijze verdronk. Of werd hij vermoord? Haar vrienden verklaren haar voor gek, maar Kate ontdekt de schokkende waarheid.
