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J.J. de Wit

    One for the money
    The Mephisto Club
    Killer Smile
    Down River
    Jack McEvoy Serie - 1: De dichter
    The Last Coyote
    • The Last Coyote

      • 442 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      LAPD detective Harry Bosch is down on his luck - his house is condemned in the aftermath of the earthquake, his girlfriend has left him, and he has been suspended for attacking his superior officer. To occupy time he examines the old case files covering a murder which took place on October 28th 1961. The victim was Marjorie Phillips Lowe - his mother...The case forces Bosch to confront the demons of the past, and as he digs deeper into the case, he discovers a trail of cover-ups that lead to the high-ups in the Hollywood Hills...

      The Last Coyote
      4,3
    • Jack McEvoy Serie - 1: De dichter

      • 420 páginas
      • 15 horas de lectura

      Denver crime-beat reporter Jack McEvoy specializes in violent death. So when his homicide detective brother kills himself, McEvoy copes in the only way he knows how--he decides to write the story. But his research leads him to suspect a serial killer is at work--a devious murderer who's killing cops and leaving a trail of poetic clues. It's the news story of a lifetime, if he can get the story without losing his life.

      Jack McEvoy Serie - 1: De dichter
      4,1
    • Down River

      • 384 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Adam Chase has spent the last five years in New York trying to wipe out the memory of his family's rejection. Until a phone call from his best friend Summons him back to Red Water Farm. When he left North Carolina, Adam left for good. Now he has no choice but to return - and being remembered as a murderer doesn't help. Within hours of arriving, Adam is beaten up, accosted and has to face the hostility of those closest to him, including Grace, the young woman he cannot forget. Nothing has changed. And then people start turning up dead. For a man only just acquitted of murder, Adam's homecoming does not go well. And he has a dark streaks, a history of violence. Everyone doubts. No one trusts him. And as the past threatnes to overshadow the present, Adam becomes the prime suspect for the new murders. He alone can clear his name.

      Down River
      4,0
    • Killer Smile

      • 400 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Young lawyer Mary DiNunzio finds her life in jeopardy when she digs too closely into the suicide of an Italian-American in a World War II internment camp, and starts receiving ominous threats.

      Killer Smile
      3,7
    • The Mephisto Club

      • 448 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      When a brutal murder occurs, Medical Examiner Maura Isles and Detective Jane Rizzoli link the victim to a club of scholars who believe that Satan lives among us.

      The Mephisto Club
      3,9
    • One for the money

      • 320 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      Stephanie Plum is is a failed lingerie buyer, newly turned bond agent. Her first job is to find Morrelli, a policeman/murder suspect on the run and her childhood sweetheart. Real menace enters the story when Stephanie attracts the psychopathic attentions of boxer Benito Ramirez.

      One for the money
      3,8
    • El jurado se ha retirado a deliberar. Marta Ritchter, la abogada defensora, puede estar satisfecha: su defendido, el acaudalado Elliot Sterre, procesado por la muerte de un mendigo quedará libre de cargos. Entonces Sterre, mimado por la fortuna y apasionado del estratega chino Sun Tzu, suelta la bomba, en realida mató al mendigo deliberadamente, no en defensa propia como había asegurado. Lo asesinó, lo cual convierte a Marta en responsable de un flagrante error judicial que quizás no tenga tiempo de resolver..

      Torpe justicia
      3,7
    • XPD

      • 464 páginas
      • 17 horas de lectura

      This novel is constructed around the supposition that Winston Churchill secretly met with Adolf Hitler in 1940 to discuss the terms of a British surrender. Forty years later, Hitler's personal minutes of the discussions are threatening to surface.

      XPD
      3,8
    • El jardinero fiel

      • 537 páginas
      • 19 horas de lectura

      Cerca del lago Turkana, en el norte de Kenia, Tessa Quayle, una mujer joven y bella, es asesinada. Su supuesto amante africano y compañero de viaje, un médico al servicio de una ONG, ha desaparecido del escenario del crimen. El marido de Tessa, Justin, aficionado a la jardinería y diplomático destinado en la embajada británica de Nairobi, emprende su particular odisea para descubrir a los asesinos y sus motivos. Sus indagaciones lo llevan al Foreign Office de Londres, a varios países de Europa, a Canadá y de nuevo a África, a lo más profundo del sur de Sudán, y por último al lugar mismo en que Tessa murió. En el camino encontrará terror, violencia, situaciones cómicas, conspiraciones e información. Pero su mayor descubrimiento será la mujer a la que apenas tuvo tiempo de amar

      El jardinero fiel
      3,7