A reckoning has come to the City of Angels... Karen Garcia is missing and her father doesn't trust the cops - he wants someone he knows on the case. So he enlists the help of Elvis Cole and Joe Pike. It seems that Karen is the latest victim of a distinctive serial killer and the police are determined to pin her death, and four others, on the witness who found her body. Cole doesn't believe the man has the guts to murder, and with his partner and the police at each other's throats, it's down to him to find the connection that will reveal the killer. But nailing the murderer means choosing between the two people he cares most about...
Former LAPD hostage negotiator Jeff Talley takes a job as chief of police in a small town far from the city, but his peaceful life is overturned when three young men, fleeing a robbery, invade a local home and take a family hostage
Mujer de genio y talento, la joven Juana de Ingelheim no se conforma con las costumbres imperantes en la sociedad medieval. Instruida por sus padres en el arte de las letras y la medicina, Juana adopta la personalidad de su hermano muerto para ingresar en el monasterio de Fulda, donde se inicia en la vida monacal. Allí, convertida en el hermano Juan, la joven destaca como un excelente escolástico. Enviada a Roma, pronto se verá inmersa en la compleja trama de intrigas políticas y amorosas que envuelve a los estados pontificios. Superando todos los escollos, Juana es elegida papa el año 855 con el seudónimo de Juan Anglico, la única mujer que ha ocupado el trono papal. Aunque considerada en la actualidad un personaje legendario, la existencia de la papisa Juana fue reconocida durante largo tiempo por la Iglesia católica, para posteriormente ser negada a partir del siglo XVII. Leyenda o verdad histórica, esta novela —que ocupó los primeros puestos de ventas en Alemania durante varios meses— reconstruye con trazos nítidos el retrato vivo de una mujer extraordinaria, una heroína apasionada cuya ambición no fue el poder sino el conocimiento.
Having taken to the lifestyle of a middle-aged civilian, the last thing Paul Brenner wanted to do was return to work for the Army's Criminal Investigation Division, the agency that thanked him for years of life-risking service by forcing him into early retirement. But when an old friend calls in a career's worth of favours, Paul finds himself moonlighting for the Army as he investigates a puzzling murder that took place thirty years before in the midst of the Vietnam war. Forced to return to the country that haunts him and work for the people who cast him aside, Paul must engage in the battle of his life as he attempts to find justice in a world of staggering corruption.
DI Jack Caffery, the hero of Mo Hayder’s bestselling novelsBirdmanandThe Treatment, is back. Seconded from London to Bristol, Caffery is trying to leave his personal life behind, but he cannot escape the memories of his younger brother’s murder and the suspect who went free. When police diver Sergeant Phoebe “Flea” Marley discovers a freshly severed human hand in Bristol’s harbour and its mate buried under a restaurant’s doorstep, Caffery is there to lead the investigation. But rather than find answers, or a body to match those hands, Caffery and Flea discover a terrifying underworld of drug addiction, ritual mutilation and muti, African medicine magic. Tormented by his personal demons, Caffery seeks out the company of the infamous Walking Man, a recently released convict from a high-security prison, who sleeps rough and walks the country roads as he relives the memories of a terrifying crime. Flea Marley has her own ghosts to confrontthe cave-diving death of her parents in a cold, water-filled hole in South Africaand a frightening personal association with the crime she and Caffery are investigating. Britain’s “Queen of Fear” has once again proven herself a master of her craft. Ritual is a gripping psychological thriller, a chilling story seen through the eyes of complex characters and told with masterful voice and style.
After the slaughter of his girlfriend by an unknown assassin, Nicholas Newman wants only to start afresh. However, when a link is made between killings across Europe, he reluctantly agrees to help the police again. When attempts are made on his life, he realizes his nightmare has only just begun.
