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Nueva York, 2011. Una chica de quince años aparece crucificada en un suburbio a las afueras. Miren Triggs, periodista de investigación del ManhattanPress, recibe de manera inesperada un extraño sobre. En su interior, la polaroid de otra adolescente amordazada y maniatada, con una sola anotación: «GINA PEBBLES, 2002».Miren Triggs y Jim Schmoer, su antiguo profesor de periodismo, seguirán la pista de la chica de la imagen mientras investigan la crucifixión de Nueva York. Así se adentrarán en una institución religiosa en la que todo son secretos y en un enigma único lleno de suspense en el que deberán descifrar tres preguntas de respuesta imposible: ¿qué le sucedió a Gina?, ¿quién envía la polaroid? y, la más importante; ¿están conectadas ambas historias?

The New York Times bestselling author of The Time in Between returns with a magnificent new novel set in 1860s Mexico City, Havana, and Spain about a self-made man who loses his fortune overnight but finds his destiny as he works to restore a legendary vineyard to its former glory, and to win the love of the combative widow who once owned the property. Mauro Larrea sees the fortune that he had built after years of hardship and toil come crashing down on the heels of a calamitous event. Swamped by debts and uncertainty, he gambles the last of his last money in a daring move that offers him the opportunity to resuscitate his fortune. But when the unsettling Soledad Montalvo, wife of a London wine merchant, comes into his life, her passionate intensity lures him toward an unanticipated future. The Vineyard spans diverse worlds, from the young Mexican republic to magnificent colonial Havana; from the West Indies to the Jerez of the second half of the nineteenth-century, when its wine trade with England turned the Andalusian city into a legendary cosmopolitan enclave. A novel replete with glories and defeats, with silver mines, family intrigues, vineyards, and splendid places whose grandeur has faded in time, The Vineyard is a story of resilience in the face of adversity, of a lifeline forever altered by the force of passion.

Età di lettura: da 9 anni Julian tiene una idea fija: encontrar los fosiles de un dinosaurio. Pero donde buscar? Tiene que seguir ese camino que termina en La Sombra? Hay algo de verdad en esas cartas ajadas por el tiempo que hablan del ultimo dinosaurio?