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Nicoletta Lamberti

    La confesión
    Calico Joe
    Split Second
    El psicoanalista
    Three Blind Mice
    El invierno del mundo
    • En 1933, Berlín vive una intensa agitación política y social. Lady Maud, esposa de Walter von Ulrich y madre de dos hijos, publica artículos en una revista que critican al partido nazi, mientras su esposo se opone en el gobierno. A pesar de sus esfuerzos, el poder de Adolf Hitler sigue en ascenso. La llegada de Ethel Williams y su hijo Lloyd revela la tiranía de la nueva Alemania. El Tercer Reich se expande hacia Francia y más allá de la frontera rusa. En Inglaterra, Lloyd, activista político como su madre, se une al ejército británico para frenar este avance, y luego se alista en las brigadas internacionales de la guerra civil española, participando en la ofensiva de Zaragoza y la batalla de Belchite. Ty Gwyn, la mansión familiar de los Fitzherbert en Gales, se convierte en acantonamiento para oficiales, donde Lloyd se siente atraído por Daisy Peshkov, la rica heredera americana y esposa de Boy Fitzherbert. Esta novela épica lleva al lector a través de una Europa devastada por guerras y conflictos ideológicos, mientras los hijos de cinco familias, protagonistas de la historia, forjan su destino en los turbulentos años de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, la guerra civil española, el bombardeo de Pearl Harbor y la era de las bombas atómicas.

      El invierno del mundo
      4,4
    • Three Blind Mice

      • 293 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      When the wife of a wealthy landowner is brutally raped, the police arrest three recent immigrants, who are later found murdered. The lawyer Matthew Hope is called in to defend the landowner, but soon realizes that he is involved in a situation far more complex than he or his client had imagined.

      Three Blind Mice
      4,3
    • El psicoanalista

      • 528 páginas
      • 19 horas de lectura

      «Feliz cumpleaños, doctor. Bienvenido al primer día de su muerte.» Así comienza el anónimo que recibe Frederick Starks, psicoanalista con una larga experiencia y una vida tranquila. Starks tendrá que emplear toda su astucia y rapidez para, en quince días, averiguar quién es el autor de esa amenazadora masiva que promete hacerle la existencia imposible. De no conseguir su objetivo, deberá elegir entre suicidarse o ser testigo de cómo, uno tras otro, sus familiares y conocidos mueren por obra de un asesino, un psicópata decidido a llevar hasta el fin su sed de venganza. Dado un inesperado giro a la relación entre médico y paciente, John Katzenbach nos ofrece una novela en la tradición del mejor suspense psicológico.

      El psicoanalista
      4,1
    • Split Second

      • 608 páginas
      • 22 horas de lectura

      When something distracts Secret Agent Sean King for a split second, it costs him his career and presidential candidate, Clyde Ritter, his life. But what stole his attention? And why was Ritter shot? Eight years later Michelle Maxwell is on the fast track through the ranks of the Secret Service when her career is stopped short: presidential candidate John Bruno is abducted from a funeral home while under her protection. The similarity between the two cases drives Michelle to re-open investigations into the Ritter fiasco and join forces with attractive ex-agent King. The pair are determined to get to the bottom of what happened in those critical moments. Meanwhile, high-ranking members of the legal system and key witnesses from both cases are going missing. King is losing friends, colleagues and clients fast and his ex-lover, Joan Dillinger, is playing curious games - she wants Sean back, but she also owes him for something . . .

      Split Second
      4,0
    • Calico Joe

      • 262 páginas
      • 10 horas de lectura

      #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball… “Grisham knocks it out of the park.”—The Washington Post It’s the summer of 1973, and Joe Castle is the boy wonder of baseball, the greatest rookie anyone has ever seen. The kid from Calico Rock, Arkansas, dazzles Chicago Cubs fans as he hits home run after home run, politely tipping his hat to the crowd as he shatters all rookie records. Calico Joe quickly becomes the idol of every baseball fan in America, including Paul Tracey, the young son of a hard-partying and hard-throwing New York Mets pitcher. On the day that Warren Tracey finally faces Calico Joe, Paul is in the stands, rooting for his idol but also for his dad. Then Warren throws a fastball that will change their lives forever.

      Calico Joe
      4,0
    • La confesión

      • 502 páginas
      • 18 horas de lectura

      Un hombre inocente, Donté Drumm, está a punto de ser ejecutado por un crimen que no cometió. El verdadero culpable, Travis Boyette, un asesino con un tumor cerebral, decide confesar su crimen. Sin embargo, convencer a las autoridades de la inocencia de Donté no será fácil.

      La confesión
      3,9
    • Inferno, spanische Ausgabe

      • 633 páginas
      • 23 horas de lectura

      El profesor de simbología Robert Langdon se despierta en un hospital en mitad de la noche, desorientado y con una herida en la cabeza. No recuerda nada de las últimas treinta y seis horas. Ni cómo ha llegado hasta allí, ni el origen del macabro objeto que los médicos descubren entres sus pertenencias. El mundo de Langdon pronto se convierte en un caos y se ve obligado a huir por las calles de Florencia junto con una inteligente joven, Sienna Brooks, cuyas hábiles maniobras le salvan la vida. Langdon no tarda en darse cuenta de que se encuentra en posesión de una serie de inquietantes códigos creados por un brillante científico; un genio cuya obsesión con el fin del mundo sólo es equiparable a la pasión que siente por una de las obras maestras más influyentes jamás escritas; "Inferno", el oscuro poema épico de Dante Alighieri.

      Inferno, spanische Ausgabe
      3,9
    • The Big Bad City

      • 336 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      In this city, you have to pay attention. In this city, things are happening all the time, all over the place, and you don't have to be a detective to smell evil in the wind. Take this week's tabloids: the face of a dead girl is splashed across the front page. She was found sprawled near a park bench not seven blocks from the police station. Detectives Carella and Brown soon discover the girl has a most unusual past. Meanwhile, the late-night news tracks the exploits of The Cookie Boy, a professional thief who leaves his calling card -- a box of chocolate chip cookies -- at the scene of each score. And while the detectives of the 87th Precinct are investigating these cases, one of them is being stalked by the man who killed his father. Welcome to the Big Bad City.

      The Big Bad City
      3,8
    • The Racketeer

      • 352 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only four active federal judges have been murdered. Judge Raymond Fawcett has just become number five. Who is the Racketeer? And what does he have to do with the judge’s untimely demise? His name, for the moment, is Malcolm Bannister. Job status? Former attorney. Current residence? The Federal Prison Camp near Frostburg, Maryland. On paper, Malcolm’s situation isn’t looking too good these days, but he’s got an ace up his sleeve. He knows who killed Judge Fawcett, and he knows why. The judge’s body was found in his remote lakeside cabin. There was no forced entry, no struggle, just two dead bodies: Judge Fawcett and his young secretary. And one large, state-of-the-art, extremely secure safe, opened and emptied. What was in the safe? The FBI would love to know. And Malcolm Bannister would love to tell them. But everything has a price—especially information as explosive as the sequence of events that led to Judge Fawcett’s death. And the Racketeer wasn’t born yesterday . . . Nothing is as it seems and everything’s fair game in this wickedly clever new novel from John Grisham, the undisputed master of the legal thriller.

      The Racketeer
      3,8
    • The divorced ex-cop, Kinsey Millhone, turns 33, is hired to bring a mother back from the desert, and makes a top slot on Tyrone Patty's hit list, all on the same day.

      "G" is for Gumshoe
      3,8
    • Un abogado rebelde

      • 496 páginas
      • 18 horas de lectura

      No va a permitir que la verdad se interponga en el camino de la justicia... Sebastian Rudd no es el típico abogado: lleva arma y su oficina es una camioneta a prueba de balas conducida por su guardaespaldas, que a su vez es su asistente legal y único amigo. Defiende a quienes otros no querrían ni ver: un drogadicto, un chico tatuado que supuestamente forma parte de un culto satánico acusado de acosar y matar a dos niñas pequeñas, un criminal en el corredor de la muerte, un hombre arrestado por disparar a unos geo al entrar por error en su casa... ¿Por qué estos clientes? -- Porque cree que todo el mundo tiene derecho a un juicio justo, incluso aunque él tenga que hacer trampa para conseguirlo. Odia la injusticia, no le gustan las aseguradoras, los bancos o las grandes empresas, desconfía de cualquier persona que tenga que ver con el Gobierno y se ríe de las nociones del sistema judicial sobre comportamiento ético

      Un abogado rebelde
      3,7
    • Hijos de Lázaro

      • 431 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      Barcelona. 18 cm. 430 p. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial ilustrada. Colección 'Jet', 392/1. Traducción de Carlos Milla Soler. Traducción de: The Lazarus child. Biblioteca de Robert Mawson. Los jet de Plaza & Janés. 392/1 .. Este libro es de segunda mano y tiene o puede tener marcas y señales de su anterior propietario. ISBN: 84-01-48582-7

      Hijos de Lázaro
      3,6
    • La política siempre ha sido un juego sucio. Ahora la justicia también lo es. En una abarrotada sala de un tribunal del estado de Mississippi el jurado pronuncia un veredicto totalmente inesperado: declara culpable a una empresa química por realizar vertidos tóxicos en el sistema de conducción de agua potable de la ciudad, lo que ha provocado la incidencia de cáncer más alta de la historia. La empresa apela al Tribunal Supremo del estado, cuyos nueve jueces deberán confirmar o revocar el veredicto. Carl Trudeau, el propietario de la empresa, no confía en que emita un fallo favorable para él e investiga a cada juez. Aprovechando que hay una vacante en el Tribunal, decide presentar su propio candidato, aunque le cueste unos cuantos millones de dólares. Para eso se pone en contacto con una empresa que le selecciona un abogado joven y maleable. Le financian, le promocionan y le moldean a su gusto para que llegue a convertirse en juez del Tribunal Supremo. Su juez del Tribunal Supremo.

      La Concvocazione
      3,6
    • An exquisitely-crafted tale of love and loss from the author of Four Letters of Love and Only Say the Word schovat popis

      As It Is in Heaven
      3,4
    • Three women, smart and successful, working in the fast and furious world of magazines, meet for cocktails and gossip once a month.Roxanne: glamorous, self-confident, with a secret lover - and hoping that one day he will leave his wife and marry her.Maggie: capable and high-achieving, until she finds the one thing she can't cope with - motherhood.Candice: honest, decent, or so she believes - until a ghost from her past turns up, and almost ruins her life.A chance encounter in the cocktail bar sets in train an extraordinary set of events which upsets all their lives and almost destroys their friendship...

      Cocktails for Three
      3,5
    • Dante's inferno

      • 416 páginas
      • 15 horas de lectura

      Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Sylvia Strange is enlisted to learn the identity of a murderous bomber launching a campaign of terror in Los Angeles. The prime suspect is John Dantes, a brilliant madman already serving a life sentence for another bombing. Sylvia, a genius at accessing the most tortured psychiatric cases, is the only person who can unlock Dantes' secret from his twisted mind--but it could cost her her own sanity.

      Dante's inferno
      3,4
    • The gatecrasher

      • 313 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      Madeleine Wickham is Sophie Kinsella, and The Gatecrasher is just as clever, chic, and sassy as her internationally bestselling Shopaholic series!

      The gatecrasher
      3,3
    • Spring Collection

      • 358 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      PASSION...In a tale as timely as "Scruples," as compelling as "Dazzle," asintriguing as "Mistral's Daughter," Judith Krantz launches three innocentbeauties on the city of fashion and love.... SCANDAL... It's the hottest thing that's ever happened to Loring Model Management. Threeof its unknown models have been chosen to star in the debut spring collectionof bad-boy designer Marco Lombardi--and one of them will win an exclusive, multimillion-dollar contract. But the agency's owner, Justine Loring, isfurious. Only she knows that Lombardi's billionaire backer, Jacques Necker, has set her up, hoping to manipulate her into chaperoning her models to Paris, and meeting him face-to-face. GLAMOUR... But Justine isn't about to play his game. She dispatches these threesensational girls--the classic Minnesota blond, the African-American goddess, and the moody Tennessee redhead--in care of her second-in-command, fiery, drollFrancesca Severino. Little does Justine know how their two weeks of discoveryand love affairs will be matched by an explosive encounter in Manhattan thatwill change her own life. SOME THINGS ARE ALWAYS IN STYLE.

      Spring Collection
      3,3