John Katzenbach Libros

When a mysterious letter bearing threatening words is delivered to Dr. Frederick Starks, his predictable life is thrown into chaos. Suddenly, the psychoanalyst is plunged into a horrific game designed by a man who calls himself Rumplestiltskin. The rules: in two weeks Starks must guess the man's identity and the source of his fury. If he succeeds, he goes free. If he fails, Rumplestiltskin will kill one of Dr. Starks' loved ones each week, unless the good doctor agrees to kill himself. Starks must rouse himself from the cocoon of his life, unlock the secret of Rumplestiltskin, and find a way to stop the madman before he himself is driven mad.

Francis Petrel tenía poco más de veinte años cuando su familia lo recluyó en el psiquiátrico tras una conducta imprevisible concluyó en una crisis. Pero un reencuentro en los terrenos de la clausurada institución remueve algo profundo en la mente agitada

Llega la esperada continuación de el psicoanalista la obra más vendida y emblemática de John Katzenbach. Han pasado 5 años desde que el doctor Starks acabó con la pesadilla que casi le cuesta la vida y que le destrozó la que tenía logrando vencer a aquel que se hace llamar Rumplestiltskin y a sus hermanos Virgil y Merlin. Ahora Ricky Starks continúa con su labor como psicoanalista instalado en Miami. Sin embargo, Rumplestilskin ha regresado y esta vez, para solicitar la ayuda de Ricky ya que alguien ha amenazado a sus hermanos de una manera muy perversa. Y es evidente que no va a aceptar un no por respuesta

Miami detective Mercedes Barren isn't phased by much-that is, until a late-night phone call awakens her from one nightmare and catapults her into another: her niece has been murdered. She soon has a suspect in Douglas Jeffers, a disgruntled photojournalist who has committed a series of copycat murders while forcing a young English major to document his killing spree.

Cuando Maeve desaparece sin dejar rastro, su hija Sloane no se sorprende: si su madre tenía que desaparecer, solo podía ser en extrañas circunstancias . Sin embargo, esta vez es distinto: al cabo de unos días de la desaparición de su progenitora, Sloane recibe un paquete que esta misma le ha mandado, con varios miles de dólares, la escritura de su casa y un arma. También hay una nota con las siguientes palabras: Vén delo todo. Quédate la pistola. Practica. Huye. Ahora. A solo dos semanas de graduarse como arquitecta y en medio de esta encrucijada personal, Sloane recibe la oferta de trabajo de un misterioso millonario que quiere construir seis memoriales para seis personas que murieron, de nuevo, en extrañas circunstancias. A medida que Sloane investiga esas muertes, el consejo de su madre se hace cada vez más presente. ¿En quién puede confiar ahora Sloane? ¿Tendrá tiempo de seguir las indicaciones de su madre cuando llegue al final del laberinto que ha ido creando su siniestro empleador?

Second Lieutenant Tommy Hart, a navigator whose B-25 was shot out of the sky in 1942, is burdened with guilt as the only surviving member of his crew. Now he is just another POW at the fiercely guarded Stalag Luft 13 in Bavaria.Then routine comes to a halt with the arrival of a new prisoner: First Lieutenant Lincoln Scott, an African American Tuskegee airman who instantly becomes the target of contempt from his fellow soldiers. When a prisoner is brutally murdered, and all the blood-soaked evidence points to Scott, Hart is tapped to defend the soldier. In a trial rife with racial tension and raw conflict, where the lines between ally and enemy blur, there are those with their own secret motives, and a burning passion for a rush to judgment, no matter what the cost.

IN THE HEAT OF THE SUMMERThey call July the 'mean season' in Miami, and this hot summer a clever, elusive killer is terrorising the entire city. The death of the first victim was just a good story for reporter Malcolm Anderson, but the killer liked his style and begins to feed him a stream of front-page exclusives. His journalism makes Anderson a national celebrity - and they could make him the next victim ...'Desperately scary and suspenseful' CosmopolitanTHE SHADOW MANIn the horror of Nazi Germany not all Jews were hunted. There were hunters, too - traitors to their race, paid by the Gestapo with the promise of survival. And among the hunters none was more feared than the Shadow Man. Now, half a century later in Florida, he has returned and for those who escaped the Shadow Man's fingers, the past is catching up with them. And for Holocaust survivors, the past means death - unless they can find the Shadow Man first ...

Scott Freeman a college professor grounded in the rational and practical, he becomes uneasy after finding an anonymous love letter hidden in his daughter's room. But the reality of Ashley's plight far exceeds Scott's worst suspicions. One drink too many had led Ashley, a beautiful, bright art student, into what she thought was just a fling with a blue-collar bad boy. But now, no amount of pleading or reasoning can discourage his phone calls, ardent e-mails, and constant, watchful gaze. The harder Ashley tries to break free, the deeper Michael burrows into every aspect of her life, in desperation she turns to her divorced parents and her mother's new partner. Despite lingering resentment their devotion to Ashley is the common bond that will draw them together to face down a predator.

Twenty-five years ago, Jeffrey and Susan Clayton fled their tyrannical father--a man who was later suspected in the heinous murder of a young student. Though the father was never charged, he committed suicide. Or so it seemed. For someone has sent Susan a cryptic note. Once deciphered, it carries a terrifying message: I have found you. " "Meanwhile, a serial killer has invaded a tightly controlled community. Is Jeffrey Clayton's father the source of this latest killing spree? The authorities think so--and they present Jeffrey, now a noted expert on serial killers, with a challenge: Find the butcher responsible for the newborn spate of carnage. "Find your father," . . .

Retired psychology professor Adrian Thomas has spent a lifetime delving into other people's disturbed minds. Now he's been diagnosed with degenerative dementia, and all his thoughts are of ending his own life while he still can. But his clouded mind clears when he witnesses a kidnapping: a teenage girl, snatched off the street and bundled into a white van. The police dismiss him as a confused old man. But Adrian knows what he saw. And he knows he might be this young girl's only hope for rescue. His search will lead him into the chilling world of online pornography, and the elite community who subscribe to the website What Comes Next. A website where the viewers decide what happens to their on-screen hostage. A website that is about to feature a new star: a frightened teenage girl known only as Victim Number Four...