New York Times bestseller Brenda Novak's second novel in the Evelyn Talbot series, HELLO AGAIN, sees the return of psychiatrist Dr Evelyn Talbot in her purpose-built facility housing America's most terrifying psychopaths. This is SILENCE OF THE LAMBS meets Karen Rose...
Starr es una chica de dieciséis años que vive entre dos mundos: el barrio pobre de gente negra donde nació, y su escuela situada en un elegante barrio residencial blanco. El difícil equilibrio entre ambos se hace añicos cuando ella es testigo de la muerte a tiros de su mejor amigo, Khalil, a manos de un policía. A partir de ese momento, todo lo que Starr diga acerca de la aterradora noche que cambió su vida podrá ser usado de excusa por unos y como arma por otros. Y lo peor de todo es que, tanto los de un lado como los de otro, la tienen en el punto de mira y amenazan con poner en riesgo su vida.
Robert Crais ( Free Fall , Monkey's Raincoat ) returns with his eighth Elvis Cole mystery, L.A. Requiem , a breakneck caper that leaves the wise-cracking detective second-guessing himself. Cole's partner, the tight-lipped, charm-free Joe Pike, gets a call from his friend Frank "Tortilla" Garcia. Not only is Garcia a wealthy businessman, he's a political heavyweight and father of Karen, Joe's ex. Frank sends the gumshoe duo out to find his girl, but the boys are beaten to the punch by the men in blue: Karen is found in a park with a bullet in her brain. The two stay on the case, but when another murder points to Pike as a suspect, things take a turn for the worse. The boys on the force are all too willing to put Pike away -- he has a checkered past. When Cole attempts to save Pike, he finds a lot more than he bargained for.
A novel of the Kennedy era, portraying the president in a far from flattering light. There are three protagonists: a CIA agent who pimps for JFK, another agent who trains anti-Castro rebels, and a lawyer who is a Mafia hunter. Through their eyes are seen the conflicting interests of the Kennedys, the director of the FBI, organized crime, organized labor, Castro and Cuban exiles.
The Black Angel is not an object. The Black Angel is not a myth. The Black Angel lives. A young woman goes missing from the streets of New York. Those who have taken her believe that nobody cares about her, and that no one will come looking for her. They are wrong. She is 'blood' to the killer Louis, the man who stands at the right hand of private detective Charlie Parker, and Louis will tear apart anyone who stands in the way of his attempts to find her. But as Louis's violent search progresses, Parker comes to realize that the disappearance is part of an older mystery, one that is linked to an ornate church of bones in Eastern Europe, to the slaughter at a French monastery in 1944, and to the quest for a mythical prize that has been sought for centuries by evil men: the Black Angel. Yet the Black Angel is more than a myth. It is conscious. It dreams. It is alive. And men are not the only creatures that seek it . . .
When the discovery of a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the grim truth behind the disappearance of a religious community, private detective Charlie Parker is drawn into a violent conflict with a group of zealots intent on tracking down a relic that could link them to the slaughter. Haunted by the ghost of a small boy and tormented by the demonic killer known as Mr. Pudd, Parker is forced to fight for his lover, his friends...and his very soul.
Aún afectado por los brutales asesinatos de su esposa e hija, y los eventos que rodearon la captura de su asesino, El Hombre Errante, Charlie Parker se retira al paisaje invernal de Maine de su infancia. Siguiendo los pasos de su querido abuelo, Parker espera sanar su espíritu y sobrellevar el amargo aniversario de los asesinatos de Jennifer y Susan. Sin embargo, los ecos del pasado que lo esperan no son todos benignos. En una escalofriante recreación de las pesadillas de Parker, otra joven es asesinada junto a su hijo, y su breve implicación en sus vidas lo impulsa a cazar al despiadado asesino. A medida que la cifra de muertos aumenta, Parker se da cuenta de que la verdadera respuesta al enigma se encuentra treinta años en el pasado, en un árbol con extraños frutos, en la historia de su propio abuelo y en los deseos pervertidos de un monstruo encarnado: Caleb Kyle.
Todo el mundo conoce a Daisy Jones & The Six: el álbum de la banda Aurora llegó a definir la era del rock ‘n’ roll de finales de los setenta, y una generación entera de chicas quería crecer para ser Daisy. Pero nadie sabe la razón detrás de la división del grupo en la noche de su concierto final en el Estadio de Chicago el 12 de julio de 1979. . . hasta ahora. Daisy es una niña que llega a la mayoría de edad en Los Ángeles a fines de los años sesenta, se cuela en clubes en Sunset Strip, duerme con estrellas de rock y sueña con cantar en Whiskey a Go Go. El sexo y las drogas son emocionantes, pero es el rock ‘n’ roll lo que más ama. Para cuando tiene veinte años, su voz se hace notar y tiene el tipo de belleza despreocupada que hace que la gente haga locuras. También se hizo notar The Six, una banda dirigida por el melancólico Billy Dunne. En la víspera de su primera gira, su novia Camila descubre que está embarazada, y con la presión de la paternidad y la fama inminentes, Billy se vuelve un poco loco en el camino. Daisy y Billy se cruzan cuando un productor se da cuenta de que la clave del éxito sobrealimentado es unir los dos. Lo que suceda después se convertirá en leyenda.
A young Las Vegas cop named Wayne Tedrow, Jr. travels through the 1960s, from JFK's assassination to Vietnam, unaware that J. Edgar Hoover is the one pulling the strings.
Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and hoping to reconnect with her estranged family. That's why she is there. Dene is there because he has been collecting stories to honour his uncle's death, while Edwin is looking for his true father and Opal came to watch her boy Orvil dance. All of them are connected by bonds they may not yet understand. All of them are there for the celebration that is the Big Oakland Powwow. But Tony Loneman is also there. And Tony has come to the Powwow with darker intentions.
Un romanzo feroce, epico, dallo stile vertiginoso e appassionante. Un capolavoro spietato. Dallas, 22 novembre 1963. John Fitzgerald Kennedy viene assassinato: esplode il cuore del Sogno Americano. Un giovane poliziotto di Las Vegas, Wayne Tedrow Junior, arriva a Dallas con 6000 dollari in contanti e un odioso compito da svolgere: si troverà coinvolto nei retroscena criminali della vita pubblica americana. Sei pezzi da mille inizia dove terminava American Tabloid : dall'attentato a Kennedy e dal complotto per insabbiarlo. James Ellroy allaccia il suo racconto ai grandi eventi di quegli anni: il movimento per i diritti civili, Martin Luther King, la tragica morte dei fratelli Kennedy, l'escalation dello sforzo bellico in Vietnam. I personaggi di finzione si mescolano a quelli reali, le grandi figure dell'epoca si affiancano a sbirri, assassini, malviventi e provocatori, i fili della storia vera e inventata convergono nell'Incubo Americano.
As the first girl to be born into the Nachimanda family in over thirty-five years, the beautiful Devi is the object of adoration of her entire family. Spirited and strong-willed, she befriends the shy Devanna, a young boy whose mother has died in tragic circumstances. Together they grow up amidst the luscious jungles, rolling hills, and coffee plantations of Coorg in Southern India; cocooned by an extended family whose roots to this beautiful land can be traced for centuries. Their futures seem inevitably linked, but everything changes when, one night, they attend a "tiger wedding." It is there that Devi gets her first glimpse of Machu, the celebrated tiger killer and a hunter of great repute. Although she is still a child and Machu is a man, Devi vows to marry him one day. It is this love that will gradually drive a wedge between Devi and Devanna, sowing the seed of a devastating tragedy that will change the fate of all three --- an event that has unforeseen and far-reaching consequences for generations to come. Told in rich, lyrical prose and set against the background of a changing society, TIGER HILLS is a sweeping saga about one woman's determination to live life on her own terms --- and a riveting novel about the choices we make in the name of family, nation, and love.
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.
Krimi. Daniel Clay, en børnepsykiater, er forsvundet efter anklager om, at han har misbrugt forældres tillid og samarbejdet med en pædofili-ring. En af børnenes forældre er ude på hævn, og det skal gå ud over den nu voksne datter Rebecca Clay. Hun søger beskyttelse hos privatdetektiven Charlie Parker
His uncle, Count Janos Polanyi, has recruited Hungarian Nicholas Morath for a secret mission on the eve of World War II
¿Lo ha visto o lo ha imaginado? Anna Fox vive sola, recluida en su casa de Nueva York, sin atreverse a salir. Pasa el día chateando con desconocidos, bebiendo vino (quizá más de la cuenta), viendo películas antiguas, recordando tiempos felices... y espiando a los vecinos. Entonces llegan los Russell al barrio: una pareja y su hijo adolescente. La familia perfecta. Hasta que una noche Anna ve algo desde su ventana que no debería haber visto. Todo su mundo empieza a resquebrajarse y sus propios secretos salen a la luz. ¿Qué ha visto? ¿Y qué ha imaginado? ¿Quién está en peligro? ¿Y quién está manipulándolo todo? En este thriller absolutamente fascinante, nada ni nadie es lo que parece. Una historia poderosa y retorcida. Una protagonista intensa y muy real. Un sofisticado thriller psicológico para el nuevo milenio con la tensa atmósfera y la oscura elegancia de los mejores clásicos del cine negro.
Rendered mute after a traumatic attack, a beautiful young woman and her LAPD rookie brother find themselves enmeshed in a government conspiracy that forces them to outmaneuver an international hit man and a power-hungry baroness.
La habitación me resulta extraña. Desconocida. No sé dónde estoy ni cómo he llegado hasta aquí. No sé cómo voy a volver a casa... Christine sufre las secuelas de un terrible accidente: solo logra retener recuerdos durante un día. Vive atrapada en una existencia en la que se despierta cada mañana creyendo que es joven y con el futuro por delante, para descubrir después que es una mujer de cincuenta años, casada y con una vida más que hecha. Este es el angustioso mapa de los intentos de Christine por lograr que todo lo que la rodea cobre sentido. Cada día aprende que ha estado viendo a un psicólogo que está ayudándola a recuperar la memoria y que, siguiendo sus sugerencias, ha estado escribiendo un diario para documentar sus recuerdos. Pero poco a poco va dándose cuenta de que algo en la imagen que va formando de su vida no termina de cuadrar, hay algo que no encaja en el rompecabezas.
Alice è seducente, irresistibile e irriverente verso il mondo dei maschi. Nella sua camera d'ospedale, dove è costretta all'immobilità da una malattia misteriosa, entrano e escono genitori stravaganti, innamorati respinti, spasimanti bizzarri. Il suo letto diventa così un folle volano, un osservatorio dal quale il lettore può intuire gli spazi smisurati dei desideri, i sentimenti che durano solo un minuto, le fantasie amorose più trasgressive.
Los Angeles - Fritz Brown, ex-alcoholic private eye with a stained past, makes do with car repossessions and classical music. Then he is offered a case by Freddy 'Fat Dog' Baker, an eccentric golf caddy whose sister has made off with a much older man. This is the beginning of the nightmare: the underworld of golf caddies arson and incest played against the backdrop of an LA surreal by night and bad by day; of long hidden secrets that will drive Brown back to the bottle and to the gun: all conspire to make this one of the most hypnotic crime novels ever written.
Una noche, Charlie 'Bird' Parker, inspector del Departamento de Polica̕ de Nueva York, discute por enšima vez con su mujer y sale a tomar unas copas; cuando vuelve a casa, se encuentra a su mujer y a su hija de tres aǫs salvajemente asesinadas. Entre los sospechosos figura el propio Parker, pero el crimen no podr ̀resolverse. Incapaz de superar los sentimientos de culpabilidad y expulsado del cuerpo de polica̕, Parker se convierte en un hombre atormentado, violento y deseoso de venganza
A sweeping story of upstairs, downstairs, love and loss by the author of Mr Rosenblum's List.
Clara Marsh is an undertaker. She spends her solitary life among the dead, preparing their last baths, beautifying their bodies, and bidding them farewell with a bouquet from her own garden. But Clara's carefully structured life shifts when she discovers a neglected little girl, Trecie, playing in the funeral parlour, desperate for a friend. It changes even more when Detective Mike Sullivan starts questioning her again about a body she prepared three years ago, an unidentified girl found murdered in a nearby strip of woods. Unclaimed by family, the community christened her Precious Doe. When Clara and Mike learn Trecie may be involved with the same people who killed Precious Doe, Clara must choose between her solitary but steadfast existence and the perils of binding one's life to another. Clara's search for the girl pulls her into a spiralling series of events that threaten to endanger the few people Clara has grown to love - and finally brings her own tragic and long-buried past to the surface. Darkly atmospheric and tautly written, TETHERED is a haunting and ultimately heart-breaking novel that explores the themes of love, loss, faith and redemption.
It's 1985 and Brian Jackson has arrived at university with a burning ambition - to make it onto TV's foremost general knowledge quiz. But no sooner has he embarked on 'The Challenge' than he finds himself falling hopelessly in love with his teammate, the beautiful and charismatic would-be actress, Alice Harbinson. When Alice fails to fall for his slightly over-eager charms, Brian comes up with a foolproof plan to capture her heart once and for all. He's going to win the game, at any cost, because - after all - everyone knows that what a woman really wants from a man is a comprehensive grasp of general knowledge . . . STARTER FOR TEN is a comedy about love, class, growing-up and the all-important difference between knowledge and wisdom. Are you up to the challenge of the funniest novel in years?
Former LAPD Detective Nichola Marten's investigation into the murder of his former girlfriend leads him across the globe and to a chance meeting with US President John Henry Harris. But President Harris is on the run from a murderous cabal.
La trama de esta novela, que en Estados Unidos ha merecido el calificativo de obra maestra, se desarrolla alrededor de una compleja familia de la alta sociedad afroamericana, cuyo patriarca, un poderoso juez supuestamente vinculado al mundo del crimen, acaba de fallecer. Él era el Emperador que da título a la obra, y a su muerte vuelven a emerger las zonas oscuras que ensombrecieron su carrera. Su hijo Talcott intentará unir las piezas de un complejo puzzle de asesinatos y ocultaciones que finalmente acabarán encajando. Una intriga vertiginosa, brillante y excelentemente escrita, un retrato magistral del entramado de ambiciones, corrupción y mentiras oculto tras el sistema judicial, que mantiene el suspense y la aguda crítica social desde la primera página.
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Inspired by her account in The New Yorker of adopting a profoundly troubled dog named Buster, acclaimed author Cathleen Schine's The New Yorkers is a brilliantly funny story of love, longing, and overcoming the shyness that leashes us. On a quiet little block near Central Park, five lonely New Yorkers find one another, compelled to meet by their canine companions. Over the course of four seasons, they emerge from their apartments, in snow, rain, or glorious sunshine to make friends and sometimes fall in love. A love letter to a city full of surprises, The New Yorkers is an enchanting comedy of manners (with dogs!) from one of our most treasured writers.
When Jane unexpectedly encounters her cousin, Martha, in the Galapagos Islands, she feels that she finally has the opportunity to talk to her about their deteriorating friendship and find out what it was that caused their once strong bond to end so suddenly. Reprint.
En El fantasma de Manhattan Frederick Forsyth rescata a un personaje legendario de la literatura y del cine, el fantasma de la Ópera. Aprovechando la enigmática personalidad del atormentado ser que habita en los sótanos de la Ópera de París, reelabora el mito del monstruo solitario, aislado del mundo a causa de su repulsiva
