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Not That Kind of Place: A Novel
Par Michael Melgaard. 2023
Winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel A CBC Bookie Award: Mystery and Thriller, Finalist A Quill…
&Quire Book of the Year An Amazon.ca Editors’ Pick In the first electrifying book of the series, Ian Hamilton introduces us to Ava Lee — the smartest, most stylish heroine in crime fiction since Lisbeth Salandar.The Fury of Beijing: An Ava Lee Novel: The Triad Years (An Ava Lee Novel #16)
Par Ian Hamilton. 2024
The Sultan of Sarawak: An Ava Lee Novel: The Triad Years (An Ava Lee Novel #14)
Par Ian Hamilton. 2022
Seduciendo a una dama (Los Preston #Volumen 5)
Par Julianne May. 2023
Una dama rebelde. Un lord indomable. Un pasado sin resolver. Anne Preston, la rebelde de la familia, se siente perdida.…
Mientras que sus cuatro hermanos encontraron la felicidad, ella aún siente un profundo vacío. Y no es para menos, pues, aunque guarda de Somerset los mejores momentos de su pasado, el recuerdo de la noche en que le destrozaron el corazón la atormenta cada día. Y el culpable tiene nombre y apellido.Anthony Leith, conde de Bourgh, detesta su vida. La falta de amor, la soledad y la riqueza extrema lo tornaron en uno de los nobles más arrogantes e insoportables del reino. Sin embargo, cuando creyó que al fin el amor había llegado para iluminarle el camino, una terrible noche en Somerset le arrebata la esperanza de algún día ser feliz. Y su alma, lejos de olvidar y de volver a ser la de antes, se convierte en una peligrosa sombra sin rumbo.El reencuentro de sus destinos resulta imposible hasta que una inesperada decisión del barón Preston y el regreso del pasado dejan a Anne y a Anthony entre la espada y la pared.Paraules al sol
Par Maria Antònia Oliver i Cabrer. 2023
Una novel·la inèdita de Maria Antònia Oliver, premi d'Honor de les Lletres Catalanes, que és un cant a la llibertat…
i, sobretot, a l'amor. Maria Antònia Oliver va escriure aquesta novel·la epistolar, inèdita fins ara, a partir de les cartes que ella i la seva parella, el també escriptor Jaume Fuster, es van intercanviar mentre ell feia el servei militar a l'illa de Cabrera, on el van traslladar per motius polítics.La història d'amor dels dos protagonistes, escrita amb els pseudònims d'Olívia Guillot i Yus Picó, trena les emocions, l'enyor i la ràbia per la separació imposada amb el retrat d'un país gris, a finals dels anys seixanta, amb la llibertat i la llengua tancades amb pany i clau. «La vida, en sortir del present, no la conec, serà totalment nova per a tots dos. Quan hi penso fredament, m'esvero. Hi ha un munt de preguntes materialistes: de què viurem? Trobarem feina? [...] Val més no fer càbales, no creus? Després de les tenebres que vivim al començament del nostre camí, el més probable és que tot se'ns faci més planer: almenys estaré al teu costat i això sol omple la meitat del tot. Desitjo un futur inquiet, ple de tu, completament diferent de l'ara que sembla no acabar mai».Bajo la superficie
Par Alafair Burke, Mary Higgins Clark. 2020
Un reloj en marcha, un siniestro acosador y un nuevo romance se combinan en esta apasionante continuación de la serie…
Bajo Sospecha La productora de televisión Laurie Moran y su prometido, Alex Buckley, antiguo presentador de su programa de televisión de investigación, están a pocos días de su boda a mediados de verano cuando las cosas toman un oscuro giro. Johnny, el sobrino de siete años de Alex, desaparece en la playa, lo que desencadena un dispositivo de búsqueda.Los testigos recuerdan a Johnny jugando en el agua y recogiendo conchas detrás de una cabaña, pero nadie asegura haberlo visto por la tarde. Al ponerse el sol, la tabla de skimboard de Johnny llega a la orilla y todos están de acuerdo en que el niño podría estar en cualquier parte, incluso bajo el agua. La última y emocionante colaboración de la autora bestseller de The New York Times y «Reina del Suspense» Mary Higgins Clark y la brillante Alafair Burke. «Debería venir con una advertencia: empieza por la tarde y estarás leyendo hasta altas horas de la noche». USA TodayPowers Volume 5
Par Brian Michael Bendis. 2023
From New York Times bestselling writer Brian Michael Bendis (Superman, Ultimate Spider-Man, Jessica Jones) and artist Michael Avon Oeming (Cave…
Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye, United States VS. Murder Inc., Mice Templar), comes this new collection of the Eisner award-winning series Powers.In a world where superheroes soar through the sky, homicide detectives Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim travel the dirty city streets below doing their grueling work. Assigned to the special &“Powers&” cases, they face the worst their city has to offer.Walker and Pilgrim have been homicide detectives and partners for years, but the secrets they&’ve been keeping from each other have become too big and too dangerous to remain secret. One shall rise and one shall fall as their hidden powers come to a head. The world will be changed forever.Collects Powers Series Two #19–#30, Powers Annual 2008 and behind-the-scenes content from the making of this superhero noir classic.A Kind of Prisoner (Department Z)
Par John Creasey. 2022
In this classic spy thriller from an Edgar Award–winning author, a British secret service agency is nearly undone by a…
counter-espionage attack.Superspies are out to destroy Department Z. Even worse, the elite British agency has been infiltrated by a double agent. As loyal members of the team turn against one another, Agent Gordon Craigie works to unmask the counterspy before Department Z is annihilated once and for all.Black Silk
Par Judith Ivory. 2002
As befitting her name, lovely Submit Channing-Downes was the proper, obedient wife of an aging Marquess--until her husband′s death left…
her penniless and alone...with one final obligation to fulfill. Entrusted with delivering a small black box to its rightful owner, she calls upon Graham Wessit, the notorious Earl of Netham, whose life has been marred by rumor and scandal. But Graham wants nothing to do w/ her gift. Fate however, has entwined these two lives in astonishing ways neither Submit nor Graham could ever imagine.How to Woo a Wallflower (Romancing the Rules #3)
Par Christy Carlyle. 2016
An Unconventional Wallflower…Clarissa Ruthven was born to be a proper lady, but she’s never wanted to live up to the…
expectations her late father set. Determined to use her inheritance to help the less fortunate women of London, she’s devastated to learn that she won’t be inheriting anything until she marries, a fate she has no interest in. Unwilling to let go of her plans, Clary works at Ruthven Publishing for Gabriel Adamson, a man who’s always hated her. She’s always returned the feeling, but as she begins to turn her family’s publishing company upside down, she finds herself unable to forget her handsome boss.Never Follows the Rules…Gabriel Adamson believes in order. He certainly doesn’t believe Clary should be sticking her nose in the publishing company, and she definitely has no business invading his every thought. But Gabe soon finds he can’t resist Clary’s sense of freedom or her passionate kisses and he starts to crave everything she’s willing to give him.Especially When It Comes to Love… When Gabe’s dark past comes back to haunt him, he’ll do anything to make sure that Clary isn’t hurt…even if it means giving up the only woman he’s ever loved.A Tale of Two Vikings (Viking I Series #7)
Par Sandra Hill. 2004
Has an eye for the ladies, loves a good fight. Splits his sides over rude jokes. Won't ask directions no…
matter how lost he is . . . even in a longship, for the love of Odin! Sound like anyone you know? Maybe every man you know?Toste and Vagn Ivarsson are all that and more—a lot more. Identical Viking twins, they came squalling into this world together, rode their first horses at the age of seven, their first maids during their thirteenth summer, and rode off on longships as untried fourteen-year-old warriors. And now, having seen only thirty and one winters, they are about to face Valhalla together. Or maybe something even more tragic: being separated. For even the most virile Viking must eventually leave his best buddy behind and do battle with that most fearsome of all opponents—the love of his life.What Are the Bugles Blowing For? (The Henri Castang Mysteries)
Par Nicolas Freeling. 2022
From an Edgar Award–winning British crime novelist, this unsettling homicide investigation features the unorthodox French detective Henri Castang.On a sultry…
summer night in a French provincial city, Insp. Henri Castang is summoned from his office at the Police Judiciaire to the site of a triple murder. The killer? A husband who came home unexpectedly to discover his wife and daughter in bed with another man. A crime of passion? Perhaps. Except the murderer in question, wealthy financier Gilbert La Touche, is cool and remote. His confession is as factual and bloodless as the crime is violent and deeply disturbing. As a detective, Castang must play by the rules to protect himself. But for an unconventional cop like Castang, that is virtually impossible. After all, there’s more to murder than a few corpses and a killer, and Castang will follow every twist until he gets to the heart of the evil at hand.Praise for Nicolas Freeling“Nicolas Freeling . . . liberated the detective story from page-turning puzzler into a critique of society and an investigation of character.” —The Daily Telegraph“Freeling rewards with his oblique, subtly comic style.” —Publishers WeeklyThe Winterton Deception 1: Final Word
Par Janet Sumner Johnson. 2023
In this twisty middle grade mystery for fans of Knives Out, The Inheritance Game, and The Westing Game, thirteen-year-old twins…
Hope and Gordon enter a spelling bee in a last-ditch effort to save their family from financial ruin, only to find themselves in a cut-throat competition to uncover a fortune and dark secrets about the wealthy relations they&’ve never known.Hope Smith can&’t stand rich people—the dictionary magnate family the Wintertons most of all. Not since she and her twin brother, Gordon, learned that their dad was one. So when Gordon enters the family into the Winterton&’s charity spelling bee, Hope wants nothing to do with it. But with their mom losing her job and the family facing eviction from the motel where they live, they desperately need the money, and it looks like Hope doesn&’t have much of a choice.After winning the preliminary round, the Smiths are whisked to Winterton Chalet to compete in the official Winterton Bee against their long-lost relatives. Hope wants to get in and out, beat the snobbish family at their own game, and never see them again. But deceased matriarch Jane Winterton had other plans for this final family showdown. Before her death, she set up a clue hunt throughout the manor—an alternate way for Hope and Gordon to get the money that could change their lives.Still, others are on the trail, too. With tensions at an all-time high, a fortune at stake, and long-simmering family secrets about to boil to the surface, anything could happen.A tense, clever clue hunt unafraid to tackle the challenges and secrets often kept behind closed doors, Final Word is a gripping series starter sure to satisfy even the most voracious armchair detectives.The House of Love and Death (Cameron Winter Mysteries #0)
Par Andrew Klavan. 2023
Publishers Weekly Starred Review In the newest entry in the USA Today-bestselling Cameron Winter series, the ex-spy-turned-English professor defies accepted narratives…
and corrupt local authorities to investigate the murder of a wealthy family in the Chicago suburbs. Cameron Winter is known for having a sense about crime. His background as a spy trained his mind—and his body—for action, and his current role as an English professor gives him a sharp understanding of human nature. But beyond that, he was born with a "strange habit of mind"—the ability to recreate detailed crime scenes in his imagination and dissect the motives and encounters that produced them. And after reading a puzzling news story about a wealthy family killed in a small town in the Chicago suburbs, he can't resist the chance to apply this deductive power in the pursuit of justice for the victims. Three members of the family, along with their live-in nanny, were pulled from their burning mansion, already dead from gunshot wounds. The only survivor is a young boy whose memory of the event raises more questions than answers. The police seem happy to settle on a simple explanation and arrest the most obvious suspect—but Winter knows that obvious solutions are seldom the correct ones, and all too often hide a darker truth. While Winter’s investigation is welcomed by many who knew the victims, the lead detective makes it clear he not only wants Winters to stop looking for answers, but to stay out of his town altogether. Winter begins to understand why as he slowly uncovers crimes and unsavory behavior that had been ignored long before the killings, and in the process grows increasingly determined to find the real killer and expose the rot beneath the town’s sanitized façade. And as the inquiry brings all-too-familiar sins to the surface, he’ll have to confront his own inner demons once and for all. Insightful and atmospheric, The House of Love and Death is a penetrating mystery with a plot that cuts straight to the dark heart of some of modern America’s most pressing issues.Carry My Secret to Your Grave (Murder, She Wrote #2)
Par Stephanie Kuehn. 2023
Small town murders.Big time thrills.The second installment in the suspenseful, modern update of the classic mystery TV series. Perfect for…
fans of One of Us Is Lying, Sadie, and Gossip Girl."Someone knows where you live. And whoever they are, they want you to know… you’re next."Bea Fletcher never met a cold case she didn't want to solve. So when she finds herself staying with family near Lake Paloma, she's torn. Sure, she's not thrilled to be bunking with her moody, taciturn uncle and his wife while her father's out of town. Being away from Cabot Cove means less time for Bea to work on her true crime blog, visit her great-aunt Jessica, and spend time with new friends Leisl, Leif, and Carlos and the mysterious underground treasure hunting game they've been playing.But Lake Paloma has mysteries of its own, including the unsolved drowning of teenaged Eden Vicente the year before. And when Bea starts to ask questions about Eden's death, the answers lead her closer to home than she ever imagined. If Bea isn't careful, she could be the next girl to end up at the bottom of the lake.And underwater, no one can hear you scream...Appleby Talks: 23 Detective Stories (The Inspector Appleby Mysteries)
Par Michael Innes. 2018
From a British crime author “in a class by himself among detective story writers,” twenty-three short mysteries featuring the brilliant…
Inspector Appleby (The Times Literary Supplement).It appears Inspector Appleby is ready to tell all in this must-read collection of twenty-three short stories from acclaimed Scottish mystery author Michael Innes. One of the most discerning detectives of Golden Age fiction, Appleby sits down with pipe in hand to spin tales from the jewel heist he foiled as a precocious teen to the myriad of fascinating cases brought before him as one of the most respected detectives of Scotland Yard. There’s the account of Arbuthnot, a novelist who becomes part of a sordid tale himself when his crazy wife’s lover is found dead on his living room floor. Or the case of the murdered anatomy professor discovered in place of the missing cadaver in his lesson plan. Also included is the not-to-be-missed fair play mystery “Dead Man’s Shoes,” a puzzle only Inspector Appleby—and his most astute readers—can solve. So pull up a pub chair and a pint, or a blanket and a pot of tea, and join crime fiction’s dazzlingly smart detective as he wittily discloses his investigative prowess during his intriguing, often absurd, but always entertaining career as one of Scotland Yard’s best.Praise for Michael Innes and the Inspector Appleby series“Wickedly witty.” —Daily Mail“As farfetched and literary as Sayers” —The Cambridge Companion to Crime FictionDark Peril (Department Z)
Par John Creasey. 2022
In this classic thriller from an Edgar Award–winning author, a British spy agency is on the hunt for terrorists taking…
aim at England’s political leaders.In a vicious act of terrorism, four British government officials are blinded. With the prime minister as the next target, Department Z is called in. Now the race is on for Britain’s elite secret service to find the culprit behind the chemical attack. Because if the weapon is wielded again, world power will fall into enemy hands. Praise for John Creasey“A splendid achievement.” —The New York Times“Phenomenal.” —Life“Little appears in the newspapers about the Secret Service, but that little makes anything on the subject probable fiction. Mr. Creasey proves himself worthy of the chance.” —The Times Literary SupplementDeath on a Quiet Day (The Inspector Appleby Mysteries #Vol. 16)
Par Michael Innes. 2019
From a British Golden Age author “in a class by himself among detective story writers,” Scotland Yard Inspector Appleby helps…
a student solve a murder (The Times Literary Supplement).On holiday in the English countryside with his fellow university students, young David Henchman sets out alone for a hike across the moor. But instead of finding tranquil solitude, he stumbles upon a dead body. At first, David suspects suicide—until he spots a stranger on the moor. At the sound of gunfire, David flees for his life. Once Inspector Appleby heads to the moors, it seems as if Scotland Yard’s most respected detective might have the matter in hand. But things go south when Appleby discovers the corpse on the moor has been swapped with another dead body. With the investigation underway, are Appleby and David bound to become victims of some perilous game? Praise for Michael Innes and the Inspector Appleby series“Wickedly witty.” —Daily Mail“As farfetched and literary as Sayers.” —The Cambridge Companion to Crime FictionAppleby Talks Again (The Inspector Appleby Mysteries)
Par Michael Innes. 2019
From a British mystery author “in a class by himself among detective story writers,” eighteen classic crime stories, perfect for…
astute armchair detectives (The Times Literary Supplement).Scandal is at stake for London’s fashionable society when Edwardian playwright Richard Dangerfield’s sordid diary falls into the hands of a blackmailer. Though Dangerfield is long dead, those who consorted with him are all very much alive and at the respectable old age where they’d hoped such stories would follow them to their graves. Fortunately, Scotland Yard’s most brilliant inspector is on the case. Sir John Appleby wittily reveals his intellectual prowess in solving this crime, as well as seventeen other puzzling mysteries in this stimulating collection of short stories. From acclaimed Scottish author Michael Innes, Appleby Talks Again is a must-read for fans of classic crime fiction.Praise for Michael Innes and the Inspector Appleby series“Wickedly witty.” —Daily Mail“As farfetched and literary as Sayers” —The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction