Género policíaco y misterio

ESPEJOS TURBIOS,LOS (MARÍN RAFAEL)

Cuando en la fiesta universitaria de Navidad un apurado Angelito Fiestas es testigo de un asesinato en los servicios femeninos de la facultad, recurre al único detective aficionado que conoce y puede echarle una mano: el ex-boxeador amnésicoTorre. Los problemas se complican porque el cadáver desaparece, sin pruebas no hay delito, y Angelito ha visto la cara del asesino: nada menos que uno de los prohombres de la ciudad, decano de la universidad, ensayista de éxito y Rey Mago en la inminente cabalgata del 5 de enero. La investigación improvisada de ambos los lleva a adentrarse en la psique torturada de un criminal en serie que vive una doble vida de la que quizás ni siquiera es consciente y, al mismo tiempo, a intentar desenmascarar al asesino antes de que continúe matando a aspirantes a estrellas eróticas en los mundos ocultos de internet. De aquella manera, claro, que Cádiz es mucho Cádiz y Torre es mucho Torre...

EL HÁBITO Y LA SERPIENTE (BRACAMONTE CONDE, MANUEL)

¿Por qué aquella serpiente la persigue en sus sueños? La imagen de Alberto desnudo sobre un charco de sangre no deja de atormentar a Cristina. su cuerpo frío sin vida no volverá a estar junto a ella. la investigación de este homicidio pone a prueba el temple de su personalidad, la cual comienza a vulnerarse producto de su orgullo y una espiral de mentiras que la llevan a ser su propia víctima.

THE WAVES BREAK GRAY (GIORELLO, SIBELLA)

Everyone has a plan, until life crashes in Raleigh Harmon earned a brazen reputation during her years with the FBI. Now, having parted ways with the Bureau, she hopes to rebuild some of those broken relationships?including a new romance with alpha-male agent Jack Stephanson.That's the plan ? But when a dead body literally crosses her path in the mountains of Washington state, Raleigh?s forced to choose between her personal life and her forensic skills to track a killer--a killer unlike any she?s ever encountered, and a murder with clues that don't add up.When she realizes the killer will strike again, Raleigh knows the only way to stop another murder is to put herself at the top of the killer?s list.With innocent lives on the line, and the FBI watching her every move, can Raleigh save another innocent girl from a gruesome end--or will she only wind up with more regrets,?and literal dead ends?Praise for the Raleigh Harmon series: ?Giorello has won the Christy Award and has received two Pulitzer Prize nominations. When you read this book, you?ll see why.? ?Booklist, Starred Review ?Read her for her wonderfully

BACKSTRAP (DUN, JOHNNIE)

CAN YOU FIND REDEMPTION IN A CORRUPT WORLD? -- That?s the question for Callie Byrne, a street savvy Iraq vet recently out of drug rehab for heroin addiction, trying to reignite her life and regain custody of her son. Bartending in Philadelphia when a friend gets entangled with her ex-dealer, Callie must navigate the underground world of drug and sex trafficking between the jungles of Guatemala and a shady Manhattan leather import business. Backstrap is a morally complex tale of the ordinary and harrowing decisions that define the lives of two young women connected across America?s borders and struggling with their own guilty pasts, dreams of new life, and the acts of sacrifice required of them.

HOMETOWN HOMICIDE (CRIGGER, C. K.)

Former soldier, Frankie McGill has returned home from Afghanistan minus half of her left foot and with a plate in her head. After some months in medical care, she?s ready to take on the new battle of finding and holding a job. But not just any job. Frankie is a combat-trained paramedic. When all she can find is a position in the small, mostly volunteer fire department of her old hometown, Frankie is immediately plunged into much more than dealing with her own trauma and holding down a job. She moves into a duplex that the previous tenant abruptly abandoned and quickly discovers someone has some dark secrets to hide?and they don?t care who they have to kill to keep them hidden. Will Frankie?s military training and experience be enough to save her life?

THE PLEASURE CRUISE MYSTERY (FORSYTHE, ROBIN)

?What?s the matter?? Vereker asked breathlessly, and at the same moment realised that the mass lying at Ricardo?s feet was the body of a woman. ?Has she fainted?? ?It?s Mrs. Mesado, Algernon,? replied Ricardo, ?and if I?m not mistaken, she?s dead.? Algernon Vereker?s best friend Manuel Ricardo is looking forward to a cruise on the luxury liner Mars, and persuades an overwrought Vereker to join him. Once on board, Ricky?s mind is on romance while the amiable and eccentric Vereker is keener to relax with a cigar and a good book ? until murder at sea means an abrupt detour into spine-chilling mystery. Vereker starts to investigate Mrs Mesado?s demise, which presents many baffling features ? beneath borrowed gloves, the lady?s hands were cut and bruised; and where was the diamond necklace she had been wearing earlier that evening? These and other conundrums must be solved before Vereker can bring the culprit (or culprits) to justice, but as Ricky sagely observes: ?half the fun of eating a nut is cracking the shell?. The Pleasure Cruise Mystery (1933), a light-hearted but lethal maritime whodunit, is the third

THE HIGH PRIESTESS CARD (ATKINSON, BEVAN)

Xana Bard is recovering nicely from her fractured ankle when DeLeon Davies bursts into the East-West Cafe and tells her that his sixteen-year-old daughter has been kidnapped by a cult. How will Xana and Thorne Ardall, the man her mother refers to as Xana?s "thug swain," rescue DeLeon?s daughter Netta? Xana and Thorne conspire against the cult?s female autocrat, who calls herself Renenet, ?goddess incarnate of prosperity and abundance,? and in the process they learn just how perilous organic farming can be.

DEAD….IF ONLY (HAVEN, HEATHER)

A man who should be dead isn?t and Lee Alvarez?s very pregnant sister-in-law, Vicki, is about to be charged with a murder he recently committed in the Big Easy.? Aided by the rest of the Alvarez Family, Palo Alto?s favorite P.I. kicks the Voodoo in the Who Do throughout New Orleans. With only three days to clear Vicki?s name, a child is kidnapped, two more people wind up dead, a hurricane hits, and the clock never stops ticking....??Book Four of the Alvarez Family Murder Mysteries?

GODSEND SERIES 1-5 (ELLIOTT, K.)

Brian Cathcart and Inell "Echo" Harrison set out to solve missing persons cases and cold case homicides that the police have given up on, and they don't give a damn about any laws that may be broken along the way. Godsend Investigative Services will get results for the right price.? In this 5-story edition, which is a compilation of the first five books in order, Brian and Echo will cross paths with a war vet who has PTSD, an FBO criminal profiler who sells information, a Mexican gang that kidnaps children, a construction worker who is dying for a good fist fight, a few rappers who also pose as robbers of fancy restaurants, a murderous cop who has been promoted to detective, a Middle-Eastern terrorist couple, and a reverend who has a radio station and a deadly past. But even with this heads-up notice, you still won't be prepared for this violently savvy thriller series and its constant, over-the-speed-limit pace.

A DYEING SHAME (CRAIG, ELIZABETH SPANN)

When Beauty Box beautician Tammy Smith is discovered with a pair of hair shears in her back, there are suspects and secrets aplenty in her small Southern town. Octogenarian Myrtle Clover, bored by bingo and bridge, is intrigued by the crime...and her neighbors' secrets. But discovering, and blabbing, secrets got Tammy killed and Myrtle soon learns her sleuthing isn't just dangerous...it's deadly.

LADY SHERLOCK (WACHTEL, BROOKS ARTHUR)

LADY NATASHA (TASHA) DORRINGTON, an emancipated and brilliant detective in 1906 London, is drawn into a deadly mystery involving an ancient pagan curse and a diabolical scheme to plunge Europe into a devastating war. An Admiralty courier is murdered, and plans for the Dreadnought -- a new battleship that will upset the balance of naval power -- are stolen. All evidence implicates Great Britain's international rival: Germany. Tasha is summoned to help solve the crime. She is thus observed by DEIRDRE, the Priestess of a malevolent cult intent on exacting vengeance on Western Civilization for the long-ago decimation of her religious sect. Cleverly leveraging the greed of giant armaments firms in England and Germany, Deirdre plans to frame Germany in an attack on the Dreadnought. In her arrogance, Deirdre decides to simultaneously engage Tasha in a contest of wits. The story moves from fog-bound London to a desolate island off the coast of Scotland. Deirdre manipulates Tasha's overconfidence, crafting a mystery to lure her into a labyrinth of false leads, lethal traps, and an unexpected romance. As