Género policíaco y misterio

MISSING BELIEVED DEAD (LONGMUIR, CHRIS)

Missing children! Internet predators! Dead bodies!She crossed his arms over his chest and placed the jade beads in his eyes. 'To remind you of me,' she said.Jade was 13 when she disappeared, five years ago, and DS Bill Murphy suspects someone from her family is responsible for recent Dundee murders. But is it her mother, Diane, who now suffers from OCD? Or Emma, her twin sister, who was catatonic for a year after Jade's disappearance. Or Jade's brother, Ryan, who enjoys dressing in women's clothes and is going through a sexuality crisis, unsure whether or not he is gay.What happened to Jade? Is she alive or dead? Or has she returned to wreak a terrible revenge on all male predators?Chris Longmuir is an award-winning novelist. Night Watcher, the first book in the Dundee Crime Series, won the Scottish Association of Writers' Pitlochry Award, and the sequel, Dead Wood, won the Dundee International Book Prize, as well as the Pitlochry Award.

SECRETS CAN’T BE KEPT (PUNSHON, E.R.)

Deep in bucolic Wychshire something dreadful is stirring ??The disappearance of a club-footed and inquisitive youth leads to a tangle involving two instances of stolen jewels, a water-colour which may be the most remarkable picture ever painted ? and eventually to the discovery of a body in a forest with ?a smell of rotting, a smell of things decaying?. The scene abounds with the intense, the afflicted, and the darkly humorous in classic Punshon style. But the murderer himself is on a collision course with fate ? aided of course by Inspector Bobby Owen.Secrets Can?t be Kept was first published in 1944, the twentieth of the Bobby Owen mysteries, a series eventually including thirty-five novels. This edition features a new introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.?What is distinction? ? in the works of Mr. E.R. Punshon we salute it every time.? Dorothy L. Sayers?A fine example of sound detective work without sensationalism.? New York Times Book Review

THERE’S A REASON FOR EVERYTHING (PUNSHON, E.R.)

With a slow gesture of one lifted hand, Bobby pointed. There, in a space between the prostrate stag and posturing goddess, was a human leg, a twisted, motionless leg in a strained, unnatural position. Bobby Owen, now Deputy Chief Constable of Wychshire, finds himself taking part in a ghost hunt at legendary haunted mansion Nonpareil. What he discovers is the very real corpse of a paranormal investigator. It seems that among the phantoms there are fakes ? but will that end up including a priceless painting by Vermeer? There?s a Reason for Everything was first published in 1945, the twenty-first of the Bobby Owen mysteries, a series eventually including thirty-five novels. This edition features a new introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. ?What is distinction? ? in the works of Mr. E.R. Punshon we salute it every time.? Dorothy L. Sayers ?No fictional policeman deserves professional advancement more than solid, intelligent Bobby Owen. It?s gratifying to learn he?s now deputy chief constable of Wychshire and equally gratifying to know that his promotion doesn?t keep him from investigating suc

IT MIGHT LEAD ANYWHERE (PUNSHON, E.R.)

?Give me gossip or Sherlock Holmes, and I take gossip every time. The detective?s first aid and ever present help in time of doubt.? Why should anyone want to murder a man like Alfred Brown? Yet slain he was, in his own home and with a poker. The murder seems to be connected to a bout of religious fervour gripping the village of Oldfordham ? in particular a battle royal between the Reverend Alexander Childs, and his nemesis Duke Dell, boxer turned revivalist preacher. But Deputy Chief Constable Bobby Owen has numerous other local suspects, and local gossips, to contend with in a puzzler of a case that indeed might lead anywhere. It Might Lead Anywhere was first published in 1946, the twenty-second of the Bobby Owen mysteries, a series eventually including thirty-five novels. This edition features a new introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. ?What is distinction? ? in the works of Mr. E.R. Punshon we salute it every time.? Dorothy L. Sayers

THE DARK GARDEN (PUNSHON, E.R.)

Late in the afternoon a man, unidentified, had been seen to throw a glove into the Midwych, Wychshire and Southern Canal? Osman Ford said he would kill the lawyer Mr. Anderson. So when the latter is found dead, with a bullet in the back, the disagreeable Mr. Ford is top suspect. But the lawyer?s office was also a cauldron of repressed feelings, and not all the staff are sorry to see the lawyer?s demise. In particular, Inspector Bobby Owen fears the dark, brooding clerk Anne Earle. Will her quest for justice lead her to a terrible fate of her own, amid family secrets and lies? The novel combines a satisfying whodunit with elements of the fantastic and macabre, and contains some of Punshon?s best set-pieces. The Dark Garden was first published in 1941. It is the sixteenth of the Bobby Owen mysteries, a series including thirty-five novels. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. ?What is distinction? ? in the works of Mr. E.R. Punshon we salute it every time.? Dorothy L. Sayers

NIGHT’S CLOAK (PUNSHON, E.R.)

?I?ve got to hurry,? Bobby said. ?Mr Weston has been found dead from a knife-wound in his study.? It?s not easy for a county police Inspector to handle prominent local citizens diplomatically, while getting on with the real work of crime detection. But it?s particularly hard when Bobby Owen finds himself the victim of a sinister swindle worked by a millionaire business executive. Not to mention the machinations of a radical political movement, a secretary with a puzzling alibi, and a young scientist-inventor, willing to do anything, even murder, to put his schemes into action ? Night?s Cloak was first published in 1944, the nineteenth of the Bobby Owen mysteries, a series eventually including thirty-five novels. This edition features a new introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. ?What is distinction? ? in the works of Mr. E.R. Punshon we salute it every time.? Dorothy L. Sayers ?[The] very best British brand ? deftly portrayed ? air-tight? Saturday Review

TRAS LA HUELLA DE CRISTO (REICHS KATHY)

El cadáver de un judío ortodoxo ha aparecido en Montreal. Durante la evaluación forense, Temperance Brennan recibe la fotografía de un esqueleto, clave importante en la investigación: la víctima habría sido un traficante de antigüedades, y el esqueleto una pieza hallada en una excavación arqueológica. Inopinadamente, Brennan destapará una intriga que se remonta a la época de Jesús, y que podría dar un vuelco espectacular a la historia de Occidente, algo que lógicamente entraña un peligro mortal para todos los involucrados.

EN LA OSCURIDAD – 10 EUROS-RUSTICA (RANKIN IAN)

Edimburgo está a punto de convertirse, al cabo de casi tres siglos, en anfitriona del primer Parlamento escocés, un hito histórico y político que enciende pasiones. El inspector Rebus ha sido destinado al comité de enlace de seguridad del Parlamento, en Queensberry House, centro mismo del distrito de la comisaría de St. Leonard. De Queensberry House, futura sede del gobierno de la nueva Escocia, perdura la maldición de una leyenda, una maldición que según algunos recaerá sobre los nuevos inquilinos.Los problemas empiezan cuando, en la antigua chimenea donde de acuerdo con la leyenda murió asado un joven, aparece el cadáver de Roddy Grieve,candidato a un escaño en el nuevo Parlamento.

TOO NEAR THE EDGE (OSTERKAMP, LYNN)

When park rangers find Adam's crumpled body 300 feet below the rim of the Grand Canyon, they think he was one more careless tourist. But back home in Boulder, Colorado, his grief-stricken wife Sharon is sure he was murdered. She won't rest until she knows why he was so troubled in the month before he died. Over the objections of her prominent father, she turns to grief therapist Cleo Sims, who runs a project that re-unites people with dead loved ones. Despite threats and warnings, Cleo takes on the challenge to help Sharon contact Adam and solve the mystery of his death. She gets extra encouragement from Tyler, a surfer-dude spirit who visits her from beyond, offers cryptic advice, and pushes her to "ride the wave" with Sharon. In this hip mountain community where high tech meets new age, their investigation involves suspects whose activities range from traditional to cutting-edge to over-the-rainbow. Tension mounts as Cleo's digging uncovers a sinister underbelly of scams, fraud and deceit. Her professional reputation and her life are on the line as she struggles to sort reality from illusion, good fr

VICIOUS DOGS (BROCK, HENRY)

Down-and-out P.I. Derek Lasker hopes his luck has taken a turn for the better when he lands a case with Bob Linehan, a client who believes his potentially psychotic teenage son, Bob Jr., is the culprit of a heinous crime. Lasker follows the teen into Toronto's dark underworld of violence and crime, realizing too late that he's got his eye on the wrong psychopath. It's a grave mistake that could cost him dearly. But will it cost him everything?

THE LUCKIEST WOMAN EVER (GODDIN, NELL)

A widow in a mansion. Dark secrets. And poison, deadly poison. After amateur detective Molly Sutton stumbles on a dead body, she wastes no time before eavesdropping and elbowing her way into conversations all over the French village of Castillac. But when Chief Dufort is about to clap handcuffs on the wrong man, she?s got to do more than chat to save him. Will she have the stuff?and the skill?to pull it off?? The Luckiest Woman Ever?is the second book in the Molly Sutton Mystery series. (Though you learn more about Molly and her friends reading the books in order, the mysteries are standalone.) If expertly woven cozy mysteries, characters with depth, and detectives with a taste for French food are your thing, Nell Goddin's tales of murder will be right up your alley.

THE PRISONER OF CASTILLAC (GODDIN, NELL)

What if Valerie is still alive? Virtually no one in the village of Castillac holds out any hope. It has been seven years, after all. Seven years since the popular, mischievous Valerie Boutillier disappeared without a trace. The exertions of the gendarmes, led by Chief Dufort, yielded almost no clues, and his failure to solve the case had been one of the main reasons he quit the force. But then a shred of evidence appears. It might be nothing. But Molly Sutton isn?t afraid to grab hold of it and take it as far as she can. Will a shred be enough?? And if Valerie?is?still alive, how will Molly and Ben ever find her in time?