Género policíaco y misterio

LA TENTACIÓN DE SAN VALENTÍN (ROVIRA LLACUNA, FRANCESC)

Uno de los casos que se le presentan al joven abogado Marc de Prim —un simple recurso contra la denegación de un permiso de obras— se entremezcla con la reaparición de un antiguo amor, con el descubrimiento de una red de políticos prevaricadores y con una misteriosa muerte en la que se ve involucrado, lo que da lugar a una trama en la que abundan la tensión y el erotismo. El propio protagonista narra la historia tiñéndola de cierto humor con el que, de paso que se ríe un poco de sí mismo, trata de ridiculizar a los responsables y a los beneficiarios de un tema tan actual como la corrupción política.

A NIGHT FOR SCREAMING ; ANY WOMAN HE WANTED (WHITTINGTON, HARRY;WILSON, DAVID LAURENCE)

A NIGHT FOR SCREAMING ? Mitch Walker is on the run. Just a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but his pursuer, Fred Palmer, has some very effective ways of getting a confession. So Walker hops a train and ends up in a small town in Kansas, where he hires on at a huge farm owned by Barton M. Cassel. It looks like a good place to hide out from Palmer and the local cops, but Walker soon finds himself torn between the scheming arrogance of his new employer, and the unsubtle advances of Cassel's willing wife, Eve. Caught between their jealous battle, Walker quickly discovers that he was better off when he was on the run?because one way or the other, nobody leaves the farm. ? ANY WOMAN HE WANTED ? Mike Ballard works homicide, busted down from lieutenant four years ago for accepting bribes. He had ripped things wide open then, turning on the fat cats whom he had been protecting. But nothing had really changed. Guys were still working the rackets, and shop owners were still getting killed if they didn't pay. DA Tom Flynn tries to enlist Ballard in his own fight against corruption--and dies mys

SILENT NIGHT VIOLENT NIGHT (VERBURG, CJ)

Cory Goodwin and Lilah Darnell were rebels and comrades-in-arts at Mount Holyoke College. Now Cory's a Boston journalist and a discreet private sleuth, and Lilah's the trophy wife of wealthy science publisher Bruce Easton. The mystery is why Lilah, a talented sculptor leading a charmed life, is desperate for Cory to visit her waterfront Connecticut home. At the Eastons' posh Christmas party for A-list authors and staff, Cory spots a scoop. Harvard biologist Henry Howrigan is rumored to be involved in a brewing conflict--but with whom? Does Olive Chute hope to lure him away to run Chute Labs? Will rising star Jeff Abels edge him out? Is Jeff sleeping with Bruce's secretary? Is Bruce sleeping with Henry's editor, Melinda Doerr? Were any of them involved in the drowning last summer of Bruce's son? A blizzard strands the party overnight--including the drunk and uninvited Tony Cyr, Melinda's ex-husband and Bruce's ex-partner. When a string of nasty pranks turns fatal, it's up to Cory--daughter of NY detective Archie Goodwin, and the group's only outsider--to trap the killer.

L’ÚLTIMA CONFIDÈNCIA DE L’ESCRIPTOR HUGO MENDOZA (CAMPS, JOAQUÍN)

L'atractiu professor de literatura Víctor Vega decideix acceptar la insòlita proposta que li fa la vídua de l'escriptor Hugo Mendoza: investigar si, encara que la seva mort va ser rigorosament certificada, el seu marit segueix viu...i esbrinar qui envia, cada 3 de desembre, un nou manuscrit de l'escriptor mort. Amb les seves perquisicions, Víctor desvelarà misteris que posaran en perill la seva vida, però ho farà acompanyat d'una bella i enigmàtica dona de la qual s'enamorarà irremeiablement. La Paloma, una histriònica experta en matemàtiques, i Santa Tecla, monja de clausura que a més és un geni informàtic, també acompanyaran en Víctor en aquesta trepidant novel·la plena d'enigmes. Joaquín Camps aconsegueix amb mestratge una trama entremesclada de misteri, de denúncia, d'amor. I de la seva implacable parella de ball: el desamor. Els seus personatges, d'allò més variats, tenen una força esquinçadora, que obliga al lector a mirar cap a la rebotiga interior que tots portem dins.

THE CASE OF THE MONDAY MURDERS (BUSH, CHRISTOPHER)

Murder on Mondays! Greatest prophecy of the century! T.P. Luffham was murdered!Ferdinand Pole of the Murder League claims that, since 1918, thirteen murders have been committed on a Monday. A sleazy economist has now been slain, followed the next week by a blameless actress?both on Monday. While the press have a field day, it is up to Inspector Wharton of Scotland Yard, along with his inspired amateur co-investigator Ludovic Travers, to see if London has a new Jack the Ripper at work. The eccentric parrot-owning Pole seems to be out to implicate himself in the murders, though whether this is bravado or fact remains very much in question . . . This sly, often satirical, whodunit shows a master of classic mystery on top form.The Case of the Monday Murders was originally published in 1936. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.Travers: ?As for my methods of crime detection?well, I haven?t any. For that my only tool is a brain that has been called agile, sharpened on crosswords rather than chess.?

LOS VÁNDALOS (CAÑIZARES MESA, FRANCISCO REINALDO)

El investigador, un personaje que vive obsesionado por la delación que realizó en el pasado sobre su ex novia, Margarita, en la Universidad y que lo ha llevado a realizar una búsqueda infructuosa en los lugares que visitan las lesbianas y los gay, se ha convertido en un hombre despreciado por sus compañeros que lo acusan de homosexual y pervertido y que no comparten su sistema. La desaparición de una muchacha que dos personas diferentes han visto entrar a la misma hora a dos lugares distintos hace que le encomienden el caso. Él lo acepta porque supone que la muchacha perdida es Margarita. Delaciones, corrupciones, vicios, crímenes. Todo se ve incluido en el barrio Condado, de Santa Clara, donde se mueve la trama, reflejo de una sociedad decadente donde el brazo de la ley y la justicia están cada vez más lejos y donde los personajes se mueven semejantes a los de una feria de vanidades. Novela negra, injusta, humana, de final inesperado y de pasión y muerte como última frontera.

COMPLOTS AU VATICAN, I : LE DERNIER PAPE (ROCHA LUIS MIGU)

29 septembre 1978 : le pape Jean-Paul Ier est retrouvé mort dans son lit, trente-trois jours après son élection. Officiellement, il est mort d'un infarctus. Le secrétaire général du Vatican empêche toute autopsie et précipite l'embaumement du corps... Londres, 2006 : la jeune journaliste portugaise Sarah Monteiro trouve dans son courrier une étrange liste de noms. Quelques minutes plus tard, elle échappe de justesse à une tentative d'assassinat grâce à l'intervention d'un certain Rafael. De l'Angleterre au Portugal, des Etats-Unis au Vatican, Sara et Rafael se retrouvent confrontés à une mystérieuse organisation prête à tout pour les éliminer : quels secrets cherche-t-elle à protéger ?