THE HOUSE OF GODWINSSON (PUNSHON, E.R.)
Bobby Owen stood for a time in silence, looking down thoughtfully at the dead man?s face. A small, insignificant face, lacking even that touch of repose and dignity which death, even violent death, so often gives, and one that Bobby had never seen before. Of that at least he was sure. Yet this same man was found dead with a detailed and accurate plan of Bobby Owen?s new London flat. Why? The plot soon thickens when a man with a grievance against Bobby turns up to identify the dead man ? But Bobby will need many more beads on the thread before he understands the murderous connection to an old Army Officer, and what necessitated the death of a ?burglar?. The House of Godwinsson was first published in 1948, the twenty-fifth 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
JAZZ EMPIRE (PÉREZ MUÑOZ, ANDREA)
NOTES FROM HELL (BUKEY, RACHEL)
When Seattle Times reporter Ann Dexter scores an interview with Franco Albanese, rock star of the modern opera world, she is thrilled. Don Giovanni in art, Don Juan in life, this charismatic man easily charms all women he meets, including Ann. But when Franco is kidnapped and Ann is contacted by the kidnapper who wants her to publish the truth about Franco, she launches her own investigation into his past exploits. Ann interviews a cast of characters from Franco?s life including former lovers, a jealous husband and a young opera singer whose star is on the rise. Armed with new information and determined to rescue Franco, Ann puts herself in danger and must use her wits to deal with an adversary whose grasp on reality evaporates almost as quickly as Ann's strategies to escape. ?In a thrilling climax, Ann gets one chance to free the opera singer from his hellish imprisonment. Will she take it? Notes from Hell is a carefully crafted mystery of intrigue and suspense, packed with operatic drama and passion.
LA ESTRATEGIA DE LA ARAÑA . EL MAL NUNCA VENCE (MUÑOZ ARCOS, MANUEL)
JUVE IN THE DOCK (ALLAIN, MARCEL;ALLINSON, ALFRED)
Fantomas having just escaped into the sewers of Paris, Juve and Fandor find themselves with few clues to go on until the great detective is approached by a Committee of Insurance Companies against Theft with a mission?to protect a secret document which details the precise location of the jewels of Empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III. Knowing Fantomas will try to steal this priceless treasure map, Juve sets a trap for the Arch-Criminal in the pleasure resorts of the Parisian suburbs in this, the thirty-fourth book of the series.
MAREA DE SANGRE (JOSÉ LUIS MUÑOZ)
En invierno Playa de Aro es una urbe fantasmal. Dos aparentes suicidios sacuden el marasmo hibernal de la población. Ismael Ortiz, jefe de la policía local, se coge a ellos para huir de una rutina que lo está matando lentamente y de una esposa alcoholizada. Pero no es asunto suyo, como le advierte el teniente de la Guardia Civil Abel González, un nostálgico de los viejos tiempos. El policía municipal, ayudado por una de sus agentes, no suelta la presa y sigue, pese a quienes se empeñan en obstaculizarlo, con la investigación de esas dos muertes que está convencido nada tienen de fortuitas. Marea de sangre es una novela en la que se dan cita crímenes del pasado, sin resolver, con los del presente. Una narración hipnótica que avanza a medida que se desentraña una intrincada madeja en la que aparecen políticos corruptos, banqueros sin escrúpulos, agentes de la ley que miran hacia otro. lado, testaferros rebeldes, prostitutas tiernas, narcotraficantes violentos y pied noir sin alma, fauna microbiana que tiene rápido desarrollo en las charcas de nuestras costas. Pero es también un concienzudo estudio de personajes, con sus bajezas, contradicciones y doblez moral, y una acertada descripci?n de la sociedad espa?ola del a?o 1988, ?vida de dinero f?cil a cualquier precio.?La trayectoria narrativa de Jos? Luis Mu?oz es lo suficiente amplia y fruct?fera que, sin lugar a dudas, podr?amos calificarlo como uno de los autores contempor?neos m?s importantes, y mejor valorados, del panorama literario espa?ol de las ?ltimas d?cadas?. (Pedro M. Domene en Cuadernos del Sur).
SHANKS ON CRIME (LOPRESTI, ROBERT)
"I don't know anything about solving crimes. I just make things up." So says mystery writer Leopold Longshanks. But somehow true crime keeps finding him and, reluctantly, he keeps getting involved. In these thirteen stories by award-winning author Robert Lopresti, he investigates murders, con games, his own mugging, a kidnapped horse, and the theft of a first edition of The Maltese Falcon. Oh, and his own murder. Fortunately, that killing turns out to be fictional.
EL LADRÓN DE SECRETOS (LÓPEZ-PACIOS NAVÍO, LOURDES)
L’HOME DEL LLAC (INDRIADASON ARNALDUR)
El nivell de l'aigua d'un llac baixa tot de sobte després d'un terratrèmol. L'absència d'aigua descobreix un esquelet mig enterrat en el llit de sorra del llac. La calavera té un orifici. Encara més estranya és la presència d'un gros aparell de ràdio amb inscripcions en rus. Erlendur, Elinborg i Sigurdur Oli inicien una investigació que els porta fins a l'època de la guerra freda, quan els estudiants d'esquerres més brillants eren enviats a estudiar a l'Alemanya Oriental. La trama mescla un cas d'assassinat amb les esperances de la joventut i l'espionatge internacional. Caldrà força temps, no obstant, abans que aquest episodi mostri tots els seus caires, els seus secrets, i que les diverses traïcions que es van cometre siguin venjades. L'home del llac descriu passions i somnis, el destí de gent desapareguda i el dolor dels que es queden enrere.
L’ULTIMA CAUSA PERDUDA (LEHANE DENNIS)
Quan va desaparèixer del seu barri de Boston ara fa 12 anys, l'Amanda McCready només en tenia quatre. Les demandes desesperades de la tieta de la nena van convèncer els detectius privats Kenzie i Gennaro de fer-se càrrec del cas. El resultat va ser el retorn de la nena a una llar desestructurada i a una mare negligent. Ara l'Amanda té 16 anys i ha tornat a desaparèixer. Estudiant brillant, potser un pèl distant, semblava destinada a escapar de les coordenades marcades per la seva naixença. Per això, la tieta de l'Amanda torna a trucar a la porta de Kenzie. Tem el pitjor. Amb cert sentiment de culpa, Kenzie i Gennaro revisen un cas que els va torbar profundament. La recerca els porta a un món de lladres d'identitats, traficants de metamfetamina, el cap psíquicament inestable d'una banda de delinqüents i la seva no més estable dona, una creu antiquíssima de valor incalculable i un feliç homicida rus. És un món on les raons i les aliances varien constantment i els errors són fatals. En la seva lluita desesperada per enfrontar-se al passat i retrobar l'Amanda McCready, Kenzie i Gennaro es veuran obligats a plantejar-se si estan fent el correcte. Mentre s'enfronten a una mena de maldat més enllà de les famílies i els somnis trencats, descobreixen que no sempre els pecats del passat romanen enterrats i que els crims del present poden acabar amb les seves vides.
LA DAMA DE CACHEMIRA . SERIE MÉNDEZ IV (GONZÁLEZ LEDESMA, FRANCISCO)
Perseguir a Méndez por el Barrio Chino de Barcelona en donde el mundo se ve, se sueña y se prostituye desde una esquina es una tarea imprescindible. El policía más célebre de los bajos fondos de la novela negra y criminal española persigue por esas calles una silla de ruedas desde la que se ha cometido un crimen. Una aventura de mujeres que sueñan con viajar y que el único viaje que se pueden permitir es soñar. Pero también una aventura sentimental en la que Méndez, catador de las delicias que se apostan en los portales del barrio, acabará por admitir que otra cosa, muy distinta, es el amor, ciencia y cortejo para el que no está preparado. Nunca se dejará sorprender, porque siempre le cogerá huyendo. Una novela de Méndez que es como Méndez: un tipo de insospechada ternura, un policía de fidelidad radical a su propio universo. Premio Mystère a la mejor novela negra publicada en 1986 en Francia, es la prueba irrefutable de que para Méndez, aunque pasen veinticinco años, el tiempo no deja de ser un accidente inoportuno
SHADY HOLLOW (BLACK, JUNEAU)
Deep in the forest is a place where woodland creatures live together in harmony. Moose and mice, owls and bears, and many more call the charming village of Shady Hollow home. All is well, until a toad is found floating facedown in the millpond. It?s something these folks haven?t seen before: a murder. Foxy reporter Vera Vixen is new in town. She has a nose for news and catches the scent of a story, one that leads her to dark places. As she stirs up the still waters, the fox exposes more than one mystery, and the folks in Shady Hollow learn that some of their neighbors are shifty, while others are downright dangerous. Vera finds more to this shady town than she ever suspected. Someone in the Hollow will do anything to keep her from solving the murder. It will take all of Vera?s cunning and quickness to come out alive.
NIGHT OF THE FURIES (SWEET, ROBY)
The tiny village of Brooksford, Maryland, doesn?t seem to be the sort of place where everyone has a skeleton in their backyard, but that is almost exactly what is discovered when an archaeology project brings to light one set of remains after another. And these are not just any remains: they are bodies buried in a way that makes modern residents wonder?and fear?what happened to their ancestors two centuries ago. When the dig?s director is found dead?apparently murdered?more questions arise ? such as, who hated him enough to plunge a trowel into his heart? ? Rory Roberts and her cat, Miss Cuddlywumps (a.k.a. Miss C) are there once again to sort out the clues, this time with the help of an unwanted houseguest. As Rory bumbles about in her usual random way, Miss C puts her classical education to work to narrow down a list of suspects and systematically investigate them. Clearly, the modern murder is the work of a Fury, one of those horrible goddesses of the underworld who come to pursue the wicked. But which of the likely suspects was furious enough to be the guilty Fury? And what might the mysterious deaths
LOS ANILLOS DE LA MEMORIA (SIMENON, GEORGES)
HEGORIK GABEKO TXORIAK (JOSÉ JAVIER ABASOLO)
Mikel Goikoetxea, Goiko ezizenaz ezagunagoa, hilketa-ikerlari hoberenetako bat izan zen garai batean, baina ikerlari gisa lan eginez ateratzen du bizimodua Ertzaintzan lan-baimena eskatzera behartu zutenetik, halako batean, pederasta-sare bateko kidea izateko salaketa faltsu baten ondorioz, lana, fama eta emaztea galdu baitzituen. Goikoetxea gizartean bazterturik dago, eta lankide-ohi batzuek besterik ez diote laguntzen noizean behin bezeroak bidaliz. Hala, egun batean Bilboko notario ezagun bat agertzen zaio Goikori bulegoan bere emaztearen heriotza iker dezala eskatuz, erail egin dutelako susmoa baitu.Goikoetxeak hasieran notarioari askorik sinesten ez badio ere, laster ikusiko du emakumearen heriotza tragikoaren atzean sare arriskutsu bat ezkutatzen dela, nobelako orri jakingarrietan agertuz joango dena.