TRISTE SOLITARIO Y FINAL
El libro se compone de tres relatos cortos, tres casos en los que el detective Cornelio Flores investiga una muerte, una desaparición y al destinatario de una extraña herencia. En el primero se adentra en el mundo del ecologismo, el segundo transcurre entre poetas, y en el tercero se sumerge en el mundo de la posmodernidad literaria. El autor cree que no hay que recurrir a la parodia para describir la realidad social tan ridícula y esperpéntica que actualmente sufrimos, que basta con dejar hablar a los que la habitan.
BYE, BYE HEIDELBERG
ROOM AT THE INN
Jeff Resnick is definitely out of his element when he and Maggie take a working vacation at a quaint Vermont inn. For most people, the chance to spend time with a beautiful woman in a romantic, isolated setting would be a plus, but the moment Jeff crosses the Sugar Maple Inn’s threshold, his sixth sense warns him that someone is about to meet a violent death. His anxiety intensifies when he travels on one of the local roads and he is nearly overwhelmed by feelings of impending doom. Ultimately, Jeff can only find respite in his brother Richard’s presence and it is only after one of the inn’s guests is murdered that Richard reluctantly becomes a third wheel on Jeff and Maggie’s trip. With their own lives at stake, Jeff, Maggie, and Richard must use all their wits and skill to bring a ruthless killer to justice. And if they don’t, one of them might just become the next victim.
LOS PIES DEL CIELO
POLICÍA (ADN)
Son agentes de policía. Polis de uniforme, los mismos que nos cruzamos a diario y de los que nunca se habla, hombres y mujeres invisibles. Una abrasadora noche de verano, Virginie, Érik y Aristide emprenden una misión poco habitual para ellos: escoltar a un extranjero hasta el aeropuerto para su expulsión. Pero Virginie, sumida en una tormenta personal, comprende que esta repatriación es sinónimo de muerte segura. Mientras circula junto a su paralizado pasajero, todas las certezas saltan por los aires. Hasta la confrontación final, en las pistas del aeropuerto Charles de Gaulle, donde las vidas de los cuatro darán un vuelco. El suspense de las mayores tragedias se despliega aquí en el transcurso de unas horas y en un tenso espacio cerrado: un coche patrulla en el que viajarán cuatro cuerpos, cuatro conciencias, cuatro tragedias personales. ¿Cómo ser uno mismo, cada día, a cada instante, en este mundo que nos ha tocado vivir?
LA BIBLIA PERDIDA
La Biblia perdida es un thriller trepidante y adictivo, cuya acción vertiginosa y giros inesperados arrastran al lector en un pasado histórico que se desvela antes nuestros ojos rico de vívidos detalles. El más oculto de los secretos está a punto de ver la luz y la conspiración que lo protege desde hace quinientos años va a ser finalmente desenmascarada. El profesor Charles Baker viaja a Sighisoara, en Rumanía , la ciudad donde nació el mítico conde Drácula, para asistir a una conferencia de los más famosos historiadores del mundo. Sin embargo, su verdadero propósito es otro: Baker se ha aventurado hasta el corazón de Transilvania para investigar el paradero de su abuelo, un coleccionista de antiguas y preciadas reliquias, misteriosamente desaparecido mientras buscaba una valiosa espada. Pero cuando tres cadáveres que parecen haber sido vampirizados son hallados con la tarjeta de Charles Baker a modo de aviso, sus planes sufren un giro radical. Baker se verá envuelto en una conspiración a escala mundial, cuyos orígines se remontan al año 1455 alrededor de un secreto que el mismo conde Vlad III ocultó en el primer libro impreso de la Historia, la Biblia de Gutenberg.
JEOPARDY SURFACE
JEOPARDY SURFACE marks the debut of a compelling new crime series featuring a one-of-kind protagonist and cutting-edge investigative techniques that will have you turning pages late into the night. It’s the witching hour and Special Agent Regan Ross is having a WTF kind of night. Morning? How the hell did she get from her bed to her front yard? And why is she holding a loaded firearm? Sleepwalking doesn’t bode well for the rising star in the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, but whatever is causing her recent weight loss and bizarre nocturnal activities will have to wait. The phone is ringing. It’s probably her sister Erin, the surgeon who knows best, demanding to know her plans for the holidays. Why would this year be any different? They’ll spend the somber anniversary and Christmas like always—drinking too much, watching Turner Classic Movies, and not talking about their dead parents. Caller ID provides yet another surprise. Hearing Special Agent Robert Haskins’ voice for the first time in six months has Regan reeling. The mention of Maryland’s Eastern Shore conjures images of Jennifer Abbott, the student-athlete whose disappearance from a small campus is national news. There are complications. For starters, her areas of expertise—geographic profiling and predictive analysis—require a lot of information from a series of crimes. Single murders typically aren’t her purview and involving herself in an investigation to which she has not been officially assigned will send the BAU chief’s blood pressure through the roof. She should say no, but she won’t. There’s too much residual guilt where Rob Haskins is concerned. Regan Ross knows bad, and this one is BAD. The killer has left the mutilated body and a cache of troubling clues at a remote farm and posted the coordinates of the cache on a popular geocaching website. Is he taunting investigators? Expediting the discovery of his work? Both? The calculated modus operandi and uniquely sadistic signatures are not the work of a novice, and Regan is sure of one thing: he will kill again. When visiting forensic psychologist Dr. Sheridan Rourke presents a lecture at Quantico featuring closed cases from Northern Ireland, Regan makes a shocking connection between an older series of murders and the Maryland case. Despite the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s insistence to the contrary, Regan and Rourke are convinced the killer of five women in Belfast two years ago is hunting women on the Chesapeake Bay. As the two become unlikely partners, Regan learns the psychologist’s past may be as haunted as her own.
THE ASTONISHING ADVENTURE OF JANE SMITH
“The door!” he shouted. “The door!” Every man in the room looked where Fifteen was looking. Above the water-lilies and the storks, where the top panel of the door had shown, there was a dark, empty space. The door was open. A girl, clad only in a night dress, is found walking in her sleep. Had she heard too much? Should she be “eliminated”? Jane Smith, an impecunious and intrepid heroine, finds herself in the wrong place at the right time, swept into an adventure which will include imposture, peril, romance and… murder. The Astonishing Adventure of Jane Smith, the first of Patricia Wentworth’s mystery novels, was originally published in 1923. This new edition features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. “When I pick up a book by Patricia Wentworth I think, now to enjoy myself—and I always do.” Mary Dell, Daily Mirror
DEVIL’S PLAYGROUND
Deputy Samantha Cody finally bagged her man. The jury's verdict: three counts of murder in the first with special circumstances and a recommendation of death by lethal injection. Only Judge Westbrooke's final decree stands between Richard Earl Garrett and death row. After three weeks of an exhausting trial and being haunted by images of the three sacrificially mutilated children, Sam's only wish is to wash her hands of Garrett, whose only defense is "the devil made me do it." Just as the chaos in Mercer's Corner settles down enough for Sam to focus on her dream of entering the world of women's professional boxing, the jury foreman and two members of the jury die under suspicious circumstances. When more murders occur, each with Garrett's signature, a cadre of characters flocks to the tiny California high desert town, from pseudo-Satanic followers to a crazed reverend with his First Church of God disciples. Soon the town is whipped into a lynch-mob frenzy, and Sam's world of hard facts and pragmatism has quickly spun out of control.
EL CERVELL DE KENNEDY
La tardor de l'any 2004, l'arqueòloga sueca Louise Cantor, que dirigeix unes excavacions al Peloponès, es disposa a tornar al seu país per participar en un seminari sobre els enterraments de l'Edat del Bronze. Té moltes ganes de veure el seu fill, Henrik, que viu a Estocolm. La vigília de la partença, un seguit de contratemps la duen a rememorar la ruptura amb el seu exmarit, Aron Cantor, que es troba en parador desconegut. Un cop a Suècia, quan entra a l'apartament de Henrik, ha d'afrontar una realitat que li costarà d'assimilar: el seu fill és mort. Els forenses dictaminen que es tracta d'un suïcidi, però Louise sospita que Henrik ha estat assassinat i vol saber la veritat. Se'n va a Austràlia per trobar Aron i gràcies a ell s'assabenta que Henrik tenia un pis a Barcelona, ciutat que decideixen visitar tots dos. Aquí comença una trama tenebrosa, relacionada amb la desaparició del cervell del president Kennedy. Després d'un llarg periple per Moçambic, Suècia i Espanya, Louise descobreix que l'ambaixada sueca a Moçambic, una organització africana que ajuda els malalts de sida i una important empresa farmacèutica hi estan implicades.
¿QUÉ PASÓ EN MACASTRE?
RICHARDSON SCORES AGAIN
In the hall he found the body of his maidservant, Helen Dunn, aged about fifty, lying on the floor near the telephone. She had bled profusely from a wound in the head and her body was cold. Richardson’s second case begins with a murder and robbery at a quiet house in Laburnum Road, and goes on to include an escaped parrot and a seemingly perfect crime which threatened a scandal to shock all England. Follow with Detective-Sergeant Richardson the fantastic story of an antiquarian’s nephew, a pseudo policeman, and a stolen car…search with him for a man wanted for murder…another who fainted at a political meeting…the Treasury note which, because of the name written on it, was a warrant of death. Packed with clues, excitement and humour, this mystery will be certain to thrill and satisfy even the most ardent devotee of detective fiction. Richardson Scores Again was first published in 1934. This new edition, the first in many decades, includes a new introduction by crime novelist Martin Edwards, author of acclaimed genre history The Golden Age of Murder. “Sir Basil Thomson’s tales are always good reading, and he has the knack of being accurate about Scotland Yard. His book is full of agreeable people, and his case is neatly put together.” Dorothy L. Sayers, Sunday Times “Few authors can claim such an intimate knowledge of Scotland Yard and criminals as Sir Basil Thomson, one-time Assistant Commissioner at the Yard. He provides subtle intrigue, clever deduction, and bright dialogue, and the whole combines to make easily the best mystery yarn that has come my way in recent weeks. No words are wasted in the fast-moving plot…This book must not be missed.” Referee
WHO KILLED STELLA POMEROY?
“There’s one thing which I daresay you noticed—that pair of slippers half kicked under the bath were of men’s size.” “Yes, I noticed that, too, and they were sprinkled with blood.” A man went calmly about his work while his wife lay dead in the house. After he is arrested and accused of the murder, doubt is cast regarding his guilt. Richardson is assigned the case. Richardson delves into the murdered woman’s strange background, and becomes convinced that the law is holding an innocent man. With dogged persistence and courage he pursues the sinister figure who dominated the terrible business. Will he, in the end, with the aid of an initialled handbag and an initialled hammer, bring the case to a successful end and finds the guilty person? Who Killed Stella Pomeroy? was originally published in 1936. This new edition, the first in many decades, features an introduction by crime novelist Martin Edwards, author of acclaimed genre history The Golden Age of Murder. “Sir Basil Thomson’s tales are always good reading, and he has the knack of being accurate about Scotland Yard…I find (Richardson) a most agreeable companion” Dorothy L. Sayers
PROGRESSIVE DINNER DEADLY
Retired octogenarian schoolteacher Myrtle Clover is fit to be tied when her book club votes to change to a supper club. Who wants chips and dip when they can have Dickens and Twain? The first supper club is a progressive dinner...where Myrtle loses interest during the hors d'oeuvres. But when a body is discovered during the main course, the evening quickly gets interesting. Myrtle pits her sleuthing skills against her police chief son's to find the killer....if the killer doesn't find her first.
SNEAK THIEF
Lia’s kindness to an orphaned beagle draws the attention of an obsessed killer…Lia's new friend Desiree has a secret admirer, one who leaves her tiny figurines sculpted from twisted aluminum foil. Lia worries about the man’s intentions but the pint-sized sex pot brushes off Lia’s concerns. When Desiree is murdered, Lia not only winds up with the woman's kleptomaniac beagle, she also inherits Desiree’s stalker. On the outs with Peter and with the police on the wrong track, Lia will have to rely on her wits and her friends if she wants to stay alive. (79,000 words)