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Accident or suicide? That's the simple question put to Inspector Michael Green when a derelict stranger falls to his death from an abandoned church tower in a quiet river village at the edge of his jurisdiction. But when the victim turns out be a long-lost son of a local farm family cursed in recent years by tragedy, madness, and death, Green begins to suspect something far more sinister is at work. Probing the family's past, he uncovers a toxic mix of rigid fundamentalism, teenage rebellion, and a family secret so horrific that 20 years later, someone is still desperate to prevent the truth from coming to light.

One man finds himself torn between two cultures in this sweeping tale of frontier life in post–Civil War era Texas. In the years following the American War Between the States, the once vacated military presence in west Texas is on the rise to protect the waves of settlers moving into the region. Living peaceably with the Mescalero Apache, half-breed former military scout Holton Lang promotes the tentative harmony between the US cavalry and the Native American population.

Set during the 1920s, Elvira De Poulain, a Spanish painter based in Paris, receives news that her estranged husband, now running the family textile business in China, has died in his house in Shanghai under strange circumstances and that she must make appropriate funeral arrangements.

When a top secret program of implanting harrowing memories into innocent people comes to light, neurosurgeon Tom McCarthy is literally caught in the crossfire. While McCarthy looks forward to a three day weekend, his office is suddenly raided by two Department of Defense investigators bent on arresting him for a crime he didn’t commit.

What could possibly connect the famous sinking of the Titanic in 1912 and a WWII German U-boat loaded with a mysterious cargo? In this tribute to the 100th anniversary of the famous disaster, Chris Angus takes the reader on an adventure that includes shipwreck survivors, stolen treasures, a race across the Arctic and a century-old journal that holds the key to the connection and solving the mystery.

El inspector Marcial Lisón, un peculiar policía cuyo único amigo de verdad es su inseparable galgo, se verá obligado a retomar una investigación que le explotó en la cara cuando, a mediados de la década de los noventa, tan solo era un simple agente a las órdenes del inspector Villanueva. Cuando Lisón ve el cuerpo desnudo de Enma, la mujer de Villanueva, sentado frente a la mesa de la cocina, con dos tazas de café y el dedo anular amputado, ya sabe que el asesino del café ha vuelto.

Anne Mason thinks she'll be safe living in the Midwest building a wind farm. She may be dead wrong. Someone is dumping bodies in her corn field and telling Anne they are gifts - for her! As the body count rises, Anne realizes a cold-blooded serial killer is patiently waiting and watching her every move. And he won't stop until he ends her life. It is clear there are no limits to this killer's thirst for revenge or how far he will go to get it.

When Grady Bowman and his new girlfriend, Julia Elkins, travel from San Francisco to the Far East to get Grady back into the gem business, a jeweler in Bangkok tells them the extraordinary true story of two female Japanese pearl divers who discovered in the Andaman Sea an oyster bed filled with priceless, naturally blue pearls. The divers were murdered for what they found, and now the son of one of the divers wants revenge. As Grady and Julia hunt for the source of the priceless pearls, they are led to the estate and oyster farms of the world's wealthiest pearl dealer.

"Así era Edimburgo: reservada, autosuficiente y mortal si le plantabas cara". El inspector Rebus intuye que el suicidio de un indigente, el hallazgo de un cadáver emparedado en la sede del futuro Parlamento de Escocia y el asesinato del candidato laborista podrían estar conectados. En cuanto Rebus comience a atar cabos, se topará con una Edimburgo en plena transformación cuyos hilos, sin embargo, son manejados por los mismos viejos malhechores de siempre. El autor de negra más famoso y probablemente más exitoso de las islas.

Claymore Straker is trying to forget a violent past. Working as an oil company engineer in the wilds of Yemen, he is hijacked at gunpoint by Islamic terrorists. Clay has a choice: help uncover the cause of a mysterious sickness afflicting the village of Al Urush, close to the company's oil-processing facility, or watch Abdulkader, his driver and close friend, die.

Eager to escape his complicated past, Calvin Gates boards a train bound for Inner Mongolia, where he plans to join an archaeological dig. Also en route to the Gilbreth Expedition is Sylvia Dillaway, a beautiful young artist with a fierce independent streak. The two Americans become unwitting players in a high-stakes game of international intrigue when Sylvia's Australian guide gives her a silver inlaid cigarette case containing a coded message.

Wilson Hitchings is ready to assume his rightful place at Hitchings Brothers, one of the oldest mercantile banks in China. His first task takes him to Hawaii, where he must persuade his cousin Eva to close Hitchings Plantation, a gambling establishment started by her father, the black sheep of the family. The senior members of the bank believe that the casino is tarnishing the venerable Hitchings name. Little do they know how right they are.

Madrid se ha convertido en la ciudad peligrosa. En los barrios se respira un ambiente de miedo y tensión entre las diferentes comunidades. En los barrios altos, los problemas son muy distintos, la corrupción política y los sobornos empresariales impiden que las cosas cambien.

Dopo l’attentato subito da Veronica proprio nel giorno del loro matrimonio, il commissario Buonvino, straziato dal dolore, indaga insieme agli intrepidi e scombinati agenti del commissariato di Villa Borghese per capire se, colpendola, gli ignoti criminali hanno voluto mandare un segnale a lui o se nella vita di sua moglie si nasconde qualcosa che giustifichi una vendetta tanto efferata. Intanto, a piazza di Siena viene ritrovato il corpo di un uomo crivellato di proiettili, come se si fosse ritrovato davanti a un plotone d’esecuzione.

Tras su regreso del Amazonas, las cosas no han ido bien para Ulises, Cassie y el profesor Castillo. El relato de lo que han vivido en Ciudad Negra resulta tan extraordinario que son tachados de farsantes y denostados públicamente. Lo que debería haber sido un gran triunfo, se convierte en un dramático revés. Para demostrar que dicen la verdad y recuperar sus vidas, no les quedará más remedio que adentrarse de nuevo en lo desconocido en busca de las pruebas irrefutables que necesitan.

Unos extraños versículos bíblicos son la única pista para detener a un asesino en serie, en una carrera contrarreloj. La tranquila vida de la ciudad de Castellón se ve alterada por un macabro asesinato, el de un hombre cuyo cuerpo aparece brutalmente mutilado en un piso del centro. Para resolver el caso, el comisario Romales pide ayuda al inspector Bartolomé Monfort, con quien ya colaboró en el pasado, como se narra en Asesinato en la plaza de la Farola.

El tranquilo pueblo de Rockport se despierta con la noticia de la desaparición de uno de sus habitantes más ancianos. Varias patrullas ciudadanas rastrean el pueblo en su busca, pero no consiguen encontrar una sola pista. Al amanecer del día siguiente, el cadáver mutilado y desangrado de un joven desconocido aparece en la playa. Comienza a extenderse el rumor de que no existe ser humano ni animal conocido que sea capaz de un ataque tan brutal....

Puerto Deseado, Patagonia Argentina, 1991. Raúl necesita dos trabajos para llegar a fin de mes. Cuando apaga el despertador para ir al primero de ellos, sabe que algo va mal. Su pequeño pueblo ha amanecido cubierto por la ceniza de un volcán y Graciela, su mujer, no está en casa. Todo parece indicar que Graciela se ha ido por voluntad propia... hasta que llega la llamada de los secuestradores. Las instrucciones son claras: si quiere volver a verla, tiene que devolver el millón y medio de dólares que robó. El problema es que Raúl no robó nada.

Thomas Anderson, un joven científico afincado en Washington, está a punto de culminar una investigación que podría cambiar el curso de la medicina moderna. Un proyecto de más de diez años que supondría el mayor descubrimiento del siglo XXI. Pero su situación anímica y personal no es la más idónea, por lo que aprovecha un congreso médico que se celebra en Las Vegas durante el fin de semana para escapar de la rutina habitual.

Nothing seemed to stop the little monsters. I shot a second time, wounding or killing another, and then dropped the gun to the ground. I pulled a slender blade from under my belt, and whipped it at the little men. Another couple of strikes against my legs brought me level with the filthy floor of the alley, my fine clothes being soiled by the trash of the Big City-and although I sliced and diced deeply into the bodies of several of my attackers, I knew that I was doomed to lose this particular battle in the end. There were just too many of them: they would either kill or severely injure me.