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30 y 31 de mayo de 1949. Francisco Franco visita Barcelona en un clima callejero de euforia y rendición a la dictadura. Pero no todos piensan lo mismo y en esos dos días, silenciado por la prensa, en la ciudad estallan hasta diez bombas. Miquel Mascarell, ya casado con Patro, recibe la visita de la hija de un antiguo compañero de comisaría. Según la joven, su padre ha sido asesinado, aunque su muerte quiere hacerse pasar por un accidente. Decidido a buscar la verdad y sin saberlo, Miquel va a meterse en el ojo del huracán, descubriendo sin pretenderlo un complot para asesinar a Franco.

Reconstrucció dels assassinats comesos en 1949 per John George Haig, un assassí en sèrie que, en ser detingut, va confessar que era un vampir que necessitava alimentar-se de sang humana. Els jutges van sospitar que s'estava fent passar per boig per eludir la condemna de mort i, després de moltes deliberacions, el van enviar a la forca. Narrada en primera persona, la novel·la és una minuciosa aproximació als fets reals i exactes que van succeïr al mateix temps que reflexiona sobre la demència i sobre el crim i va amanit amb l'homenatge a tres mestres....

Mysteriöses ereignet sich in Dartmoor: Auf der adligen Familie Baskerville scheint ein Fluch zu lasten. Der exzentrische Kriminologe Sherlock Holmes...

In 1566, Elizabeth Tudor faces tremendous opposition from Parliament for ruling England without the help of a husband. Instead, she turns to her Privy Plot Council for help, only to discover from her royal herbalist that a woman has drowned in a tub of starch. Soon another garment worker meets the same rigid fate. Elizabeth becomes unbending in her attempts to solve the murders, as well as iron out the problems of her kingdom.

The vibrant pageant of Elizabethan England comes to life in Karen Harper's fifth novel in her acclaimed Elizabeth I Mystery Series. Hailed as "extraordinary" by The Los Angeles Times, these historical mysteries beautifully blend fact and fiction as the young Queen Elizabeth Tudor becomes an amateur sleuth to save her court, crown, and kingdom. Though summering in the lush countryside to escape the plague rampaging through London, the queen and her court cannot escape the reach of a multiple murderer who seems to disappear at will. In the gardens of Hampton Court, Elizabeth proudly shows a famed visiting lawyer her huge hornbeam maze. But the intricate labyrinth soon becomes a scene of horror as Elizabeth herself is attacked and the lawyer is murdered within its leafy dead ends. The queen calls upon her small, select band of advisors to help her ferret out the identity of the maze murderer.

A Southern gambler hunts a killer in the thick of the first great battle of the Civil War. It's July 1861, and both the Union and Confederate armies expect to win the war within 24 hours. For Harrison Raines, a Southern dandy ensconced in DC society, it's time to choose a side. Though Raines loves Virginia, he hates slavery with a passion. And joining either army would mean leaving Washington and deserting the beautiful Caitlin Howard.

Sobredosis de intriga y flores muertas en el nuevo caso del inspector Monfort. En mayo de 2008 el grupo indie Bella & Lugosi realiza un exitoso tour que termina en el nuevo Auditorio de Castellón. Antes de cantar el último tema, una versión de los Rolling Stones, el vocalista, Joan Boira, se retira un momento al camerino, del que ya no saldrá con vida.

Un turbio asesinato perturba la apacible ciudad de Castellón de la Plana... Castellón de la Plana. Un vagabundo aparece brutalmente asesinado en el cajero de una oficina bancaria de la céntrica Plaza de la Independencia, conocida popularmente como la Plaza de la Farola. El inspector Bartolomé Monfort se traslada desde Barcelona para trabajar en el caso, a petición del jefe de la Policía de la capital de La Plana.

Parisian summers are for strolls in the park...and solving a murder or two. When American sleuth Rachel Levis stumbles upon an employee of the French national library strangled in the bathroom of a cafe, she's not surprised to be asked to help with the investigation by her old acquaintance Capitaine Boussicault - after all, she and her best friend Magda solved a tricky murder only 18 months before. But right from the start, this case proves to be très difficile.

Le nouveau polar de Marc Laine, l'auteur révélé par Franck Thilliez ! Un an après s'être confronté au mal absolu, Maxime exerce désormais au sein de la prestigieuse DRPJ de Versailles. Espérant trouver quelque salut dans sa nouvelle affectation parisienne, il continue d'affronter les sombres démons qui l'assaillent chaque nuit. Honni par son chef, il trouve pourtant grand réconfort en la présence de son nouvel équipier, Antoine. Toujours consumé par la plus noire des colères, il devra pourtant apprendre à maîtriser sa rage s'il ne veut pas perdre le combat qui l'attend au cœur de la Brie profonde.

Les Doges, un lieu-dit au fin fond des Cévennes. C'est là qu'habite Gus, un paysan entre deux âges solitaire et taiseux. Ses journées : les champs, les vaches, le bois, les réparations. Des travaux ardus, rythmés par les conditions météorologiques. La compagnie de son chien, Mars, comme seul réconfort. C'est aussi le quotidien d'Abel, voisin dont la ferme est éloignée de quelques mètres, devenu ami un peu par défaut, pour les bras et pour les verres. Un jour, l'abbé Pierre disparaît, et tout bascule.

Lorsque Nico Sirsky, chef de la brigade criminelle du 36 quai des Orfèvres, est chargé de l’enquête sur le corps congelé d'une fillette retrouvé dans un square parisien, il sait qu'il ne s'agira pas d'une enquête ordinaire. Quand d'autres cadavres apparaissent, et qu'il s'avère que ces meurtres sont les copies conformes d'homicides commis par de célèbres tueurs en série, il comprend qu'il lui faut aller vite pour arrêter un tueur extrêmement organisé et dangereux.

Harrison Raines struggles to keep the Civil War from overtaking the West. It's 1862, and the Civil War hangs in the balance. Although the Union has beaten back the Southern armies in the East, the Confederacy is intent on opening new fronts to the west - and perhaps securing British support to widen this ugly conflict into a world war.

It's been years since Harrison Raines set foot in Richmond. Although a proud Virginian, he fled the South before the Civil War, unable to bear the evil of slavery. In 1862, battles rage on all sides of the Confederate capital, but Raines is not here as a soldier - he comes as a spy. Union intelligence, led by the formidable Allen Pinkerton, has sent him to steal the plans for a rumored Confederate superweapon: a seagoing ship clad entirely in iron that could break the Union blockade and turn the war around.

Harrison Raines is caught in no-man's-land - and suspected of murder. The messenger finds Harrison Raines in one of the finest gambling halls in Washington. As usual, Raines is losing. Union intelligence demands his presence immediately - it's a matter that could affect the outcome of the Civil War - but Raines delays. He's holding four eights, and as a Southern dandy who renounced his family to serve the Union government as a secret agent, Raines can't resist a bet.

Harrison Raines hunts for a savage double murderer on the killing fields of Shiloh. General Grant's army is camped along the Tennessee River, ready to deal a crushing blow to the South. If they are able to capture Corinth, the Confederacy's railways will disintegrate, bringing its army to its knees. But first, Grant must pass through the crucible of Shiloh - the most fearsome fight of the Civil War.

Un antieroe con molte macchie e poche paure è il protagonista di una nuova serie noir anticonvenzionale, ironica e cattiva Maria, l’adorata nipotina del boss della Sacra Corona Unita Nino De Guido, detto ‘Zi Nino, è stata rapita. Un solo uomo può ritrovarla, uno a cui non è rimasto niente da perdere perché ha già perso tutto, un fantasma. Mazzacani è un bandito, un cane sciolto, uno che non si è mai affiliato alla Sacra Corona, e per questo è stato punito. La sua banda è stata massacrata e lui è fuori dal giro.

James Burden has unexpectedly inherited Shotlander Priory after his cousin dies mysteriously. Little does he know that the old Prior, crossing the worn threshold for the last time, had called down a curse on those who were to take over the property. 'By fire and water,' he had said, 'your line shall perish.' They had seemed the foolish words of an old and dying man. For nearly four hundred years, the descendants of Sir James Burden had held the property, though it had never passed from father to son. Until now.

Un equipo de arqueólogos que investiga la erosión costera en la bahía norte de Norfolk se pone en contacto con la doctora Galloway al hallar seis cuerpos enterrados al pie de un acantilado, todos ellos muy deteriorados por el paso del tiempo. Ruth y el detective Harry Nelson se unen una vez más para desentrañar el pasado, aunque la situación es de lo más incómoda, porque Nelson debe evitar a toda costa que su esposa Michelle sospeche de la relación que hay entre ellos dos.

La historia comienza con el Dr. John Watson, que se instala en Londres para recuperarse de una herida que sufrió mientras actuaba como médico militar durante la Segunda Guerra de Afganistán. Por una serie de casualidades del destino, Watson conoce al excéntrico detective Sherlock Holmes. Ambos acabarán viviendo juntos, resolviendo un caso de asesinato y formando una de las parejas más reconocidas de la literatura. Luis Roberto Guzmán es el encargado de narrar esta novela protagonizada por Sherlock Holmes, personaje creado por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.