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Author
Series
Publisher
Editorial Edaf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Por mi gran culpa quizá sea la primera y única novela narrada y protagonizada por Dios. Adán y Lidia --que en realidad se llama Eva-- son una pareja que de repente ve truncada su aparente felicidad después de recibir una inesperada llamada. Tras ese incidente, Eva, que durante el tiempo que ha compartido con Adán se ha hecho pasar por otra persona, ocultando su verdadera identidad, se ve obligada a huir precipitadamente para tratar de evitar...
42) Specimen days
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, & Giroux
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Lucas, Catherine, Simon: three characters meet time and again in the three linked narratives that form Specimen Days. The first, a science fiction of the past, tells of a boy whose brother was devoured by the machine he operated. The second is a noirish thriller set in our century, as a police psychologist attempts to track down a group of terrorists. And the third and final strand accompanies two strange beings into...
43) Hap and Leonard
Author
Series
Hap and Leonard volume 12
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Complete with an introduction by New York Times bestselling author Michael Koryta and an original afterword by Joe R. Lansdale, his ownself, HAP AND LEONARD delivers six previously uncollected tales of mayhem, violence, and adventure told in the uniquely Lansdale manner. Soon to be a television miniseries starring Michael K. Williams (The Wire), James Purefoy (Rome), and Christina Hendricks (Mad Men). Hap and Leonard dont fit the profile....
Author
Series
Mick Hardin novels volume 3
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Mick Hardin is back in the hills of Kentucky. He'd planned to touch down briefly before heading to France, marking the end of his twenty-year Army career. In Rocksalt, his sister Linda the sheriff is investigating the murder of Pete Lowe, a sought-after mechanic at the local racetrack. After another body is found, Linda and her deputy Johnny Boy Tolliver wonder if the two murders are related. Linda steps into harm's way just as a third body turns...
45) The tenant
Author
Series
[Copenhagen series] volume 1
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When a young woman is discovered brutally murdered in her own apartment, with an intricate pattern of lines carved into her face, Copenhagen police detectives Jeppe Korner and Anette Werner are assigned to the case. In short order, they establish a link between the victim, Julie Stender, and her landlady, Esther de Laurenti, who's a bit too fond of drink and the host of raucous dinner parties with her artist friends. Esther also turns out to be a...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A vivid new cast of characters collide in gritty 1990s Brooklyn, in this latest from acclaimed neo-noir author William Boyle. In City of Margins, the lives of several lost souls intersect in Southern Brooklyn in the early 1990s. There's Donnie Parascandolo, a disgraced ex-cop with blood on his hands; Ava Bifulco, a widow whose daily work grind is her whole life; Nick, Ava's son, a grubby high school teacher who dreams of a shortcut to success; Mikey...
Author
Publisher
Down & Out Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Bobby Saxon lives in a world that isn't quite ready for him. He's the only white musician in an otherwise all-black swing band at the famous Club Alabam in Los Angeles during World War II--and that isn't the only unique thing about him...And if that isn't enough to deal with, in order to get a permanent gig with the band, Bobby must first solve a murder that one of the band members is falsely accused of in that racially prejudiced society."--Page...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Hard-boiled, fast-talking Quinn, a Seattle cop turned PI, faces new challenges in her edgy second outing. Quinn has scored a job with Vincent Ainge, a mitigation investigator who helps keep convicted serial killers off death row. She's also taken on her first case as a PI: finding Eileen Jones, a popular, attractive 18-year-old who vanished from her job in Vincent's office building.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fresh, smart, and fast-paced revenge thriller about a college basketball player who discovers shocking truths about his family in the wake of his father's murder. Victor Li is devastated by his father's murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father's things. In it, his father admits that he was never just a restaurateur, in fact he was part of a vast international crime syndicate that formed during China's leanest communist...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In 1959 Montana, when a fatal car accident shatters his world, 10-year-old Lucas finds himself confronting crime and vengeance, humor and heroism, all against the backdrop of growing up during the Space Race, the brutal racism of segregation and the hope of a new generation to move us forward.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future with the love of her life. This sapphic period piece will dazzle anyone looking for mystery, intrigue, romance, magic, or all of the above. An exiled augur who sold her soul to save her brother's life is offered one last job before serving an eternity in hell. When she turns it down, her client sweetens the pot by offering up the one payment she can't resist-the...
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
1970, Ciudad de México. Maite trabaja como secretaria, pero solo vive para una cosa: la siguiente entrega de ±Romance secreto. Las protestas estudiantiles y la inestabilidad política asedian la ciudad, pero ella se evade de todo gracias a esas maravillosas historias de pasión y riesgo. La vecina de la puerta de al lado, una atractiva estudiante de arte llamada Leonora, parece llevar una vida repleta de intriga y romance, algo que Maite envidia....
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Don Carpenter's Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good - a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Phoenix, 1933: A young city with big dreams and dark corners. Great War veteran and rising star Gene Hammons lost his job as a homicide detective when he tried to prove that a woman was wrongly convicted of murder to protect a well-connected man. Now a private investigator, Hammons makes his living looking for missing persons--a plentiful caseload during the Great Depression, when people seem to disappear all the time. But his routine is disrupted...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Most nights PI Jack Coffey can be found hanging out in smoky Greenwich Village jazz clubs with well-known mobsters, jazzmen, and hoods. So, when an uptown financier calls him in for a job, it seems like he's headed for tonier climes. But it turns out the view from Louis Garrett's lavish penthouse overlooks the same vice-ridden Manhattan streets, which explains why he's so desperate to find his missing teenage daughter, Lucy. When Jack's search for...
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The stunning new noir thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Missing One and The Other Child ... Professor Olivia Sweetman has worked hard to achieve the life she loves, with a high-flying career as a TV presenter and historian, three children, and a talented husband. But as she stands before a crowd at the launch of her new bestseller she can barely pretend to smile. Her life has spiraled into deceit, and if the truth comes...
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