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Geraldines judgment is sharp. But this case cuts deeper than most.When Peter Selby vanishes after reporting a suspicious encounter, few take notice until a man is found brutally stabbed in a quiet York suburb. Detectives Geraldine Steel and Ariadne Croft begin to investigate, but what looks like a random act of violence soon unravels into a dark and deeply personal mystery. As they dig into the lives of the victims, the emotional landscape grows increasingly fractured.Peters wife is guarded, their daughter erratic and angry. The second victims family are cold, evasive, and seemingly determined to keep the past buried. Then a second disappearance throws everything into chaos. With each revelation, the detectives uncover layers of resentment, betrayal, and psychological trauma lurking behind the neat façades of domestic life.Under mounting pressure, and with Ariadne in growing danger, Geraldine must navigate a maze of fractured relationships and shifting motives before the killer strikes again. Taut, unsettling, and emotionally charged, this psychological crime thriller exposes the darkness beneath the surface and the human cost of secrets left to fester.

EL MEJOR AMIGO. EL PEOR ENEMIGO.La épica historia de la persona que cambió el destino de Roma.Roma, 121 a. C. La República se tambalea en medio de una grave convulsión política marcada por la violencia en las calles y los asesinatos de senadores. Lucio Cornelio Sila, un joven patricio, es desheredado por su padre, pues este lo considera indigno del legado familiar por su vida disoluta. Despreciado por la alta sociedad romana y obligado a valerse por si mismo, debera aprender a manejarse con astucia y sin escrupulos para recobrar la buena fortuna en un mundo donde reinan la lucha por el poder, la traicion y la supervivencia del mas fuerte, lo que pondra a prueba su lealtad, integridad y ambicion. Pero este solo sera comienzo de su epico viaje desde la irrelevancia social hasta lo mas alto del gobierno, donde Sila transformara la faz de Roma para siempre.En su primera novela, Alvaro Pavon captura la esencia de la antigua Roma antes del Imperio, mostrando el lado mas sordido de su sociedad, su politica y sus personajes, e inicia una epica trilogia sobre la historia del hombre que, antes de Julio Cesar, dinamito la Republica y marcho sobre Roma para instaurar una cruel dictadura.

UN FENÓMENO COREANO, CON MÁS DE UN MILLÓN DE EJEMPLARES VENDIDOS, QUE HA CONQUISTADO CORAZONES EN TODO EL MUNDO: UN REFUGIO ÍNTIMO SOBRE EL AMOR, LA PÉRDIDA Y LA FUERZA DE VOLVER A EMPEZAR.Siempre fuiste tu es una coleccion de ensayos que habla del amor, del desamor y de lo que significa crecer: una lectura intima, cercana y profundamente reconfortante que se convertira en tu refugio personal. El escritor y poeta Ha Tae-wan nos ofrece una serie de textos breves y conmovedores que exploran las relaciones en toda su complejidad. Con un estilo sencillo y directo, captura la intensidad de la juventud y el primer amor: la euforia del comienzo, el vacio de la ruptura y, finalmente, el proceso de aceptacion y sanacion. Con una escritura llena de sensibilidad, el autor muestra el recorrido emocional de la vida moderna. Cada pagina nos recuerda la belleza que puede encontrarse en los momentos mas simples y nos invita a aceptar tanto las emociones alegres como las dolorosas. Entre la esperanza y la nostalgia, Siempre fuiste tu muestra lo que tantas veces sentimos y no sabemos expresar, ofreciendo comprension, consuelo y la certeza de que el dolor tambien puede transformarse en fuerza.

Madison is quiet, intelligent, and dependent on Oliver. He is narcissistic, selfish, and lives a dangerous life. Too dangerous for Madison. But when she is suddenly asked to pretend to be his girlfriend, she has no other choice... Bestselling author Ayla Dade writes a heartwarming friends-to-lovers romanceMadisons dream of studying law is coming true. But she has a problem: to keep up at NYU, she needs Ritalin. And the only one who can get it for her is Oliver. Afraid that this fact will become public and she could lose her place at university, she avoids him as much as possible.But Oliver has completely different problems. His mother is about to kick him out of the Plaza Hotel, which he needs for his business, because of his criminal secrets. So he blackmails Madison into playing his sensible fake girlfriend. What he didnt count on were his feelings...Shattered Trust is the third part of the East Side Elite trilogy by Ayla Dade. The volumes are loosely connected and can be read independently of each other.

In Hamburgs troubled Wilhelmsburg district, Prosecutor Chastity Riley investigates a brutal double murder amid corruption and gentrification. Battling personal demons and powerful foes, she fights to expose a citys dark secrets.____In Wilhelmsburg, Hamburgs so-called problem area, an American couple is found brutally murdered in a derelict villa.Prosecutor Chastity Riley is assigned the case, and quickly finds herself waist-deep in a murky tangle of city planners, shady investors and vanishing officials. The gentrification machine is rolling on, and someone is sending a very clear message.As November fog settles over the city, Chastity is coughing up blood, her personal life is a slow-motion disaster, and her former colleague, Faller, wont stop interfering. But nothings going to stop her from cutting through the lies not even the sharks circling ever closer.Dark, caustic and piercing, Sharks is a searing investigation into greed, power, and the price of resistance in a city devouring itself, from one of Germanys finest, most original crime writers.______

Neal Stephenson, en medio del desierto y bajo la protección de mezcalito, habla con un escorpión que le ofrece un arma para los niños perdidos del futuro. SH00TER es la historia de esos niños perdido

The Isle of Seven Cities isnt where its supposed to be, it doesnt have seven cities except when it does, and its disorienting even to those who live there. But its also the best lead to how magic came back to the world, so journalists Innis Stuart and Karsten Roth are en route to Seven Cities to dig up the biggest story of their lives.

Crimea, 1854: Sevastopols inhabitants taunt the besieging forces that keep them trapped behind defensive walls. So begins Leo Tolstoys depiction of nine months of battle and bravery, based on his own experiences in the Crimean War.This new translation by acclaimed translator Nicolas Pasternak Slater introduces us to long-suffering citizens, vain hussars and the courageous Kozeltsov brothers - one jaded and pragmatic soldier, one naive and hungry for glory. Enduringly vivid, profoundly ironic, Tolstoys portrayal of the stumble from triumph to disaster captures the absurdity at the heart of conflict.

The day Clara started her new (dream) job as an assistant to her photography idol, she was met with an assumption that caught her off guard and stunned her silent. Suddenly, she has to bring a girlfriend to the gallerys opening in a few weeks all because she choked up and failed to correct her boss that she is, in fact, straight.Evan was recently dumped by her fellow teacher fiancee for a mutual co-worker and is still trying to figure out where it all went wrong. So when she gets the news the happy new couple will be hosting the staffs holiday party, she feels utterly horrified by her single status and looks for a quick solution.Together, these two life-long friends make a plan to get through the gallery opening and holiday party by pretending to date one another. Easy... right?That is until Clara starts developing real feelings for Evan, shocking herself. All the while Evan realizes that perhaps pretending to date your straight best friend, who youve had a crush on for half your life isnt the best idea.

Una emotiva y evocadora novela sobre el paso de la infancia a la edad adulta.Verano de 1972. La pequeña localidad costera de Fiumetto vibra con la inercia del llamado milagro económico italiano. Las vacaciones parecen infinitas y las playas se llenan de familias. Para el pequeño Gigio Bellandi el mundo todavia es un lugar calido y lleno de certezas. Durante esos dias luminosos descubrira la magia electrizante de la musica, el placer por la lectura y aquello que le hace especial: la obsesion por el lenguaje y las palabras. Pero a medida que se abre paso en el una sensibilidad precoz, todo cuanto le rodea comenzara a adquirir contornos nuevos e inseguros.La historia de Gigio tambien es la de quienes le rodean. Sus padres, figuras miticas y contradictorias el, encantador y carismatico pero no exento de flaquezas; ella, que oculta una voluntad volcanica, su brillante hermana pequeña Gilda, su tio Giotti guia silencioso hacia una libertad que apenas empieza a intuir y, sobre todo, Astel Raimondi, la muchacha de trenzas negras como onice cuya presencia sera suficiente para cambiarlo todo. Con ella, Gigio vivira el despertar del amor.Pero en medio de la efervescencia veraniega, del rumor del mar y de las vivencias de la infancia, algo se quiebra. El asesinato del niño Ermanno Lavorini, el ataque terrorista en los Juegos Olimpicos de Munich a manos del grupo Septiembre Negro y la amenaza latente de una violencia nueva anuncian una realidad en la que ya no hay lugar para la inocencia. Decadas despues, Gigio intentara recomponer aquel verano fundacional y construira un relato intimo sobre lo que ya no se puede recuperar cuando crecemos.Septiembre negro es una cautivadora historia sobre el agridulce transito hacia la edad adulta, al mismo tiempo relato personal y retrato coral de una generacion que crecio bajo la sombra de un pais en transicion. Con una prosa envolvente y una aguda sensibilidad para retratar una epoca, el aclamado autor de El colibri vuelve con una obra repleta de emocion y belleza.

UM ROMANCE HOT E ENVOLVENTEE se o amor fosse a maior reviravolta da sua vida?Helena chega a Paris com um único objetivo: focar nos estudos e manter o coração protegido. Determinada, ela sabe exatamen

As people fight to survive the aftereffects of more than a dozen meteor strikes, a group of wealthy individuals conspires to rebuild the United States as a corporate entity called the New Confederacy, where the bottom line is law. As a second civil war rages, with families fighting against families on opposite sides, Union president Samuel T. Sloan battles to keep the country whole.To help in the fight for unity, Union Army captain Robin "Mac" Macintyre and her company of Stryker vehicles are sent after the ruthless "warlord of warlords," an exGreen Beret who rules a large swath of the West. But defeating him will be even more difficult than she thought. The warlord is receiving military assistance from Macs sisterand rivalConfederate major Victoria Macintyre. And when the siblings clash in the war-torn streets of New Orleans, only one of them will walk away.

Obsession and depravity shatter suburban life and academia in this compelling double dose of psychological suspense, pairing two complete novels and two rare short stories, from six-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Joyce Carol Oates. Perfect for readers of Margaret Atwood, Shirley Jackson, and Donna Tartt.CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF PSEUDONYMOUS SUSPENSE FROM JOYCE CAROL OATESFour decades ago, acclaimed literary author Joyce Carol Oates penned her first novel of psychological suspense under the name "Rosamond Smith." In the Smith books, Oates explored themes of betrayal and deception, lust and murder, through stories involving twins, doubles, and hidden second identitiesinitially, keeping her own double identity a secret.Hard Case Crime is proud to bring these extraordinary works of crime fiction, long unavailable in bookstores, back into print in definitive double editions, each pairing two complete novels and two never-before-collected Oates short stories, all linked thematically, to weave a sinister web filled with dark reflections.In This Volume...A model suburban husband grows obsessed with a beautiful stranger in DOUBLE DELIGHT, while an eminent professor preys on a vulnerable student in NEMESIS and the echoes continue in the rare short stories "A Girl Worth Twenty Million" and "First Death."

Lady Ruby Ballimore has had enough of the Marriage Mart. After offending yet another Marquess, Ruby flees London for the holiday house of a glamorous yet absent princess. Armed with a forged invitation and her like-minded friends, Ruby arrives in Cornwall expecting a summer of freedom.Instead, shes greeted by a derelict mansion and the most suspiciously charming man shes ever met. Privateer turned con artist Captain Malcolm Archer has dragged his crew into posing as staff at the princesss estate. Its the perfect cover for Archers smuggling scheme (not to mention free rent). That is, until a feisty London heiress crashes the party.As sparks fly, deceptions run wild - because in this Great Cornish Fake Off, the only thing riskier than telling the truth is falling in love...

Set in what may be the future, and centred on six women sharing a space in some sort of crumbling apartment tower, Ruins, Child is remarkable for its irresistible sweep, wit, and prickly splintered truth. Giada Scodellaros novel is like a precious old mirror: dropped, looking up at you, flashing light and bits of the undeniable. With the pulsating sway of its liquid mosaic narrative, the novel may recall Virginia Woolfs The Waves, but is entirely its own animal: kaleidoscopic, pointedly disorienting in its looseness, and powered along by snatches of speech from its compelling ensemble cast, often vernacular, often overheard. Its a book seemingly drawn from deep wells of Black American reality: Scodellaros female protagonists push back against authority in the very vivacity of their telling, setting afoot a freeing-up and a mysterious inversion of marginalization. A surreal musing, Ruins, Child uses the lens of urban infrastructure, social commentary, folklore, choreography and collective listening to create an ethnography of place and an ode to communal ruins.

Todo empezó mucho antes de la primera víctima.En Galicia, una serie de muertes sacude a la policía. Todo apunta a un asesino frío, meticuloso y con una obsesión clara por el control. Mientras la inspectora Sabela Novoa y su equipo avanzan en una investigacion contrarreloj, la novela retrocede al origen del horror: un niño que, desde muy pequeño, muestra una inquietante fascinacion por la muerte.Capitulo a capitulo, Roto desde la cuna alterna la caza policial con la reconstruccion de una infancia marcada por la violencia, el silencio y la impunidad, revelando como ese niño se convirtio en un adulto capaz de matar sin remordimientos.Un thriller de pulso true crime que sigue el rastro del asesino desde su primer crimen hasta el ultimo error que puede delatarlo.En Roto desde la cuna, Ivet Nuñez se adentra en la mente de un asesino desde su infancia para explorar una pregunta incomoda: ¿el monstruo se hace o se nace?

Spenser may have uncovered an explosive secret that threatens the career of a controversial figure, in this latest installment of Robert B. Parkers beloved series.Vic Hale isnt anyones idea of a father figure. He is one of the biggest and loudest podcasters in the nation and got there by spewing overheated rhetoric thats reviled by some but loved by even more. His particular brand of entertainment is so successful, hes about to sign the biggest contract in the history of online broadcasting. Vics riding high... until he gets a visit from Spenser, who specialises in bringing guys like Hale back down to Earth.Spenser is there on behalf of Daniel Lopez, a young man who believes Hale may be his father. Its a potentially explosive revelation for a man in the podcasters position and it might even be enough to blow up his massive new deal. That could explain the bodies that start popping up bodies connected in one way or another with the mystery surrounding Daniels birth. There are a lot of questions remaining, and Spensers going to have to find the answers before someone shuts Hale or Daniel up for good.

Boston PI Sunny Randall investigates a popular book critic on a mean streak... only for her to wind up dead, in the latest thriller in Robert B. Parkers bestselling series.World famous author Melanie Joan Hart asks for Sunnys help in tracking down Book Babe, the screen-name of an enormously popular book reviewer, who has trolled her with a deeply insulting one-star review. This usually wouldnt matter except that Book Babe has thousands of followers, and her unwarranted blast has Melanies publisher threatening to pull all her books.But Sunnys investigation reveals that the reviewer and Melanie have a rich history in fact, she may even have good reason to hate the torn-up author. And when Book Babe suddenly turns up dead, casting Melanie as a possible suspect, Sunny finds herself in a complicated web, which, if she cant untangle fast enough, might just put a target on her back.

Police Chief Jesse Stone finds himself in the crosshairs of a rich hedge fund manager dead set on making Paradise Jesses personal Hell, in this latest installment of Robert B. Parkers beloved series.Fresh off an acquittal in a multi-billion-dollar fraud case, Ramsey Devlin doesnt think the law applies to him. This becomes apparent when Jesse finds him passed out, drunk, and on the side of the road in a Maclaren worth more than most peoples homes. After Devlin takes a swing at him and Jesse swiftly dumps him in the drunk tank, Jesse realizes hes made an enemy.Devlin makes it his lifes mission to use his money and influence to provoke Jesse. And thanks to a few big campaign donations, hes got Jesses nemesis, Gary Armistead, the mayor of Paradise, on his side. Devlins even got Molly Crane, Jesses deputy chief, wanting to act on her violent urges.Jesse has every reason to want Devlin out of his town. But when he vanishes, and bloodstains are found on the carpet of his monstrous seaside mansion, Jesse finds himself the main suspect in Devlins disappearance. Suspended from his position as chief, Jesse must solve the case and prove his own innocence... or he might be the one to wind up behind bars.

15 brand-new short stories inspired by and in honour of legendary writer Ursula K. Le Guin. Featuring Ann Leckie, Karen Joy Fowler, Charlie Jane Anders, Kelly Link, Ai Jiang and many others.Revolution in the Heart is a collection of 15 brand new stories by a group of celebrated authors, all inspired by one of the iconic figures in all of science fiction and fantasy: the legendary and award-winning Ursula K. Le Guin.From the appearance of her first work of short fiction in 1962 to the publication of the last in 2016, Ursula K. Le Guin was a master storyteller, winning innumerable awards, and achieving both commercial and literary success. She created the beloved stories of Earthsea alongside the urgent and essential stories of the Hain, pushing forward the form and concepts of science fiction and fantasy - reshaping them into forward-thinking genres.This collection honours her legacy with stories from authors she inspired:Ann Leckie Molly Gloss Kelly Link Charlie Jane Anders Sarah Pinsker Chana Porter Ai Jiang Alaya Dawn Johnson S. Qiouyi Lu E. Lily Yu Vandana Singh Aliya Whiteley Premee Mohamed Darice Little Badger Karen Joy Fowler