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La edición definitiva de la opera prima de Santiago Díaz, por la que obtuvo los premios Morella Negra y Benjamín de Tudela. Ahora, con más de 300.000 ejemplares vendidos en su haber, el autor ha revisado y afilado la novela con la que empezo a sorprender a libreros y lectores.Marta Aguilera es una periodista admirada y odiada a partes iguales, una profesional acostumbrada a nadar entre criminales y que sabe como se consigue una primicia. Nunca se doblega ante nadie, y mucho menos si es un hombre. Pero cuando recibe una noticia inesperada, queda en shock: un tumor de extraña naturaleza quiza termine con su vida antes de que pasen dos meses. Sin embargo, lo que decide es romper con todo y, sin encomendarse a nadie, invertira las semanas que le quedan en impartir justicia. La justicia a la que a veces no llegan las fuerzas del orden.La inspectora Daniela Gutierrez es una policia atribulada. Siente que su carrera esta tocando fondo, tiene serios problemas con el alcohol y la relacion con su hijo esta mas deteriorada que nunca. En el pasado, un atentado terrorista cubrio de sombra su vida. Pero nadie esta mas cerca que ella de atrapar al asesino del Talion. Debera seguir un reguero de sangre que va de Madrid a Malaga y de la Cañada Real al Pais Vasco. El cerco se estrecha sobre el caso mas apasionante que ha tenido, pero mientras la investigacion avanza hay alguien en su vida que corre el riesgo de alejarse para no regresar jamas.La critica ha dicho: Santiago Diaz es, por meritos propios, uno de los reyes de la novela negra en España. Jacobo Buceta, Hoy por Hoy (Cadena SER)Thrillers de los de taquicardia. Juan Carlos Galindo, El PaisUn experto en la alquimia del thriller. Marina Sanmartin, ABC CulturalUn autor que no baja la guardia y ofrece en cada nueva novela un impecable texto en todos los sentidos. Lluis Llort, El Punt AvuiQuedara en la memoria de los amantes del genero negro. Alberto Lardies, Cronica VascaPostula el entretenimiento como objetivo principal, con honestidad y sin complejos. Julio Fuentes, The ObjectiveUno de los escritores mas interesantes de la novela negra española. Nicole Feldmann, Diario de CadizNo pierde dinamismo ni fuelle en ninguna de sus paginas. Ana Rivera, Diari de TarragonaDeja sin aliento. Sergio Garcia, Diario VascoUno de los autores referentes de la novela negra española. Mavi Aldana, Otros acentos (RTVE)

((Fur die Vorschau))Ein Sommer im landlichen Massachusetts: Die 17-jahrige Charity Royall lebt in einer verschlafenen Kleinstadt bei ihrem trunksuchtigen Adoptivvater und traumt von einem besseren Leben. Als eines Tages ein junger Architekt aus der Grostadt auftaucht, sieht sie ihre Chance gekommen. Die beiden beginnen eine Liebesbeziehung.((Fur Onix))A Summer in rural Massachusetts: Seventeen-year-old Charity Royall lives with her hard-drinking adoptive father. She dreams of escaping the sleepy little town for a more exciting and fulfilling life. Her chance comes when a young architect from the city arrives one day. She starts a passionate love affair.

This contemporary twist on Brief Encounter is a tender meditation on what might have been.Maybe we love people because they wont let us know them.A summers evening in Manhattan. Nothing - not cold drinks, not showers not a stroll through the chilly aisles of an all-night drugstore - can undo the heats hold on the city. Julian is half watching the evening news, his husband filling the dishwasher. Thats when it arrives. An email with the subject line: From Paul Axel. An email about a dead man from Carol - a woman Julian has never met. Paul has left a message hed like her to relay. Emails are exchanged. Morning coffee at the Bryant Park Grill is agreed. Carol, fulfilling Pauls final request, wonders how she will tell Julian of a life - and a love - he has no idea existed. A life, encased in a flash drive, containing multitudes.

Two women hunting the same killer. One seeks justice. One seeks fame. Both have something to hide.In a remote Scottish town where everyone knows everyone, the disappearance of local girl Poppy McCarthy should be impossible to hide. But as Detective Sarah Morton discovers, some secrets run deeper than blood.When internet sensation Casey Jones arrives to investigate, her viral YouTube videos about the case spark a media frenzy. The town divides: some worship Casey as a crusader for justice, others see her as a dangerous provocateur. For Sarah, shes a threat not just to the investigation, but to the fragile peace of a community already fracturing under pressure.As Caseys revelations start destroying lives, Sarah realizes shes dealing with something far more sinister than a fame-hungry influencer. Because Casey knows things about Poppy she shouldnt. And Sarah is beginning to suspect that the real predator isnt hiding in the shadowy hills of Galloway, but broadcasting to millions from plain sight...

An unhappy family returns to Britain from a hot country, filling their suburban house with the glittering hoard they brought back from their exotic sojourn. But the sadness of A, the wife, dulls the shine of their treasure. The house grows quieter, darker. Daughter B learns to hide inside it, in a night-time world whose colours are undimmed by the tense misery of the daytime household. There she sails aquamarine seas on a thistledown boat, ponders the proliferation of dream-tigers, and watches dances and celebrations from the windows of a house whose rooms multiply and change position all the time. As daylight circumstances deteriorate, with her mothers death and Bs departure to boarding school, she becomes determined to take up permanent residence in the house of sleep. But there are night-time institutions determined to control her, and night-time battles to be fought, before she can come home to the dark forever. A kaleidoscopic autobiographical narrative, which speaks the language of childhood dreams which was once known to us all, this is a work of astonishing visual power and devastating loneliness.

«Wendy Davies siempre consigue trazar con palabras el camino perfecto para llegar al corazón de los lectores».Alice KellenEstar presente en la vida de los demás puede no ser suficiente, y quizá ha ll

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.______

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.

One of the most brilliant British writers working today.SpectatorWho decides the rules of the games we play?In August 2007, or thereabouts, a young philosopher leaves Oslo, heading for Greece, on a mission to find Theodoros Apostolakis, the head of the Society of Lost Things. Fortunately, Apostolakis isnt lost, but everything else is: ancient libraries, entire civilisations, priceless books and a beautiful box, once used to play the world-famous game of Seven. The hunt for this small thing, among the countless lost things, becomes an absurdist quest through time and space: from the earliest human societies to the advent of AI.Told, shared and mythologised by our narrator, along with a wild cast of dreamers, philosophers, poets, rebels and optimists, Seven is an extraordinary, uplifting journey through an ever darkening world.

Crimea, 1854: residents in the besieged city of Sevastopol look out over a harbour punctured by the masts of scuttled ships, and taunt the French forces that keep them trapped behind defensive walls. So begins Leo Tolstoys account of nine months of battle and bravery.Based on his own experiences as an artillery officer in the Crimean War, Tolstoy uses a kaleidoscopic range of narrative techniques to build up a picture of the conflict, wheeling from officer to soldier, cannon to barracks. We visit the crumbling defences and enter the fray with a group of vain officers more preoccupied with social status than with the war itself; and we follow the fates of the Kozeltsov brothers - one jaded and pragmatic, one naive and hungry for glory, both in their way courageous - in the final battle for the city.Communicated in prose marked by vivid sensation and profound irony, Tolstoys questions - about the nature of truth and heroism, and the human price of conflict - are as relevant as ever.

SCOTLAND is a land steeped in romance often these stories end happily but, inevitably, they must sometimes end in tragedy too. The tale of love, faith and heartbreak has been told across the ages, a story that humanity never tires of reading. Such timeless magic weaves through the folk tales of this ancient land, now scattered across the pages of this book.Within this collection we learn of love in its many and varied forms; love between two people, between parents and children and between friends and communities. From selkies and fairies to witches, ghosts and even the Devil, these ancient Celtic myths are entwined with Scottish folk tales to bring to life experiences of doomed love, cursed love and love foretold by dreams. These tales have been carefully chosen and retold by Orkney storyteller Tom Muir and lovingly given form through the artwork of Hester Aspland.

Publicado em 1934, S. Bernardo é o segundo romance de Graciliano Ramos e um dos pontos mais altos de sua obra. Narrado em primeira pessoa por Paulo Honório, o livro se apresenta como um relato de vida escrito ja na maturidade, quando o protagonista repassa sua trajetoria e tenta compreender seus erros. De origem pobre, Paulo Honorio ascendeu socialmente por meio da esperteza, do calculo e, sobretudo, da exploraço do trabalho alheio. Tornou-se dono da fazenda S. Bernardo, simbolo de seu triunfo economico e de seu desejo de poder. No entanto, o que poderia ser uma historia de sucesso e superaço revela-se um testemunho amargo. Paulo Honorio construiu tudo a base da violencia fisica, social e afetiva , e a fazenda cresceu ao mesmo tempo que a sua vida pessoal se tornou vazia. "Vencendo a vida, porem, ficou de certo modo vencido por ela: imprimindo-lhe a sua marca, ela o inabilitou para as aventuras da afetividade e do lazer", resume Antonio Candido em posfacio incluido nesta ediço. No centro da narrativa esta o casamento com Madalena, jovem professora idealista, cujo olhar sensivel e etico contrasta com a mentalidade pratica e dura de Paulo Honorio. Incapaz de compreender ou aceitar esse mundo alheio as suas preocupaçes materiais, ele oprime e sufoca a mulher, conduzindo-a a um desfecho tragico. Para alem da ascenso e derrocada de um homem, no entanto, o romance e uma reflexo sobre poder, afeto e fracasso, revelando os mecanismos de dominaço em uma sociedade ate hoje marcada visceralmente pela desigualdade. Com texto estabelecido a partir do cotejo de oito verses e notas editoriais que esclarecem variantes entre elas, esta nova ediço reafirma o cuidado da Coleço Graciliano Ramos na Todavia com o rigor textual, a renovaço critica e a permanencia literaria de uma obra-prima.

There are strange happenings in the desert. Learn the truth about the Hereditas Expedition in this hair-raising tale of betrayal, devotion and religious fanaticism. Was the Hereditas Expedition doomed from the start? Led by Pontifex Bilrach, the Mahjarrat must find the artifacts of the dead god Tumeken and complete the Ritual of Rejuvenation, otherwise they face extinction. Forced to work together by Zaros, the Mahjarrat form an uneasy alliance, though they all have their own ambitions.Having found only sand and false hope wandering through the Kharidian Desert, the search is becoming ever more frustrating and the casualties mount as the humans die for the Mahjarrat cause. The desert is vast and full of danger, the sun is oppressive, and there are traitors in their midst. Can the Mahjarrat succeed despite these impossible odds?

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.

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.

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

Único conto de Toni Morrison, Recitatif retrata a amizade de duas meninas na infância e os conflitos raciais que se impõem a elas quando se reencontram ao longo da vida. Narrado de forma a não revela

Homeless on Aucklands streets, Max Grimes fights to survive when someone starts killing the citys forgotten. Pulled into a dark past, he must stop the killer or be next. The gripping second instalment in a breathtaking series, from New Zealands queen of crime.___A killer is hunting Aucklands homeless. No one cares. No one but Max. These are his people.Max Grimes is homeless, living on the streets of Auckland among the forgotten, the invisible. But now someone is hunting the homeless, killing them one by one. No one cares. Except Max.Trying to put his shattered life back together, Max is pulled into a deadly game when a face from his past reappears, reopening wounds he thought were long buried.As whispers of a Grim Reaper spread terror through the city, Max must race against time not only to find the killer, but to outrun the ghosts chasing him.Because if he fails, hell be next.____

Uma sátira eletrizante e comovente sobre o significado do colonialismo, da escravidão e da liberdade."Uma história extremamente inventiva que provoca debates importantes, desafiando percepções fundam

A saga inspired by the incredible but true story of the iconic Klimt paintingPainted in Vienna in 1910, Gustav Klimts Portrait of a Lady was purchased by an anonymous collector in 1916, retouched by the master a year later, then stolen in 1997 before reappearing in the gardens of an Italian modern art museum in 2019.No art experts, museum curators, or police investigators know the identity of the young woman in the painting, nor the mysteries that surround the turbulent history of her portrait. From the streets of Vienna in 1900 to Texas in the 1980s, and from Manhattan during the Great Depression to contemporary Italy, de Peretti imagines the destiny of this young woman as well as that of her descendants, and creates a masterful fresco that intertwines family secrets, disappearances, and thwarted loves.