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Edición que reúne los tres libros de la aclamada «Trilogía de Illumbe» de Mikel Santiago.Un thriller magistral, lleno de misterios y giros sorprendentes cuya clave podría estar en la pregunta que lat

En la residencia Ömheten, la vejez es solo el primer peligroLa repentina muerte de un residente en la apacible residencia de ancianos Ömheten despierta las sospechas del expolicía Tore Lindahl. Algo

UN ASESINATO BRUTAL, UNA VÍCTIMA INTACHABLE Y UNA VERDAD QUE NADIE QUIERE VER.La policía Sara Vallén se siente vacía y desgarrada tras testificar contra el hombre que la maltrató. Aún lidiando con las secuelas emocionales, es llamada para investigar una muerte sospechosa en un apacible pueblo veraniego a las afueras de la ciudad universitaria de Lund, Suecia.Es otoño. Los manzanos estan cargados de frutos y los parterres florecen con asteres y calendulas, pero la belleza del entorno contrasta con la brutalidad del crimen: un trabajador social ha sido asesinado de manera despiadada. Su circulo lo describe como el hombre perfecto: empatico, leal y generoso. Sin embargo, Sara presiente que nadie es tan intachable. Y si lo era, ¿por que alguien querria matarlo?A medida que la investigacion avanza, las relaciones del fallecido revelan secretos oscuros que podrian cambiarlo todo."Secretos en la cabaña" es el segundo libro de la serie de Cecilia Sahlstrom sobre Sara Vallen, pero puede leerse de forma independiente. Su debut, Lila blanca, fue elogiado por su precision y realismo en el genero policiaco.

¿Ves como se acerca el desierto?Quizá creas que va demasiado lento para ti..., pero sin duda te alcanzará.Madrid se ha convertido en una pesadilla donde algunos viven gracias al sufrimiento y a la miseria de otros. La destruccion del mundo cada vez esta mas cerca y el irlandes Laurence Patterson guarda un secreto aterrador: conoce a quien se esconde detras de todo este tormento. El tiempo se agota y debe actuar rapido, antes de que sea demasiado tarde.La clave de su plan esta en Efa, un paraiso fortificado en las sierras al norte de Zamora donde protegera toda la vida salvaje que pueda y, ante todo, a los que mas quiere.Atrapado entre un complicado pasado familiar y una necesidad de justicia incesante, Laurence luchara por dar a la sociedad un nuevo renacer, pero las consecuencias de todo ello seran imprevisibles.Reseña: Fran Cobos teje una extraña parabola, llena de imagenes fascinantes y terribles, sobre la supervivencia y el absurdo de la existencia humana. Sergi Belbel

«El regreso de uno de los 50 escritores más importantes del mundo»LireEs el invierno de 1920 y el estado ucraniano se encuentra bajo el control bolchevique. Al joven investigador Samson Kolechko le h

El autor de El cuaderno de Noah y el director de El sexto sentido firman un emocionante thriller romántico que aborda los misterios sobrenaturales de la existencia y de la conexión humana.El amor puede liberarnos de nuestros mayores pesares, pero ¿es capaz de trascender los limites de la vida y la muerte?Tate Donovan es un arquitecto neoyorquino que acaba de llegar a Cape Cod para diseñar la casa de vacaciones de su mejor amigo. Tate ha pasado los ultimos meses en una clinica psiquiatrica pues la muerte de su hermana Sylvia lo dejo sumido en una fuerte depresion. Ademas, antes de morir esta le hizo una revelacion que le cuesta aceptar: le dijo que podia ver los espiritus que se resisten a abandonar el mundo de los vivos. Tate se niega a creer en algo mas alla de lo que la razon puede explicar. Pero cuando conoce a Wren, una joven y hermosa mujer que en realidad es el fantasma de la antigua dueña de la casa en la que se aloja, todas las convicciones que sostienen su mundo se tambalearan.Tate y Wren forjan una conexion inmediata que ninguno de los dos ha experimentado antes. El joven arquitecto se da cuenta de que, para liberar a Wren de su destino, debera desenterrar la verdad sobre su pasado. Una busqueda que lo hara dudar de si podemos creer en las historias que contamos sobre nosotros mismos y en las leyes que rigen nuestra existencia.

¿Qué pasa por la mente de un piloto a 30 000 pies de altura?Thomas Rye, piloto de una línea aérea low cost, esconde un oscuro secreto que no puede ser desvelado. Por otro lado, el parapsicólogo aficionado Sinesio Amoros ha conseguido grabar unas inquietantes psicofonias que parecen ser la primera pista para resolver un inquietante misterio de origen celta. En un momento dado, ambos personajes se encuentran y, cuando las tramas de ambos chocan entre si, se inicia una angustiosa cuenta atras de devastadoras y asombrosas consecuencias...Publicada por primera vez en 2015, Caja negra es un thriller tragico, trepidante con sorprendente parecido con una realidad que, en algun momento, todos podemos llegar a conocer.

Un hombre camina por las calles con una bufanda alrededor del cuello. Cada veinte mujeres, debe escoger a una. Ella será la elegida. Ella será la víctima.Alcalá de Henares, 1960. En el colegio de Santo Tomas de Villanueva se esconden silencios, abusos y mentiras. Alli coinciden Chema, un muchacho de trece años recien llegado del hospicio, Dori, una joven marcada por el lastre de su belleza y el exilio de su padre, desaparecido en la guerra, y Paquita, la muchacha mas alegre del servicio, que vive atrapada en una relacion imposible y deseos y promesas que no deberian existir.Sin embargo, la aparente calma en la que viven pronto se vera sacudida con la repentina muerte de Paquita al lado del rio. Porque eso significa que entre ellos hay un asesinoUna novela que retrata una epoca donde el poder, la religion y el miedo se confabulan para perpetuar la impunidad. Un thriller historico que combina tension psicologica, critica social y la reconstruccion minuciosa de una epoca en la que las apariencias podian costar la vida.

In 2009, young Isla Blake disappeared from her sisters birthday party in Northumberland and she was never found.Fifteen years later, when an updated E-fit image of what Isla would look like now goes viral, everyone begins to suspect that the unassuming Ruby must be Isla Blake.Enveloped in a swarm of media attention and publicity, including that of Islas parents Keira and Finn, Ruby is thrust into the centre of a case she had never thought she would be a part of.As the case unfolds and Ruby begins to question her own identity, the same questions plague her over and over again. Is she Isla? If so, who took her? And what exactly happened to Isla all those years ago?

In this fascinating novel, one of the masters of impossible crime fiction takes on one of the greatest criminals of all time. Sticking scrupulously to the facts, Paul Halter explores the Jack the Ripper murders and offers his own theories about the identity of the monster, what drove him, and how he was able to vanish under the noses of the police during the spree of escalating horror which sent the citizens of fog-ridden London into paroxysms of fear in the autumn of 1888.But the year before Saucy Jacky began his reign of terror, someone started to investigate an astonishing impossible murder committed in the country village of Blackfield nine years earlier. That, too, involved a monstrous murderer who slaughtered witnesses and vanished under the noses of his pursuers. Is there a connection with the Ripper cases which followed?Paul Halter, who has been fascinated by Jack the Ripper from a tender age, won the coveted French Prix du Roman dAventures in 1988 and the prestigious Japanese Hunkaku Mystery Award 2005 for Le Brouillard Rouge (The Crimson Fog).

The new thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author David McCloskey

S.E. Reynolds is a former investigative reporter now working as a political ghostwriter. He is thrust into the center of a conspiracy investigation after an illicit romance turns deadly. His efforts to untangle himself only entangle him deeper, drawing the attention of government agents with their own agenda.An unlikely hero, candidly amoral, shunning idealism, Reynolds works for candidates at either side of the political spectrum. At the same time, he possesses a deep if complicated love for family: his beautiful, unknowable wife; his aging parents; his children.The Lizard is the story of man trapped between a relentless security apparatus and a personal reckoning from which there is no apparent escape. As the tale unfolds, the differences between the outer world and the inner inexorably dissolve, leading to psychic and physical transformation at once unimaginable and inevitable.

When couturiere-turned-sleuth Jemima Flowerday accepts a last-minute invitation to a Murder Weekend at Firebrace Court, a crumbling Devon mansion perched on a storm-lashed headland, she expects nothing more than champagne, theatrics, and the fun of playing the daughter of a fictitious duchess. The whole thing is meant to be an absolute hoot.But the hoot turns to horror within hours. The arrival of Hal and Daisy Merriweather fabulously wealthy Texans lured to Firebrace by hints of Hals ancestral claim to the estate is as spectacular as their motorcar: a gleaming Bentley that skids on the rain-soaked drive and crashes into the ancient bridge. The structure collapses into the swollen stream below, revealing a mans skeleton tangled among the wreckage. And the discovery of a fresh murder turns the screw. The killer must be one of those within the house. Family member, staff or guest. This murder weekend is only too real...

The CIA forced Lily to retire before she was ready. Shed spent 40 years as a field agent. Shed been skilled, resourceful, dedicated everything that makes a good agent, but shed rubbed too many of her bosses the wrong way. They jumped on a botched op as an excuse to fire her. Now in her 70s, waiting in a doctors office, she reads a magazine article that startles her out of retirement. The story casts doubt on everything she believed about her first and happiest posting in Hayalistan, one of the old Soviet republics. Lilys angry, and she decides to find out what really happened when she was stationed there. As word of her investigation gets back to the CIA, the Company knows they must silence her. But Lilys aging body cant perform the feats it managed in her 40s and 50s, and escaping their attempts on her life will test her physical and mental skills at a whole new level.

Julia finds her footing as a clairvoyant but upends her mental stability and her marriage when she and her best friend Courtney investigate a murder in a spooky and menacing town in Pennsylvanias old mining region. This sequel will take the drama, action, and jeopardy to the next level, and will resonate with themes of identity, female friendship, and justice.

An unoccupied flat. A freshly dressed bed. The body of a young woman laid out neatly on the duvet. The dead girl looks familiar troublingly familiar but Detective Inspector Cassie May cant place her. And to compound her troubles, Cassie has just started dating the flats owner, James Flynn.When her boyfriend is accused of murder, an ambitious young DI risks her career and her life by defying her bosses, the security services, and a crime syndicate, to prove the innocence of a man who seems more worried about the long-buried secrets she might unearth than the murder charge hanging over him.Set across the leafiest of Sheffield suburbs, the sink estates of South Manchester, and the bleak and snowy Pennine moors that separate them, The Wythenshawe Dandy presents a discomforting picture of a world where privilege and wretchedness coexist.

A twisty New York City-set mystery that sees Teddy Roosevelts daughter, Alice Roosevelt, team up with Holmes and Watson to save the president from a kidnapping and attempted assassination on the eve of international peace talks. Holmess British parlour tricks meet hard-boiled American noir in this pastiche for fans of Gareth Rubins Holmes and Moriarty.Celebrity socialite Alice Roosevelt is taking London by storm in 1905 when her letter containing sensitive details of upcoming peace talks between Japan and Russia is stolen. The case pulls Holmes from retirement, and with Alices help the letter is retrieved.After returning to the U.S., Alice goes missing. At Teddy Roosevelts request, Holmes and Watson travel to New York where they discover Alice has turned detective herself, working undercover to thwart a kidnapping plot targeting her father. Her warnings are dismissed, but then the president is kidnapped. Alice and the detective duo join forces to search for her father, only to lose Holmes to the escaping kidnappers.Alice proves herself the equal to the great detective by leading Watson in the rescue of Teddy Roosevelt as well as Holmes, but the stakes are higher than they realise. In a race against time, they must stop a plan to bomb the peace talks or risk an escalation of war on a global scale.

After a month of various people clearing up various messes, Felicity Jardine is finally cleared to go back to her little village cottage. But when a celebratory cream tea with her new and well-connected friend Percy is interrupted by a snipers bullet, shes off again, to a safe house in Notting Hill. There her only contact is her former colleague Matthew, still with MI6, who offers her a bit of investigation she can do online to pass the time. But Felicity is not one to work from home when she can be out and getting stuck in, especially when someone on the inside seems to be betraying her...

One calm night in Twickenham, a businessman named Tom Treadnor is shot off his barstool at The Queen. Superintendent Richard Jury is called in to investigate, and quickly realizes that everyone in Treadnors life - from his widow, Alice, to the staff at his manor, to his business partner - had differing opinions of him.Meanwhile, Wiggins, Jurys partner at New Scotland Yard, becomes sidetracked by an investigation of his own: his sister, missing for years and presumed dead, has just sent a postcard to their mother. When Wiggins takes off in search of his sister, the two investigations begin to converge.Funny, eccentric and fueled by Richard Jurys talent for seeing clues in the most unlikely places, The Red Queen is a welcome return to a classic character and an exciting addition to a series that has been called delightful, surprising, even magical (Washington Post).

London, 1856. Ben Canaan is a young detective on the payroll of Her Majestys Executive, riding high on a string of successful cases. Then a notorious crime boss turns up murdered on the city streets, the latest in a series of brutal killings targeting the most powerful men in the global opium trade. To track down the culprits and prevent more blood from being shed, Ben is sent out to the newly-founded British colony of Hong Kong: a lawless frontier town on the southern shores of Chinas Great Qing Dynasty.Ben is plunged headlong into a labyrinthine conspiracy, set against the backdrop of an empire in collapse and a sweeping civil war. As his hunt brings him closer to the truth and the ruthless corporate interests that want him dead, Ben is forced to choose between what is necessary and what is just.