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Lorena tiene una vida complicada. Su familia es una de las víctimas de los efectos de la crisis y no le queda más remedio que trabajar para ayudarla a llegar fin de mes, compaginando sus dos trabajos con sus estudios universitarios. Joel es un chico solitario que guarda un gran secreto de su pasado. Un pasado que le persigue alla donde va, pero intenta vivir su vida lejos de las miradas acusadoras y las habladurias de la gente. Un dia magico, como es el dia de Reyes, sus caminos chocaran y sus vidas dejaran de ser tan oscuras, pero el secreto de Joel le hara dudar a Lorena si es un chico de fiar. ¿Podra el contarle el pasado que le atormenta? Y si lo hace, ¿querra Lorena seguir a su lado?

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).

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.

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The worlds most unlikely crime solving duo is back and this time Irish nun Sister Agatha Murphy and Indian hotel owner Avtar Mehta discover that family secrets are the most deadly.When the tyrannical head of one of Delhis richest families is found dead inside a locked room within the historic Elephant House, Sister Agnes and Avtar must solve an impossible murder.All the children have motives, but would any of them really kill their mother for her money? Or is her death payback for a much deeper debt?As the city builds bonfires to celebrate the festival of Lohri, Sister Agatha and Avtar face backstabbing siblings, a gangster with untold influence, a police siege and a cigarette-stealing elephant. Avtar and Sister Agatha are on the hunt for a murderer, but is someone pulling their strings? When a killer is prepared to do the unthinkable, no one is safe and no one can be trusted.

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 BOY is a novel of wasted talent, loss, greed and revenge but also of discovered genius and joyous friendship.By turns terrifying, taut, humane and tender it tells the origin story of Irelands organised-crime epidemic with a skill and grace which belies a debut novel, and is the calling-card of a ringing new voice in Irish fiction.When the Guards knock on the door the Boy already knows his mother is dead. His father flees to the pub, leaving him to wait alone. Soon his brother Fallon, half-protector and half-outlaw, draws him into a world where grief and crime are rarely separated. At the same time, a wealthy landowner harbours grotesque secrets in the countryside - a hidden "family" of abducted boys, a nightmare lurking beneath respectability.As the Boy moves through these fractured worlds - his fathers guilt, his uncles paramilitary past, his brothers violent death - he becomes both witness and inheritor of a brutal legacy.Think of a space where the layered complexity of Tana French meets the whip-smart dialogue and brutal beauty of Colin Barrett and the sharp tenderness and humour of Graeme Armstrongs The Young Team and youre somewhere near where this novel will take you.

Its autumn and with crisp frosty weather and the leaves as colourful as theyve ever been, Olivia and Jago are nestling into their life in Penbartha. Until local resentment about incomers and second home ownership is ignited by what seems to be an increasingly militant action group.A violent death makes the situation even more sinister. Maybe Penbartha isnt the happy place Olivia thought it was? Is the discontent really about second homes or is someone exploiting a well-supported cause in order to pursue a much more personal agenda? She and Jago need to find the source of the trouble before it gets even closer to home...

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.

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."

Julia is just finding her footing as a clairvoyant when her best friend Courtneys grandmother dies in a spooky and menacing town in Pennsylvanias old mining region. The two friends, believing its murder, are drawn to investigate, but Julia will risk her marriage, her precious sanity and her life in doing so...

When the past claws its way back, the hunt for truth could cost him everything.Five years after the brutal murder of his girlfriend Eva, haunted PI Ravn is dragged back into the one case hes never been able to close. New evidence surfaces, igniting a desperate chase for justice that plunges him into a dark web of crooked cops, a dying hitman, and a powerful elite guarding a deadly secret.To get the answers he craves, Ravn must strike a dangerous bargain with ruthless crime boss Kaminsky: recover 71 million in stolen cash, or lose everything. From Copenhagens gritty underworld to the corridors of corrupt power, Ravn will risk it all to unmask Evas killerif the truth doesnt destroy him first.The Pact is the electrifying fifth novel in the bestselling Ravn seriesperfect for fans of "Department Q" and Nordic noir that cuts to the bone.

Ex-NYPD homicide detective Nico Doyle investigates the murder of a local bartender in the Tuscan countryside.On a late October Sunday morning in Gravigna, local maresciallo Perillo is having breakfast with ex-NYPD detective Nico Doyle when he is called back to the station in Greve. Laura Benati, the young manager of Hotel Bella Vista, is worried-her bartender and good friend eighty-year-old Cesare Costanzi has been missing for three days.The next morning, Jimmy, co-owner of Bar AllAngolo, Gravignas local caf , where Nico is a frequent patron, runs out of gas on his way back from Florence. When Nico meets him to help, Nicos dog, OneWag, reacts to the smell coming from Jimmys trunk. Inside Nico finds a body wrapped in plastic: Cesare Costanzi, stabbed several times in the chest.Why would anyone kill Cesare, and how did he end up in Jimmys car? Thats for Nico to find out, as Perillo once again turns to Nico for help with the investigation.

When Nico receives a phone call late at night, he tries to ignore it. A phone call at that time could only mean trouble. Sure enough, its Perillo of the local carabinieri. A woman was found dead in her home, and the only person at the scene of the crime only speaks English. Nico reluctantly agrees to help Perillo with the case. Judging by the crime scene, Perillo and Nico determine foul play was likely, and they dont have to look long for suspects. Following the death of her husband, the late Signora Nora had taken on a number of lovers, her two daughters arent on the best terms with her, and theres a lot to be gained from the sale of her residence. Nico and Perillo have their hands full as they try to solve the murder and restore peace to the otherwise sleepy Gravigna. Travel to the cyprus-lined roads of Tuscany in this new installment of acclaimed author Camilla Trinchieris warm, engaging, and deliciously unpredictable mystery series.

What if one moment one split second changed everything?When a firearms officer shoots a suspect dead and wounds another, who later dies in hospital, the official line is that the sun was in her eyes. Her body cam failed.Known only as Officer X, her anonymity is meant to protect her until a judge releases her name and a media storm erupts.DSI Jack Dylan and DI Charley Mann are called in to determine whether it was a justifiable use of force or something darker. And when its revealed that Officer X knew the victim, and her brother died of a drug overdose linked to the same woman, the case becomes charged with personal and political tension.As pressure mounts, a vulnerable witness dies and a lost phone surfaces with a photograph and a message that could unravel everything and reveal the truth about what happened that day.Split Second brings Dylan and Mann together for the first time, in an investigation that will test their instincts, their loyalties and the limits of justice itself, as both detectives must decide how far theyll go and what theyre willing to sacrifice to uncover the truth.________Praise for R.C. Bridgestock:A cracking storySunA compelling story with a procedural authenticity that few authors can matchM.W. CravenR. C. Bridgestock always deliver a cracking story with an experts insightHoward Linskey**Voted #8 Best Crime Authors of All Time by WHSmith readers**

A heart attack at a funeral, blackmail, murder, grief bots, affairs, the power of music and ghosts of every kind, who threaten the Skelfs very existence. The Skelfs are back in another gripping, heartfelt and irresistible mystery.The persistence of love in the Skelf household, no matter what fate flings at it, is reassuring and life-affirmingThe TimesThe Skelfs feel like family their joys are my joys, their pains are my pain Edinburghs favourite family, bringing darkness and delightVal McDermidAI remain a happily hopeless SkelfaholicMark Billingham______The Skelf women have been keeping their heads down, running the familys funeral directors and private investigation businesses. But when a woman collapses at her husbands funeral and is saved by Dorothy, she finds herself drawn into the murky world of grief tech a booming new industry that creates digital avatars of the dead.Jennys latest case a simple blackmail job for an old school friend quickly spirals into chaos as the womans tangled love life pulls Jenny towards dangerous old habits.Meanwhile, Hannah and her wife, Indy, are confronted by the unexpected arrival of Indys ex-boyfriend, claiming to be dying and eager for the Skelfs to arrange his funeral. But his arrival uncovers more ghosts from the past, and threatens to upend everything theyve built.As their cases collide and their personal lives spiral, the Skelfs face danger from all sides. How far will they go to protect one another, and what will it cost to finally silence the ghosts?Warm, tense and full of heart, Ghost Notes is another masterful instalment in Doug Johnstones award-winning, addictive Skelfs series, and the stakes are higher than ever__________Praise for The Skelfs series:**SHORTLISTED for Theakston Old Peculier Crime Book of the Year****SHORTLISTED for the McIlvanney Prize for Best Scottish Crime Novel**Some of the best female characters in crime fictionSarah HilaryIf you loved Iain Banks, youll devour the Skelfs seriesErin KellyAn addictive blend of Case Histories and Six Feet UnderChris BrookmyreWonderful characters: flawed, funny and braveSunday TimesUnderlines just how accomplished Johnstone has becomeDaily MailJohnstone never fails to entertain whilst packing a serious emotional punchGytha LodgeAn engrossing and beautifully written taleHerald ScotlandOne of the greats of Scottish crime fictionLuca VesteGripping and blackly humorousObserverA must for those seeking strong, authentic, intelligent female protagonistsPublishers Weekly

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.

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.

What links a prostitute, a Flemish painter and a tower watchman? All three claim to have seen a ghost on the same street in fifteenth-century Tallinn. And all of them have been found dead soon after.Melchior Wakenstede, apothecary, is charged with unearthing the truth behind these seemingly-supernatural murders. But when a pious and powerful merchant dies, along with a castrated and disfigured tramp, Melchior perceives a more medical connection between the deaths.Melchior must rise above the competing interests of merchant guilds, religious orders and Teutonic knights, to get to the bottom of the mystery.