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El caso más importante del inspector Thomas Lynley: cazar a un asesino de adolescentes.En los últimos tres meses, ya son cuatro los cadávers que Scotland Yard ha encontrado: todos ellos con evidencias de agresiones sexuales y brutales mutilaciones. La investigacion conduce al reconocido inspector Lynley y su equipo a Coloso, una organizacion benefica que se dedica a la reinsercion de jovenes problematicos, y de la que podrian estar saliendo las victimas. Al parecer, Coloso esconde algo mas que buenas intenciones y Lynley no solo debera lidiar con un caso complicado sino tambien con la prensa y la opinion publica, que le tildaran de racista, ya que, en Coloso la mayoria de los chicos son negros.

Por la autora de Sin testigos y Tres hermanos.El comisario Thomas Lynley ha abandonado la policía. Pero el crimen le perseguirá allí a donde vaya. Tras el brutal asesinato de su mujer embarazada, no habia ninguna razon para permanecer en la ciudad y en su puesto. Es por eso que decide volver a los parajes de su infancia e intentar recuperarse alli del golpe que acaba de recibir. Sin embargo, parece que no va a resultar nada facil alejarse del crimen. Mientras se encuentra haciendo trekking por los campos de Cornualles, se tropieza con el cadaver del joven Santo Kerne, quien aparentemente se despeño de un acantilado. Aunque en seguida se hace obvio que alguien manipulo el equipo de alpinismo del chico, Lynley decide investigar por su cuenta y no comparte toda la informacion que cae en sus manos con la verdadera encargada del caso: la subinspectora Bea Hannaford, una policia capaz y resolutiva, pero algo malcarada. Lo que si hace es llamar a su antigua compañera Barbara Havers para pedirle ayuda. Havers que tiene ordenes de asistir a la subinspectora y de conseguir que Lynley reanude su actividad como detective en Londres, se dirigira a Cornualles donde parece que hay una inacabable retahila de sospechosos de haber podido matar a Kerne: amantes despechadas, padres decepcionados, surfistas expertos, antiguos compañeros de colegio y una madre demente. Cada uno de ellos tiene un secreto que guardar y por el que merece la pena mentir en incluso matar.

Ness, Joel y Toby son abandonados por su abuela en la puerta de la casa de su tía, en la periferia marginal de Londres. La vida de los tres hermanos no ha sido fácil hasta ese momento, y no lo será a partir de ahora. Ness es una adolescente desagradable que juguetea con las drogas y con la delincuencia. El mas pequeño, Toby, tiene problemas de aprendizaje y vive anclado en la dependencia que siente por su hermano Joel, que es quien parece asumir la responsabilidad de mantener unida a su familia. Este ambiente enmarca el camino que se ha de desandar para hallar el origen del mal, para encontrar el principio casi invisible de sucesos terribles que un dia coparan las primeras paginas de los periodicos.aEn su momento, el asesinato de Helen Lynley ocupara la atencion de todos, pero ¿cual fue el verdadero origen del crimen?

"The story begins with my father, actually, and the fact that I'm the one who's answerable for his death. It was not my first crime, as you will see, but it is the one my mother couldn't forgive." In her astonishing New York Times bestseller, acclaimed author Elizabeth George reveals the even darker truth behind this startling confession. Playing for the Ashes is a rich tale of passion, murder and love in which Inspector Thomas Lynley and Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers once again find themselves embroiled in a case where nothing--and no one--is really what it seems. Intense, suspenseful and brilliantly written, Playing for the Ashes will make readers "search out the sleuthing pair's first six adventures...a treasure," as Cosmopolitan predicted in their review.

Una colección definitiva de relatos de misterio de las autoras más destacadas del panorama literario internacional llevada a cabo por Elizabeth George, una de las grandes damas de la novela de misterio. El objetivo de la antología es entender porqué el crimen siempre ha suscitado tanta fascinación en las personas, sobre todo en la mente femenina. Una antología con relatos de autoras de la talla de Susan Glaspell, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, Shirley Jackson, Charlotte Armstrong, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Margery Allingham, Medra Tyre, Christiana Brand, Nadine Gordimer, Ruth Rendell, Joyce Harrington, Marcia Muller, Antonia Fraser, Sara Paretsky, Nancy Pickard, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Sharyn McCrumb, Barbara Paul, Carolyn Wheat, Wendy Hornsby, J. A. Janee, Lia Matera, Gillian Linscott, Joyce Carol Oates y Minette Walters.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN DU CRIME !Teo Bontempi, membre d'une brigade luttant contre les violences faites aux femmes, succombe à l'hôpital après avoir été retrouvée inconsciente dans son appartement london

A hugely complex and entertaining novel - Star Pick*, The Times Crime ClubElizabeth George delivers another intelligent, intricate mystery - New York TimesSuperlative . . .This is a memorable addition to [the Inspector Lynley] series - Publishers Weekly (starred, boxed review)Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are back in the next Lynley novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Elizabeth George. A Nigerian born detective sergeant working for the Metropolitan Police is found unconscious in her own flat and ends up in hospital where she dies of her injury. The post-mortem reveals that the subdural hematoma is the result of a blow to her head.DI Thomas Lynley, DS Barbara Havers and DS Winston Nkata are called in to investigate a case that touches upon not only the work and the life of the murdered detective but also upon a controversial cultural tradition that damages and often destroys the future of everyone it involves.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDetective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley are forced to confront the past as they try to solve a crime that threatens to tear apart the very fabric of a quiet, historic medieval town in EnglandThe cozy, bucolic town of Ludlow is stunned when one of its most revered and respected citizens--Ian Druitt, the local deacon--is accused of a serious crime. Then, while in police custody, Ian is found dead. Did he kill himself? Or was he murdered?When Barbara Havers is sent to Ludlow to investigate the chain of events that led to Ian's death, all the evidence points to suicide. But Barbara can't shake the feeling that she's missing something. She decides to take a closer look at the seemingly ordinary inhabitants of Ludlow--mainly elderly retirees and college students--and discovers that almost everyone in town has something to hide.A masterful work of suspense, The Punishment She Deserves sets Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers and Inspector Thomas Lynley against one of their most intricate cases. Fans of the longtime series will love the many characters from Elizabeth George's previous novels who join Lynley and Havers, and readers new to the series will quickly see why she is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed writers of our time. Both a page-turner and a deeply complex story about the lies we tell, the lies we believe, and the redemption we need, this novel will be remembered as one of George's best.

Elena Weaver was a surprise to anyone meeting her for the first time. In her clingy dresses and dangling earrings she exuded a sexuality at odds with the innocence projected by the unicorn posters on her walls. While her embittered mother fretted about her welfare from her home in London, in Cambridgewhere Elena was a student at St. Stephen''s Collegeher father and his second wife each had their own very different image of the girl. As for Elena, she lived a life of casual and intense physical and emotional relationships, with scores to settle and goals to achieve--until someone, lying in wait along the route she ran every morning, bludgeoned her to death. Unwilling to turn the killing over to the local police, the university calls in New Scotland Yard. Thus, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, enter the rarefied world of Cambridge University, where academic gowns often hide murderous intentions. For both officers, the true identity of Elena Weaver proves elusive. Each relationship the girl left behind casts new light both on Elena and on those people who appeared to know her bestfrom an unsavory Swedish-born Shakespearean professor to the brooding head of the Deaf Students Union. What''s more, Elena''s father, a Cambridge professor under consideration for a prestigious post, is a man with his own dark secrets. While his past sins make him neurotically dedicated to Elena and blind to her blacker side, present demons drive him toward betrayal.