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Es capaz de accionar todos los mecanismos precisos que hacen que nos bebamos todo lo que escribe. Daily Telegraph.La detective Barbara Havers tiene un gran problema: Hadyyah, la hija de su amigo Taymullah Azhar, ha sido secuestrada por su madre, Angelina, y Barbara no puede ayudar de ninguna manera. Azhar nunca se caso con Angelina y su nombre no figura como padre en el certificado de nacimiento de su hija. No puede emprender, por tanto, ningun tipo de accion legal. Azhar y Barbara contratan a un detective privado, pero las pocas pistas con las que cuentan no conducen a nada.Azhar esta empezando a aceptar esta perdida tremenda cuando Angelina reaparece con una noticia increible: Hadyyah ha desaparecido, secuestrada en un mercado italiano. La policia italiana esta investigando, pero Scotland Yard no parece interesarse por el caso hasta que Barbara decidehacerse cargo , aunque ello pueda llegar a costarle su carrera.Barbara y el inspector Thomas Lynley pronto se dan cuenta de que el caso es mucho mas complejo que un secuestro tipico. Barbara tendra que decidir cuales son sus prioridades y cuanto esta dispuesta a arriesgar para salvar la vida de la niña.

Late summer on Whidbey Island. After nine weeks of no rain the fire season has arrived ...along with a fire starter who soon begins tormenting the residents of this peaceful Pacific Northwest idyll with fires that escalate in intensity. Becca King and her friends Jenn and Derric are with her at the county fair when the third fire starts in a shed housing animals. The shed is destroyed, some of the animals are killed, and Becca hears from the nearby forest the 'whispers' of the fire starter who has remained to watch the havoc. More fires ensue and the situation escalates until someone dies. Becca thinks she knows who's behind it all, but only with the help of her friends and the development of her own incipient psychic talents can the perpetrator be brought to justice.

Llena de choques, intensidad y suspense de la primera página a la última, A Banquet of Consequences revela un Lynley y Havers bajo presión. Elizabeth George es la autora de aclamadas novelas de suspense psicologico, como "Pago sangriento", "La justicia de los inocentes" o "Un acto de maldad".

Inspector Lynley und Barbara Havers auf der Spur eines mysteriosen Giftmords ...Barbara Havers folgt am liebsten ihrem Instinkt, Regeln und Vorschriften interessieren sie wenig. Nach ihren letzten Alleingangen hat sie aber keinen guten Stand bei ihrer Chefin Isabelle Ardery. Ein falscher Schritt und sie konnte strafversetzt werden. Mit Unterstutzung von DI Thomas Lynley will sie ihrer Chefin beweisen, dass sie ein guter Detective ist. Da kommt es ihr gerade gelegen, dass sich in Cambridge ein mysterioser Todesfall ereignet hat: Die Bestsellerautorin Clare Abbott wurde tot in ihrem Hotelzimmer aufgefunden. Aber war es uberhaupt ein Mord? Clares Freundin und Lektorin Rory Statham glaubt jedenfalls nicht an einen naturlichen Tod.Auch Barbara hat das Gefuhl, dass es im Verborgenen einen Gegenspieler gibt, der einem perfiden Plan folgt ein Gefuhl, das bestatigt wird, als sie Rory kurz darauf mit dem Tod ringend in ihrer Wohnung auffindet ...

Inspector Lynley investigates the London end of an ever more darkly disturbing case, with Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata looking behind the peaceful facade of country life to discover a twisted world of desire and deceit. The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind. But what was the cause of his tragedy and how far might the consequences reach? Is there a link between the young man's leap from a Dorset cliff and a horrific poisoning in Cambridge? Following various career-threatening misdemeanours, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers is desperate to redeem herself. So when a past encounter with bestselling feminist writer Clare Abbott and her pushy personal assistant Caroline Goldacre gives her a connection to the Cambridge murder, Barbara begs DI Thomas Lynley to let her pursue the crime. Full of shocks, intensity and suspense from first page to last, A Banquet of Consequences reveals both Lynley and Havers under pressure, and author Elizabeth George writing at the very height of her exceptional powers.

The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives an eighteen-inch dirk through her neck. Called upon to investigate the case in a country where they have virtually no authority, aristocratic Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, grapple for both a motive and a murderer. Emotions run deep in this highly charged drama, for the list of suspects soon includes Britains foremost actress, its most successful theatrical producer, and the woman Lynley loves. He and Havers must tread carefully through the complicated terrain of human relationships while they work to solve a case rooted in the darkest corners of the past and the unexplored regions of the human heart.

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.

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.

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