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Mejor Primera Novela, CrimeReads
Finalista del Premio Edgar a la Mejor Primera Novela.
Bobby Saraceno tiene un padre afroamericano a quien nunca conoció y una madre blanca que, por momentos, desearía no conocer. Criado por un abuelo racista e intolerante decide ocultarle la verdad de su familia a todos. Es el año 1995 y en la ciudad de Pittsburgh a sus veintidós años Bobby se hace pasar por blanco. Aaron es su mejor amigo y acaba de salir de...
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From one of our most treasured BBC broadcasters, The Spy Across the Water is the third instalment in James Naughtie's brilliant spy series, about three brothers whose lives are all entwined with the intelligence services.
Will Flemyng, originally trained as a spy, is now British ambassador to Washington. Meanwhile, his older brother Mungo is recuperating from a heart attack in their beloved Scottish highland family home, and Abel, the youngest of...
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Susan wakes up alone in a room she doesn't recognise, with no memory of how she got there. She only knows that she is trapped, and her daughter is missing. The relief that engulfs her when she hears her daughter's voice through the wall is quickly replaced by fear. The person who has imprisoned her has her daughter, too. Devising a plan to keep her daughter safe, Susan begins to get closer to her unknown captor. And suddenly, she realises that she...
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Premio Edgar Mejor Primera Novela
Mejor Libro del Año en: Time, WashingtonPost, Today Show, Library Journal, Crime Reads.
"Un fascinante estudio sobre la maleabilidad de la verdad''. –The New York Times.
Siete testigos juraron decir la verdad. Todos mintieron.Una madre injustamente acusada. Un pueblo entero en su contra.
¿Hasta dónde llegarías para proteger a quienes amas?
Es el primer día del juicio, y allí están todos. En Miracle Creek...
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ATRÉVETE A DESCUBRIR LA DEVASTADORA VERDAD SOBRE LA MUERTE DE KAT GUINEE.
Una tormenta de nieve azota Nueva York.
Kat Guinee se precipita desde la azotea de un edificio del barrio Corona.
Los hechos arrojan dudas desde el principio.
¿Se suicidó o la mataron?
Los detectives Randall Jacobs y Dakota Siegel intentarán disipar la niebla que les impide ver más allá de las
evidencias.
La posición del cuerpo no apunta a un suicidio.
Los inquilinos...
6) Threat Axis
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In the midst of a global manhunt, the leader of the world's largest private army sees his opportunity to upset the international order.
Ian Thomas is supposed to be dead. An international terrorist responsible for the bombing of the US Naval War College, he's been deceased for three years. But Don Riley, head of the CIA's Emerging Threats Group, is staring at a social media post showing him to be very much alive and on the run in South America.
The...
7) Five Nights
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A powerful family. A luxury cruise. A dark secret.
The Scarmados are the most famous family in Britain, notorious for throwing lavish parties funded by their media and shipping empire. Now, head of the family Mattia is about to retire, and he's taken his four children and his new young wife Belle on the maiden voyage of one of his luxury cruise ships. The tabloids are buzzing: is he about to announce his successor?
Belle has insisted her best friend...
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Amusement parks are supposed to be about fun and entertainment . . .
. . . not death.
A marine biology and science-themed park is scheduled to open later this year. But there seems to be something sinister going on beneath the surface.
OceanTech's Paradisum is a cutting-edge operation, and they are hoping to capitalize on the growing trend of education-based vacation destinations. The park's CEO, Adrian Crawford, has spent his entire professional...
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Adulterio, identidades falsas, oscuros motivos, plagio,
sadomasoquismo, saltos de capítulo inusuales, un pequeño
asesinato aquí y allá. Donlea ha logrado atraparte otra vez".
-The New York Times.
Avery Mason es la presentadora de Eventos Nacionales y acaba de recibir
una noticia que será historia: por primera vez en veinte años y, gracias
a una nueva tecnología, han identifi cado los huesos de una víctima del
atentado a las Torres...
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Mejor Primera Novela, CrimeReads
Finalista del Premio Edgar a la Mejor Primera Novela.
Bobby Saraceno tiene un padre afroamericano a quien nunca conoció y una madre blanca que, por momentos, desearía no conocer. Criado por un abuelo racista e intolerante decide ocultarle la verdad de su familia a todos. Es el año 1995 y en la ciudad de Pittsburgh a sus veintidós años Bobby se hace pasar por blanco. Aaron es su mejor amigo y acaba de salir de...
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TAKEN. The timber wolves of Fallston, South Dakota fall prey to an international ring of fur trappers. Unfortunately, timber wolves are not all they capture. Taken by a savage group of criminals and transported half a world away to Denmark, two young boys must set aside their sibling rivalry to survive the violence that surrounds them. HAUNTED. Julie Walker is haunted by the loss of her sons and haunted by the reappearance of the one man she never...
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Despite a childhood in the care system, has beaten the odds and built for herself the perfect life, complete with beautiful seaside home, devoted husband and a job she loves. Then a policeman appears at Anna's door: her estranged brother is a wanted serial killer, and the police need Anna's help to catch him before he strikes again. When an envelope turns up on her doorstep, 'Loved every second of this. . And the twist…Didn't see that coming!' Real...
13) The Fall
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'The term pageturner was made for books like this' 'Thoroughly addictive, is full of twists you won't see coming' At her surprise 40th birthday party, Kate Granger feels like the luckiest woman in the world but just hours later her fifteen-year-old daughter, Caily, is found unconscious underneath a bridge when she should have been at school. Now, Caily lies comatose in her hospital bed, and the police don't believe it was an accident. As the investigation...
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Discover the most gripping crime thriller this year.
EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT SUSPENSE WITH ONE TWIST AFTER ANOTHER.
Two-year-old Abigail is fast asleep in the back of the car, clutching her little red lion. Tony, her father, steps out onto the pavement. The man he's meeting punches him in the face, knocking him to the ground. Before it all goes black, Tony sees his car speed away - with his little girl inside.
When he finally gets home after...
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Discovered after more than 40 years, a vintage action-adventure novel set on Domino Island – a Caribbean paradise toppling under murder, corruption and organised crime… 'Like a dream come true – an undiscovered Desmond Bagley novel … and it's a great one!' LEE CHILD Bill Kemp, an ex-serviceman working in London as an insurance investigator, is sent to the Caribbean to verify a life insurance claim that will make property magnate David Salton's...
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An impossible heist. An ancient code. A deadly race against time…
High in the Italian alps, cut off from the outside world, sits a chapel battered by winds and icy blizzards. The priests who guard this sacred place have sworn to protect the dangerous treasure that lies within their walls.
But when Joe Mason and his team are called to the remote church, they find its ancient stones reduced to rubble, the priests murdered in cold blood and their...
17) The Fifth Guest
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The invitation you don't want to receive...
A group of old friends gather in a beautiful house by the river in Barnes, for a dinner party.
They've barely each other since they left Oxford twenty years ago, and they don't like to look back on those days so much. As we find out, their student flatmate, Henry Bellinger, died one night on the eve of the Boat Race.
All five have been invited to attend a memorial for Henry the following day, and they're...
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Anne White only looked away for a second, but that's all it took to lose sight of her young daughter. But seven years later, Abigail is found. And as Anne struggles to connect with her teenage daughter, she begins to question how much Abigail remembers about the day she disappeared...
19) Sawbones
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They call him Sawbones: a serial killer touring America kidnapping young women. The FBI's investigating — but getting nowhere. The latest victim is Laura Jones. Sixteen years old. Pretty. Blonde. And the daughter of one of New York's most notorious gangsters. Laura's Dad doesn't care about the law. What he wants is revenge. And he knows just the guys to get it. This time, Sawbones picked on the wrong family...
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Dan Brown meets Jack Reacher and Die Hard in this fast-paced, adrenaline-filled action-adventure thriller.
An ancient relic. A deadly enemy. A secret he'll protect with his life...
When ex-MI5 operative Joe Mason is sent to Rome to guard an elderly professor and his daughter, he thinks he's in for an easy ride.
But on their first day in the Vatican secret archives, a masked assassin gains entry, shoots Joe's client in cold blood and steals an ancient...
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