Books: Mystery
No thoroughfare
During the process of creation, Dickens and Collins worked every chapter almost in a artisanal way, building a story of tense plot in which love, social criticism, humor, irony, adventure and drama are founded, until an unexpected outcome.
The mystery of the Sintra road
Interesting account of a two-handed crime of passion with Ramalho Ortiz.
The White Company
The White Company, a first-time favorite book by Conan Doyle, recounts the perispecia and adventures that occur to three friends (Alleyne Edricson, a young and inexperienced monk from the Beaulieu Abbey who first comes out into the world; Juan de Hordle, a giant, pitiful and hard-working, expelled with dishonor from the same abbey, and Samkin Aylward, a right-handed archer in a thousand battles) who are on the way and decide to join the White Company, at the orders of Sir Nigel Loring, a knight of the Spanish warlord, to usurper the Spanish forces, for the reprimand for the Spanish forces.
The Ball and the Cross
A Catholic and an atheist try to beat themselves to death, each to defend their ideas. They do not, because they always have to run away from the authorities trying to prevent them, which eventually ends up making them allies.
The Innocence of Father Brown
In Father Brown's detective stories there is a feature that draws attention: the protagonist is not a police or a private detective, but a Catholic priest.
The Lost World
Journalist Edward Malone, rejected by the woman he loves because she thinks he's too prosaic, decides to live adventures and seek fame to get his appreciation. He then met Professor George Challenger, a scientist who claims to have discovered a lost world populated by pterodactyls and other prehistoric monsters.
The Poison Belt
As the balloon passes through a poisonous ether belt, terror takes hold of humanity; riots in cities; communications cease.
The Valley of Fear
The valley of fear is the fourth and last Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is based freely on the feats of the real life of Molly Maguires and Pinkerton's agent, James McParland.
Father Brown's unbelief
The present volume, Father Brown's unbelief, the third title of the five that make up Father Brown's complete series, brings together the following episodes: Father Brown's resurrection, The arrow of heaven, The oracle of the dog, The miracle of the "Growing Moon," The curse of the golden cross, The winged dagger, The damnation of the Darnaway, The ghost of Gideon Wise.
The secret of Father Brown
The secret of Father Brown, the fourth title of the five members of Father Brown's complete series, includes the following cases: The mirror of the magistrate, The man of the two barbs, The song of the flying fish, The actor and his alibi, The disappearance of Vaudrey, The worst crime in the world, The red moon of Meru, The affliction of the Marquis of Marne and The secret of Flambeau.
Unfinished portraits
Celia was a happy girl, a young woman requested, a loving wife and given up. Her life was, she herself would recognize it later, vulgar; but marked by a congenital timidity that would lead her to make her mother the only psychological reference; and that dependence could only be broken by the very inscribes of Celia's history...
Strangers on a Train
Bruno - an alcoholic with Edipo complex and homosexual tendencies - and Guy - ambitious, conservative and deceived by his wife - are two unknown until they match on a train and plan a diabolical plan that will lead to perfect crime.
Some like you
There's the gambler who collects little fingers from losers... there's the lady who murders her husband with a cold leg of cream... not to mention the man who has made a machine that can hear grass screen... Roald Dahl's particular brand of bizarre, alarming and disturbing story-telling has already attracted a lot following which can only be more disturbed, alarmed and - thankfully - amused by 'Someke' You.
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Who's Tom Ripley? A killer? His cold look hides the most terrible intentions and his mind calculator plans to escape from the police. He has been commissioned to travel to Italy and convince the Bohemian son of a wealthy American businessman to return home.
Ripley Under Ground
On its luxurious estate near Paris, Ripley has a peaceful existence, taking care of the garden, painting, studying French and listening to music. One day he is called from London by his members of the Buckmaster Gallery, marchers of Derwatt, a mysterious painter who hides in an unknown corner of Mexico, while the price of his paintings is rising rapidly.
Ripley's Game
Tom Ripley, at the peak of middle age, has accumulated considerable wealth throughout a long criminal career (forgery, extortion, serial murder). However, Ripley still finds his insatiable appetite and longs to return to the game.
A Stranger Is Watching
The plot develops from the fact that a strange individual brutally raped and killed Nina, a young woman married to Steve and Neil's mother, a child who is witness to the crime.
Missing Person
Guy Roland trabaja para una agencia de detectives mientras intenta reconstruir la identidad que perdió con la amnesia. Sus pesquisas por un París lleno de rastros, fotografías y nombres inciertos convierten la búsqueda personal en una meditación sobre memoria, ausencia y ocupación.
Tales of the Unexpected
The author emphatically unfolds his deadly ingenuity and his macabre sense of humor throughout these stories, overcome with unexpectedly and unexpectedly outcomes. This book resulted in a famous television series whose episodes were presented by Roald Dahl himself.
The twisted lines of God
Torcuato Luca de Tena describes the border between sanity and madness.
Found in the Street
The narrative scenario is the Greenwich Village of New York, captured here in all its wealth of details and contrasts, from yuppie sophistication to the deafness of marginal worlds. Every year thousands of young people from provinces come there in search of success; Elsie is, in a sense, one more: beautiful, ambitious, sexually ambiguous but at the bottom innocent. But it has something special, an erotic endibles that captures men and women equally.
The swarm
Some isolated events caused by "killer bees" that came to produce fatal accidents inspired the plot of this novel, in which the author manages to build a credible account in which swarm becomes a real danger to the people of the United States and manage to check out the people of Manhattan, in the very heart of New York.
The New York Trilogy
Tres novelas breves juegan con detectives, identidades, autores y desapariciones en una Nueva York convertida en laberinto. Paul Auster subvierte el género negro para explorar azar, lenguaje y pérdida del yo.
Winter in Lisbon
El pianista Santiago Biralbo queda atrapado entre una relación amorosa, el jazz y una intriga que lo lleva de San Sebastián a Lisboa. Antonio Muñoz Molina combina memoria, música y suspense en una novela de atmósfera elegante.
The eight
The Eight features two intertwined storylines set centuries apart. The first takes place in 1972 and follows American computer expert Catherine "Cat" Velis as she is sent to Algeria for a special assignment. The second is set in 1790 and revolves around Mireille, a novice nun at Montglane Abbey. The fates of both characteristics are intertwined as they try to unravel the mystery behind the Montglass Service, a chess set that holds the key to a game of unlimited power. A gift from the Moors to Emperor
The Body in the Closet
Alvirah and Willy got the lottery. Since then, they have been engaged in unravelling enigmas and crimes, robberies, abductions and seemingly irresolvable killings. In a body in the closet, an actress dies and everyone considers Brian, Willy's nephew, the main suspect.
The Nightingale Gallery
In 1376 the Black Prince died of a terrible illness, and soon his father, Edward III, was followed by him, who was already old and bitter. The crown of England remains in the hands of a boy, the future Richard II, who is soon threatened by the great nobles headed by the Duke of Lancaster, regent and uncle of Richard. A terrible struggle for power begins, in which the prelates of the Church and the powerful trade princes of London are involved. The investigation of the horrible murder of one of these within a few days of the king's death is entrusted to Sir John Cranston, the coroner of the city
The House of the Red Slayer
At Christmas 1377 London is caught by cold and snow, and even Thames is ice from one shore to another. Revenge lurks around the Tower of London, where its constable, Sir Ralph Whitton, appears brutally killed in the most strange circumstances. Fray Athelstan and the city's forensic obese, Sir John Cranston, a lover of good life and good wine, are commissioned to investigate this mystery.
Murder Most Holy
In the early summer of 1379, Sir John Cranston, a coroner of the city of London, was invited to a great banquet at the regent's palace on the banks of the Thames. There the noble Galeazzo, Lord of Cremona, challenges him to solve a mysterious murder within two weeks. Understanding that all his fame and future wealth depend on the clarification of that mystery, Cranston requests the help of FrayAthelstan. The Dominican, however, has its own serious riddles to clarify in his parish and in the convent of his order.
The law of the desert
The main protagonists live adventures separately, Judge Pazair and his wife Neferet will ascend steps in the extensive and complex bureaucracy of the Egypt of Ramses the great, and at the same time will be held accountable.
The Anger of God
In the autumn of 1379, the power of the crown is in the hands of John of Ghent, Duke of Lancaster, and in the kingdom discontent grows. The French attack the ports of the south and the economic difficulties are felt in the field, where a rebellion is built led by the mysterious head of the Great Community of the kingdom, who proclaims himself Ira Dei, that is, the cholera of God. Ambushed by all this and an unexplained series of crimes, Ghent has no solution but to resort to John Cranston and Fray Athelstan.
By Murder's Bright Light
Winter of 1379. Sir John Cranston is overwhelmed by all kinds of problems: not only does he have to pronounce a sentence on an alleged case of witchcraft, but he is also totally disconcerted by the crimes of a cunning criminal. Fray Athelstan, his scribe and friend, is preparing the representation of a religious mystery and at the same time trying to calm the spirits of his parish council, for they all want to interpret the role of God. Such concerns however lose their importance when all men who make up the night guard of the warship The clear light of God mysteriously disappears. Sir John and Fray Athelstan are responsible for the investigation of the events on board.
The House of Crows
In the spring of 1380, Parliament discussed the possible granting of financial aid to the regent Juan de Ghent for his war against the French. However, the members of the House of Commons are obstinately contrary to their demands. The situation is aggravated when three representatives of Shrewsbury County are vaguely killed. Juan de Ghent commissioned the investigation to the city's coroner Sir John Cranston and his secretary, Fra Athestan.
The Assassin's Riddle
During the summer of 1380, the body of the young scribe of the Chancellery of the Green Wax, Edwin Chapler is found in the waters of the Thames. Shortly after, the implacable usurper Bartholomew Drayton appears dead in his inextricable accounts. How did they get to kill him? Who's the killer? Do both of you have a relationship? Sir John Craston and Fra Athelstan are commissioned to investigate the murders, first of a series of deaths in which the killer was a macabre party with the victims and with the talent of Fra Athelstan himself.
The Devil's Domain
During the summer of 1380, a French stranger's body appears in a lone and lone London building known as the Devil's Domain. Accompanied by Sir Maurice Maltravers, who reveals himself more as a hindrance than as a help, Sir John Cranston and his faithful companion, Fra. Athelstan, are facing an amazing and gruesome mystery that can only have been a perfid but sharp mind. Maybe the perfect crime.
My Name Is Red
En el Estambul otomano, un asesinato en el mundo de los miniaturistas abre una investigación sobre arte, poder, amor y mirada. Orhan Pamuk cruza misterio histórico y reflexión estética.
The Field of Blood
When a prostitute and a preacher decide to spend the night in a house in ruins, the last thing they expect is to witness a crime and that cost them their lives. No less surprising it is to Fra Athelstan that three bodies appear at the door of his parish. In case of little, the confession of a young woman accused of murder reveals the existence of several human remains in a meadow next to the Thames. The dead accumulate and John Cranston is desperate: he cannot take a step without stumbling into a new deceased. The city of London has become a blood field where all are suspected of murder.
The Da Vinci Code
Robert Langdon y Sophie Neveu siguen una cadena de símbolos, claves artísticas y sociedades secretas tras un asesinato en el Louvre. La novela combina thriller, enigmas religiosos y ritmo de investigación internacional.
Darkly Dreaming Dexter
First novel about Dexter Mortan: a Hannibal Lecter dressed as a lamb, a monster who shudders in the sight of the blood, but who is also a serial killer whose golden rule makes him a very nice one: he only kills the bad.
The Historian
The novel reports a research of the last five centuries on Vlad Tepes, El Empalador, also known as Dracula, through the trips between a father and his daughter, in search of the whereabouts of his grave. It seems above all anyone who dares to go after the prince of the undead, weighs a curse worse than death.
Dearly Devoted Dexter
Dexter is a killer of killers who, on different issues, escape the hands of justice, but has a special code inculcated by his adoptive father who taught him since he was a child to use his skills. Dexter follows the rules of Harry's code, which tells him how to kill (only criminals) without being caught.
Dexter in the dark
Dexter Morgan can't stand the blood. Curious mania for a coroner from the Miami Police Department. More since Dexter takes advantage of full moon nights to cut others like him into pieces, serial killers who have escaped the action of justice. But it is possible that from now on your life of a decisive turn. Dexter has given Rita the yes and is about to become a respectable husband, the father figure that Ashtor and Cody will imitate, the children
Dexter by design
Psychopath from the most tender childhood, Dexter Morgan was instructed by his father in the art of camouflage: the refined diurnal forensic of the Miami Police Department makes way, when the night falls, for the ironic serial killer of those criminals who for one reason or another have escaped the action of justice. But having got the perfect costume actually serves him as little: newly married, responsible for the "education" of his couple's two children, Dexter sees how daily life
Dexter Is Delicious
While looking at his newborn daughter at the maternity of a hospital in Miami, Dexter Morgan feels that for the first time he could give up the Dark Passenger, the voice that since his adolescence has led him to pursue and murder those criminals who escaped the action of justice. But a call from her sister returns to reality: the young Samantha Aldovar has disappeared leaving a room soaked in blood... and the first clues point to a band of cannibals that
Cathedrals
The story revolves around the murder of a young woman who happened thirty years earlier. However, his family still did not move on.
Double Dexter
Devotee husband, father of three kids, forensic investigator... and serial killer. No doubt, nothing more complicated and twisted than Dexter Morgan's life. But things can always get more complicated. First, someone has seen him dismembered a pedophile clown. Then your sister must investigate the murder of two cops who have been broken all the bones in the body. Meanwhile, his own wife gives herself to alcohol because she suspects that Dexter is being unfaithful. And, like that's little
Death Comes to Pemberley
Pemberley, year 1803. It's been six years since Elizabeth and Darcy got married, creating a perfect world that seems invulnerable. But suddenly, on the eve of a dance, it all turns. A carriage leaves the residence in a hurry, taking Lydia, Elizabeth's sister, with her husband, the unfortunate Wickham, who has been expelled from Darcy's domain. However, Lydia is soon to return, shocked, screaming that her husband has been killed. Without notice, Pemberley is diving into a chilling mystery.
Bloodstone
December 1380. Sir Robert Kilverby appears dead in a closed room inside. He had a valuable relic made of "blood stone" that he was planning to donate to the Abbey of Saint Fulcher-on- Thames, but the relic has disappeared. Fray Athelstan suspects Sir Robert's former comrades who - along with him - stole the stone during the war against France
The truth about the Harry Quebert case
In New York City, in the spring of 2008, as the United States hastens to the presidential elections, Marcus Goldman, a successful young writer, is at a time of agitation: he cannot write the new novel he must deliver to his editor in a few months. His friend and former university professor, Harry Quebert, one of the country's most respected writers, is caught in his past and is accused of murdering Nola Kellergan, a young woman with whom he allegedly had an affair, in 1975. Convinced of Harry's innocence, Marcus renounces everything to travel to New Hampshire to investigate. Events get over it quickly: the investigation sinks and he is threatened. To clear Harry's name and save his writer's career, he must answer three questions: Who killed Nola Kellergan? What happened in New Hampshire in the summer of 1975? And how do you write a successful novel?
Dexter's final cut
Dexter discovers the lights of the world of the pharandula, acting as the bodyguard of a beautiful and famous actress. Everything gets complicated when a star-obsessed admirer gets too close.
The girl on the train
Rachel is a 30-year-old woman, devastated by her divorce, every morning she takes the 08: 04 train to London. Every day the train stops at a red light, from where you can observe several houses.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
Fourth release of the Millenium saga, starring the hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist.
Dexter is dead
Dexter's life has become a calamity, accused of the death of his wife Rita, he must take away from a detective's attempts to plunder him for life, stay alive keeping a dangerous band at bay and get his kidnapped children back, all at once.
The book of the Baltimore
Marcus Goldman, author of The Truth about the Harry Quebert case, tells the story of his family.
Las sombras de la memoria
Tras la muerte de su tía Lina, Maribel Ordóñez hereda la antigua casa familiar en Córdoba. Mientras explora la vivienda descubre varias obras de arte aparentemente originales, entre ellas cuadros relacionados con su abuelo, un pintor que vivió en París durante los años cuarenta. Lo que parecía un simple hallazgo familiar se convierte en el inicio de una investigación que destapa secretos ocultos durante décadas.
The Mess You Leave Behind
Raquel takes a temporary literature post in Novariz, her husband’s Galician hometown. She soon learns that the previous teacher died by suicide and receives a threatening note asking how long she will take to kill herself. Determined to identify her tormentor, she enters a web of teenage secrets, lies and obsessions.
The day he lost his sanity
Central Boston, December 24, a man walks naked with a young woman's beheaded head. Dr. Jenkins, director of the city's psychiatric center, and Stella Hyden, an FBI profile agent, will go into an investigation that will put their life and their conception of sanity at stake.
Into the water
Nel is obsessed with the deaths of women who have occurred in the lake of his locality until he becomes the last victim of water.
Alguien bajo los párpados
Dos ancianas, Olvido Fandiño y su criada Bruna, emprenden un último viaje. Unidas desde hace media vida, forman una pareja insólita: discuten constantemente, se irritan mutuamente y, sin embargo, no sabrían vivir la una sin la otra.
The day love was lost
At 12: 00 in the morning on December 14, a young woman full of bruises presents herself naked at the FBI facility in New York with several yellowish notes in her hand. Inspector Bowring, head of the Criminology Unit, will try to find out what the young woman is hiding and her connection to another case, that of a woman who appears beheaded hours later and whose name matches the one written in one of the notes.
The Chalk Man
< p class = "p-3" > It all started on the day of the terrible accident, during the fair, when Eddie, 12, met the Tiza Man. It was The Man of Tiza who gave him the idea of the drawings, a way to exchange secret messages among his group of friends. It was fun until the drawings led them to a girl's lifeless body. < / p > < p class = "p-3" > It happened thirty years ago and Ed thought everything had been forgotten. However, one day he receives a letter containing only two things: a chalk and the drawing of a doll. The story is repeated and Ed realizes that the game, in fact, never ended... < / p >
The print of the night
High school students commit an absurd murder because of a misunderstanding and hide the body in their own school facilities. Vinca Rockwell, a girl with an incomparable personality, is the trigger of that crime, but suddenly she also disappears.
The secret life of writers
In 1999, after having published three novels that soon become works of worship, the famous writer Nathan Fawles decided to stop writing and withdraw to Beaumont, an agribusiness and sublime island located near the French Mediterranean coast.
Ms. March
George March's latest novel is a great success. No one is proud of it as much as her devout wife, Mrs. March, who leads an exquisite controlled life on the Upper East Side. One any morning, while he is ready to buy the olive bread in his favorite pastry, the dependent insinuates that the protagonist of George's new book seems inspired by it.
A slow fire burning
The discovery of the body of a young man brutally murdered in a London houseboat triggers suspicion of three women. Laura is the conflict girl who was left with the victim the night she died; Carla, still in mourning for the death of a relative, is the young man's aunt; and Miriam is the indiscreet neighbor who hides information about the case from the police. Three women who don't know each other, but have different connections to the victim.
The time of flies
Inés is released, after 15 years in prison for killing Charo, her ex-husband's lover. His life has changed, but also the society he reincorporates. Inés, a traditional housewife who was not happy with motherhood, understands that it must be practical and adapt to the new reality
The Housemaid's Secret
Finding a job for Millie without any uncomfortable questions about her past seemed impossible, until the Garrick gave her an unexpected opportunity. Its work consists of cleaning up its luxurious penthouse with views of the city and preparing elegant dinners in its bright kitchen.
The sleeping woman's island
While the civil war is taking place in Spain, the merchant sailor Miguel Jordán Kyriazis is sent by the uprising to attack in a clandestine way the naval traffic that from the Soviet Union carries military aid for the Republic.
The Housemaid's Wedding
Hoy debería ser el día más feliz de mi vida. Estoy prometida con el hombre de mis sueños y, en unas pocas horas, vamos a vernos delante de un juez que nos declarará marido y mujer hasta que la muerte nos separe. Pese a que el camino no ha sido fácil, este día es todo lo que siempre he deseado. Solo hay un problema. Ahí fuera hay alguien que no quiere que viva lo suficiente para dar el "sí, quiero". Y, si no tengo cuidado, podría salirse con la suya.