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Crimes or mysteries that are solved thanks to a detective or investigator.
This is the birth of the detective's prototype, a model of deductive reasoning: Sherlock Holmes. Few characters in the history of literature have become so strong in the collective imagination, generating affective ties with their readers who today express themselves in fan clubs, festivals and museums around the world.
Sherlock Holmes extends his hand to grab the bottle of cocaine while his loyal partner, Dr. Watson, looks at him with reprobation. Thus the sign of the four, the second novel written by Arthur Conan Doyle, starring his most famous character, starts.
History collection of < strong > Sherlock Holmes < / strong >, originally published in 1894: "Silver Star," "The cardboard box," "The yellow face," "The stockbroker's office," "The Corbeta" Gloria Scott, " "The Musgrave ritual," "The dots of Reigate," "The adventure of the hump," "The inner patient," "The Greek interpreter," "The naval treaty," "The final problem.".
Conan Doyle was almost forced to write this collection of stories as his readers complained that the protagonist, Sherlock Holmes, had died in the falls of Reichenbach (Switzerland) when he was fighting with Professor Moriarty in the story entitled "The Final Problem," from the Sherlock Holmes Memories collection.
Captain Hastings is sent back to England when he was wounded in the Great War. In England he spends a few months in a convalescence house and meets with his friend John Cavendish, who lives with his wife Mary in Styles' residence.
The search for secret documents, written during the First World War, which were lost in the shipwreck of the Lusitania, leads to a struggle between the British secret services and an international band that wants to use the documents as an instrument of Bolshevik propaganda. But two young people, Tommy and Tuppence, are willing to risk their lives to reveal the identity of the leader of the band: the mysterious Mr. Brown.
In this last presentation of the detective's adventures, Dr. John Watson's narrations open the door to the incredible adventures he lived next to the best detective who has ever stepped on this planet.
Hastings, the faithful friend of Hercules Poirot, reports a series of cases happily resolved by the famous Belgian detective who, convinced of the infallibility of his deductive method, is able to take advantage of any trivial incident, without apparent connection to the case under investigation, to always discover the truth. The secret of its success lies, as Poirot himself proudly confesses, in the quality of the grey cells of his privileged brain.
Ann Beddingfeld is the daughter of a famous anthropologist. When he receives the inheritance when his father dies, he invests all the capital in order to live a great adventure in South Africa: to discover the mysterious head of a gang of criminals who has killed a former spy in London.
Anthony Cade serves as a tourist guide in South Africa. One day he is visited by his friend Jimmy McGrath, who offers to take care of a work in simple appearance: to bring the controversial memories of the late Count Stylptich of Herzosloania to an English newspaper for publication.
In a small fictional British town, King's Abbott, Mrs Ferrars poisons her husband and is a victim of blackmail until he suicides himself because he can't take it anymore. The man she loved, Roger Ackroyd, receives a letter that reveals the name of the extortor, but is killed before knowing the identity of the character. Hercule Poirot, removed from his police work, is responsible for investigating the case.
Hercule Poirot decides, with the help of his good friend Captain Hasting, to destroy a criminal organization called "The Four Big.".
The millionaire Rufus Van Aldin buys a famous ruby for his daughter Ruth de Kettering. The famous jewel is highly coveted by thieves and collectors. During the trip on the blue train towards the Blue Coast, Ruth is killed and the ruby disappears. Hercule Poirot travels on the same train and will take care to unravel what happened.
The Beresford marriage fights the tedium of daily life by taking over a detective agency that Scotland Yard makes available to dismantle a network of spies. While waiting for a Russian agent to fall into the trap that has been prepared for him, the Beresford resolve very clearly how many cases come to the agency using the methods of the most accredited detectives of English police literature.
In the same Chimneys mansion of The Secret of Chimneys we meet again with the Marquis of Caterham and his daring daughter Bundle, who will try to clarify the murder of a young employee of the Foreign Office.
It's one of Dashiell Hammett's best-known novels. Icon of the black and police novel, was published in 1930 shortly after The Crystal Key and form, together with this, the most popular part of his work.
Mr. Protheroe has won the animadversion of half the town of St. John's. Mary Mead. So, when she appears dead in the vicar, Miss Marple counts up to seven different suspects.
Sittaford House is a mansion located in a small citadel in the English countryside. His owner, Joseph Trevelyan, rents it during the winter to the ladies Willet, mother and daughter, and he moves to the nearest city. There are six small houses around the mansion, built and sold or rented by Trevelyan. The new inhabitants of the mansion want to establish good relations with the neighbors and often invite them to have tea and play in the cold afternoon of the English winter.
A series of stories in which Mr. Satterhwaite collaborates with the elusive Mr. Quin in the resolution of mysteries of all kinds.
Hercule Poirot interrupts his rest in the coastal town of St. John's. Loo (Cornwall) when young Nick Buckley is the victim of several attempted murder.
Primera novela de Perry Mason, donde el abogado defensor se enfrenta a chantajes, secretos y un caso criminal lleno de giros. Gardner presenta aquí el tono de investigación legal que marcaría una de las series más populares del género.
Bobby Jones, son of the vicar of Marchbolt, and his friend Dr. Thomas discover a man passed out while looking for a golf ball. The man seems to have been cleared because of the fog. While the doctor is going to get help, Bobby is standing next to the dying man who just before he died asks, "Why didn't they ask Evans?".
Hercule Poirot travels at the Orient Express. During the accidental journey (the train is stopped in Croatia by a snowstorm) you must find out who had reason to kill a surname American Ratchett.
A well-known actor holds a party in his mansion, in which an old priest is reportedly killed for natural cause. However, the poisoning of a well-known doctor soon after leads to the suspicion of a double murder and Poirot must intervene.
On this occasion Poirot must resolve a murder committed during a flight. Before landing, one of the passengers, Madame Giselle, appears dead. At first it is believed that the cause of his death is the bite of a wasp, but Poirot discovers the real cause: a little poisoned dart fired from a cerbatana.
Collection of short police novels written by G. K. Chesterton and published in 1936, shortly after his death.
In a community called Andover, Mrs. Archer is murdered. Soon after, on the beach of Bexhill, the body of Miss Barnard is discovered and a new crime, that of Sir Michael Clarke, is taking place in Churston.
In an archaeological excavation in Iraq, the director's wife appears to be murdered under apparently impossible circumstances. Poirot investigates the secrets of the camp and rebuilds a carefully planned crime.
During a bridge evening, the host - fascinated by criminals with impunity - appears killed. Poirot must find out which of the four players with a suspicious past committed the crime.
On Guy Fawkes night, the firecrackers' explosion hides the sound of a shot and Miss Allen's body appears lifeless.
A wealthy old woman fears that someone will want to kill her and writes to Poirot, but the letter is late: she is already dead. Poirot reopens the case and discovers a plot of inheritance, deceit and murder.
On a Nile cruise, the rich Linnet Doyle appears killed while her old friend harasses her for jealousy. Poirot is a complex plan based on alibis, manipulations and a criminal alliance.
Mrs. Boynton is an entry woman in years that more than rule, enslaves her older stepchildren. But she owns the money and, until her death, everyone must turn around. In the course of a trip to the ruins of Petra, the Boynton coincide with other travelers among whom is Poirot.
A fortuitous encounter with a Turkish colonel leads Charles Latimer, author of a handful of successful mystery novels, to a world of sinister political and criminal management. At first, simply curious for rebuilding the career of the notorious Dimitrios, whose body has been identified in a morgue in Istanbul, Latimer is soon caught in a grim network of murders, espionage, drugs and treason that covers the Balkans.
Patriarch Simeon Lee brings together his conflicting family for Christmas and ends up brutally murdered. Poirot investigates an environment full of grudges, greed and old accounts.
Luke Fitzwilliam meets an old woman who claims that a serial killer acts in her village. When she dies and her suspicions are confirmed, Luke starts an investigation between respectable appearances and lethal secrets.
Ten people are invited to an isolated island and charged with past crimes. One by one they die following a rhyme, until they reveal an unrelenting justice plan.
After the death of a dentist and one of his patients, it all seems like suicide followed by an accident. Poirot detects inconsistencies and discovers a plot where private interests and manipulation are crossed.
After the death of a young woman, Elinor Carlisle is accused of poisoning in a case marked by inheritance, jealousy and anonymous letters. Poirot intervenes to separate the appearances of the truth.
During a holiday in a coastal hotel, a seductive woman appears strangled in a cove. Poirot investigates a fabric of jealousy, pretended and carefully-made alibis identities.
A young woman's body appears in a mansion library, and then a second related victim comes up. Miss Marple shows that the case is an elaborate stage to hide an inheritance plan.
A young woman about to marry came to Poirot to confirm her if her mother actually killed her father when she was a child.
In a small town, a wave of anonymous letters triggers rumors and ends up in death. Miss Marple helps to discover the culprit behind the moral poison and the crimes.
The meeting of an exmarriage in a coastal house unleashes tensions, jealousy and old grievances. Superintendent Battle shows that all the facts led to a "zero point" designed by the killer.
The Continental agent is a character created by Dashiell Hammett. He's a private detective who works for the San Francisco Continental Research Agency, whose name we don't know or know.
In ancient Egypt, the arrival of Noffer alters the balance of a powerful family and unleashes a chain of deaths. Renisenb and Hori reveal the true culprit between ambition, resentment and fear.
On the anniversary of Rosemary Barton, his widower George Barton apparently suicides himself in the same way. Colonel Race, a friend of the family, investigates even unmasking the killer.
Dr. John Christow is killed on the edge of the pool. His wife Gerda pushes the murder weapon, but in this new story that starring Hercule Poirot nothing is what it seems.
Before retiring definitively, the famous detective Hercules Poirot decides to resolve his last twelve cases as the twelve tests that the Hercules of Greek mythology had to perform.
Gordon Cloade is a very rich man who is financially dependent on his family. Almost at the end of the war, Gordon marries Rosaleen Underhay, a widow much younger than him. Little time Gordon dies in a bombing and Rosaleen inherits the money the family expected and needed.
Aristides Leonides is a Greek billionaire who lives in the Torcida House, where he lives with all his family, from his children to his grandchildren and nephews. When he is killed, his granddaughter Sophia asks her boyfriend to investigate the case.
Intriguing and unexpected endings form this necessary compilation full of crime and mystery in which miss Marple and Hercules Poirot surprise us with their ingenuity and intelligence.
When an announcement appears in the local newspaper calling for a crime to be witnessed in one of the village houses, all known people appear and in fact witness a strange murder.
The Under Dog The Plymouth Express The Affair at the Victory Ball The Market Basing Mystery The Lemesurier Inheritance The Cornish Mystery The King of Clubs The Submarine Plans The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
Victoria Jones was a young English tachypen who had just lost her job. He suddenly met Edward, a young man who was going to Baghdad to work with Dr. Rathbone, a culture-preserving intellectual. Victoria decides to travel to Baghdad, where to find the young man. However, one night Henry Carmichael, a British agent, enters Victoria's room and dies, conferring three key words on his ear before his expiry. The young woman, horrified, is soon involved in a world where cunning would be the most effective weapon that one would have at hand.
l researcher Hercules Poirot is already old and his greatest fun is to appreciate the good food. Knowing that he now has more time available, the superintendent Spence, not satisfied with the verdict issued in connection with the murder of Mrs. McGinty, asks Poirot to help him find new evidence that can declare the convicted person in the process of appeal innocent. Poirot is staying in a small city pension where the events took place and begins to investigate the death of this lady, who worked as a domestic employee in the houses of several people in the city. In this period Ariadne Oliver, a writer of police novels (ironic self-portrait of Agatha Christie) is a guest of one of Mrs. McGinty's former patrons.
Rvan Rydock is worried about his sister Carrie- Louise. To make sure she's okay, she asks her old friend Jane Marple to go to Stonygates, the mansion where she lives next to her third husband, Lewis Serrocold. In the mansion there is a strange family and a reformatory for young criminals, where violence hardly seems to be perceived.
A businessman, Rex Fortesce, dies in his office. The coroner reports that he has been poisoned with taxin, a strange poison that is obtained from the leaves of the tiles, trees that precisely surround the dead man's estate. One inexplicable fact is that in the deceased's pocket is a handful of rye grains. Shortly after, Gladys, the maid of Fortesce, also died and, as a result, the police got the unpayable collaboration of miss Marple, who had had the girl at his service and wanted to avenge her death.
The very efficient secretary of Hercules Poirot, Miss Lemon, comes too late and makes some mistake. The reason for his nervousness is related to a problem that concerns his sister, an equally efficient lady who carries a pension for foreign students located on Hickory Street.
Laura had been a modest, unproblematic girl. Charles, his little brother, had become his parents' favorite. She had desired his death... and Charles died.
A boy is convicted of the murder of his mother, even though the defendant claims to have an alibi that he cannot prove. When, two years later, a testimony appears that demonstrates the boy's innocence, a tragic situation occurs, as everything seems to indicate that the perpetrator is one of the members of the victim's family.
At the beginning of the summer quarter one of the most famous and respected female boarding schools in all of England is involved in a series of murders and kidnappings that cause its director to maintain a frustrating relationship with the parents of the students due to the events that occur there and the pressure to discover the killer. Between those parents' conversations she hears how someone is recognized as a member of the intelligence service. But this is what the appearance of a killer who will commit a crime inside the school is all about.
This book contains five short stories. The first of them, who gives title to the work, presents Poirot trying to unravel the mysterious disappearance of a young woman and her ruby. Other stories allow the most famous detectives of Agatha Christie to rivalate in sagacity: miss Marple starring "The Madness of Greenshaw" and Poirot, "The Mystery of the Spanish Case.".
The writer Mark Eastern brook is gradually unintentionally involved in a complex history of seemingly natural deaths with something in common: there was always someone who won a lot with each of these deaths and the names of the deceased were on the list written by Reverend Gorman the night he was killed.
Marina Gregg is organizing a charity party in Gossington Hall. During the reception, one of the guests is poisoned. But would she be the designated victim? Who would want to kill Marina Gregg?
Miss Marple is pleased to be invited by her dear nephew Raymond to a stay at the magnificent Hotel Bertram, charging him with the expenses. She had stayed fifty years ago and the environment had changed nothing. He simply loved that "old times" climate of Hotel Bertram, located in West End, London.
Three young women share a flat in London. The first is a fridly efficient secretary. The second is an artist. The third girl interrupts Hercule Poirot's breakfast and confesses to her that she is a killer, before she quickly disappears.
Luca Lamberti is a former Milanese doctor, a police son, who has lost his license to exercise for having access to provide euthanasia to a sick person.
Luca Lamberti continues to work with the Milanese police to resolve a strange case related to the trafficking of arms and drugs.
Mike Rogers is a 25-year-old boy who doesn't seem to be very clear about his future. It changes employment for a short time, and does not seem to be a head-on for women. Until one day he meets Fenella Goodman, a rich heiress with whom he plans to go to the Gypsy Field, a beautiful mansion of the English countryside on which he weighs a terrible curse.
The inspector must solve a strange case in which the killer warns him that a murder is to be committed and at the same time uses Cock as an irrefutable alibi.
A young sample appears tortured in her classroom and Luca Lamberti must unravel who is the real culprit.
In the sand dunes that protect the lowlands of the Netherlands, an early morning runner makes a terrible discovery: the body of a man with a dagger that stands out from his back. Peter Geffel's body, better known as "Cunning" Pete, is identified.
A very high young woman appears killed and semi-carbonized in a few pieces.
With total unbelief, Jane Marple reads a letter sent by Mr. Rafiel, who was recently deceased, a acquaintance he had met briefly during a vacation in St. John's. Honoré. Rafiel leaves you instructions to investigate a crime. The only problem is that it does not indicate who was involved or where and when the crime was committed.
Hercules Poirot and writer Ariadne Oliver are immersed in a 12-year-old story, a case of double death that was later filed as a committed suicide. The things that ignored those who had some connection with the events, the scattered memories of each other will lead the two researchers to the knowledge of the truth.
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford think it's their grumpy aunt who invents the various calamities that happen in their old old home. But not only in this old house will you find disturbing clues, also in which you have just bought in an English village, and which has an old secret around a macabre murder.
Gwenda Reed, a newly married young woman, arrives in London before her husband with the intention of buying a home to start her conjugal life. He finally buys the house, but soon he begins to experience strange sensations. First he thinks he knows the house as if he had already lived in it. Later on, he began to have visions: he saw the body lying on the ground of a dead woman, his bluish face: they had strangled her.
Commissioner Flores is an inspector of the Criminal Investigation Brigade. In the event of the disappearance of a girl from a school of Lazarist mothers, the inspector decides to seek help in a former depraved criminal who is in a mental institution. So they come to a deal between the inmate and the Commissioner: if it helps to resolve the case, freedom will be won.
El detective Pepe Carvalho investiga el asesinato de un empresario barcelonés que soñaba con abandonar su vida burguesa y marcharse a los mares del Sur. La investigación lo lleva por distintos ambientes de la Barcelona de la Transición, donde descubre las contradicciones, frustraciones y falsas ilusiones de una sociedad en cambio.
Guillermo de Baskerville, a wise and intuitive Franciscan, a cult and scholar and, Adso de Mink, are investigating mysterious crimes.
Detective Fritz Brown, a former alcoholic obsessed with classical music, especially Beethoven's, is not a conventional detective: he was kicked out of the Los Angeles police years ago and he still has to move sometimes on the verge of the law to get ahead. Brown has a very peculiar way of handling his cases. A beggar-looking caddie but a lot of money, for example, offers him a thousand dollars to watch over the rich Jewish fighter with whom his sister lives for a few days. But she turns out to be very attractive, and a passionate cello, plus, and Brown decides to follow her too and investigate where her strange client gets so much money...
During a spiritism session, the victim pointed out by the medium suddenly dies, apparently poisoned.
A of adultery presents Kinsey Millhone, 32, a private detective. He's investigating the death of the famous marriage lawyer Laurence Fife. His murder eight years ago was attributed to his wife, Nikki Fife, who hired Kinsey once he left prison to find the real killer. In the course of the investigation, Kinsey is involved with Charlie Scorsoni, Fife's former partner.
De Cock is investigating Igor Stablinsky, a criminal accused of violent theft of older people living alone. In parallel, Cock meets a strange family, over which the suspicion of incest overflies.
De Cock is investigating the death of two young ex-drug addicts. one of which has a special gift for music.
De Cock is investigating the death of a clown, who appears at the base of an old Amsterdam tower.
Cock's investigating the disappearance of a body that appears in an office building, and disappears shortly after.
Private researcher Kinsey Millhone has trouble getting to the end of the month the day she has no choice but to accept the routine order to look for Mrs.'s sister. Danziger, Elaine. "Now, when he arrives at this apartment and finds that he is occupied by another enigmatic woman, when Mrs. Danziger suddenly asks him to leave the case, when he finds out that, a few days before Elaine's disappearance, his neighbor and bridge partner has been brutally killed and his house has disappeared under the flames, when his drug-addicted nephew knows more than he says, when there are mysterious records, strange intakes and, finally, another murder, the stubborn and meticulous Kinsey Millhone the matter is going to seem all but routine. And the more he investigates, the more he is involved in a diabolical maze of mirrors in which nothing, except danger, is actually what it seems to be.
Although at first it seems to be a case for the division of narcotics, the first crime becomes a series of sinister and almost impossible murders.
Although at first it seems to be a case for the division of narcotics, the first crime becomes a series of sinister and almost impossible murders.
Bobby Callahan, a young man with a deformed face who had caught Kinsey Millhone's attention at the neighborhood gym, comes to him one day and tells him that, following the accident that left him amnesic and with the body left behind with scars, he is convinced that someone wants to kill him, even though he ignores why. The police had stood on their shoulders in the face of their fears and their wealthy family believes that it lacks a screw. But he is afraid, a mortal fear, and he asks Kinsey to help him and protect him. "There's little where to take this case," she thinks, but, as Bobby likes him, he's stubborn and he's dirty, he agrees to work for him. However, three days later, Bobby Callahan appears dead... for Kinsey Millhone, a deal is a deal, and he never leaves a case halfway. She was hired to prevent a murder; now it's her turn to look for the killer!
Cock's inspector and his partner, Vledge, are ordered to protect the artistic treasures of a millionaire, exhibited during a special show in Amsterdam.
He called himself Alvin Limardo, and the job he had for Kinsey was cut-and-dried: locate a kid who'd done him in favor and pass on a check for $25,000. It was only later, after he'd stiffed her for her retainer, that Kinsey found out his name was Daggett. John Daggett.
On January 15, 1947, on a Los Angeles site, the body appeared naked and sectioned in two of a young woman. The forensic doctor found that she had been tortured for days. Elizabeth Short, 22, called the Black Dalia, will take the detectives to the low streets of Hollywood to involve certain wealthy people in Los Angeles. Both are obsessed with what was the life of the Black Dalia, and, above all, by capturing the individual who murdered her..
In the past, John Rebus was part of the SAS elite unit, and currently works as a police officer in Edinburgh. He is an officer who protects himself from his memories, lets go of promotion opportunities and ignores a series of extravagant letters. However, as the chilling murders increase and the sensationalist headlines fill the tabloids, Rebus realises that it has all the pieces of the puzzle...
It was the silly season and a Monday at that, and Kinsey Millhone was launched down in a preliminary report on a fire claim. Something was nagging at her, but she couldn't pin it. The last thing she needed in the morning mail was a letter from her bank recording an erronic $5,000 deposit in her account.
Edward I of England and Philip IV of France are at war. Philip has managed to take over the English duchy of Aquitaine, and is committed to crushing Eduardo with all the means at his disposal. The English king suspects that his enemy has the help of a spy who moves his wide through the London court, and orders Hugo Corbett to locate and, if possible, destroy the traitor. A company that will make you take serious risks by land and by sea, and that leads Corbett to the dangerous low funds of Paris and later to the hostile environment of Wales.
Floral Beach isn't much of a town: six streets long and three deep, its only notable feature a strip of sand facing the Pacific. It was on that saddy beach seven years ago that the strangled body of Jean Timberlake had been found.
Berlin 1936. Bernie Gunther is a private detective, former Kripo police, specialized in the location of missing persons, especially Jews; a rather lucrative job in a Germany that, in the heart of Nazism, is preparing to host the Olympic Games and more discreetly for a possible war. Years ago, on the Turkish front during World War I, Gunther got the Iron Cross and later, in his police stage, he got a certain notoriety when he solved the case of a strangler named Gormann.
It's the fifth of May and Kinsey is celebrating her 33rd birthday. One of her presents is a call from a fellow detective warning her that she's made the hit list of Tyrone Patty (a killer she helped track down) and suggesting she hire a bodyguard. But Kinsey has better things to do with her money. Instead, she takes on her next case - tracking down her new client's eccentric mother who is missing from her trailer home on the edge of the Mojave Desert. But before she can get very far in the case, K
A brutal killer terrorizes Richmond, Virginia, leaving three women strangled but without pattern of conduct, as the killer leaves very few traces. So Dr. Kay Scarpetta is called to investigate this series of brutal murders just when there's a fourth victim and she's afraid there's still more.
Any day in the '70s. C., without special events for a man like Marco Didio Falco: get rid of some other body, follow the lead of a plot against the emperor or get some small profit by dealing with stolen lead. But the routine work of the most sarcastic and disdeceived researcher of Imperial Rome turns around when chance puts him on the trail of Barnadas, a strange character who seems to have something personal against Didio Falco.
In Palido criminal Bernie Gunther, despite his no sympathy for the Nazis, he is forced by SS General Reinhard Heydrich to rejoin the Kripo with the mission of hunting a psychopath who has raped, tortured and killed several Aryan adolescents. Under the command of his friend Kriminaldirektor Arthur Nebe and with the rank of Commissioner, Gunther returns to an increasingly close police officer to the Gestapo and initiates a counter-watch investigation to prevent the killer from continuing to kill. But the investigation will be complicated when it involves several relevant SS members interested in occult who have a special hatred of Jews, such as Otto Rahn, Karl Maria Wiligut or Heinrich Himmler himself.
His name was Parnell Perkins, and until shortly after midnight, he'd been a claims adjustment for California Fidelity. Then someone came along and put paid to that line of work. And to any other. Parnell Perkins had been shot at close range and left for dead in the parking lot outside California Fidelity's offices.
A young writer is brutally murdered. Forensics Scarpetta and Detective Marino are responsible for the dilution of who is behind their death and the disappearance of the manuscript of their next book.
On his return to Italy (The Bronze statue), the researcher Marco Didio Falco is hired by the emperor to carry out a work in the Treasury. But, unfortunately, Marco makes an unforgivable accounting mistake that leads him directly to the mythical prison of Latumia, where the noise of the rats torments him day and night. It will be thanks to the continuous and tenacious work of his mother (which gradually becomes more important in the series) that Marco will be able to recover the libe
Berlin 1947. After the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, Bernie Gunther survives as a private detective in a tough post-war in which the Berliners are afraid of the repression they are suffering by Soviet troops (the Red Army), especially in the so-called East Zone of the city. Gunther fought on the Russian front and spent a season in a Soviet concentration camp before being able to return to Berlin with 15 kilos less weight and a slight cushion as a souvenir.
In an abandoned apartment in Edinburgh an addict lies alive. It might seem just another dead addict, until John Rebus begins to unravel the indifference, betrayal, deception and depravity that are hidden under the facade of Edinburgh, that city known to tourists.
Lonnie Kingman is in a bind. He's smack in the middle of assembling a civil suit, and the private investigator who was doing his pretrial legwork has just dropped dead of a heart attack. In a matter of weeks the court's statute of limitations will put paid to his case. Five years ago David Barney walked when a jury acquitted him of the murder of his rich wife, Isabelle. Now Kingman, acting as attorney for the dead woman's ex-husband and their child (and sure that the jury made a serious mistake)
The repeated disappearances of young couples suggest the existence of a methodical and calculator killer. When the victim is the daughter of the director of the National Anti-Drug Policy, such a hypothesis takes on a new dimension. Forensic doctor Kay Scapetta is facing a matter that presents clear guidelines. The most significant is a jot of hearts the killer leaves at the crime scene.
This delivery of the series on the private researcher of the Imperial Rome Marco Didio Falco, moves between the detectivisca plot and the loving entanglements. While Marco Didio travels to the ends of the empire to clarify the performance of the army elite in the insurrection that emerged in Germania, Helena Justina, Marco's girlfriend, is courted by Tito César, the son of the Vespasian Emperor.
The famous conductor Helmut Wellauer appears dead, poisoned with potassium cyanide, during a representation of La Traviata in the famous Venetian theatre of La Fenice.
When they found Wendell Jaffe's yacht drifting, everything indicated that it had been thrown overboard. It was not only confirmed by the note he had left, but also by his disastrous financial situation.
Ronnie Joe Waddell is going to be executed for a horrible crime and Dr. Scarpetta, who doubts about her guilt, is waiting to perform the autopsy. A few hours after the execution, police find a body on the street with similar injuries to the alleged Waddell victim.
If Marco Didio Falco already had problems being accepted by his girlfriend's family, the only thing he needed to end him in misery was to become the main suspect of the murder of a former legionnaire. But it can still be worse: her beloved Helena Justina is arrested for alleged complicity.
Barra the finding of a body in one of the city's channels, belonging to an American military, in whose investigation Brunetti discovers the corruption and relations between the armed forces of his country (Italy), the American and the Mafia in the industrial-military complexes, in addition to the fate given to toxic waste.
El detective privado Ricardo Cupido acepta uno de sus primeros casos importantes: investigar la desaparición de una joven. Lo que comienza como un encargo aparentemente sencillo termina revelando una compleja red de intereses, mentiras y secretos que marcarán el inicio de la carrera del investigador.
In the Barcelona of 1948, the apparitions and disappearances of the Maquis, which come from across the border, and the account of their adventures are the only thing that encourages the grey environment of the toughest post-war era. The story of the adventure of one of those mythical heroes, who embarks on Shanghai to carry out a very risky mission among gunmen, ex-Nazis, beautiful women and sinister nightclubs, gives meaning to the lives of two teenagers, Daniel and Susana, until reality makes them wake up from the haunt.
Lorna Kepler was beautiful and stubborn, a lonely woman who liked to flirt with danger. He may have died for this reason. The thing is, when they found his body, he was so broken that no one could find out if he died of natural death or not, and the case was filed.
The inhabitants of Black Mountain hardly know the fear. There is nothing to fear until one day a girl's body appears and a pain more like unbelief than terror is installed in the inhabitants of the village. Dr. Scarpetta, a coroner famous for having solved similar cases, goes to Black Mountain and studies the first, apparently clear, signs. However, little by little, the case acquires dimensions that will eventually involve it personally and bring it to the only l
Things are not going well in Rome for Marco Didio Falco, who must accept a mission in the East to make a living. Along with their inseparable Helena Justina, they will join a theatre company where several murders have occurred.
A transvestite man's body appears on the train tracks. But nothing is as simple as it seems.
A well-known politician and businessman appears dead half-naked inside his car in a prison where prostitution and drugs reign. Commissioner Montalbano intends to discover the sexual and political fabric behind the alleged crime
Detective Kinsey Millhone learned to be a bridesmaid at her landlord's brother's wedding when, a few days earlier, she agreed to investigate for a neighbor, Chester, why in the military files all traces of Johnny Lee, her newly deceased father and veteran of World War II, have disappeared.
It seems that Temple Brooks Gault, the serial killer who has become the last nightmare of researcher Scarpetta, has committed a murder again. The victim is a white woman, found in Central Park in New York City, whose identity cannot be determined.
In the summer of 72 Marco Didio Falco and his girlfriend Helena Justina returned to Rome. During his absence, his friend, officer Petronio Longo, has managed to bring one of the heads of the Roman hampa to court. But things soon get complicated.
Someone is killing prominent businessmen in Italy and, at first sight, the murders seem to be unrelated. However, Venice's most charming and tenacious detective, Deputy Commissioner Guido Brunetti, suspects a deadly bond.
Malek, a building magnate, has died leaving an immense fortune and three of his four children are preparing to repair it.
Researcher Stephanie Plum has come back, and with much more character. This time, it's on the track of Kenny Mancuso, a co-worker in Trenton, New Jersey, who shot his best friend. He has recently left the Navy and is suspected rich, Mancuso is also closely related to Joe Morelli, a police deputy director of dubious reputation... and who likes to get into Stephanie's business.
A new case for coroner Kay Scarpetta. Theodore Andrew Edding's body has appeared under water, after an alleged dive session. Forensics Kay Scarpetta takes care of the case and begins to receive phone calls with false identities, while there are suspicious behaviour by her colleagues, intriguing night visits and annoying sabotage. In the face of this situation, Scarpetta has no choice but to lock himself in his laboratory and leave no one in
Marco Didio Falco stumbles again with a body: that of the chief of the secret services of the Emperor Vespasian. Marco's investigations lead him to a company of Hispanic oil importers, and, following his trail, he is forced to travel to Corduba, accompanied by Helena Justina. During his brief stay in Hispania, the couple will also be involved in a dark plot of political and commercial interests urinated by a group of oil tankers who may have serious problems
When the American archaeologist Brett Lynch is beaten by two men in the hallway of her apartment in Venice, Brunetti is only concerned. After all, Lynch is not only foreign, but also said to have preferences for women rather than men and is involved with an opera diva. However, two days later, the renowned museum director Dottor Semenzato is found murdered, which horrifies all of Venice.
Commissioner Montalbano is investigating the appearance of two buried bodies next to a terracotta dog. Death is remote to the time of World War II.
Commissioner Montalbano is investigating the murder of a retired trader and ends up involved in an international terrorism case.
Kay Scarpetta travels to Dublin to offer lectures at the Trinity College School of Medicine, but the real purpose of the coroner is to investigate a series of homicides in Ireland ten years ago.
Once again in Rome after his dangerous mission to Hispania, Marco Didio Falco tries to give a new impetus to his professional life by partnering with his old friend Petronio, while dealing with his endemic family problems. But a macabre and spectacular case will come to alter all your plans: A serial killer who is afraid of all Roman girls is sowing from human hands the water channelling systems of the capital of the Empire. No one like Falco to solve a
A beautiful young woman, a wife of a Boloña doctor, appears dead in her villa under construction. His jewels have disappeared and all suspicions focus on an unbalanced relative who has disappeared the same night of the crime.
Kinsey Millhone should have done something else - she should have turned the car in the direction of home. Instead, she was about to put herself in the gravest jeopardy of her career.
In Richmond, forensic doctor Kay Scarpetta is involved in the investigation of a series of arson that present a common denominator: in the calcined bodies of the victims there are always traces of magnesium. With the starting point, Patricia Cornwell returns to the origins of Dr. Scarpetta's career with a story that sounds on the darkest side of the human soul.
It seems that at last the life of the researcher Marco Didio Falco is going to enter into an era of economic exhale and even prosperity, as he has put himself at the service of the Emperor Vespasian as a tax agent with extensive powers and a pay not negligible. However, the death of a great star in the world of show gives a turn to all its plans and uncovers the sordid world of envy and rivalries between coaches and gladiators agents. When an acclaimed gladiator also appears dead, Falco will have no choice but to initiate an investigation that will force him to take a trip to Africa accompanied by his wife Helena and his little daughter Julia.
A month with Montalbano consists of thirty cases that Montalbano must resolve, each of which reveals a different facet of this peculiar police.
The call comes on a Monday morning from a guy who scavenges defended storage units at auction. The weekend before, he'd bought a stack of cardboard boxes. In one, there was a collection of childhood memorabilia with Kinsey's name all over it. For thirty bucks, he was offering Kinsey the lot.
Kay is a victim of the dirty game of a stranger who claims to ruin his career. The remains of a man's body found in a container of a ship from Belgium are surprising: the X-rays reveal deep scars and strange hairs, similar to those of an animal, appear in his clothes.
A newly appointed procurator of the sacred and ascended birds of social category, Marco Didio Falco receives an enigmatic visit: a young woman who is repellent and malnourished wants to hire her services as a researcher, as she fears that a member of her family will kill her. Falco's investigations will lead him to dig up the best kept secrets of a rich promiscuous and powerful family, and to know closely the ever mysterious world of vestal virgins and arval brothers.
From the morning of a rainy day, when before taking the coffee it gets in a dark mood like ink, until midnight when, exhausted, it leads to your house of Marinella as it is pleased in the expected enjoyment of an hour of fresh solitude on its small terrace on the sea side, Montalbano exhibits that mixture of wisdom of life and courage that we all want to possess.
Someone sends the Inspector Delicado some packages with a very peculiar content: amputated penises. Next to the subinspector Garzón will realize a monstrous reality: the shipments are not the product of a disturbed mind or an alienated one, it is something of much more disturbing proportions...
La aparición del cadáver de una joven en un bosque lleva a Ricardo Cupido hasta un pequeño pueblo donde todos parecen ocultar algo. Conforme avanza la investigación, el detective descubre que los conflictos familiares, las viejas rivalidades y las pasiones reprimidas son mucho más peligrosos que el propio crimen.
It's Christmas, and coroner Kay Scarpetta just lost her lover, Benton Wesley. The last case of the detective is still open, as it has not been possible to clarify the authorship of a series of murders, blamed on the Mafia Chandonne. A conspiracy leads the situation to unsuspected limits, to the point that Scarpetta can be prosecuted for murder. On the other hand, the evidence points to a possible relationship between the crimes and Benton's death.
Falco sees his dedication to literature rewarded, but what seemed to be a brilliant future as a writer does not take time to become a nightmare. The sudden and mysterious death of a writing forces him to enter the dangerous world of letters, which will lead him to discover the entrenches that are hidden under the glamour. But he must also face a number of domestic problems: his wife Helena Justina has fought with the builders of his new cas, his father is attracted
Low-rent bony hunter Stephanie Plum reaches delays of personal experience that other women detectives never quite do. In Hot Six, for example, a sequence of new and healthy cars bit the dust; she finds herself lumbed with a policeman's multiple incontinental dog; and she has several bad skin days. All this when she is trying to prove her distinctly more competent collect and occasional boyfriend Ranger innocent of a mob hit; avoid the heavies training her in the hope of finding him; and cope with a wife-abusing bail defaulter with nasty habitats, such as setting Stephanie on fire.
A couple of retirees appears dead after a bus trip to Tindari. At the same time a young man of dissipated life appears dead at the door of the estate where the elderly lived. Montalbano is responsible for the two investigations.
The novel focuses on the disappearance of Dr. Dowan Purcell, a nursing home administrator and doctor at Pacific Meadows Nursing Home.
Dalgliesh visits Saint Anselm's in a semi-official capacity to follow up the death of a student some time previously as his father was not satisfied with the verdict. While there, a visiting archdeacon is murdered. Dalgliesh is assigned the investigation, summons DI Miskin and DI Tarrant from London to assist, as well as local officers. Initial suspicion falls on one of the fathers who run and teach at the college, as the archdeacon was known to be recommending the closure of the college.
This time in Britain, Maco will have to investigate a series of strange deaths during the construction of a palace. The ironic darts of the great writer are directed, on this occasion, to the guild of architects and builders who unreasonably and unmassively inflate the expenses and deceive their customers. To exhilarate the mystery Marco will become an inspector of the works and his astonishment will increase as he gets to know the entrenches of the construction.
All New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has to do is bring in semi-retired bail jumper Eddie DeChooch. For an old man he's still got a knack for slipping out of sight--and raising hell. How else can Stephanie explain the bullet-riddled corpse in Eddie's garden? Who else would have a clue as to why two of Stephanie's friends suddenly vanished? For answers Stephanie has the devil to pay: her mentor, Ranger. The deal? He'll give Stephanie all the help she needs--if she gives him everything he wants...
Un asesinato relacionado con el mundo del arte obliga a Ricardo Cupido a adentrarse en un ambiente donde la ambición, la belleza y el dinero se mezclan con antiguos resentimientos. La investigación pondrá a prueba su capacidad para descubrir la verdad entre personas acostumbradas a vivir de las apariencias.
Commissioner Montalbano is investigating the disappearance of a alleged con man and his assistant, who have reportedly devalued half the town and the surrounding area.
She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose deceased body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on.
One of the extremes of the Empire, Londinium is living a stage of splendor. It already has a forum and an amphitheater, trade is gaining a great boost, economic expectations are unbeatable..., an ideal scenario for organized crime to flourish. And yet, the private researcher Marco Didio Falco cannot imagine that his vacation to the British capital will become a real nightmare. It doesn't take long to stumble into the first body, and one murder will lead to another in a
Evelyn's stranged husband, Steven, a shady owner of a seedy bar, is not at all happy. During the divorce proceedings, he and Evelyn signed a child custody bond, and Steven is demanding the money guaranteed by the bond to find Annie. The money was sequenced by a mortgage on Evelyn's grandmother's house, and the True Blue Bonds Bail Agency wants to take possession of the house.
In a residential development the body of a young man, a partner of a prestigious law firm, appears floating in the pool. The event shocked his wife and two other couples of friends who shared almost everything in that privileged environment.
Almost to the limit of exhaustion, while nothing in the sea with the fury of those who want to free themselves from a night of obsessive thoughts, Commissioner Salvo Montalbano literally stumbles upon the most difficult investigation of those who have carried out so far. In fact, its finding of a half-broken body, with deep cuts in the wrists and ankles, will trigger a series of reactions that will make it feel more isolated and overcome by circumstances than ever.
Desirous of starting a new life free from the past, Kay Scarpetta decides to close his stage as a forensic in Richmond and chooses Florida as a destination to reach the long-awaited tranquility. However, there is someone who is not willing to have the doctor redo her life: Jean- Baptiste Chandonne, the psychopath who terrorized her long ago, now claims her from the death row.
Our Roman detective Falco returns to Rome and puts himself at the service of Silio Italico and Pacio africa, two lawyers of growing fame and wealth in the capital of the Empire on whose methods (including blackmail) all kinds of rumors circulate. The finding of the body of Senator Rubirio Metelo is the first case to fall into Falco's hands, but it seems that the gods are back in the process of convulsing for any of our detective's investigations.
Stephanie Plum's got rent to pay, people shooting at her, and psychos wanting her dead every day of the week (much to the dismay of her mother, her family, the men in her life, the guy who slices eat at the deli... oh, the list goes on). An ordinary person would cave under the pressure. But hey, she's from Jersey.
Maisie Dobbs, a psychologist and researcher, after learning with the renowned Maurice Blanche, Maisie set up his own research business. His first case, apparently about infidelity, takes her not only after a killer's lead, but back to his memories as a nurse in France during World War I.
Commissioner Franck Sharko's wife, Suzanne, has disappeared and the police are facing a ruthless killer.
Una empresa promotora pretende construir una urbanización de lujo en las afueras de Breda. Cuando uno de los implicados aparece asesinado, Ricardo Cupido deberá descubrir quién se beneficia realmente del proyecto mientras desentraña una compleja trama de intereses económicos y ambiciones personales.
Almost to the limit of exhaustion, while nothing in the sea with the fury of those who want to free themselves from a night of obsessive thoughts, Commissioner Salvo Montalbano literally stumbles upon the most difficult investigation of those who have carried out so far. In fact, its finding of a half-broken body, with deep cuts in the wrists and ankles, will trigger a series of reactions that will make it feel more isolated and overcome by circumstances than ever.
Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Nord Lafferty was already in his fifties when Reba was born, and he could deny her nothing. Over the years, he quietly settled her many scrapes with the law, but he didn't there for her when she was convicted of beatings and sent to the California Institute for Women. Now, at thirty-two, she is about to be paroled, having served twenty-two months of a four-year sentence.
After many years of absence, young writer Erica returns to her hometown, where she has inherited the house of her recently deceased parents. Erica decides to take a walk in the streets where she spent the first years of her life, but after the warning of some neighbors, she finds that her childhood friend, Alex, has just committed suicide. She was shocked, she started an investigation and found out Alex was pregnant. The story gives a new turn when the autopsy reveals that her friend did not commit suicide
Kay Scarpetta returns to the forensic clinic in Richmond, Virginia - which was her work center for years - to participate in the investigation into the death of a teenager. Gilly Paulsson was found dead in her bed without apparent signs of violence; however, the fact that the autopsy is being postponed more than planned and that the FBI is interested in knowing the results of it arouses the forensic's mistrust.
On this occasion the stage of the Corrias de Marco Didio Falco is the beach of Ostia, where it is removed for the purpose of making some family visits and rest, and the case it faces is the mysterious disappearance of Infamia, a famous commentator of the amorites and misfortunes of the main Roman citizens. Of course, it is clear that many benefit from this timely disappearance, but the inquiries soon put Falco behind the lead of an enigmatic
Swing off the Jersey Turnpike and you'll be in bony hunter Stephanie Plum's neighbourhood. You'll know it because all hell will be breaking loose. Not that she looks for trouble - it just seems to follow her. In Ten Big Ones it explores at a deli, and when Stephanie pekes a robber as a member of a vicious Trenton gang, they peg her as dead. Vice cop Joe Morelli fears she's in way too deep - even with the help of crime-solving, cross- dressing, bus driver Sally Sweet, and Stephanie's friend Lula ripping shot as backup. With a notorious killer on her tail, Stephanie figures the best hideout is Ranger's secret lair...
Maisie Dobbs, a psychologist and researcher, after learning with the renowned Maurice Blanche, Maisie set up his own research business. His first case, apparently about infidelity, takes her not only after a killer's lead, but back to his memories as a nurse in France during World War I.
Sixth case of Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy Inspector Fermín Garzón.
In this seventeenth delivery of the series, Salvo Montalbano is in bed, convalescent of the wounds received in his last case. The Commissioner is confused, the weight of the years overwhelms him and a heartbreaking melancholy leads him to question the ultimate sense of justice and the "law," to which he has dedicated his entire career. In such a state Montalbano is found when he is informed of the abduction of young Susanna Mistretta, and while the investigations are the matter of Commissioner Minutolo, something makes him jump out of bed. It may be the need to prove itself that it still retains all its ability to react, or perhaps the unusual circumstances of the kidnapping, since the young woman's family had lost all its fortune years ago in a sudden and mysterious way.
Just after Independence Day in July 1953 Violet Sullivan, a local good time girl living in Serena Station Southern California, drives off in her brand new Chevy and is never seen again. Left behind is her young daughter, Daisy, and Violet's immediate husband, Foley, who had been persuaded to buy his errant wife the car only days before...
a disappearance of two sisters in Florida launches an investigation that will take Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her colleague Pete Marino to the unbalanced mind of a serial killer. But nothing is what it looks like and unexpected turns happen at a dizzy pace. The body of a girl with strange tattoos appears in Boston, the forensic psychologist hears disturbing information that may have some connection to that death, and Scarpetta is increasingly concerned about
On this occasion the stage of the Corrias de Marco Didio Falco is the beach of Ostia, where it is removed for the purpose of making some family visits and rest, and the case it faces is the mysterious disappearance of Infamia, a famous commentator of the amorites and misfortunes of the main Roman citizens. Of course, it is clear that many benefit from this timely disappearance, but the inquiries soon put Falco behind the lead of an enigmatic
Stephanie Plum is thinking her career as a fugitive apprehension agent has run its course. She's been shot at, spat at, cuffed at, fire-bombed, mooned, and attacked by dogs. Stephanie thinks it's time for a change. So she takes. She wants something safe and normal. But the kind of trouble she had at the bail bonds office can't compare to the kind of trouble she finds herself facing now...
The last delivery of the popular mystery series finds the moody Inspector Montalbano even more harassed by the existential questions that have been tormenting him lately. But he doesn't have much time to get philosophical before the terrible murder of a man, shot in the face with his pants down, draws his attention.
Three Pines is a remnant of peace, so when a very dear member of the community is found dead in the forest, the neighbors are perplexed and horrified.
Maisie Dobbs, a psychologist and researcher, accepts the task of finding out what happened to Agnes Lawton's son during the Great War.
Harriet Vanger disappeared thirty-six years ago on a Swedish island owned by his powerful family. Despite the police deployment, no trace of the girl was found. She got away? The case is closed and the details are forgotten. But his uncle Henrik Vanger, a retired businessman, lives obsessed with solving the mystery before he dies.
FIRST A STRANGER APPEARS While chasing down the usual cast of miscreants and weirdos Stephanie discovers that a crazed woman is stalking her. THEN THE STRANGER REVEALS HER SECRETS The woman dresses in black, carries a 9mm Glock, and has a bad attitude and a mysterious connection to dark and dangerous Carlos Manoso …street name, Ranger.
Reflecting three very different epochs in the life of Commissioner Salvo Montalbano, the stories that make up this new delivery of the famous character created by Andrea Camilleri - one of the most read authors of Italy in recent years - offer an unknown face of Montalbano that will delight the initiates and surprise those readers who first approach the irresistible universe of the Sicilian seducer.
An asphyxiating heat rashes Sicily like a flare; during the day the air becomes breathable the stones burn and not even a bath in the sea offers more than just momentary relief. With the city in an incandescent lethargy except for the arrival of Livia who comes with friends to spend the holidays in a lonely little house in front of the beach. But the idyllic plan is turned when hidden in the basement of the house a trunk with a body appears inside.
A call from Catarella forces Montalabano to dive into the investigation of a crime. A young woman's naked body has appeared, and the only clue to her identity is a tattoo on her back that represents a small sphinx, a night butterfly.
Commissioner Ricciardi has a strange gift that gives him much suffering but helps him in his work as an investigator.
Bernie Gunther is a private detective specializing in the location of missing persons, in a desolate Germany after losing World War II and discovering the holocaust.
Scarpetta decides to open a forensic pathology consultation in Charleston, as an expert in criminal and autopsy scene research.
Kinsey's cantankerous neighbor Gus is badly injured in a fall and hires Solana Rojas, a private nurse, to help him while he recovers. Kinsey becomes suspicious when Gus becomes isolated and withdrawn. She finds out that Solana is a with artist who engages in identity theft. What Kinsey doesn't know is that Solana is a dangerous sociopath with an complexity and a history of clients who died under her care. Kinsey works with other neighbours and friends to rescue Gus and expose the con-artist wit
Our affectionate Falco is again facing his eternal enemy Anacrites, on this occasion, to resolve a mysterious beheading that can undermine the credibility of the Empire before its political allies. After having captured a famous enemy of Rome, a proud general contracted a strange disease, and his prey escaped without leaving any trace other than a body. But as always, Falco in addition to his research work will have to deal with his already usual domestic problems that
Dickie Orr: Stephanie was married to him for about fifty minutes before she caught him cheating on her with her arch-nemesis Joyce Barnhardt. Another fifteen minutes after that Stephanie filed for divorce, hoping to never see either one of them again.
Between unremitting and horrified, Commissioner Salvo Montalbano looks at a nightmare image from his window: a horse lies dead on the sand. A rapid beach-foot inspection allows you to see that it is a magnificent purasangre that has been sacrificed with cruelty and tiring.
The peripheries of Inspector Gamache continue. It has not been translated into Spanish.
El saxofonista Luis Reigosa aparece asesinado en su apartamento de Vigo con una crueldad que desconcierta a la policía. El caso es asignado al inspector Leo Caldas, un investigador tranquilo y reflexivo que compagina su trabajo en la comisaría con un consultorio radiofónico, y a su impulsivo ayudante, Rafael Estévez. La investigación los llevará por barrios, tabernas y clubes de jazz de Vigo, donde cada nuevo indicio revela secretos cuidadosamente ocultos. Mientras Caldas intenta resolver el crimen, también deberá enfrentarse a los fantasmas de su propia vida, en una intriga que combina suspense y atmósfera gallega.
La desaparición de una pintora conduce a Ricardo Cupido a un caso donde el amor, los celos y las relaciones personales resultan decisivos. A medida que reconstruye la vida de la artista, el detective descubre que las respuestas no siempre se encuentran en las pruebas materiales, sino en las emociones de quienes la rodeaban.
Kay Scarpetta accepts a mission in New York, where the police have requested her in the psychiatric prison to examine a wounded person. The patient, Oscar Bane, suffering from enanism, refuses to be recognized by any other doctor. When Kay begins to examine him, Bane tells him an absolutely rock story. Is Bane a stalker obsessed with Scarpetta? Or perhaps his paranoid story is true, and it is he who is spied, persecuted and harassed? The only thing Scarpetta knows
In the middle of the summer season in the small coastal town of Fjällbacka, a child discovers the body of a cruelly tortured German tourist. Very close, the police find the skeletons of two missing women 20 years ago.
Gereon Rath is a young Commissioner of Cologne who, after a fatal incident that never became clear, is sent to Berlin to work in the sex crime department. But the real vocation of the police is to investigate crimes and soon entangled in a plot full of corruption and bodies,
The Crime: Armed robbery to the tune of nine million dollars Dom Rizzi robbed a bank, stashed the money, and did the time. His family couldn't be more proud. He always was the smart one.
In the stony alleys of Pizzutello, the rain has returned to the light a body with signs of being killed for treason. Without fingerprints and with a disfigured face, the characteristics do not correspond to those of any missing person. And when Mimì Augello insists very strangely on taking over the case personally, the alarms of Montalbano are on.
With the early morning lights, Commissioner Salvo Montalbano wakes up startled by a distressing nightmare. In her, the fiery chapel of her own funeral is installed in her office and all her co-workers give her the condolences for her recent death. And the worst thing is that Livia tells him that he has no intention of attending the funeral, for although he has loved him so much in life, he cannot "miss that opportunity.".
Commissioner Ricciardi has a strange gift that gives him much suffering but helps him in his work as an investigator.
The peripheries of Inspector Gamache continue. It has not been translated into Spanish.
Lisbeth Salander has taken a while: he needs to get away from the focus and leave Stockholm. Try to follow a strict discipline and not answer the calls and messages of a Mikael who does not understand why he has disappeared from his life without giving any explanation. The wounds of love are healed by Lisbeth in solitude, even if he tries to disenchantment with the study of mathematics and certain happy pleasures on a Caribbean beach. And Mikael? The great hero, the super Blomkvis
In April 1988, a month before Kinsey Millhone turned thirty-eight, a young man named Michel Sutton and looking like he didn't kill a fly came to the investigator to talk to him about an old case that had never been solved.
The economic disaster causes Dr. Kay Scarpetta - despite her tight agenda and work as a forensic analyst for CNN - to offer her free services to the New York Office of the Chief of Forensic Medicine. Their greater public presence seems to precipitate a series of disturbing and unexpected events. On television, he is asked live about the sound disappearance of Hannah Starr, who is considered dead.
Behind the idyllic facade of the beautiful coastal population of Fjällbacka are hiding terrible realities and a secret hand seeking revenge from a distant past. Erica and Patrik have just had a daughter, and despite the joy that the little girl brings home, the young couple must face a whole series of new concerns. The girl cries a lot, Erica suffers from postpartum depression and Patrik is constantly tired.
Taken by his aristocratic wife, Falco embarks to Alexandria for the purpose of visiting some of the seven wonders of the world. However, as soon as he arrived, a body appears in the famous library of that city, and that involves him in an investigation that will make him fully known the entrenches of the small political struggles within a cultural institution as emblematic as the Library of Alexandria.
The author describes the time of the first sound film films in Berlin in the 1930s. Gereon Rath must investigate the suspicious death of a movie star.
Recipe for disaster: Celebrity chef Stanley Chipotle comes to Trenton in a barbecue cookie and loses his head - literally.
A white flame lights up on the beach early in the morning. The desperate heartbeat, the convulsive buzzing of a seagull, which, shrieking, and with painful turns, is turned up, its peak is slowly pointing to the sky.
Commissioner Ricciardi has a strange gift that gives him much suffering but helps him in his work as an investigator.
The peripheries of Inspector Gamache continue. It has not been translated into Spanish.
After the horror of the last case, Harry Hole left Oslo and the police. He has now been forced to return for family matters and because it is suspected that a serial killer is on the loose in Norway and only Hole is able to carry out the investigation.
Eighth case of Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy Inspector Fermin Garzón.
El cadáver de un marinero aparece en una playa de la costa gallega con las manos atadas, un detalle que descarta cualquier accidente. El inspector Leo Caldas y su ayudante Rafael Estévez viajan hasta el pequeño pueblo marinero donde vivía la víctima para reconstruir sus últimos días. En una comunidad donde todos parecen guardar silencio y proteger a los suyos, Caldas deberá desentrañar viejas rivalidades, secretos familiares y un complejo entramado de relaciones personales para descubrir quién está detrás del crimen.
La desaparición de un joven deportista obliga a Ricardo Cupido a iniciar una investigación en la que cada hora cuenta. Entre competiciones, intereses económicos y presiones familiares, el detective deberá resolver el caso antes de que el tiempo juegue definitivamente en su contra.
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, newly appointed director of one of the most advanced forensic studies centers in the United States, will have to face the apparently simpler but more crucial case of her entire career. Near his new house in Massachusetts, a young man has suddenly died and all points to the reason that the reason could have been an arrhythmia. But the autopsy reveals something else.
Patrik and Erica continue to enjoy their idyllium in the village of Fjällbanka, now accompanied by their baby, the little Maja, who already has Ochomese. While the young couple is fully involved in the preparations for their next wedding, matters at the police station, where Patrik works, follow their routine course. But the mayor brings together the town hall plenary to announce the arrival in Tanum of a television team to film a reality-show rather scandalous called "Fucking Tanum" that, his
Nemesis opens with two very different lines of argument that end up confluir, in a start that already gives the tone of what the novel will be. On the one hand, Helena, Falco's wife, has just lost a child in childbirth, and this calls her to a bitter depression, but, in the same way, Falco's father, famous for his chanchullos and his dissipated life, also dies, leaving open many doubts about where his fortune and property will stop, and announces a family dispute. In a decision enough
Vinnie, of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds, has run up a gambling debt of $786,000 with mobster Bobby Sunflower and is being held until the cash can be produced. Nobody else will pay to get Vinnie back, leaving it up to Stephanie, office manager Connie, and file Clerk Lula to raise the money if they want to save their jobs.
A sudden calm chicha has taken over from the station of Vigita. With its sempiteral accumulation of paperwork reduced to half, Salvo Montalbano can be dedicated to the reading of its beloved Simenon, while the always industrious Catarella is applied with tendon to solve crucigrams. However, the delicious parsimony will soon be interrupted by one of the most creepy cases ever seen in the area.
Congressman Salvo Montalbano and Inspector Grazia Negro form an alliance to solve a creepy murder committed in Bologna: the victim appears on the ground, with a single shoe and head trapped in a plastic bag.
A series of robberies executed in an extremely ingenious and bold way extend overnight among the most wealthy inhabitants of Vigita. The cacos manage to devalue the main residence and the summer residence simultaneously, and, in a few days, huge amounts of cash, jewels and very valuable works of art pass from the hands of their owners to those of these expert criminals who seem to have everything calculated.
Commissioner Ricciardi has a strange gift that gives him much suffering but helps him in his work as an investigator.
When he went to Hong Kong, Harry Hole thought his life would change forever: he left behind his past in Oslo and his career as a detective. But an unsuspected event makes him return once again to his hometown. Oleg, the child he helped raise and who he loved so much, has been arrested, charged with murder.
Detective Kinsey Millhone is facing a complicated and dangerous caseload. While a woman of past murmur suicides herself in strange circumstances, a pitiful boy who has been pitied by the gambling debts thinks he can make fun of the system, and the life of a lovely young woman is about to break into a thousand pieces. But, in addition, Kinsey runs into a network of professional robbers who work for the mafia; with an unfaithful, rich and ruthless husband; with a corrupt cop; with a sinister and brutal gangster; and with a lonely widower who weeps the death of his lover.
Dr. Kay Scarpetta, a so-called forensic pathologist, director of the Cambridge Forensic Center (Massachusetts) and a collaborator of the Department of Defense, is facing a difficult crossroads: the logical resolution of a series of brutal murders being committed by a twisted criminal mind in Savannah, Georgia, and her female instinct, which dictates standards that go beyond imputable evidence and forensic science. Far from your laboratory, Scarpetta will have to rely more on your
The summer comes to an end and writer Erica Falck returns to work after maternity leave. Now it's your partner, Commissioner Patrik Hedström, to take some time off to take care of little Maja. But the crime never rests, even in the quiet city of Fjällbanka, and when two teenagers discover Erik Frankel's body, Patrik will share his daughter's care with his interest in the murder of this historian specialized in World War II.
Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what is clear is that Stephanie’s name is on the killer’s list. Short on time to find the murderer, Stephanie is also under pressure from family and friends to choose between her on-again-off-again boyfriend, Trenton cop Joe Morelli, and the bad boy in her life, security expert Ranger. Stephanie’s mom wants her to dump them both for a former high school football star who’s just returned to town. Stephanie’s sidekick, Lula, suggests a red-hot boudoir “bake-off.” And Joe’s old-world grandmother gives Stephanie “the eye,” which may mean that it’s time to get out of town.
The explosion of a small artifact in front of an empty warehouse in the middle of Vigàta, and the subsequent research launched by Commissioner Montalbano and his team, precipitate a series of events that take place chaotic and vertiginous: contradictory tracks, anonymous letters, mysterious delations... Montalbano has the feeling that someone intends to guide his steps, confuse him and handle him as a puppet, taking him away from the truth of the facts. And when he also enters the scene of Liliana, his new neighbor, a woman of break and tear whose husband is often absent for reasons of work, except will be immersed in a sea of confusion that will make it difficult for him to work beyond the tolerable.
Commissioner Ricciardi has a strange gift that gives him much suffering but helps him in his work as an investigator.
Bruna is a combat android that feels a great grudge towards the humans who have created it to have a very short life.
An eminent paleontologist disappears without a trace in a remote region of Canada, while digging for dinosaur bones. The case tracks travel thousands of miles and reach the hands of Kay Scarpetta in Boston. And events are hasty when in the port of the city the mummified remains of an unidentified amujer are recovered. The coroner will soon suspect that the disappearance of the paleontologist could be connected to several unsolved crimes
A man disappears in Fjällbanka without a trace. Although Patrik Hedström and his police colleagues have done their best to find him, no one knows whether he is alive or dead. After three months, they find it finally frozen in the ice. When they find out that the writer Christian Thydell, one of the victim's friends, has been receiving anonymous letters full of threats for over a year, everything gets complicated
Before Stephanie can even step foot off Flight 127 from Hawaii to Newark, she's knee deep in trouble. Her dream vacation turned into a nightmare, she's flying back to New Jersey alone, and someone who sounds like Sasquatch is snoring in row 22. Worse still, her husband never returned to the plane after the L.A. layover. Now he's dead, in a garage can, waiting for curside pickup. His killer could be anyone. The FBI, the fake FBI, and guns-for-hire are all looking for a photograph the dead man was supposed to be carrying.
After a slow summer of chasing low-level skips for her cousin Vinnie’s bail bonds agency, Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment that could put her checkbook back in the black. Geoffrey Cubbin, facing trial for embezzling millions from Trenton’s premier assisted-living facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy. Now it’s on Stephanie to track down the con man. Unfortunately, Cubbin has disappeared without a trace, a witness, or his money-hungry wife. Rumors are stirring that he must have had help with the daring escape . . . or that maybe he never made it out of his room alive. Since the hospital staff’s lips seem to be tighter than the security, and it’s hard for Stephanie to blend in to assisted living, Stephanie’s Grandma Mazur goes in undercover. But when a second felon goes missing from the same hospital, Stephanie is forced into working side by side with Trenton’s hottest cop, Joe Morelli, in order to crack the case.
On the margins of the Baztán River, in the Navarra Valley, the naked body of a teenager appears in circumstances that put it in connection with a murder in the vicinity a month ago. The inspector of the murder section of the Foral Police, Amaia Salazar, will be responsible for conducting an investigation that will take her back to Elizondo, a small population from which she is native and from which she has tried to flee her whole life. Faced with the increasingly complicated derivations of the case and with its own family ghosts, Amaia's research is a counter-clock race to give with a killer who can show the most terrifying face of a brutal reality while convoking the most disturbing beings of the Northern legends.
First, Marian De Rosa, Milanese, owner of an art gallery, an elegant and experienced woman, an authentic femme fatale to which Montalbano immediately falls. In his inner court, Salvo knows that his attraction to Marian is not an adventure; it is something different, like an invisible force that disrupts him and threatens to disrupt his lucidity. Livia becomes just one voice on the other side of the phone and Salvo is unable to be honest with her, using tactics and subterfuges to postpone a decision. And while it is discussed in the whirlwind of his feelings, three important cases require his attention: on the one hand, the young wife of Salvatore di Marta, the owner of a supermarket, is the victim of a robbery; on the other, two Tunisians working on an agricultural farm disappear in what appears to be a matter of arms trafficking; and finally, a criminal operation of high flights lands in Vigita.
On the day of his fifty-eight birthday, Commissioner Salvo Montalbano has an altercation on the highway with an reckless driver, a young man who will prove to be the son of the provincial president. That same night there was a strange robbery in a supermarket controlled by the Cuffaro family, one of the most notorious of the local mafia. When Guido Borsellino, the director of the establishment, suicides himself after the very hard interrogation of Montalbano and Mimì Augello, who accuse him of having rigged the robbery, public opinion will put the commissioner and his men against the ropes
Gaius Vinius is a relutant Praetorian Guard the Emperor's personal guard and a man with a disastrous marriage history. Flavia Lucilla is also in the imperial court and she is responsible not only for having created the ridiculous hairstyle worn by the imperial ladies but for also making toupees for the shooting and increasingly paranoid emperor.
It's 1932. The spring has come to Naples, and the streets are filled with people willing to premiere light dresses and pamelas, but Ricciardi is too busy solving a new case to realize that the air is now lighter: Rosaria, a 25-year-old girl, has been suffocated in her room of the famous Paradise brothel with a pillow.
Anne Forestier, Verhoeven's couple, escapes a violent robbery in a jewelry store by miracle.
La inspectora Petra Delicado y el subinspector Fermín Garzón han heredado un muerto que había permanecido cinco años mudo: Alfonso Siguán, un empresario textil barcelonés de 70 años, liquidado en circunstancias sexuales escabrosas. Noveno caso de la Inspectora Petra Delicado y el subinspector Fermín Garzón.
Two dead men changed the course of my life that fall. One of them I knew and the other I'd never laid eyes on until I saw him in the morgue. The first was a local PI of suspect reputation. He'd been gunned down near the beach at Santa Teresa. It looked like a robbery gone bad. The other was on the beach six weeks later. He'd been sleeping rough. Probably homeless. No identification. A slip of paper with Millhone's name and number was in his pants pocket. The coroner asked her to come to the m
Since Patrik has rejoined the work, Erica is fully dedicated to her twins, who were born premature. She barely has time to visit Annie Wester, a high school partner who just returned to Fjälbanka after many years. Along with his son Sam, Annie has settled in the abandoned lighthouse on the island of Gråskär, owned by her family. In spite of the rumours that circulate around the people about the legend of the "island of spirits," in which the dead wander free
New Jersey unit hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mind with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore "Uncle Sunny" Sunucchi goes on the lam in Trenton, it's up to Stephanie to find him. Uncle Sunny is charged with murder for running over a guy (twice), and nobody wants to turn him in - not his poker budgets, not his bimbo girl, not his two right-hand men, Shorty and Moe. Even Trenton's hottest cop, Joe Morelli, has skin in the game, because - just Stephanie's luck - the godfather is his current godfather. And while Morelli understands that the law is the law, his old-world grandmother, Bella, is doing everything she can to throw Stephanie off the trail.
The trial against the stepfather of young Johana Márquez is about to begin. He was attended by a pregnant woman, Amaia Salazar, the inspector of the Foral Police, who a year ago had resolved the crimes of the so-called basajaun, who sowed the Baztan Valley with terror. Amaia had also collected the incriminating evidence against Jason Medina, who imitated the < i > modus operandi < / i > of the basajaun who had murdered, raped and mutilated Johana, his wife's teenage daughter. Suddenly, the judge announces that the trial must be cancelled: the accused has just committed suicide in the court's bathrooms.
Flavia Albia is the adopted daughter of Marco Didio Falco and Helena Justina, a well-known family of researchers. Defying tradition in a world dominated by men, he lives alone on the Aventino hill and faces a solo career. As a woman and a foreigner, Albia has a different view of the best and the worst in ancient Rome.
Over the years, the nightmares that reveal Salvo Montalbano have become more sophisticated and strange. On this occasion, the veteran police think they are next to Livia, half-naked, in a lush tropical forest. But it is not a real jungle: the trunks and foliage are painted to oil, and Livia and he are inside a huge picture of Henri Rousseau. And when a deafening thunder returns the commissioner to reality, it materializes with a tramp who seeks refuge under the porch of his house.
Cormoran Strike is an ex-military who, after losing half a leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, barely manages as a private investigator. John Bristol went to his office to help him prove that his sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, was killed, even though the police had closed the case months earlier as suicide.
It's Dr. Kay Scarpetta's birthday and she's about to head to Miami for a vacation with her FBI profiler husband Benton Wesley when she notices seven pennies on a wall behind their Cambridge house. Is this a kids' game? If so, why are all of the coins dated 1981 and so feel it's as if they're newly lied? Then her cellphone rings, and Detective Pete Marino tells her there's been a homicide five minutes away. A high school music teacher has been shot with shopping precision as he unloaded grocher
After the accidental death of their little son, Ebba and Mårten move to the island of Valö to redo their lives. There, they settle on a farm where Ebba's family lived many years ago. But tragedy continues to haunt them, and a fire, clearly provoked, brings out the sinister story that weighs on the farm. Thirty years ago, Ebba's whole family disappeared without a trace. Only she was saved, then a one-year-old baby, who was found alone in the house. From
Trenton, New Jersey’s favorite used-car dealer, Jimmy Poletti, was caught selling a lot more than used cars out of his dealerships. Now he’s out on bail and has missed his date in court, and bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is looking to bring him in. Leads are quickly turning into dead ends, and all too frequently into dead bodies. Even Joe Morelli, the city’s hottest cop, is struggling to find a clue to the suspected killer’s whereabouts. These are desperate times, and they call for desperate measures. So Stephanie is going to have to do something she really doesn’t want to do: protect former hospital security guard and general pain in her behind Randy Briggs. Briggs was picking up quick cash as Poletti’s bookkeeper and knows all his boss’s dirty secrets. Now Briggs is next on Poletti’s list of people to put six feet under.
It's been a month since the Forensic Police inspector recovered her son and was able to arrest Berasategui. But even though both the Civil Guard and Judge Marking consider Rosario dead, Amaia feels that she is not free of danger, a dismay that only Jonan understands.
In ancient Rome, the number of slaves was much higher than that of free citizens and often the Romans felt real fear of "enemies at home," the servants who lived under their own roof. To appease his fear, the government enacted a law agreeing that if a Roman was killed at home and the culprit was not quickly discovered, his slaves - all of them, responsible or not - would be charged and sentenced to death. No exceptions.
In this new delivery, Commissioner Salvo Montalbano will face a case of corruption, linked to the world of mafia and construction and its links with public money investments. Our tired and melancholy detective is not at his best, and both he and Livia are trying to assimilate the death of young François and what this loss has meant for both.
Manfred Baumann is a socially inadapted man who obsesses Adèle Bedeau, a seductive waitress at the Restaurant de la Loche where she spends the afternoon. When she disappears, Manfred will become the main suspect of Inspector Gorski.
The Cormoran Strike agency receives a new assignment: to find out the whereabouts of an eccentric writer who has been enmity with almost everyone. The key to his disappearance seems to be in the last book he's about to publish.
Hundreds of unemployed men and women line up for the opening of a job fair. They're tired, cold and desperate. Coming out of the fog, invisible until it's too late, a lone driver moves through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, retreating and carrying again.
A unfaithful doctor dies in haste from the heights.
Adam Dalgliesh is brought in to investigate the mysterious death of a family writer on a remote and inaccessible island off the Cornish coast. Combe Island is a discreet retreat operated by a private trust, where the rich and powerful find peace and quiet. Famed novelist Nathan Oliver, who was born on the island and thus is allowed to visit as he wishes, arrives with his daughter, Miranda and his copy-editor, Dennis Tremlett, who, unbeknownst to Oliver, are having an affair.
Dr. Kay Scarpetta is working a suspicious death scene in Cambridge, Massachusetts when an emergency alert sounds on her phone. A video link lands in her text messages and seems to be from her computer genius niece Lucy. But how can it be? It's clearly a surveillance film of Lucy taken almost twenty years ago.
We are in the middle of January and in Fjällbanka it is a polar cold. A young half-naked roams through the snow forest and reaches the road. A car appears out of nowhere and has no time to avoid it.
A wealthy woman hires the private investigator Kinsey Millhone to act as an intermediary and to get someone else, possibly a newly released prisoner, a certain amount of money. However, when he has already completed the assignment, and even has already paid for it, Kinsey begins to discover that, perhaps, nothing is what it seemed. It does not begin to investigate more about the mysterious woman, it must address another matter: Pete Wolinsky's widow, the leading detective of W of whiskey, asks her for help with some bureaucratic paperwork; among the documents, Kinsey finds a list of apparently incomprehensible numbers, and will immediately want to start deciphering them.
Stephanie Plum might not be the world's greatest city hunter, but she knows when she's being played. Ken Glovic (aka Gobbles), hailed as the Supreme Exiled Zookeeper of the animal house known as Zeta fraternity, has been arrested for beating up the dean of students at Kiltman College. Gobbles has missed his court date and gone into hiding. People have seen him on campus, but no one will talk. Things just aren't adding up, and Stephanie can't shake the feeling that something funny is going on at the college - and it's not just Zeta fraternity pranks.
In one of the lots of the auction house where Flavia Albia works, a decomposing body has been discovered. Who is it? How did you get there? To help her in the research Flavia Albia has the help of Manlio Fausto, who also has other matters to worry about: it is time for elections to elect the next city governor and Fausto is responsible for the campaign of one of the candidates. In the streets of Rome the tension is maximum and the obstacles to research are many. But Flavia Albia's tenacity knows no limits.
Marcus Didius Alexander Postumus is a special boy. He is twelve, or even higher. He has two mothers and various possible fathers, so he works who will take care of him. He is self-confident yet vulnerable, intelligente yet sinister. He knows not many people like him.
In Watch night scenes acquire a leopard beauty, but do not absorb the murmur of invisible wings in the fog. On a lonely street, a woman about thirty years old is abducted, narrated with chloroform and abandoned without violence or theft, as did the niece of Enzo, the owner of the favorite trattoria of Salvo Montalbano, on the eve. Both have age in common and work in bank branches. A few days later, another young man is abducted with identical modus operandi, but released in this case with a thirty superficial cuts all over the body except the face. And coinciding with these very strange events, a fire that was clearly provoked partly pluck a store whose owner and his girlfriend have disappeared without a trace.
A triple crime in a population in the Scottish Highlands leads to the arrest of a young man named Roderick Macrae.
Oliver, a young London with a peculiar family situation and a sad loss, inherits a colonial house, Villa Marina, at the beach foot in the coastal village of Suances, in Cantabria. In the remodeling works, a baby's related body is discovered in the basement, accompanied by an object that is completely anachronistic.
When a mysterious package arrives at Cormoran Strike's agency, his assistant Robin is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's amputated leg.
Tras el brutal asesinato de su hermana; preso por la ira, César Giralt ejecutó al encerrador, el mayor asesino en serie que el país haya conocido jamás. En los siguientes tres años, César se sumió en una espiral de culpabilidad que le acercó peligrosamente a la autodestrucción. Con la ayuda de su fiel subinspector y amigo, Gabriel Pérez; el laureado inspector jefe de la comisaría de Sant Martí de Barcelona consigue levantar cabeza y volver al trabajo.
A lo largo de nueve episodios, Petra Delicado protagoniza la investigación de otros tantos crímenes que rompen el habitual devenir de hitos anuales como la Navidad, los carnavales o las vacaciones estivales. Ni siquiera en esos momentos la inspectora puede desentenderse de lo que el azar le tiene deparado.
Larry Virgil skipped out on his latest court date after he was arrested for hijacking an eighteen-wheeler full of premium bourbon. Formally for bony hunter Stephanie Plum, Larry is just studied enough to attempt almost the exact same crime again. Only this time he flees the scene, leaving behind a freezer truck loaded with Bogart ice cream and a dead body - frozen solid and covered in chocolate and chopped pecans.
Life smiles at Flavia Albia and his partner, Manlio Fausto. But this new job as a contractor begins with a problem: in the Garden of the Hesperides appear The bones of a tavern boy disappeared years ago. Albia decides to investigate and to do so is to enter real life of the streets of Rome, where the taverns are brothels, workers carry a brutal existence and the game and the extortion is on the agenda. And in the face of that reality, Albia can't forget that her own wedding and her excited family are waiting for you around the corner.
When Vigita is filled with patresses, except Montalbano is completely overworked. Having survived the treacherous waves, hundreds of migrants reach the coast in very bad conditions, without means or guarantees, so helping becomes a duty for the Commissioner and his men.
Former Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has spent his entire career hunting killers and fighting corruption. Now, as the new commander of the Sûreté Academy, he has the opportunity to fight the corruption and brutality that has spread as a plague by this police force.
Twenty years later, when Tasio, the brilliant archeologist convicted of the murders is about to leave prison on his first permit, the crimes resume again: a twenty-year-old couple appears dead and naked by the sting of bees in the throat in the emblematic Old Cathedral of Vitoria. Shortly after, another 25-year-old couple is killed in the Casa del Cordón, a medieval building.
A merchant appears dead and a former wife's boyfriend seems the ideal candidate to kill him.
In 1979, a party of companions from a prestigious institute in Santa Teresa, irrigated with a lot of alcohol and whose atmosphere was tense, ended, tragically, with the murder of a young woman; after the trial, two of the adolescents went into prison, but a third, the head and perhaps instigator of the crime, fled. Ten years later, in 1989, when one of the convicted, called Fritz McCabe, comes out of prison, they begin to raise other murky issues related to the past of these adolescents, and Fritz receives a threat of blackmail. The wealthy family of him then hires Kinsey Millhone to help them discover the blackmailer.
Trouble comes in bunches for Stephanie Plum. First, professional grave robber and semi-professional loon, Simon Diggery, won't let her take him in until she agrees to care for his boa constrictor, Ethel. Stephanie's main qualification for babysitting an extremely large snack is that she owns a stun gun - whether that's for use on the winning serpent or the petrified neighbours remains to be seen.
Since he died in the year 68 by his own hand, rumors have not stopped running all over Rome by ensuring that Emperor Nero is alive and willing to claim his throne. Now, the rumors claim that it has already reached the capital of the Empire. And Flavia Albia is charged with finding out what's really in the threat.
In the late August of AD 79 the inhabitants of Pompeii and Herculaneum are going about their normal business in the late summer heat. Two of them have a room share arrangement: Nonius, scrunner, thief and failed pimp works by night and sleep by day; Larius, the fresco paint with dreams of artistic grace, does the opposite. When just after midday the summit of Vesuvius disappearances in a vast volcanic ash cloud, their lives will change forever. While one sets about looting quickly emptying homes the other repeatedly tries to save his family from destruction.
The daily life of Vigita is completely disturbed when the city becomes a set of set-up in the 1950s. While all are working strongly on the film, an incident puts the population in check: a shooting in the high school.
Armand Gamache is facing two parallel cases on this occasion: the murder of an architect and the attempt to dismantle a drug cartel.
A lawyer, specialized in supporting victims of sexual abuse and rape, returns home after a disappointing appointment made through Tinder. A psychopath is waiting for her in her bedroom. Untie the woman's neck with an iron tooth. The sensationalist press is immediately leaked that the victim's blood is missing from the crime site and that there are indications that the killer has drunk it.
Kraken must stop a killer who imitates the Water Rites in sacred places in the Basque Country and Cantabria whose victims are people who are waiting for a child. Deputy Commissioner Díaz de Salvatierra is pregnant, but on paternity there is a doubt of terrible consequences.
It has been several months since Suances, a small town on the Cantabrian coast, witnessed several murders that shook its inhabitants. However, when everything already seemed to have returned to normal, the body of a young woman appears in La Mota de Tretoracios, a place where the ruins of an unusual medieval construction are found.
El nuevo caso de la inspectora Petra Delicado empieza cuando encuentran el cuerpo de una mujer de unos cincuenta años asesinada de modo brutal en su propia casa. Sobre el cadáver hay una carta de amor anónima que reivindica el asesinato, justificándolo con el abandono del presunto asesino por parte de la víctima.
There's nothing like a good deli and the Red River Deli in Trenton is one of the best. World famous for its pastrami, cole law and for its missing managers. Over the last month, three have vanished from the face of the earth, the only club in each case is one shoe that's been left behind. The police are baffold. Lula is convinced that it's a case of alien abduction. Whenever it is, they'd better figure out what's going on before they lose their new manager, Ms. Stephanie Plum.
In one of the seven hills of Rome, Mount Quirinal, the young Clodia has died of a love potion. The only person who may have made this potion easier is a woman who responds to the name of Pandora, an expert in herbs, recipes, remedies and conjures who deals with beauty products. And with something much more sinister.
It is an evening like any other for the tireless womanizer Mimí Augello in the bedroom of his enth lover. But when the latter's husband unexpectedly returns home, the faithful right hand of Commissioner Montalbano decides to slide out the window and seek refuge on the floor below. From one danger to another: in the apartment a body lying in the bed, elegantly dressed and rigid by the cold of death, is seen in the dark.
When a troubled young man arrives at the office of private detective Cormoran Strike to ask him for help in investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed when he was a child, Strike is deeply restless. Although the young man is clearly mentally distressed and cannot remember many concrete details, his story seems authentic.
The summer is over and Lieutenant Valentina Redondo is counting the days to start her vacation. But something unusual happens in the very center of the coastal town of Suances: the gardener of the old Palace of the Master has appeared dead on the lawn of that enigmatic property.
The first novel in which we know Inspector Néstor Salazar, the subinspector Sofia Garay, the other police from the "San Miguel" police station in Haro.
The suicide of a teenager is the beginning of a series of senseless deaths to be investigated by the police of the San Miguel police station.
The San Miguelț police station focuses its efforts on the investigation of the abduction of a child in Haro (La Rioja) who has a bad outcome. One of the kidnappers appears to be dead by blaming himself, but Commissioner Ortiz is beginning to get pressure to close the case.
Léane and her husband Julien are embarking on an investigation to find out what happened to her abducted daughter.
Marta Aguilera, a journalist committed to her trade, received news that would change her destiny: a tumor threatened her health and only two months remained. With nothing to lose or anyone to be held accountable, Marta feels that reality is a threatening place and decides to take the time left to provide justice.
El cadáver de una chica llega a la misma playa en la que apareció, en idénticas circunstancias, una de las víctimas del asesino en serie denominado Encerrador.
Aurel Timescu, un cónsul francés tan excéntrico como brillante destinado en Guinea, ve alterada su tranquila rutina cuando un empresario francés aparece ahorcado en circunstancias sospechosas. Convencido de que no se trata de un suicidio, decide investigar por su cuenta. Su intuición y su conocimiento del país lo conducirán a descubrir una compleja trama de intereses políticos, económicos y personales.
Antonia Scott is special. Very special. He's not a cop or a criminal. He has never held a gun or carried a badge, yet he has solved dozens of crimes. But it's been a while since Antonia left her Lavapiés attic. The things he's lost matter much more to him than those waiting out there.
Stephanie Plum's career has taken more wrong turns than a student driver on the Jersey Turnpike, and her love life is a hopeless story. In order to save someone to her, she'll have to straighten things out in Twisted Twenty-Six.
In August 2005, well before the crimes that shocked the Baztán Valley, a young 25-year-old Amaia Salazar, a subinspector of the Foral Police, participated in an exchange course for Europol police at the FBI Academy in the United States, which Aloisius Dupree, the head of the investigation unit, was conducting. One of the tests is to study a real case of a serial killer they call "the composer," who always acts during great natural disasters by attacking entire families and following an almost liturgical scene. Amaia will unexpectedly become part of the investigation team that will take you to New Orleans, on the eve of the worst hurricane in its history, to try to get ahead of the killer...
A man falls to his death from the Tarpeian Rock, which overlooks the Forum in the Capitoline Hill in Ancient Rome. While it looks like a suicide, one witness swears that she saw it happen and that he was pushed. Normally, this would attract very little official notice but this man happened to be in charge of organizing the Imperial Triumph demanded by the emperor.
Faye, with a dark past, has achieved everything he had ever dreamed of, an attractive husband, a daughter he loves and, above all, social status and a life full of luxury.
Il suicidal di un operaio appena licenziato e un impresenditore privo di scrupoli trovato assassinato con un colpo di piston alla nuca. E poi c'è l'Alcyon, a goletta a mysterious po ', pochissimi gli umini di equipaggio, niente passeggeri, the area di poppa long abbastanza per fare atterrare an elicotter. Per Montalbano a Vigita tante gatte da pelare e il suo commissariato da difendere: qualcuno infatti sta tentando di faro fuori... A giallo d'azione, quasi una spy story dove si intrecciano agenti segreti, FBI y malavita locale. E un commissario irriconoscibile, che stupirà i suoi lettori.
It is Gamache's first day as head of the homicide department, a work he temporarily shares with his former second in command, Jean- Guy Beauvoir. Floods are increasing throughout the province. In the midst of confusion, a father approaches Gamache and asks him for help in finding his daughter.
Five years ago, student Andie Bell was killed by Sal Singh. The police know it was him. Your partners too. Everyone knows. But Pippa has grown up in the same city it has been and it's not so clear... Determined to dig up the truth, Pippa makes this murder the subject of his final project.
Gernika's most popular journalist is run over by the train that covers the Urdaibai line. The victim has been set on the road with a delicate tulip between his hands. The flower, of an intense and bright red, is as beautiful as it is difficult to find in the fall. The scene, carefully prepared, has been broadcast live through Facebook. The tulips dance immerses us in the Urdaibai era, a magical place where the sea and the earth embrace the compass of the tides that mold the quiet lives of their inhabitants, who are suddenly shaken by the brutal eruption of a complex and intelligent killer, able to rival with the rhythms of nature that have always ruled the region.
Things don't go well with Harry Hole. The only woman he has ever managed to love, Rakel, has been thrown out of his life. He's been readmitted to the Oslo police, yes, but in an infected department, far from the cases he does want to investigate: for example, to return Svein Finne, the bloody multiple rapist he caught a handful of years ago and he just served his sentence
The inexplicable murder of an old housekeeper has implications for Inspector Salazar as his best friend is accused and detained.
The inexplicable murder of an old housekeeper has implications for Inspector Salazar as his best friend is accused and detained.
Mónica Andrade, una profesora de la Escuela de Artes y Oficios de Vigo, desaparece sin dejar rastro. Cuando su padre denuncia la desaparición, el inspector Leo Caldas inicia una investigación que pronto se complica al descubrir que nadie parece conocer realmente a la mujer. Las pesquisas conducirán al inspector por los paisajes de las Rías Baixas, donde cada testimonio abre nuevas incógnitas. En una investigación pausada y minuciosa, Caldas deberá reconstruir la vida de la desaparecida para resolver un caso lleno de secretos y emociones contenidas.
El asesinato de un prestigioso arqueólogo desencadena una investigación que conduce a Ricardo Cupido al mundo del patrimonio histórico y del expolio de piezas arqueológicas. Entre intereses científicos, económicos y personales, el detective deberá descubrir quién estaba dispuesto a matar por preservar determinados secretos.
Destinado en Maputo, Mozambique, Aurel Timescu investiga la muerte del propietario de un conocido hotel, hallado ahogado en la piscina de su establecimiento. La investigación lo lleva a adentrarse en una sociedad marcada por las apariencias, donde las relaciones personales, las antiguas lealtades y los secretos familiares resultan decisivos para descubrir al asesino.
_ Antonia Scott is not afraid of anything. Just himself. _ But there's someone more dangerous than her. Someone who could beat her. DIFICIL TAN The black loaf is getting closer. And Antonia, for the first time, is scared.
Too many people tell Flavia Albia, 'Don't go to the Grove'. Such warnings will only bring her to the place she is warned away from, Julius Caesar's Gardens, where she finds more than one intruding mystery. Some has burned tattered scrolls here, by unreadable old philosophers. Hardly has she taken an interest in what looks like book collecting fraud, when far worse happens. A present evil stirs in the undergrowth. A man holds a birthday party that goes terribly wrong, exposing a long series of neglected crimes.
Anno 2005: Camilleri ha appena pubblicato La luna di carta. Sta lavorando alla successiva avventura della serie, ma in estate consegna a Elvira Sellerio un altro romanzo con protagonario il commissario Montalbano. If Riccardino's intimate. L'accordo è che verrà pubblicato poi, un domani indefinito,
On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches meet with the family for a dinner with Armand's best man, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Walking home together after lunch, they watch with horror how Stephen is shot down and seriously injured in what Gamache knows is not an accident, but a deliberate attack on the old man's life.
In the first scene, the protagonist wakes up in an abandoned factory next to the body of an unknown man and a stone with traces of blood. When he runs away, he decides to try to rebuild the facts himself. However, he has a problem: he doesn't remember anything that happened in the last forty-eight hours. And the little you do know is better not to tell anyone.
Cormoran Strike is visiting his family in Cornwall when he is approached by a woman who asks for help to find his mother, Margot Bamborough, who disappeared in mysterious circumstances in 1974.
The appearance of a man's body without identification at the foot of the Riisos de Bilibio becomes one of the most disconcerting cases of Salazar's career.
Léane and her husband Julien are embarking on an investigation to find out what happened to her abducted daughter.
La inspectora de policía decide poner distancia con su día a día para recordar su pasado a fin de tomar las riendas del presente. Con su particular mirada, repasará su vida, desde la niña aplicada a la que expulsan de un colegio de monjas, pasando por la joven universitaria antifranquista que al casarse cambia de rumbo, hasta que decide romper con todo y ser una de las primeras mujeres en ingresar en el cuerpo de Policía.
Aurel es destinado a Bakú, Azerbaiyán, donde un empresario francés desaparece tras verse envuelto en el mundo de los casinos y las grandes fortunas del petróleo. Entre diplomáticos, oligarcas y jugadores profesionales, el cónsul deberá descubrir quién manipula realmente la partida antes de que haya nuevas víctimas.
When Antonia Scott gets this message, she knows very well who sent it to her. He also knows that game is almost impossible to win. But Antonia doesn't like to lose. After all this time running away, reality has ended up reaching it. Antonia is a black belt in lying to herself, but now it is clear that if she loses this battle, she will have lost them all.
In Rome, 89 A.D., poisonings, murders, and a bloody gang war of retribution breaks out during the festival of Saturnalia--and when her husband, Tiberius, becomes a target, it's time for Flavia Albia to take matters into her own hands..
Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim are the members of the Thursday Crime Club. After the success of their first case they are involved in a new mystery.
A young London woman is convinced that her sister's therapist has led her to suicide. To confirm his suspicions, he assumes a false identity and presents himself to the therapist as a client.
While the residents of the Quebequense village of Three Pines take advantage of deep snow to ski and slide in the sled, drink hot chocolate in the bistro and share meals together, the Chief Inspector sees your vacation with his family interrupted by a simple request.
After receiving an alarm call, police find a man stained with blood and a knife with his prints next to his wife's body in a house in a Madrid development.
During the Joint Alarde of Hondarribia, a party participants are killed, but it is only the first in a series of victims. Deputy Officer Ane Cestero takes over the case.
It has been more than twenty years since Diego Letamendia, a declining rock star, last acted in his hometown, Illumbe. That was the night of the end of his band and group of friends, and also of the disappearance of his girlfriend, Lorea.
The president of the Royal Tennis Club in Santander, one of the most powerful women in the city, has appeared dead in the cabin of a beautiful gulet.
Stockholm police officer Mina Dabiri allied to mentalist Vincent Walder to solve some murders that emulate classic magic numbers.
Durante un destino diplomático en un pequeño principado europeo, Aurel Timescu se enfrenta a un caso relacionado con la aristocracia local. La desaparición de una joven y las tensiones entre familias influyentes darán lugar a una investigación en la que nada resulta tan idílico como aparenta.
Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim are back in charge. This time you will receive the help of Viktor and Henrik to solve a new sleeping crime.
Between 1968 and 1969, the killer the press would baptize as John the Bible killed three women in Glasgow. He was never identified and the case is still open today. In this novel, in the early 1980s, Scottish police investigator Noah Scott Sherrington managed to reach John Bible, but a failure in his heart at the last moment prevented him from arresting him.
In the first century, under Doumitian's reform, strange and brutal goes on are nothing new in Rome. Flavia Albia, daughter of Marcus Didius Falco, has taken over her father's business as a private informer but she tries to shy away from the brutal, the complicated, and the political - because nothing good comes of any of them. Unfortunately, she's not very good at turning them down.
Armand Gamache and Jean- Guy Beauvoir are increasingly concerned. A young man and woman have reappeared in the life of the researchers of the Sûreté du Québec after many years. The two were young children when their mother with problems was killed, leaving them damaged, destroyed. Now they've reached the village of Three Pines.
The inspector Elena Blanco runs through the warehouse of the Mediodía II Municipal Crane in Madrid until she reaches an old van that spills a putrefacto smell. Inside is the body of a man tied to a chair, with a gross couture that ascends from the pubis to the abdomen. The first results of the autopsy make it clear that this reincident drug absolved some organs and placed a fetus of almost seven months in the belly.
The team of Inspector Indira Ramos has by chance found one of the most sought after delicacies in the country.
Harry Hole has moved to Los Angeles, no longer holds him in Norway after losing everything that made sense to his life. There he is rescued from his alcoholic drift Lucille, a veteran film actress who, in exchange for her protection, offers him a roof, a tailor-made suit and luxury shoes.
There are dead people who never rest, and they may not have to rest until justice is done to them. No one knows better than Nerea Arruti, an agent of the Ertzaintza in Illumbe, a lonely woman who also drags her own bodies and ghosts from the past.
After many years of absence, young writer Erica returns to her hometown, where she has inherited the house of her recently deceased parents. Erica decides to take a walk in the streets where she spent the first years of her life, but after the warning of some neighbors, she finds that her childhood friend, Alex, has just committed suicide. She was shocked, she started an investigation and found out Alex was pregnant. The story gives a new turn when the autopsy reveals that her friend did not commit suicide
Inspector Valentina Redondo and her partner Oliver decide to take a vacation and travel to Scotland to visit this family
A young journalist comes across the exclusive of her life: the appearance of several victims of a alleged serial killer.
La muerte de un conocido empresario pone en marcha una investigación donde el pasado vuelve a desempeñar un papel decisivo. Ricardo Cupido se enfrentará a una compleja red de relaciones personales y empresariales mientras intenta comprender las verdaderas motivaciones del crimen.
La desaparición de una joven francesa en Acapulco obliga a Aurel Timescu a desplazarse a México para colaborar en una investigación diplomática. Lo que inicialmente parece un secuestro se convierte en una compleja trama donde intervienen el crimen organizado, intereses políticos y secretos personales.
In Sandaili, a humble hermitage excavated on the rock, the mutilated body of a murdered woman appeared while practicing an ancient rite of fertility. His torso has been opened and emptied and his hands have been placed on both sides of his abdomen in a giving attitude.
An old friend from the Thursday club, owner of an antique business, has been killed and a dangerous package he was protecting has disappeared.
There is a massive attack in the Water Temple of the famous Cantabrian spa of Puente Viesgo. The facilities of the idyllic water paradise were occupied by a group of entrepreneurs, and all points to the massacre being perpetrated with a very dangerous chemical weapon.
The Rennes police ask Commissioner Adamsberg for help in resolving a crime that seems to be related to a dark local legend: the ghost of a nickname count "the lame," whose foot of a stick continues to resonate on the corridors of the Combourg castle.
In the Rome of the first century, the researcher Flavia Albia is hired to clarify the mysterious death of a woman within an aristocratic family. As he invades in inherited secrets, rivalries and dark interests, he discovers that the family past holds a legacy as dangerous as it is mortal.
Eva García Sáenz de Urturi combines mythology, suspension and love with its unmistakable style.
Arturo Pérez- Reverte reinterprets the detective's myth in a plot set in the 20th century.
Aitor Orizaola does not go through his best. While recovering from the violent resolution of his last case as an agent of the Ertzaintza and facing a disciplinary file, he receives bad news. His nephew Denis, who as a child was like a son to him, has been charged with murder.
En esta novela, la inspectora Petra Delicado y el subinspector Fermín Garzón se enfrentan a un caso que empieza con la aparición de una mujer en fuga, alguien que parece huir de un pasado turbio y peligroso. Lo que en un principio se presenta como una historia personal —una mujer que intenta desaparecer— se va complicando hasta revelar una red de secretos, relaciones ambiguas y posibles delitos que conectan con entornos mucho más oscuros.
La aparición de varios personajes relacionados con el mundo empresarial y político desencadena una investigación en la que nada es lo que parece. Entre conspiraciones, intereses económicos y situaciones cargadas de ironía, un detective poco convencional deberá descubrir quién mueve realmente los hilos antes de que la trama se cobre nuevas víctimas.
One July night in Madrid, two men are killed and thrown from a bridge of the M-30. Their bodies fall on a car that ends up in the Manzanares, causing the death of a young woman: the Commissioner's daughter. Deputy Inspector Jotadé Cortés, irreverent and little friend of the rules, is forced to investigate against the clock.
Belén es una adolescente con una vida normal que aparece ahogada en un pantano cercano a Almansa. Lo que en un primer momento parece un trágico accidente se confirma como un asesinato que debe investigar un equipo de la Guardia Civil.
Seis nuevos relatos que tienen como protagonista a la inspectora Petra Delicado. Como en el resto de la serie, la novela combina investigación policial con una fuerte atención a la psicología de los personajes y a las contradicciones de la vida cotidiana. Petra aporta una mirada irónica, crítica e independiente sobre las relaciones humanas, el poder y los roles sociales, mientras Garzón actúa como contrapunto más clásico y humano.
Quintana Torres es una escritora de éxito a la que los medios han bautizado como «la nueva reina del thriller». Durante una firma de ejemplares en Bilbao, un antiguo compañero de instituto se acerca a ella y le entrega un misterioso sobre negro. En su interior encuentra una fotografía del diario de Alba, la adolescente que murió en extrañas circunstancias y cuya historia inspiró La chica del lago, su novela más conocida.
Cuando desaparece Wendy Paraíso, una joven cuyo nombre ha saltado a la actualidad tras difundirse un vídeo sexual en internet, la policía solicita la ayuda de Ricardo Cupido. Lo que parece un caso de desaparición termina convirtiéndose en una compleja investigación sobre el chantaje, la manipulación y la exposición pública en la era digital, mientras el detective afronta también importantes cambios en su vida personal.
Por primera vez en su carrera, Aurel recibe un destino que considera prometedor. Sin embargo, la aparición de un hombre al que todos creían muerto desde hace años desencadena una investigación llena de secretos políticos, viejas rivalidades y cuentas pendientes que se remontan al turbulento pasado de Albania.
During the pandemic, a death at the Pink House shakes the powerful Villamor family. Inspector Iria Santaclara arrives in Loeiro to uncover what happened and finds a household full of silence, broken loyalties and conflicting stories. Everyone has a motive, and the truth threatens the name they all protect.
Un rico empresario aparece muerto en L’Escala, y Alex, policía local, colabora con la policía científica para esclarecer un caso que podría tener sus raíces en lo ocurrido en el yacimiento arqueológico de Ampurias cien años antes.
Recién incorporado a la Policía Judicial de Málaga, el joven teniente Ángel Lobo descubre que tras una serie de muertes aparentemente fortuitas se esconde un patrón de asesinatos que ha permanecido oculto durante años. Junto a su superior, la capitán Emma Somerset, inicia una investigación que da un giro inesperado al encontrar la nota de suicidio de una adolescente publicada en la deep web. Una investigación clandestina y la misteriosa figura conocida como Lonewolf conducirán a ambos por una trama de crimen organizado, corrupción e impunidad en la Costa del Sol.
El multimillonario empresario hostelero Glasé aparece muerto en circunstancias sospechosas en la exclusiva urbanización madrileña de El Visón. El caso recae en Pascual Cordero, un detective muy distinto a los protagonistas habituales del género: íntegro, escrupuloso y absolutamente incapaz de saltarse las normas. A medida que avanza la investigación, Cordero se enfrenta a una poderosa familia empeñada en ocultar sus secretos y a personajes tan peligrosos como extravagantes que harán todo lo posible por impedir que la verdad salga a la luz. Mientras intenta resolver el crimen, el detective deberá enfrentarse también a sus propias limitaciones y a un pasado que condiciona su forma de entender la justicia.
En una nueva misión diplomática, Aurel Timescu se ve envuelto en un enigma relacionado con la isla de Santa Elena y el legado histórico de Napoleón. Lo que comienza como un asunto aparentemente menor deriva en una investigación donde la historia, la política y el crimen vuelven a entrelazarse, obligando al singular cónsul a emplear toda su intuición para resolver el caso.
