Una antología de cuentos negros que reúne por primera vez a los mejores narradores mexicanos del género, muchos de los cuales han sido reconocidos internacionalmente.
«En esta colección de cuentos Noir de los mejores autores mexicanos de este siglo, un atlas de las letras policiacas del país, se trata de dar una muestra de esta novedosa camada de escritores que abrazaron el compromiso de portar la bandera de la literatura negra sin enfado. Alzándose como autores que deseaban recuperar el espacio perdido con libros que se sienten globales, menos enraizados en la imagen institucional o en una falsa mexicanidad. Las narraciones muestran la descomposición del país, pero no se limitan a gritarlo en plana principal. Más bien lo disecan cual cadáver en forense, mostrándonos las causas de su defunción. En cambio, abiertamente le dan prioridad a la narración, al lenguaje y a la trama. Con eso, las obras se vuelvenun reverbero que expresa mejor que nadie a esta sociedad, su idiosincrasia y la extraña forma de apreciar la vida, a través de la muerte.»
Francisco Haghenbeck
Orfa Alarcón | Vicente Alfonso | Liliana Blum | Imanol Caneyada | Bernardo Esquinca | Iván Farías | Bernardo Fernández, BeF | Iris García | F. G. Haghenbeck | Élmer Mendoza | Carlos René Padilla | Pedro Ángel Palou | Eduardo Antonio Parra | Hilario Peña Juan | José Rodríguez | César Silva | Martín Solares | Paco Ignacio Taibo II | Darío Zalapa
A hugely enjoyable, must-listen murder mystery sure to appeal to fans of Elly Griffiths, Anthony Horowitz, and Agatha Christie, with one of the best and most satisfying conclusions you'll ever hear. A classic in Japan, available in English for the first time.
Two women are missing already, snatched by a prowler in the night. Brilliant psychologist Christine Radcliffe fears she may be next-or at least that's what she tells Detective Alan Jameson. But Jameson already has the prime suspect in his sights, and it's someone much closer to Christine than she wants to admit. Who is she protecting? Meticulously crafted to deliver twist after breathtaking twist, this book was originally published as The Desire of the Moth and is the perfect page-turner for fans of A.J. Rivers, Kendra Elliott, Ragnar Jónasson, Louise Penny, Melinda Leigh, Rachel Caine, K.L. Slater, D.S. Butler, and Rachel Abbott.
Sister Felicity does not return to her room after prayers. The nun is found strangled in the confessional box. She is only the first of St. Cecilia's faithful to meet a gruesome end. The killer will not stop until this place of God is destroyed. It is up to DI Gilbert Markham and his loyal deputy DS Noakes to stop the murderer. Cruel secrets come to light that force Markham's girlfriend Olivia to face her own past. The body count in the monastery continues to rise, and once again, a violent evil proves devastatingly close to home. Please note this book was first published as Night's Black Agents.
Race and civil rights in 1963 Los Angeles provide a powerful backdrop in Gary Phillips’s riveting historical crime novel about an African American forensic photographer seeking justice for his jazz musician friend. Los Angeles, 1963: African American Korean War veteran Harry Ingram earns a living as a news photographer and occasional process server: chasing police radio calls and dodging baseball bats. With racial tensions running high on the eve of Martin Luther King’s Freedom Rally, Ingram risks ending up one of the victims at every crime scene he photographs. When Ingram hears a call over the police scanner to the scene of a deadly automobile accident, he recognizes the vehicle described as belonging to his good friend and old army buddy, the white jazz trumpeter Ben Kinslow, with whom he’d only just reconnected. The LAPD declares the car crash an accident, but when Ingram develops his photos there are signs of foul play. Ingram feels compelled to play detective, even if it means putting his own life on the line. Armed with his wits, his camera, and occasionally his Colt .45, Harry Ingram plunges headfirst into the seamier underbelly of LA society, tangling with racists, leftists, blackmailers, gangsters, zealots and lovers, all in the hope of finding something resembling justice for a friend.
Zoë Vanderlip is missing. The Ark is empty. And nobody on McGee Ridge can agree about what exactly happened to her.
McGee Ridge, earthquake-rattled and clinging to the thousand-foot cliffs of the Northern California coast, is nestled in one of a very few truly wild places left in the Lower 48. It is also home to a band of off-grid outlaws who vanished behind the famed Redwood Curtain in the 1960s and whose time there is swiftly coming to an end.
Will Specter, a burned-out journalist for the Los Angeles Times, arrived here to build a wilderness cabin for himself in the ’90s, after spending a decade as a war correspondent. In a community that subsists mainly off illegal cannabis farming, Will is an outlier. So too is Zoë Vanderlip, the revered matriarch of the original 60s settlers, whose adult son Klaus is one of the largest growers in the region. Unlike nearly everyone else, neither Will nor Zoë has ever grown marijuana, but when Zoë suddenly goes missing from her home―a large hand-built structure known as the Ark―the industry’s competing forces can no longer be ignored.
Pairing up with Daniel Likowski, a principled but mysterious grower whose business has been crushed by legalization, Will finds himself swept into a world of lost idealism and desperate loners, mobsters and corporate shell companies, violence and hypocrisy, all operating beneath the canopy of an ancient forest teetering at the very edge of the continent.
Spurned on both by his journalistic zeal and a strange love for the place and its people, Will begins his investigation as a journey to understand not just what happened to Zoë but to all of them.
In this atmospheric rural noir, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dale Maharidge’s debut novel plunges readers into a country that has existed for decades beyond the bounds of America-at-large but nevertheless reflects the essential conflicts of our divided culture.
Two skeletons are discovered in the grounds of St Mary's Choir School. This was not a centuries-old Christian burial. They are wearing modern-day clothes, and there is evidence of foul play. Consecrated land has been sadistically violated. Detective Inspector Gilbert Markham is a rising talent of the Bromgrove police force. He is on the trail of the murderer when another life is brutally claimed. Who is the savage killer lurking in this innocent place? DI Markham and his team are met with intense hostility when they step up their operation. Is this just local panic? Or are they about to stumble into a web of corruption that runs deeper than they could have ever anticipated? Please note this book was first published as A Walking Shadow.
Cuando los demonios del pasado se instalan en nuestra propia casa solo tenemos dos opciones: luchar o dejarnos vencer por el miedo y la desesperación.
Un thriller psicológico totalmente adictivo de Charlotte Link, la autora que ha revolucionado el género criminal en Europa.
La familia Quentin se encuentra en su bucólica casa de Dunvegan, en la isla de Skye, disfrutando de la placidez de finales de agosto. Sin embargo, el hundimiento de una pequeña embarcación cerca de la costa trunca la armonía familiar. Los Moor, que se encontraban a bordo del Dandelion, han sobrevivido, y Virginia decide darles cobijo a pesar de los reparos de su marido.
Al finalizar las vacaciones, el matrimonio alemán se queda en Dunvegan y los Quentin regresan a Norfolk. Virginia y la pequeña Kim pasan la mayor parte del tiempo solas en Frendale, la mansión familiar, mientras Frederic trabaja en Londres. A Virginia le gusta su vida recluida. Pero el falso entorno de paz que ha construido desaparece cuando Nathan Moor llama a su puerta...
Virginia, una mujer melancólica que guarda secretos inconfesables, hallará en ese extraño un confidente y un hombre capaz de hacerla sentir viva. Entretanto, un pederasta anda suelto en la zona y ya se ha cobrado la vida de dos niñas. Todas corren peligro. Incluso Kim... Especialmente Kim.
La crítica ha dicho...
«Hace que al lector se le haga de día, se le pase la parada donde ha de bajar y que no pare de morderse las uñas.»
Wochenblatt
«Link ha escrito un thriller psicológico que da escalofríos y sorprende por sus giros inteligentes.»
Main-Echo
Heist-man Nolan is enjoying his retirement from crime, running his own restaurant, when the president of a bank he robbed two years ago shows up with a blackmail demand. All Nolan has to do is rob the bank again—and play patsy to a sexy girlfriend’s murder scheme.
In 1940's Chicago, when insurance salesman Elliot Blake calls at the home of fight promoter Walt Winkler to sell him a new insurance policy, it's handsome boxer Vito who comes to the door.
Vito wants something from Elliot, but it's not car insurance.
In this gay story inspired by the classic noir novel Double Indemnity, obsessive desire unfolds in an unexpected direction.
It's not a remake. You'll never see what's coming.
In Denton, Arkansas, the fate of the high school football team rests on the shoulders of Billy Lowe, a volatile but talented running back. Billy comes from an extremely troubled home: a trailer park where he is terrorized by his unstable mother's abusive boyfriend. Billy takes out his anger on the field, but when his savagery crosses a line, he faces suspension. Without Billy Lowe, the Denton Pirates can kiss their playoff bid goodbye. But the head coach, Trent Powers, who just moved from California with his wife and two children for this job, has more than just his paycheck riding on Billy's bad behavior. As a born-again Christian, Trent feels a divine calling to save Billy-save him from his circumstances, and save his soul. Then Billy's abuser is found murdered in the Lowe family trailer, and all evidence points toward Billy. Now nothing can stop an explosive chain of violence that could tear the whole town apart on the eve of the playoffs.
Dos son las posesiones de la familia Beckett: una vieja granja en Scarborough, Yorkshire, y un oscuro pasado que está a punto de salir a la luz.
Un thriller psicológico impecable de Charlotte Link, la autora que ha revolucionado la novela criminal en Europa.
La sucesiva aparición de los cadáveres brutalmente apaleados de una joven estudiante y una anciana en la costa inglesa de Scarborough constituyen un auténtico quebradero de cabeza para la inspectora Valerie Almond. El misterio al que se enfrenta la obligará a adentrarse en los recovecos de lo que ella considera una turbia trama familiar de amores y rencillas.
Pero la verdad esconde caminos tortuosos que nada tienen que ver con sus conjeturas...
Reseñas:
«Una novela brillante con personajes absorbentes.»
The Sunday Times
«Una de las grandes narradoras de la actualidad.»
Journal für die Frau
«Link es una novelista impecable.»
Die Zeit
