Vadassy was just another name on the guest list at the seedy Mediterranean Hotel until he was accused of spying. Then, suddenly, he was on everybody's list.
"Sidelined by his war injuries in 1916, Captain Hastings travels to his friend's estate at Styles Court to recover from his wounds. As the summer heats up, a tragic murder occurs, and Hastings calls upon the services of his old acquaintance Hercule Poirot. With seemingly unrelated clues-a scrap of a burned will, a false beard, and an empty packet of bromide-the brilliant detective launches his first investigation on English soil and forges an enduring friendship.
Dos expertos criminólogos retratan la mente del psicópata en una novela negra adictiva. La esperada continuación de la serie protagonizada por Valentina Negro y Javier Sanjuán.
La inspectora Valentina Negro lucha por superar los traumáticos recuerdos de su último caso, cuando estuvo cerca de perder la vida a manos de un asesino en serie. Pero la maldad no da tregua: pronto se ve envuelta en una nueva y escalofriante cadena de muertes.
La ayuda del criminólogo Javier Sanjuán será clave para desentrañar una compleja trama relacionada con la desaparición de varias chicas y el rodaje de unas terroríficas películas snuff que recuerdan extrañamente al cine expresionista de Fritz Lang.
El dolor, la belleza y la locura se dan la mano en las páginas de esta adictiva novela negra, que es al mismo tiempo un excelente retrato de la mente del psicópata firmado por dos expertos criminólogos. Las páginas de El hombre de la máscara de espejosson una invitación a asomarse al abismo a través de una historia trepidante que engancha y estremece desde la primera página.
Se ha dicho sobre la novela:
«Si un par de criminólogos se dedicaran a maquinar sofisticados asesinatos, podrían poner en jaque a la policía científica. Por fortuna, Vicente Garrido y Nieves Abarca se limitan a imaginar los crímenes de sus intensas novelas.» El Mundo
«Una exploración del mal libre de clichés.» Las Provincias
«Esta pareja de escritores ha creado un juego auténticamente diabólico.» Corazón Literario.com
«La prosa de Garrido y Abarca es brillante, precisa, elegante, siempre al servicio de una trama de suspense y misterio que sorprende por su originalidad e impacta por su puesta en escena casi cinematográfica» Blog Serendipia
«Quiero leer más sobre Negro y Sanjuán cuanto antes» Blog Antes de leer
«Después de acabar Martyrium nos quedamos con ganas de más Negro y Sanjuán» Blog El lloc del crim
With New York Times bestselling author Mary Jane Clark, every word is a clue--and Hide Yourself Away more than delivers the pacing and suspense her growing legion of fans have come to expect Being a KEY To America intern may be hazardous to your health. But even when one is nearly killed in an accident and another disappears, this year's crop of hopefuls are oblivious to the menace.
Grace Callahan arrives in Newport for a weeklong broadcast from"America's First Resort," determined to launch a future in television journalism. The KEY interns have been told that at the end of the summer one of them will get a full-time job. As their number dwindles, Grace must face the real danger that lurks in an otherwise idyllic town. But can she uncover a murderer who does not want the secrets--those lying buried beneath the city's fabled mansions--to come to light?
A murder at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, bears a close resemblance to one in Trondheim, Norway. The corpse of the museum curator in Virginia is found flayed in his office by the cleaning staff; the corpse of an archivist at the library in Norway, is found inside a locked vault used to store delicate and rare books. Richmond homicide detective Felicia Stone and Trondheim police inspector Odd Singsaker find themselves working on similar murder cases, committed the same way, but half a world away. And both murders are somehow connected to a sixteenth century palimpsest book The Book of John which appears to be a journal of a serial murderer back in 1529 Norway, a book bound in human skin.
A runaway bestseller in Norway, Jørgen Brekke's Where Monsters Dwell has since sold to over fourteen countries. Where Monsters Dwell is the most awaited English language crime fiction debut in years.
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, Mike Bowditch has left the Maine Warden Service and is working as a fishing guide in the North Woods. But when his mentor Sgt. Kathy Frost is forced to kill a troubled war veteran in an apparent case of "suicide by cop," he begins having second thoughts about his decision.
Now Kathy finds herself the target of a government inquiry and outrage from the dead soldier's platoon mates. Soon she finds herself in the sights of a sniper, as well. When the sergeant is shot outside her farmhouse, Mike joins the hunt to find the mysterious man responsible. To do so, the ex-warden must plunge into his friend's secret past—even as a beautiful woman from Mike's own past returns, throwing into jeopardy his tentative romance with wildlife biologist Stacey Stevens.
As Kathy Frost lies on the brink of death and a dangerous shooter stalks the blueberry barrens of central Maine, Bowditch is forced to confront the choices he has made and determine, once and for all, the kind of man he truly is, in The Bone Orchard by Paul Doiron.
A promising young singer is found dead in a clearing in a forest, gruesomely murdered her larynx cut out, and an antique music box placed carefully atop her body, playing a mysterious lullaby that sounds familiar, but that no one can quite place. Chief Inspector Odd Singsaker, of the Trondheim Police Department, still recovering from brain surgery, is called in to investigate.
Singsaker, now married to Felicia Stone, the American detective he met while tracking down a serial killer, fears the worst when another young girl, also known for her melodic singing voice, suddenly goes missing while on a walk with her dog one night. As the Trondheim police follow the trail of this deadly killer, it becomes clear that both cases are somehow connected to a centuries-old ballad called "The Golden Peace," written by a mysterious composer called Jon Blund, in the seventeenth century. This lullaby promises the most sound, sweet sleep to the listener and as time ticks by, the elusive killer seems as if he will stop at nothing to get his hands on this perfect lullaby.
Jorgen Brekke returns at the top of his game in this nonstop thrill ride through place and time.
Every so often, a great assassin novel comes along: Brad Meltzer's The Fifth Assassin, David Baldacci's The Hit, Daniel Silva's The Kill Artist. Now Ward Larsen brings us Assassin's Silence, featuring David Slaton, hero of Larsen's Assassin's Game and the award-winning The Perfect Assassin.
When it comes to disappearing, David Slaton has few equals. Police in three countries have written off trying to find him. His old employer, Mossad, keeps no forwarding address. Even his wife and son are convinced he is dead. So when an assault team strikes, Slaton is taken by surprise. He kills one man and manages to escape.
Half a world away, in the baleful heat of the Amazon, an obscure air cargo company purchases a derelict airliner. Teams of mechanics work feverishly to make the craft airworthy. On the first flight, the jet plunges toward the ocean.
The CIA assesses the two spectacles: a practiced killer leaving a trail of bodies across Europe, and a large airplane disappearing without a trace. The two affairs are increasingly seen to be intertwined. Langley realizes the killer is a man long thought to be dead, and the lost airliner has been highly modified into a tool of unimaginable terror.
When their worst fears are realized, Langley must trust the one man who can save them: David Slaton, the perfect assassin.
