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I used to live in darkness, and a comet soared through my night sky. So I made a wish. Blood is my sanction. Pain is my salvation. Fear is what I instill. Especially for my Comet. The warm barrel of a gun against my head? It won’t stop me from protecting what is mine. Even if it means spilling more blood. My love for her has been tested and I’m furious. Seconds has turned to minutes. Minutes has turned to hours. And suddenly months have gone by without a change. Trying to make Daphne remember is getting us nowhere. It’s time to accept our fate. This is the new us.

El primero de los elaborados crímenes de esta recopilación de cuentos policiales tiene lugar en el Lusitania Express mientras alguien lee la revista "Misterio y delito". Los siguientes relatos narran los casos que se exponen en los artículos de la revista. Con esta obra, Mariano Sánchez Soler se identifica sin prejuicios con los escritores "negros" de los que en 1992 Manuel Vázquez Montalbán dijo: "como reacción a la literatura merodeante [...] nos salieron historias en las que intervenían la aventura y el delito".

En este thriller de violencia tan contenida como una tormenta en ciernes, un escritor se encierra en una casa perdida en una isla en pleno invierno, al tiempo que empieza a vagar por los vericuetos de su siguiente novela. Pronto la frontera entre realidad y ficción se difuminarán y la literatura empezará a empapar todo a su alrededor.

Hace veinte años, en un campamento de verano, cuatro adolescentes se adentraron de noche en el bosque. Dos fueron hallados asesinados y a los otros dos no volvieron a verlos nunca más. Para cuatro familias la vida cambió para siempre. Dos décadas después, está a punto de cambiar otra vez. El luto de Paul Copeland, fiscal del condado de Essex, Nueva Jersey, por la muerte de su hermana apenas comienza a remitir.

Raven es un sicario que recibe el encargo de ir a Sicilia para dar con el paradero de Virginia, una chica huida de casa, y volver con ella a Roma. El problema es que ella es la hija de Matteo Santoro, un antiguo capo de Palermo, y todos ellos -incluido el propio Raven- siguen teniendo enemigos en la ciudad. Raven, un hombre sin escrúpulos, recuerda una estancia previa en Palermo y sus relaciones con la mafia.

Robert Klayman, former Los Angeles private investigator, is out of prison after doing time for gunplay on his last PI job. Blacklisted and broke, he falls in with a gangster who hires him to move a stolen Rembrandt out of Ukraine. Sought out by thugs on both sides of the world, Klayman takes on the laws of the jungle when he finds himself a pawn in his employer's murderous scheme.

When the mayor’s son is boldly abducted while leaving the gym, the mayor demands results. Special Agent Dakarai Lakes and his team quickly learn that the abduction isn’t an isolated incident as more people are taken.

Before his trip to the stars, before the Rocinante, Timmy was confined to a Baltimore where crime paid you or killed you. Unless the authorities got to you first. On a future Earth beset by overpopulation, pollution, and poverty, people do what they must to survive. The Churn follows a crime boss named Burton as his organization is threatened by a new private security force tasked with cleaning up the city.

In the era of “fake news”, when facts are suspect and reporters are targets, popular First Lady Rose Gannon dies suddenly during an interview with White House Correspondent Lark Chadwick. Still reeling from the death of her photographer boyfriend, Lark is thrust into the midst of a media-bashing frenzy while covering a grieving president trying to defuse a looming nuclear war.

No hay aficionado a las películas de serie B de los años 70 y 80, a la cultura del videoclub y a los justicieros más duros que no vaya a disfrutar de esta gozosa historia de testosterona, balas y cocaína a raudales en la que un puñado de perdedores se internan en las entrañas de un edificio de oficinas corrompido por el mal dispuestos a repartir justicia con sangre y plomo.

A member of the Texas Twelve has a young relative murdered in Florida. The police in Florida write the murder off as a mugging gone bad. Tex sends his two adopted sons, Kale and Ellis Baylock, and his right hand man, The General, to Florida, and they begin to unravel the tangle of lies. The evidence leads them to the big city of Metro. Once the truth is uncovered and the criminals identified, Tex and his men can give the criminals a dose of Forty-Five Caliber Texas Justice.

Un miembro de la policía científica experto en informática investiga el asesinato del sobrino de un político que opta a la alcaldía de Barcelona. Pronto se encontrará con una trama que implica a un grupo antisistema y a una compleja conspiración en la red. Todo se complicará con la aparición de Present, una mujer de la que se acabará enamorando, pero que está implicada en el caso.

Blair O'Rourke is a criminal defense lawyer who has written off men. She sets out on a road trip to forget the last one she was involved with and finds herself hunted by someone he has sent after her. Stranded in the small town of Rolling Brook, will she trust another man to keep her safe, and can she stop herself from falling for him in the process? Not one to refuse someone in need of help, especially when Blair has no one else to turn to, local farmer Jake Redland becomes entangled in the same trouble she brought with her from Chicago.

When DJ and the team get a mission to a dangerous part of the world, there is suspicion their new employer is not telling them the whole truth. Things become much harder than they were promised. Still, they pull off the job with the skills and cunning we have come to expect from Slaughter and crew.

When Robert Engelbart inherits his Aunt Edith's cottage in the picturesque village of Dapple Dyke, he is both amazed and confused in equal measure. Truth is he had only ever been to the village once before as a 10-year-old and that had been to stay with his aunt, whilst London was being blitzed.

Auftragskillerin Violetta Morgenstern ist eine Frau mit Prinzipien. Davor ist auch der Vatikan nicht gefeit... Violetta Morgenstern, Pensionärin mit Vorliebe für kreative Selbstjustiz, weiß nicht, wo ihr der Kopf steht: die Mutter dement, der Freund untreu, eine Kollegin misshandelt... Dazu ihr neuer Job im Auftrag des Staates. Diesmal soll sie mit ihrem Kollegen, dem Ex-Söldner Miguel Schlunegger, einen Kardinal aus dem Vatikan eliminieren. Der Grund: topsecret. Doch ein Attentäter kommt den beiden zuvor. Wer außer ihnen hat sonst noch Interesse am Tod des ranghohen Geistlichen - und vor allem warum?

Once you cross the line between love and hate, can you ever go back? When a young woman is found dead at a popular island party spot, in what appears to be an accidental drowning, homicide detective Maggie Novak knows her weekend is about to get interesting...In the eyes of her parents, Christie Coleman is a good girl. But her siblings know her better. Christie has dark secrets and a string of boyfriends with shady pasts. And now her family must face the real possibility that Christie's murder is the result of her dallying with danger one too many times.

La tercera novela de la autora de "Lo que callan los muertos", ambientada entre Oviedo y Gijón. Una nueva investigación de Gracia San Sebastián, que ahora colabora con la policía. En pleno mes de diciembre, en la playa de San Lorenzo de Gijón un niño encuentra el brazo amputado de un hombre en el agujero del muro donde guarda sus tesoros. El brazo pertenece a Alfredo Santamaría, que estaba siendo investigado en la comisaría central de Oviedo por una presunta estafa piramidal.

Con la prosa aserrada y violenta con la que nos tiene acostumbrados, Marcelo Luján nos presenta una historia de tránsito, un viaje que abandona la infancia y se zambulle en la edad adulta, una transición en espiral alrededor de un cadáver que cambiará la vida de unos chicos a lo largo de dos veranos, con todas sus mezquindades, sospechas y secretos tan imparables como un ejército de hormigas.

After accepting a date with an older man, Vivian finds herself in a life-or-death situation with two undercover drug enforcement agents. These guys are as crooked as they are dangerous. Marcus wants to control her and use her for sex. And Lenny just wants her dead. The only way to escape their grasp and the constant threat of death is to play by their rules. She discovers the lure of danger combined with the fascination of her sexual evolution exciting. She falls in love with a monster. And becomes entangled in a relationship filled with manipulation and obsession.