Novedades

Cole Harper came to Atlantic City for a break—a few days to clear his head, sip a drink, and forget the mess he left behind in Philly. But when a redhead with a Southern drawl and a face he almost recognizes wins big in a backroom casino, then ends up bound to his hotel bed, vacation is over.

Everybody's two-stepping. They're dancing to Jazz, the new music performed so well at Gans Goldfield, the first "black and tan" club in Maryland, where the races can mix. Politicians are two-stepping, making money hand over fist, and spreading it around amongst their constituents. The cops are two-stepping, too, trying to catch up with the usual suspects, and to prosecute crooked politicians. The women who own Zofia's Cakes and Tarts are doing their own version of the two-step, when the Archdiocese demands they give up their bakery so a church may be built on its location. The fledgling ...

Harry Nast has it all. An apartment in the West Village, a column in a downtown rag, great friends and a slew of lovers. But when one of those lovers calls in the early morning hours and quickly turns up dead, Harry's life is turned upside down. His apartment is ransacked and his job is suddenly on the line. Soon Harry finds himself trying to solve a mystery far darker than he imagined. Can he keep it all together, or will his own demons get him first? Spanning from New York City to Provincetown, Don't Quote Me is a story about friendship, gay men and the struggles they face. You'll laugh ...

This story has been adapted to a screenplay for a major motion picture and it is the winner of numerous internatinal film festivals.. Twelve-year-old Parker Bradshaw becomes heir to billions, when his elderly father is murdered, but the old man doesn’t want to stay dead. Parker is blanketed by intrigue, as powerful men try to wrest control of the fortune and get rid of the boy who stands in their way. A young, black detective is Parker’s only hope, but he doesn’t make it easy for her to help, as Boston’s power brokers turn against both of them. Time is running short, and Parker ...

«Dos coincidencias son un patrón» Cuando parecía que nada podía desestabilizar a Manuela tras el equilibrio conseguido en el último año, la aparición de varios cadáveres sacudirá su monotonía y la arrastrará a un nuevo caso en el que nada es como parece. ¿Un asesino en serie? ¿Una conspiración? ¿Un capítulo abierto de su pasado? Acompaña a las inspectoras López y Mars en su investigación y descubre qué o quién se esconde detrás de esta cadena de asesinatos. Belladona es la segunda parte de la serie iniciada con La Puja del Nueve. Algunas opiniones de los lectores: ...

When an Earth-shattering secret has two legs, a big mouth, and a blinkered determination to get home by any means necessary, it’s up to Daisy and Aidan to stop it happening… by any means necessary! “One of the best cozy mystery series I’ve ever read!” Come and meet our feisty R.E.D. heroine, and find out why she’s such a hit with readers! (And check out the dramatic Throwback Prequel, ‘When Daisy Met Aidan’. It’s not listed with the main series books, but it’s there if you type it into the search-bar!) From feeling like they were back in the eighteenth century, Daisy and...

The sky always told the truth—if you knew how to listen. Jenny Maddox leaned against the hood of the matte-black Suburban, eyes locked on the gathering mass of dark clouds bruising the western horizon. The wind had shifted. Just a whisper now, but one with teeth. It brushed across her face like a warning. Most people would've taken it as a cue to head for the basement. Jenny? She called it a siren song. Behind her, the mobile Doppler radar unit beeped in steady intervals. On the roof of their secondary vehicle—nicknamed The Jackrabbit, a lifted, reinforced Jeep with steel plating and ...

Dr. Will Romine leaves a successful academic career. Cynical, disillusioned, and unanchored he goes on the tramp as a gypsy medical generalist in the rural American West. For 16 days in January he covers the clinic at the world’s largest cattle seed stock expo, the National Western Stock Show. He has a secret that gnaws at him. He wants to write a book, but struggles with “about what?” At the National Western he finds inspiration in a remarkable seed stock bull. It is owned by a reclusive billionaire. The disappearance of the Bull sets off speculation of “how” and “why.” Over ...

When dead-end dishwasher Kostya discovers the ability to summon spirits through the food he cooks, he embarks on a journey to open a New York City restaurant that serves closure – something he’s craved for as long as he can remember. There are just three problems: 1. Kostya has some ghosts of his own. 2. His advancing menu of spirit cuisine is threatening the stability of the Afterlife itself. 3. He’s falling in love with Maura, a party psychic with her own secret connection to the Afterlife – who also happens to be the one person who knows he must be stopped.

Two more cases for Philip Bryce 1. In the City of London, a well-respected barrister is murdered in his chambers.The City Police ask for the help of Scotland Yard, and Detective Chief Superintendent Bryce investigates. 2. The Board of a large pharmaceutical company is meeting. One of the directors dies suddenly. The cause is clearly cyanide poisoning. But was it self-administered, or could it be murder? The local police inspector believes it was a case of suicide, but when he is taken seriously ill and admitted to hospital, and his sergeant almost simultaneously has a mental breakdown, ...

Every house remembers its own story. But some... refuse to let go of it. They found it by accident — a winding road that dropped off the edge of the county map, a crumbling stone fence half-swallowed by wild foxglove, a crooked iron gate covered in vines the color of bruises. The house stood at the top of the hill, watching them. Three stories. Weathered shutters. A roofline that leaned to the left, like it had been listening to the wind for too long. And at the center of the front garden — overgrown and half-buried — a gate. Not the one they drove through, but a smaller one. Painted ...

A holiday in France; an art thief on the run! Art sleuth Sophie must stay a step ahead of a brash criminal . . . A rare Matisse in Marseille provides a convenient cover for undercover art sleuth Sophie Poisson’s covert romantic plans in the city. But when the painting is unexpectedly stolen, Sophie finds herself chasing an art thief instead of romance. With a wily thief one step ahead of her and her undercover partner, Uncle Arthur, out of town, can Sophie devise a strategy to recover the Matisse before it sails out of Marseille, never to be seen again? Praise for Tustin's Sophie's ...

Wilson, chief of the Australian Spy Agency, posts Tony Jones to Buenos Aires to investigate the funding of terrorists in South America. He mysteriously vanishes with an accomplice, an enigmatic ‘old lady’ Joan Davis. Together they expose, capture, or eliminate the extortionists, and belatedly inform Wilson. He unenthusiastically orders Jones to Chile to continue his mission. The stakes escalate as Jones is captured by the terrorist Patriotic Front and a ransom is paid, deepening the mystery.

Chief of Police Jesse Stone is on his way home from a long shift when a call comes in for a welfare check on an elderly resident of the wealthy seaside town of Paradise, Massachusetts. Inside a house packed with trash is a man's dead body. It's a sad, lonely end, but nothing criminal... until Jesse finds the photos of murder victims, on top of a treasure trove of $2 million in cash.

Anna Simón nos presenta ¿Quién mató a Verónika?,novela en la que imprime fuerza narrativa y suspenso; un thriller policíaco entretenido que logra atraer la atención del lector de principio a fin, paseando su historia con lujo de detalle por una convulsionada metrópoli como lo es Nueva York. Da cuenta de la vida de una emigrante europea que llega a esa gran selva de cemento, como muchas personas que quizá nosotros conocemos, esperanzadas por el deseo de triunfar en una nueva vida, la cual le traerá sorpresa tras sorpresa; se ve envuelta en una complicada trama entre escenarios de ...

Anna Simon introduces us: Who killed Veronika? An entertaining police thriller that attracts the reader's attention from beginning to end through a convulsed metropolis such as New York. It tells about the life of a European immigrant who arrives at that vast cement jungle, hopeful of succeeding in a new life. She becomes the victim of a complicated plot among nudist shows and people ranging from wealthy Manhattan executives to ordinary Bronx traffickers. Veronika dominated by this world of money, lights, and betrayals finds her destiny in a dark alley murdered in a horrendous way. Who ...

An American ex-soldier entices a young English woman to stay in late-1950s Havana, a decadent capital pretending all is normal while Fidel Castro’s guerrilla army rises in the southern mountains of Cuba. She encounters glamour and violence before having her head turned by the idealism of revolution. She returns home with a baby, a photograph taken with a cultural icon, and a gun. A lifetime later, that child commissions a professional genealogist to investigate his mother’s family and past. His father’s identity is a riddle, but could DNA provide the answer? Could it Che Guevara ...

Would you dare to follow Sherlock Holmes into the darkest corners of London? In the foggy streets of Victorian London, ten mysteries await the most famous detective. Accompanied by his faithful friend, Dr. Watson, Sherlock Holmes deploys his deductive genius to face enigmas that defy reason. Join Sherlock and his analytical mind in 10 new unpublished stories: The Mystery of the Safe Margaret is missing The Ogre of Whitechapel Hocus Pocus The underdog candidate Deadly Composition The Witness Knight The Bleeding Church The Circus Mystery Blackwell Manor Some news from Baker Street attempts to...

Adam and Tara are sucked into a police investigation that might get Tara killed. Can Adam keep her safe or will he lose her forever? Tara James, the local librarian assistant, is afraid her past will catch up to her when an infant is abandoned outside the Tipton County Library. Will news of the abandoned baby stir up publicity and force her to go on the run again? Librarian Nancy Daley’s world has become complicated. Carter is pushing to set a wedding date, a woman was left for dead on the side of the road, and Tara, her assistant, is acting strange.

A Reluctant Hero. A High-Stakes Mission. The Fate of Global Alliances Hangs in the Balance. Mark Jamison, once a master negotiator persuading nations to join NATO, is called back to action by naval intelligence for a mission like no other. Tasked with protecting the vital undersea communication cables off Ireland, Jamison faces a race against time as Russian forces threaten to sever America’s lifeline to Europe. Undercover in the Irish defense ministry, Jamison must navigate a minefield of political intrigue, ruthless oligarchs, and a boss entangled with Russian spies. But as he fights to...