Thriller Latino

Desde su primera publicación en 1983, esta novela se convirtió en un libro de culto para ajedrecistas en particular y amantes de la gran novela americana en general. Un secreto que de repente explotó a finales de 2020 con el estreno de la serie basada en esta historia, conquistando en tiempo récord al mundo entero.

Experience the PULSE-POUNDING action thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat for days! NICARAGUA 1975 ... Deep in the heart of the Nicaraguan jungle, An elite squad of Green Berets secretly undertake covert operations on behalf of the United States. A COUNTRY ON THE CUSP OF REVOLUTION ... Times are changing, however, and the political climate of Nicaragua begins to take a step away from dictatorship and towards revolution, with the team caught in the center of it all. With the sudden explosive arrival of a mysterious female doctor and a deadly assassin, the team realize a grave...

Lost civilization. Ancient secrets. A fast-paced adventure where danger lurks around every corner. While exploring ancient ruins nestled deep in the lush Guatemalan jungle, a team of international archaeologists makes a stunning discovery. They find a sprawling network of tunnels and caves filled with man-made structures, intricately carved stone statues, inscriptions and murals that hint at the mythical Mayan underworld, Xibalba. Eager to learn more about the shadowy place, they descend further underground and stumble upon hidden passageways that seem to stretch forever, treasure-laden ...

Havana, Cuba, 2003: Matt, a San Diego journalist, arrives in Havana to marry his girlfriend, Yarmila, a 24-year-old Cuban woman whom he first met through her food blog. But Yarmi isn't there to meet him at the airport, and when he hitches a ride to her apartment, he finds her lying dead in the bathtub. Lovelorn Matt is immediately embroiled in a Cuban adventure he didn't bargain for: the police and secret service have him down as their main suspect.

The upscale neighborhood of Summerton doesn’t know what hit them. In the last year, all the women of the neighborhood have become pregnant within months of each other. Then, one by one, each husband suffered inexplicable deaths, leaving the women of Summerton widows with newborn babies. Brendan, on the heels of a break up with the woman he thought he was going to marry, arrives in Summerton, unaware of the community’s recent events. As the only adult male in the vicinity, all his female neighbors want to welcome him personally. As he gets to know his beautiful neighbors, he can't shake ...

Alexandra Cameron and sinfully handsome billionaire Diego Navarro are passionately in love, but their bliss is threatened by a ruthless Scotsman who blames them for the death of his son -- the man who murdered Alex's husband two years earlier. Diego never expected to win Alex's heart and is fiercely protective of the woman he loves. As the deadly game of revenge enters its final round, will they and their love survive?

Former Havana detective Marlene Martínez, now happily running a bakery in Miami, has booked a week-long cruise to Mexico and the Caribbean with her niece, Sarita, as the girls quinceañera present. Sarita is beyond thrilled to discover that a Cuban telenovela star, Carloalberto, is also aboard for the trip. But even while trying to keep her niece away from the unsettlingly handsome actor, Marlene gets the feeling Carloalberto is in some kind of trouble - he is constantly on edge, and shady characters seem to find their way to him.

La lista de sospechosos de tanta desgracia y vergüenza nacional incluye al presidente Plutarco Elías Calles, al fundador de la crom, Luis N. Morones, a la renombrada madre Conchita, y a una serie de oscuros personajes encumbrados del clero de México, quienes organizaron un boicot comercial a nivel nacional para poner de rodillas al gobierno y cerraron los templos para privar de consuelo espiritual a la feligresía y enardecerla.

¡Prepárate para una emocionante travesía en "El orgullo de Morelos: Nacido narco"! Juan Tostado, un joven valiente, anhela con fervor formar parte de la poderosa banda delictiva a la que su padre pertenece, con el objetivo de aprender todos los secretos de la implacable Colonia Morelos. En la escuela, es admirado por sus compañeros, y desde temprana edad muestra un talento innato para los negocios. Sin embargo, su intrépido barrio se sume cada vez más en la desesperación, y la banda liderada por El Cráneo se vuelve cada día más sanguinaria y brutal. ¿Será capaz Juan Tostado de ...

On a frigid, January night, a blond, blue-eyed high school girl walks out of an English class she tutors for immigrants - and vanishes. Suspicion quickly falls on the men she was teaching, many of whom are undocumented. As disturbing evidence trickles in, news of the incident spreads beyond the scenic town of Lake Holly, New York, unearthing deep-seated fears and enflaming cultural tensions. For county police detective Jimmy Vega, the situation is personal.

A Vegas cocktail waitress. An Indian herbalist. A British chemistry professor. An Italian-American widow. Four unique women with one thing in common: Each is haunted by a tragedy from her past. Cynthia, Rohini, Jane, and Angela meet on a food blogging site and bond over recipes. On impulse, they decide to open The Secret Spice, an elegant cafe on the magnificent ocean liner, the RMS Queen Mary, currently a floating hotel in Long Beach, California. Rich in history and tales of supernatural occurrences, the ship hides her own dark secrets.

The Same Fire (First International Independent Literary Prize Orizzonte Atlantico for a novel published in 2019) is a bildungsroman novel and an existential autobiography based on the author’s experiences during the last military dictatorship in his country. The real events, names, country, and the subsequent evolution of various tragedies have been altered to protect the truth. With a syntactical structure lacking the relative pronoun (que/that), the novel expresses in language the same functional absences that exist in the absolute memory of its protagonist, the child José Gabriel, ...

Una novela sobre las decisiones erradas que tomamos como individuos y colectividad Norogachi, Chihuahua. Unas furiosas garras de fuego iluminan el cielo nocturno y abrasan la iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Pilar. Mientras el pueblo trajina inútilmente cubetas de agua para intentar apagar el incendio y todos se preguntan qué sucedió, en la montaña sólo se escuchan los aullidos del Lobo Montejo, un exsacerdote que colgó los hábitos para formar una familia y vivir en comunidad.

April 20th, 1968: Enoch Powell, MP for Wolverhampton South West, gives a speech that shakes a community and Britain to its very core. Words that provoke, that divide...that profoundly affect the lives of those they touch. Mrs. Georgina Verington-Delaunay is an administrator working in the Conservative riding office of Enoch Powell. Frank and Christine are art students inadvertently caught in an undercurrent of intolerance. Nelson and his aunt Irene are Jamaican immigrants striving to make a life for themselves in a turbulent atmosphere.

Un pueblo tranquilo, tres muertes misteriosas y preguntas sin respuesta: Roger Ackroyd aparece muerto, dejando tras de sí una red de secretos. Solo un peculiar detective recién llegado, amante de los calabacines y la verdad, podrá desvelar el enigma oculto tras las apariencias.

Working undercover can smother you… Nikki Garcia, a former fraud auditor turned international private investigator, travels to Mexico—a country where private investigators are outlawed—to find a missing child. The parents are embroiled in a nasty custody battle, with each parent accusing the other of the girl’s disappearance. It’s an easy child-snatching case—right? That’s what Nikki thinks until an irreverent, marijuana-smoking homeless woman provides an eye-witness account of the girl’s kidnapping. Following the witness’s account, Nikki goes undercover and infiltrates a ...

When Charlotte McKay wakes up in a hospital bed with no memory of how she got there, all she wants is to go back to the perfect London flat she shares with her husband, and the impressive career she’s worked so hard to build. But something’s not right. Her husband David is at her bedside - but so is a three-year-old girl, and she’s calling Charlotte "Mummy"....

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard presenta una serie de relatos protagonizados por Molly Robertson-Kirk, una de las primeras detectives femeninas de la ficción. Publicada en 1910, esta obra de la Baronesa Orczy marcó un hito al mostrar a una mujer resolviendo crímenes con inteligencia y observación, en lugar de fuerza bruta.

Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by: Wilfredo J. Burgos Matos, Ernesto Quiñonez, Mayra Santos-Febres, José Rabelo, Luis Negrón, Yolanda Arroyo Pizarro, Ana María Fuster Lavín, Janette Becerra, Manolo Núñez Negrón, Tere Dávila, Edmaris Carazo, Alejandro Álvarez Nieves, Charlie Vázquez, and Manuel A. Meléndez. Translated by Will Vanderhyden.

After her best friend breaks things off with her fiance and becomes obsessed with a mysterious older woman, Sarah vows to get to the bottom of the strange behavior. But when she discovers Reyna controlling the mind of a waitress, Sarah knows she’s in over her head. Torn between running away from the cryptic Hispanic woman and saving her best friend, Sarah is haunted by erotic dreams. Each one pushes her closer to Reyna with one burning question: Is Sarah a slut like the waitress or a goddess like Reyna? Until she can answer it truthfully, Sarah’s life falls apart as Reyna hunts her and ...