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It's 1992 and three people's lives are about to collide against the flaming backdrop of the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles. Vietnam vet Harry Hudson is a journalist fleeing his past: the war, a failed marriage, and a fear-ridden childhood. Rootless, he stutters, wrestles with depression, and is aware he's passed the point at which victim becomes victimizer. He explores the city's lowest dives, the only places where he feels at home. He meets Mama...
2) Snitch World
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"The Miata jumped the curb and sheared off a light pole. The impact deployed the airbags, but Chainbang was ready. He knifed Klinger's before it was fully inflated and his own before it could crush the glass pipe in his breast pocket. The six-inch blade went through the nylon like a pit bull through a kindergarten."
Snitch World takes place in a San Francisco of menacing technology, where the old cons come up short and the crimes of the gritty night...
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El Ciudadano Reportero: otra historia conmovedora y motivada políticamente. En nuestra codicia, expansión y deseo por innovación, muchas veces pasamos por alto las consecuencias en nuestro ambiente. Es más fácil olvidar la gravedad de esto cuando vives en un área urbana que ha sido desarrollada por siglos.
Una mujer estaba en labor de parto. Algunas personas en la calle podían escuchar sus gritos. Aquellos que podían entender el dolor que...
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"Una intrincada novela negra con la que caminarás por calles y ambientes de la Barcelona de principios del siglo XX en los zapatos de un detective singular".
Del autor de Malnazidos: Noche de difuntos del 38.
Barcelona, 1901. El gran detective Byron Mitchell se ve forzado a abandonar su retiro para investigar el asesinato de Ramón Calafell, abogado de la familia burguesa que le arrenda un piso en el lujoso paseo de Gracia.
En la bulliciosa Barcelona...
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London 1888. Ruby Myers won't let anyone step on her. After fighting her way to the top of a thriving underworld, the bisexual gangster protects her brothel workers at any cost. So the twenty-three-year-old madam sees red when her female lover is found dead with her throat slashed. As the local constabulary flounders to unearth a concrete lead, Ruby learns the murderer hasn't stopped with one corpse and his choice of victims all link back to her....
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Dans ce premier livre de la trilogie de la rivière Passaic qui se déroule en 1945, une guerre de diffusion entre les deux journaux de Newark tourne au sang lorsque les foules concurrentes de la ville mettent fin à leur trêve. La bataille fait rage dans le troisième quartier infesté de crimes de la ville, o des adolescents en première ligne sont des coureurs de numéros. Joey Bancik et Richie Maxwell, deux enfants de chœur catholiques, sont...
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¿Dónde esta el mal? ¿En una persona, una circunstancia, una acción? ¿O bien es algo difuso e impalpable como una polvadera, tan fría y silenciosa que podrían pasar años antes de percatarnos de su presencia? Podríamos no ver cómo se acumula en torno a nosotros, sino encontrarla de improviso en nuestra mesa, murmurándonos tonterias al oído, observándonos burlona desde el espejo».
¿Es oportuno confesar mi interés por los relatos de...
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"Fans of Lawrence Block's Keller stories are going to love One More Kill. I certainly did. Matt Hughes kept me up all night, turning pages."-George R.R. MartinHe was a trained killer, an orphaned kid who rose from raw recruit to the rank of major in the US Army Rangers. He was looking forward to retiring at the end of a thirty-year hitch, but when he developed a low-grade form of leukemia, the Army pushed him out and left him feeling alone and useless...
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I do not know what second it will be, what minute it will be, what hour, or even day. But it will come. You may see it coming. You may not. Regardless, I can guarantee you; there will be a moment like no other when you will draw your last breath. Like it or lump it. And at that moment you will see your final view of the world. However, what I do not know, is whether your last glimpse will be the sympathetic countenance of a loved one or the grotesque,...
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The man was 100 yards from his moment of destiny. He was oblivious to it, of course. Murderers don't necessarily realise they are killers until a few seconds before it happens. Murderers are sometimes just like you and me. He would never have dreamed that such a thing might happen. Ridiculous. If anyone had told him that today was the day he would turn into a killer, he would have looked at them quizzically; questioning their sanity, instead of his...
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Raised within the confines of a system that has done nothing but provide him with pain, Alex Hamilton's frustration and anger are completely natural--and inherently dangerous.
Since his parents split up, Alex has been constantly running from foster homes and institutions, yearning to be with his father, a broken man who cannot give his son the home he desperately needs. The only constant in Alex's life is no-good, criminally-minded peers, who are...
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Úrsula está insatisfecha. Demasiado fea, demasiado hambrienta, demasiado sola..., su vida no transcurre en absoluto como le gustaría. Su hermana es más guapa, su vecina más feliz, y ¿quién puede mantener eternamente una dieta de sopa de verduras? La misteriosa llamada de chantaje que recibe, informándola de que su marido ha sido secuestrado y pidiendo un millón de rescate, la sacará de ese estado. Aunque hay un detalle: Úrsula no tiene...
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What the Hell Did I Just Read?You'll ask yourself this question at least thirteen times throughout this book. Each story is uniquely crafted to throw you off your game, to introduce you to a different style of writing, or an entirely different story.Each told by one of two masters of the craft.Kristen Lamb and Troy Lambert team up for the first time officially to bring you this collection of short stories, many of which have never been published anywhere...
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EN EL COMPETITIVO MUNDO DE LAS LETRAS, CADA PALABRA PUEDE SER UN ARMA LETAL Y CADA PÁGINA EL ESCENARIO DE UN CRIMEN PERFECTO.
Con Muerte en el meridiano, Carlota Suárez hace un ácido tributo a Agatha Christie, desviándose del estilo clásico de la famosa autora, pero conservando elementos esenciales, como un misterioso asesinato en un festival literario: el Festival Meridiano Cero, evento que reúne a escritores, editores, traductores y blogueros...
15) Swarm
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"Truly chilling, Flynn's stories will stick with you long after reading."-Matthew Hutton, The Scare Room Podcast The town of Drachton is crumbling, with crime and violence perpetuating around the clock. Prisons are at bursting point, and morale is at an all time low. The government's answer is Swarm-a revolutionary new prison.Swarm is a correctional facility like no other, harnessing the power of the inmates' subconscious minds for the benefit of...
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Enrique and Lili, the latter a Canadian ex‐banker, produce premium Extra Virgin Olive Oil in southern Spain´s resplendent olive region of Úbeda. They barely survive in a ferocious, competitive and corrupt market.Oleg and Andrei muddle through on illegally earned funds in Estonia. They hatch an extraordinary plot to become rich. Their aim is to ruin one‐third of the global olive harvest, that grown in Spain. Their ally: the olive fruit fly.Ana...
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Two women take drastic action to protect the life they've built, in this gripping new novel set in early twentieth-century Belfast by the author of The Devil's Own.
Jane Best and Agnes Williams are known in Belfast for taking in lodgers at Riverdale House, the business they started together after losing their husbands in the Anglo-Zulu War. For forty years, they've welcomed young women in need of a respectable place to stay in the city-including...
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Book 2-4 of the Blackmoor Heirs Revenge Set. Book 2 I thought I'd forgotten who I was. But now I remember-and there's going to be hell to pay.Gabriel kept everything from me. My past, my history, my family-or the memory of them, anyway. But the memories are coming back, along with the identity of the three men who did this to me, and the woman who pulls their strings. Dean Blackmoor, Cayde St. Vincent, Jaxon King-and Athena Saint. They stole everything...
20) Exodus of Evil
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With the launch of the surveillance probe behind him, Paul Tringley is free to focus on profitable business ventures once again. He still doesn't know who blackmailed him, but his hired henchmen are on the job, searching for the culprit. Meanwhile, Professor David Kingston is finding it hard to walk away from his recent experiences. A certain name continues to haunt him-Dolph Veale. In the third and final book of the Exodus of Evil Trilogy, join David...
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