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Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

A small Kansas town has turned into a killing ground. Is it a serial killer, a man with the need to destroy? Or is it a darker force, a curse upon the land? Amid golden cornfields, FBI Special Agent Pendergast discovers evil in the blood of America's heartland.

Michael Weitz

Making house calls or meeting people in public places is how Ray Gordon makes his living. He?s not a doctor. He?s not a prostitute. Ray Gordon is a chess teacher. When one of Ray?s students, Walter Kelly, is found dead in his shop, the police and his family let it go as an accident. Ray, however, doesn?t buy it. As a former cop with a lingering curiosity, Ray snoops around and stumbles into the murky world of methamphetamine, the worst drug epidemic of our time. The problem? Walter Kelly was 65 years old and his only addictions were woodworking and chess. How does a 65 year old man become involved with illegal drugs? Why is a neighbor glad Walter?s dead? And just how do dead men play chess?

Margery Allingham

In a masterpiece of storytelling, Margery Allingham sends her elegant and engaging detective Albert Campion into the eccentric Palinode household, where there have been two suspicious deaths. And, if poisoning were not enough, there are also anonymous letters, sudden violence and a vanishing coffin. Meanwhile, the Palinodes go about their nocturnal business and Campion dices with danger in his efforts to find the truth.

Brown, Dan

En un laboratorio de maxima seguridad, aparece asesinado un cientifico con un extrano simbolo grabado a fuego en su pecho. Para el profesor Robert Langdon no hay duda: los Illuminati, los hombres enfrentados a la Iglesia desde los tiempos de Galileo, han regresado. Y esta vez disponen de la mas mortifera arma que ha creado la humanidad, un artefacto con el que pueden ganar la batalla final contra su eterno enemigo. Acompanado de una joven cientifica y un audaz capitan de la Guardia Suiza, Langdon comienza una carrera contra reloj, en una busqueda desesperada por los rincones mas secretos de El Vaticano. Necesitara todo su conocimiento para descifrar las claves ocultas que los Illuminati han dejado a traves de los siglos en manuscritos y templos, y todo su coraje para vencer al despiadado asesino que siempre parece llevarle la delantera. / An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert...

Agatha Christie

Lymstock is a town with more than its share of shameful secrets - a town where even a sudden outbreak of anonymous hate-mail causes only a minor stir. But all that changes when one of the recipients, Mrs Symmington, commits suicide. Her final note says "I can't go on", but Miss Marple questions the coroner's verdict of suicide. Soon nobody is sure of anyone - as secrets stop being shameful and start becoming deadly. Формат: 11 см x 17,5 см.

Bob Sanchez

When beautiful Bonita Esquivez hires P.I. Clay Webster to find her husband, Lucky, Clay expects an easy missing-person case. But when Bonita bites a poisoned bonbon, more than a quick buck is at stake. Clay needs to establish exactly who Lucky is and determine if his client could be lying to him. Fifty-five-year-old Clay Webster knows pain; he lost his thirty-year marriage, his son, Sean, and his twenty-eight-year police career. Trying to build a new life, his wit is his weapon, and humor is his first line of defense against life's assaults. His search for Lucky centers primarily on Lowell, Massachusetts, where he tries to save a drowning teenager in a canal and hires yet another teenager, Denton La Rock Junior, who has been making prank phone calls to his home. Clay looks for links between Lucky and A Touch of Love, the new porn shop in town. Meanwhile, Senator Carleton Swinburne rails against the city's perceived moral decay, personified partly by ex-cops such as Clay...

Laura Childs

Delicious recipes, tea-time tips, opera, and murder?in a national bestselling mystery series that?s ?quickly become a favorite of readers.?(Mystery Reader) While riding her horse in a race through the South Carolina Lowcountry, Theodosia Browning finds her arch nemesis, Abby Davis, dead. What?s more, the victim?s brother is Theodosia?s old flame. Who?d have guessed they?d be reunited through cold-blooded murder? Theodosia?s investigation takes her from the Lowcountry thicket to the backstage maze of a darkened theater where a maestro of murder waits for the next cue. All proving that when it comes to high drama, Theodosia can give Verdi a run for his money.

Fred Vargas

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Dean Koontz

Mitch was busy planting flower beds when his phone rang. Now he's standing in a suburban garden on a bright summer day having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare. We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash. The caller doesn't care that Mitch has no way of raising such a vast sum. He's confident that Mitch will find a way. If he loves his wife enough. Mitch does. He has sixty hours to prove it. He'll pay anything. He'll pay a lot more than two million dollars. Формат: 11 см x 17,5 см.

Dean Koontz

A bolt of lightning brings a blond-haired stranger into Laura Shane's life. But is he the guardian angel he seems? The devil in disguise? Or the master of a haunting destiny beyond time and space?