Dr. Warr's decayed corpse is found in the woods. He worked at the local psychiatric hospital before vanishing over a year ago without a trace. People blamed his disappearance on a mental breakdown. There have always been whispers about Newman Hospital-staff brutality, deliberate misdiagnosis. DI Gilbert Markham and his right-hand man, DS Noakes, begin asking questions. They are met with a chilling silence. It seems the people in power know more than they are letting on. Another staff member is found in the annals of the hospital, strangled to death. How many more victims will be claimed before the vengeful killer is found? DS Kate Burton will fight for her life as Markham tries to stop the bloodshed. Will the team make it out of the hospital alive? Please note this book was first published as A Mind Diseased.
Sin duda, no hay en la actualidad ningún escritor que retrate con mayor verosimilitud el mundo de los gánsteres en Estados Unidos durante la primera mitad del siglo XX que Dennis Lehane, y esta electrizante novela -que cierra la trilogía iniciada con Cualquier otro día y Vivir de noche- es la mejor prueba de ello.
Padre de un niño de diez años al que adora, el antaño todopoderoso Joe Coughlin casi ha logrado cortar amarras con su turbulento pasado, aunque no del todo, pues ejerce de consejero del importante clan mafioso de los Bartolo. Pese a ello, lleva una vida más o menos tranquila hasta que dos hechos inquietantes vienen a perturbarla: la aparición del fantasma de un chico que le resulta vagamente familiar, y, mucho más grave, el soplo de que alguien ha puesto precio a su cabeza y planea matarlo durante el Miércoles de Ceniza.
Así pues, entre su tarea de mediador entre clanes mafiosos al borde del conflicto y sus pesquisas para descubrir quién quiere acabar con él, Joe se verá retrotraído a los viejos tiempos, aquellos años de traiciones y venganzas, bañados en sangre, donde cada día podía ser el último.
Y es que tal vez haya llegado al fin la hora de pagar por sus pecados.
La crítica ha dicho...
«Ese mundo desaparecido, de Dennis Lehane, es la mejor novela de gánsteres desde El padrino. Una historia espectacular, un final demoledor.»
Stephen King
«El señor Lehane en su versión más sublime.»
The New York Times
«La novela más elegíaca y trágica de Dennis Lehane hasta la fecha.»
Le Monde des livres
«Una obra llamada a convertirse en un clásico de la épica de los gánsteres.»
Tampa Bay Times
«Ese mundo desaparecido está lleno de grandes historias. Cada personaje que fluye por esta saga de mafiosos en la Tampa de los años cuarenta cuenta con una particular y asombrosa historia que compartir. Y esos relatos no están ahí con el mero objetivo de entretener al lector, pues son reveladores del carácter de los protagonistas y presagian su futuro, al tiempo que ayudan a crear un mundo vívido y bellamente representado.»
The Guardian
«Lehane escribe de un modo convincente, tenso y poderoso.»
USA Today
Maxi Dillion finds himself back home, living with his eighty-year-old mother after living away in New York City for twenty-five years. He thinks nobody knows the real purpose of his coming home. He's wrong. Rumors with dorsal fins, circulate about the small town. Some say he's home to rob banks, others say, he's home to sell drugs. Cillian Mulcahy knows the real reason he's home… he owes money to the mob.
While Maxi's out running errands for his mother, he bumps into Ella, a childhood acquaintance… all grown up and strikingly beautiful. Ella always had a crush on Maxi and the sparks between them begin to fly but neither wants to let on.
While over to Ella's house on a visit, Maxi discovers, what he considers to be a treasure map. He, Ella, and two of her two girlfriends embark on a hilarious adventure to find the hidden treasure. Their search takes them from a scrapyard to a gay bar on an exclusive Island with many upsets in between. They hire actors from a drama class as decoys. They employ sex as a distraction. Everybody tells lies… because nobody wants to know the truth. Should they find the treasure, will it be all they hoped it would be?
Repeat New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore returns to the mean streets of San Francisco in this outrageous follow-up to his madcap novel Noir.
San Francisco, 1947. Bartender Sammy “Two Toes” Tiffin and the rest of the Cookie’s Coffee Irregulars—a ragtag bunch of working mugs last seen in Noir—are on the hustle: they’re trying to open a driving school; shanghai an abusive Swedish stevedore; get Mable, the local madam, and her girls to a Christmas party at the State Hospital without alerting the overzealous head of the S.F.P.D. vice squad; all while Sammy’s girlfriend, Stilton (a.k.a. the Cheese), and her “Wendy the Welder” gal pals are using their wartime shipbuilding skills on a secret project that might be attracting the attention of some government Men in Black. And, oh yeah, someone is murdering the city’s drag kings and club owner Jimmy Vasco is sure she’s next on the list and wants Sammy to find the killer.
Meanwhile, Eddie “Moo Shoes” Shu has been summoned by his Uncle Ho to help save his opium den from Squid Kid Tang, a vicious gangster who is determined to retrieve a priceless relic: an ancient statue of the powerful Rain Dragon that Ho stole from one of the fighting tongs forty years earlier. And if Eddie blows it, he just might call down the wrath of that powerful magical creature on all of Fog City.
Strap yourselves in for a bit of the old razzmatazz, ladies and gentlemen. It’s Christopher Moore time.
High school can be hell. Literally.
A demonic detective novel best devoured in a single sitting--from acclaimed TV writer Stephen Lloyd.
Welcome to Danforth Putnam, boarding school for the elite, sprawled across its own private island off the coast of New England. Sam, a war vet who feels sure he's seen it all, has been called here to find a stolen rare book. But as he corners D&D nerds, grills steroid-raging linemen, and interviews filthy-rich actresses, he soon senses that something far stranger-"witchy", in fact-is afoot. When students start to meet mysterious and gruesome deaths, Sam realizes just how fast the clock is ticking.
After joining forces with plucky, epilepsy-defying school reporter Harriet, Sam ventures into increasingly dark territory, unravelling a supernatural mystery that will upend everything he thinks he knows about this school-and then shatter his own reality.
Toss Dracula into a blender, throw in a shot of hard-boiled detective fiction, splash in a couple drops of Stranger Things, and pour yourself a nice tall glass of Friend of the Devil.
Handsome teacher Ashley Dean is brutally murdered at Hope Academy. It's known as a rough place, but gossip blames the violence on a deranged intruder. DI Markham's instincts say otherwise. Could this brutality have been the work of a student? Could there even be a connection with the staff? It seems unthinkable. After all, DI Gilbert Markham's girlfriend Olivia teaches English at the school. Markham's team probes deeper, and the local community begins to turn against Markham. Somebody in a position of power is hiding appalling information. More blood will be spilt before their secrets are laid bare. Please note this book was first published as Blood Will Have Blood.
Six months ago, Kate's twelve-year-old daughter Melanie disappeared. It's been six long months since Kate identified her battered, lifeless body. Kate is only just beginning to come to terms with her daughter's murder when a sinister message appears on her computer screen: WHY DID YOU LET HIM HURT ME, MUMMY? More horrifying messages follow. Only one person could be doing this to Kate-Melanie's murderer. Chief Inspector Harmon focuses his enquiries on Kate's abusive ex-husband David and her colleague, computer whizz-kid Adam Shepherd. Kate has already lost the one thing that gave her life meaning. So now she decides to fight, but can she unmask the killer before he wrecks what's left of her life? This book was originally published as Goodnight, My Angel.
El hipnotista es la primera entrega de la célebre serie de novelas policíacas protagonizada por el inspector Joona Linna.
Una familia ha sido brutalmente asesinada en el gélido Estocolmo. No hay rastro del culpable. Solamente un niño, el hijo, único superviviente de la masacre, puede dar testimonio de quién ha cometido tal atrocidad. Pero el sufrimiento que lleva consigo el chico es como el de cien puñales clavados en el pecho, y el detective Joona Linna no logra liberarlo del estado de shock en el que está sumido.
Desesperado por hallar información, una pista, algún hilo del que tirar, Linna optará por una medida drástica que, no obstante, podría dar la clave para resolver el caso: el hipnotismo. El detective contactará entonces con el doctor Erik Maria Bark, quien había jurado no volver a llevar a cabo prácticas similares. Cuando rompa su promesa, sin embargo, nada podrá detener el devenir de los acontecimientos.
Crítica:
«Una novela cuyo frío te cala hasta los huesos.»
Bookreporter
Augment phase technology was rare. The last appearance of anything resembling phase technology was fifteen years ago. I knew the date…
It was the date of the Doctor Dimension repo.
In a world full of “Augments”—humans who use technology to imbue themselves with superpowers of every sort—being an average man would seem a good way to keep out of trouble. Not so for repo man Gayle Hardwood. It’s his job to seize enhancements from Augments who fall behind on the payments for their high-tech advantages. And they rarely part with them easily.
Now an infamous job Gayle was a part of long ago has come back to haunt him. An incredibly powerful piece of tech that was supposed to have been turned over to the government is being used again. People are dying, and those in power are convinced Gayle knows something about it.
Unfortunately, they’re right.
And unless Gayle can uncover the sinister secrets of the past and find whoever has hijacked the lost tech and stop them, no superpower in the world is going to be enough to save him…
Complex, fascinating, and fun ... Kill All the Judges is a classic crime work, from an author heralded as one of Canada's best, and with good reason." - Shelf Life
Finalist for the Stephen Leacock Humour Prize
Is someone systematically killing the judges called to the British Columbian bar? At least one has been murdered and several have disappeared. Arthur Beauchamp returns from retirement once again to take on the case, this time defending his former nemesis, backwoods poet Cudworth Brown. He finds himself chasing all kinds of leads, including tracking down a mystery novel that Brown's unreliable former lawyer has been writing, just as Beauchamp's own wife, Margaret, has announced her candidacy for the Green Party.
Complex, madcap, and peopled with some of the most delightfully eccentric characters to be found between two covers, Kill All the Judges proves William Deverell's mastery of the hilariously comedic crime novel.
Clássico da literatura norte-americana, adaptado para o cinema por Guillermo del Toro: um verdadeiro ensaio sobre a natureza do mal.
O jovem Stan Carlisle, carroceiro de um circo de variedades, assiste, em um misto de repulsa e curiosidade, a uma das principais atrações do lugar: um alcoólatra, decadente e entregue à própria imundice, é apresentado como um selvagem, sendo objeto de espanto, nojo e escárnio da multidão voyeurística. Stan se pergunta como um homem pode se humilhar e perder a dignidade daquela forma. Ele jura que nunca, de forma alguma, essa desgraça poderia acontecer com ele.
Stan é inteligente e ambicioso – e não sem um traço útil de crueldade –, e em breve sobe na hierarquia do circo. No palco, vira assistente no espetáculo de leitura de mentes e adivinhação, e em pouco tempo se "gradua" como um espiritualista.
Aproveitando-se de suas novas habilidades, sai do circo e passa a atender ricos e crédulos em suas belas casas. O mundo parece estar à disposição de Stan. Mas seu caminho cruzará com o de uma perigosa psiquiatra, e nem tudo sairá como planejado: as ambições do jovem Stan cobrarão seu preço.
