Resultados para "The Contemporary Novel" en Negra y suspense

Sleep deprived and overwhelmed, first-time mom Jenn is struggling to adapt to her new role. Frustrated with her loving but preoccupied husband and still grieving the death of her own mother, she feels isolated and depressed. It’s only when she joins a new-moms’ group that she starts to think she’s finally getting back on track. Until Isabel, the group’s leader, suddenly disappears.

Though beautiful, cunning, and privileged, nineteen-year-old Mickey finds herself with a stalled modeling career, an escalating drinking problem, few friends, and next to nothing in the bank. To numb her growing despair, she spends her days frantically refreshing her Instagram feed, obsessively tracking the movements of Insta-famous model Gemma Anton. Mickey sees Gemma as a perfected version of herself. Gemma is living a seemingly perfect life: a skyrocketing career, a famous boyfriend, and adoring followers. It’s the life Mickey wants more than anything.

Elles també maten no és un exercici de literatura criminal femenina, que ja existeix i rutlla molt bé. Simplement és un recull de relats que demostra que les autores catalanes escriuen allò que els surt de l’ànima, però que si cal matar, maten. Tretze escriptores han compost un relat ben negre. Fora manies i supersticions. El tretze és un bon número i entre totes han construït una antologia que enlluerna per la diversitat de les veus que la integren.

Agents of Innocence is the book that established David Ignatius's reputation as a master of the novel of contemporary espionage. Into the treacherous world of shifting alliances and arcane subterfuge comes idealistic CIA man Tom Rogers. Posted in Beirut to penetrate the PLO and recruit a high-level operative, he soon learns the heavy price of innocence in a time and place that has no use for it.

Pretty things aren’t meant to be broken. But I broke her, and now we both have to pay the price. I’m her nightmare. I’m her savior. And now that I have her signature on an ironclad contract, I own her body and soul.

After an abusive relationship, social worker Sharee Jones is determined to leave men alone. She'll concentrate instead on the upcoming Christmas program she's written and designed. But she'll need the church's multi-skilled-maintenance-technician's help to do it. John Jergenson doesn't want anything to do with Sharee's program. After a tragedy in his own life, he's angry with God and life in particular. But Sharee's enthusiasm, her warmth, her persistent getting-in-his-face attitude might have him changing his mind. Then a baby is kidnapped, and Sharee decides to play detective.

The man Christina Torres has fallen in love with kisses her and then disappears for years. Now, he's back but with two detectives as shadows, and someone's trying to kill her. Should she trust him or run for her life? Dr. Chase Richards has fled his Christian roots long enough. He's returning to his home town in Tennessee to make amends - at what he thinks is God's direction. But the way is not just hard, it's almost impossible. The girl he once loved is now a woman - and she wants nothing to do with him.

Jerry has a traumatic past that leaves him subject to psychotic hallucinations and depressive episodes. When he stands accused of stealing a priceless Van Gogh painting, he goes underground, where he develops an unwilling relationship with a woman who believes that the voices she hears are from God.

As Christmas day nears, Bree Matthews and her faithful search-and-rescue dog Samson follow the trail of a troubling mystery into the snowy forests of Rock Harbor.Newlywed Bree Matthews and her husband Kade are preparing for Christmas guests when word arrives that a parachuter has disappeared in the North Woods, along Lake Superior's icy shore. Bree and Samson plunge into the search.Will this snowy, silent night search lead Bree and Samson to the missing girl?

Long ago, Andrew made a childhood wish and kept it in a silver box. When it finally comes true, he wishes he hadn’t.... Long ago, Ben made a promise, and he had a dream: to travel to Africa to volunteer at a lion reserve. When he finally makes it, it isn’t for the reasons he imagined.... Ben and Andrew keep meeting in unexpected places, and the intense relationship that develops seems to be guided by fate. Or is it? What if the very thing that draws them together is tainted by past secrets that threaten everything?

Alësa ha quarantacinque anni e un buco nero al posto del cuore. Ha ucciso molti uomini, forse tanti quanti sono i libri che ha letto. Ma adesso l'imprevisto ha fatto irruzione nella sua vita su una bicicletta rossa, nei panni della donna piú sbagliata di cui ci si possa innamorare. Nicolai Lilin non rinuncia alla sua cifra - la scrittura ruvida e potente, e uno sguardo spietato sulle umane contraddizioni -, ma fa un altro passo e si cimenta con i generi, mescolandoli con intelligenza.

Amb el drama dels desnonaments i la indefensió del poble davant la posició dominant dels bancs, l’Andreu Torrent torna a Barcelona després de viure vint anys a Suècia. Abandonat per la dona, acomiadat de la feina i sense sentir-se part d’enlloc, el pis heretat per la mort de la mare el fa enfrontar-se amb la crua realitat del poder dels bancs._La mort del director de l’oficina i un particular descens als inferns en un recorregut pels baixos fons de la ciutat, posarà l’Andreu en una dubtosa posició davant la investigació de l’assassinat.

La Ciutat Digital havia nascut per ser un diari alternatiu, lliure i de qualitat per tal de combatre el periodisme contaminat i caduc que imperava a la ciutat de València i uns dirigents polítics corruptes fins al moll de l'os. Fins que un dels seus periodistes més importants, Manel Torres Albiach, apareix assassinat de manera salvatge sense deixar gaires rastres ni proves.

Dopo una delusione d'amore il giovane protagonista, per evitare di soffrire ancora, decide di annientare la propria sensibilità e diventa un sicario. Freddo e spietato, solo il sangue delle sue vittime sembra procurargli piacere, fino al giorno in cui gli viene ordinato di uccidere un ministro con tutta la sua famiglia. Il diario segreto della figlia adolescente del ministro risveglia in lui una morbosa curiosità, che si trasforma ben presto in ossessione sconvolgendo in modo imprevedibile il suo destino...

When Frank Peter’s wife, Maureen, dies, he feels that his once-idyllic life on the Yorkshire Moors is over. And with a daughter emigrating to Australia and a son who has his own marital problems, Frank feels resigned to a life of loneliness. Then one night he finds a frightened young woman hiding at the back of his farmhouse. She explains that her name is Irena, and she was brought to this country by a man who promised her the world and then forced her into prostitution.