Títulos en Policíaca, negra y suspense

"El viejo notario" es un torrente de aventuras impensables, pero también un caudal de emociones, sorpresas, sensaciones y sentimientos que rodean a los despachos de decisión, a los bajos fondos y a las alcantarillas de nuestra sociedad.

Ciudad de Dios es, a su vez, producto de un estudio de la antropóloga Alba Zaluar sobre la favela Ciudad de Dios, de donde el autor de esta obra fue su habitante. Asimismo, Lins fue integrante del equipo de investigación de Zaluar. De ahí que estas páginas sean una fiel mirada sociológica sobre el fenómeno que aquejó a la sociedad carioca en la década de los noventa, cuando explotó una caótica guerra por la droga.

A Dylan Swift solo le queda un día de vida, 24 horas para cerrar todos los capítulos de su existencia y tratar de encontrar a los responsables de la terrible situación en la que se encuentra. Un frenético y adictivo viaje en primera persona que llevará al oyente hasta los auténticos cimientos que sustentan la sociedad en la que vivimos. 

She is omnivorous. No matter age or appearance, physical frailty or imperfection. It is not their flesh that feeds her appetites, but their souls. She devours young and old, men and women. She leaves only a desiccated husk. An unspeakable evil. An impossible gift. Renowned magus Taita is now over 100 years old and has ascended to a new level of wisdom and understanding about his world. But he must prepare himself for the biggest threat Egypt has ever faced: the great plagues and the failure of the Nile, brought about by the fire witch Eos, an ancient force of sheer evil.

El Dr. James Mortimer pide ayuda a Sherlock Holmes después de la muerte de su amigo, Sir Charles Baskerville, hallado muerto en su propiedad de Devonshire. A pesar de que la muerte de Charles fue diagnosticada por un ataque al corazón, Mortimer no termina de creérselo, ya que en el rostro del difunto se percibía una expresión de pánico.

Questo breve romanzo, pubblicato nel 1903, e considerato uno dei più famosi di Jack London, è stato per molto tempo catalogo come letteratura per ragazzi. Ma l'ambientazione nello Yukon, durante la caccia all'oro, la vita brutale e di violenza scatenata dalla cupidigia che caratterizzò quel periodo può servire solo come monito ed esempio negativo.

Adán Roussos recibe una llamada urgente de un amigo, el arqueólogo Aquiles Vangelis, quien le pide viajar a su natal Grecia para mostrarle descubrimientos revolucionarios que desafiarán mitos que la Iglesia ha mantenido durante siglos. Al llegar a Atenas, Alexia Vangelis, la hija de su amigo, le informa de que el arqueólogo ha sido secuestrado por grupos de poder a los que no les conviene que salga a la luz su hallazgo. Con las pocas pistas de que disponen, Adán y Alexia tendrán que desvelar cuáles son dichos descubrimientos y quién está detrás del secuestro.

'Somebody's going to be murdered at the ball tonight. It won't appear to be a murder, and so the murderer won't be caught. Rectify that injustice and I'll show you the way out.' It is meant to be a celebration, but it ends in tragedy. As fireworks explode overhead, Evelyn Hardcastle, the young and beautiful daughter of the house, is killed. But Evelyn will not die just once. Until Aiden - one of the guests summoned to Blackheath for the party - can solve her murder, the day will repeat itself over and over again.

The trail from a major theft at the Banco Central de Chile in Talcahuano following the Great Chilean Earthquake of May 22, 1960 leads to Base Bernardo OHiggins, a wind- and snow-swept Chilean Army outpost on the North Antarctic Peninsula. When Chilean Army 1SGT Leonardo Rodrguez fails to return from a seal hunt in the waters around the base, two Chilean Navy non-commissioned officers, CWO Raul Lucero and CPO Eduardo Bellolio, become LCDR Cristian Barbudos' prime theft and murder suspects. 

In the aftermath of a NASA rocket launch gone terribly wrong, Captain Calli Chase comes face-to-face with her missing twin sister - as well as the startling truth of who they really are. Now, a top secret program put in motion years ago has spun out of control, and only Calli can redirect its course. Aided by cutting-edge technologies, the NASA investigator and scientist turned Space Force pilot sets out on a frantic search for the missing link between the sabotaged rocket launch and her predetermined destiny…a search that someone else seems very interested in stopping.

Estados Unidos tiene enemigos, algunos de ellos personas sin escrúpulos a quienes no pueden detener ni la policía ni el FBI ni el ejército siquiera. En esos casos, el gobierno recurre a Will Robie, un sicario frío e implacable que nunca hace preguntas y siempre atrapa a su presa. Pero quizá Will Robie acaba de cometer el primer—y último—error de su carrera.

A orillas de la represa del Sisga se ha producido un hecho atroz: el empalamiento de un hombre de unos cincuenta y cinco años de edad.

Una giovane donna, Serena Ceccarelli, viene trovata morta sul letto nel suo appartamento alla Garbatella, dove viveva sola. Sul comodino una bottiglia di whisky e un flaconcino vuoto di un ansiolitico. Era divorziata, impiegata in un'agenzia di polizia privata, ma in passato era stata un'ispettrice della polizia, lavoro che aveva volontariamente abbandonato sei anni prima Ha tutta l'aria di un suicidio, l'autopsia conferma che il decesso è dovuto al micidiale cocktail formato da alcol e ansiolitico, anche se nessuno fra amici e vicini di casa sa spiegare il motivo di quel gesto estremo.

While on the trail of a stolen tactical nuclear weapon, Jack Sigler, call sign King, and his black ops Chess Team answer a cry for help. The Democratic Republic of the Congo is on the verge of exploding into another bloody civil war that will engulf all of Africa and put millions at risk, a crisis too politically volatile for any outside nation to touch. As the team, unfettered by political constraints, deploys across the globe, the threats spin out of control.

One troop of beyond-Tier-1 operators gone completely off the reservation. One platoon of stalwart Army Rangers, pledged to protect them, but now pushed too far. A thousand tribes of enemy fighters who just want them all gone.

Here, the ancient Arab traditions are restored through a legendary man-hunter chasing through the wilderness of the desert and the land of emptiness, thirst, fear, death, wandering, and burning sands, government opponents that he manages to kill, one after the other, by killing one of his guests in the tents of his tents and capturing the other.

How did an Egyptian city planner, a Yemeni religious fanatic, a boy from the United Arab Emirates who worshipped sex (not Allah), and a young student of aircraft design who went to a Christian school in Lebanon - four very different men with very different ideas - get involved in flying the 9/11 planes? How did the plot develop, and who developed it? Marwan, by Aram Schefrin, puts the reported facts together and fictionally fills in the details.

When a former teammate of Chunk’s is killed in a shocking ambush, rumors begin to fly that the Lion of Ramadi, the infamous Iraq War sniper who racked up dozens of American kills, has returned with a mission to target American SEALs. Chunk and his core team—Saw, a skilled and lethal sniper; Riker, who has an uncanny ability to escape death; and Whitney Watts, a former CIA analyst who sees patterns everyone else seems to miss—are mobilized to prosecute the threat.

Dal maestro della narrativa d'avventura, un romanzo appassionante sul destino e la brutalità della natura umana. Un'eredità rubata. Un amore proibito. Una sete di vendetta così bruciante che potrebbe distruggere ogni cosa. Figlio di un influente proprietario terriero della Virginia, Mungo St John ha sempre dato per scontati la ricchezza e il lusso in cui è vissuto grazie ai privilegi di cui godeva la sua famiglia. Finché non riceve la notizia che il padre è morto.

Este thriller tecnológico de Ángel Vallecillo haría las delicias de Alex Garland y William Gibson. Una científica superdotada aparece muerta; le han extraído el cerebro. La teniente encargada de investigar el caso se las verá tanto con la multinacional donde trabajaba la científica como con el algoritmo de increíbles poderes que estaba investigando, llamado El Resplandor.