Resultados Editorial "audible studios" en Novela negra

From his plush hideaway in Bangkok, underworld don Shakti Pillai is wreaking havoc amongst India’s wealthy. He wields modern technology to extract information and extort money from billionaires while continuing to take on contract killings for anyone who can afford his price. Fed up with the police force’s inability to stop the don, some of India’s biggest business magnates pool in their crores and hire a mercenary to get rid of him. They recruit the best in the game, an assassin known only as Venus.

A fleet of boats dock at the port of Sanjan in Gujarat in 720 CE. They carry 18,000 frightened souls fleeing the cruelty of Iran’s Umayyad Caliphate. Chanting Sanskrit-like prayers, the high priest consecrates a sacred fire to thank their god, Ahura Mazda, for leading them to a new home and hope. He uses a mysterious substance to spark the flame, but few know of its miraculous properties or provenance. Centuries later, Parsi scientist Jim Dastoor is abducted from his Seattle laboratory and whisked away to Tehran.

The trajectories of Arvind and Arbaaz, both businessmen of a kind whose lives are unwillingly intertwined, ricochet off one another while they play out their sinister and murderous plots of personal and professional one-upmanship, all the while breaking every rule in the book. Both are unaware that what they seek and fight over is the very obstacle in realising an ancient secret that dates back to a time long forgotten. And yet, at the heart of it all, there lies tenderness...and pathos...and blood...and rare moments of an almost exalted happiness.

A cardboard box is found on a shelf of a London library. When the mystified librarian opens it, she screams before she falls unconscious to the floor. Within the labyrinthine recesses of the Vatican, a beautiful assassin swears she will eliminate all who do not believe in her twisted credo. An elite army of 13 calling itself the Lashkare Talatashar has scattered around the globe. The fate of its members curiously resembles that of Christ and his Apostles.

Popular singer Debolina Mukherjee is found dead in her bungalow, due to an overdose of sedatives. In the same room is a stranger’s body, shot in the head. As ACP Agni Mitra starts investigating, he meets the key players—an ageing hitman, a crafty real estate tycoon, a ruthless high-society woman and a reclusive police official who was thrown out of the force. Who was the dead man in Debolina’s room? Did the two victims fall prey to ghosts from their past lives?

Emma and Ariella, neighbours in one of Sydney’s most exclusive suburbs, appear to have it all—perfect homes, perfect husbands, perfect lives. But they both know dark secrets lurk beneath the surface and shallow waters can’t hide Ariella’s. Now she has been found murdered. Her daughter filmed the killing. Not knowing what she’s filmed, Emma’s daughter Kiki innocently uploads footage of Ariella’s brutal death. Emma fears the worst—the killer will know what she and Kiki have seen. Their safe suburban lives no longer exist.

The peaceful little village of Saltern-le-Fen is buzzing with excitement. A film crew are in town, shooting a new TV police drama, Fen Division Five. But Detective Jackman receives a disturbing tip-off that something is wrong. Detective Marie Evans meanwhile is looking forward to moving into her dream home. But there’s no time to celebrate. The naked body of a young man is found at the river’s edge. He’s been strangled, his skin massaged in expensive oil. Two days later, another handsome young man is discovered in a shallow lake.

After three months off, a gruesome murder throws Detective Rachel King back into the thick of it. But can she cope? The body of an elderly woman is carefully posed on the altar. The victim is identified as Mary Dunn, whose turn it was to arrange the church flowers. Everyone loved Mary. Who would want to kill her? Then forensic evidence produces a shocking result: a link to the Slasher, a serial killer who stalked the streets of Manchester fifteen years before. But the Slasher was murdered in prison. Does Detective Rachel King have a serial killer on her patch? One who’s back from the dead.

Detective Chief Inspector Beth Fellows is thrown into the biggest case of her career: the brutal murder of Rose Danes. She quickly realizes Rose’s murder is linked to a cold case she investigated two years previously. The victim, 14-year-old Celine Wilson, survived but now languishes in a coma. Both girls were branded with the image of a raven. The only lead is a vague description and a first name, Simon.

A sweltering summer day on the Hobfield housing estate. New tenant Lisa Woodley is horrified when her cat comes home with a human foot in its mouth. The foot belongs to 16-year-old Noah Crosby, whose decomposing remains are found in a rubbish-strewn alleyway. It’s not a robbery, as the teen has an expensive gold watch, high-end trainers and a top-of-the-range mobile phone on him. Where did he get such expensive gear? A letter X is carved into Noah’s flesh. Twenty years ago this was the hallmark of a serial killer who was never caught.

Twenty-five years ago, a schoolgirl was attacked. Ambushed by three bullies at her home where she lived alone with her granny. Now, the mother of one of those bullies is found murdered on the Hobfield housing estate. Written on the wall in the victim’s blood is the word “sorry”. Detective Tom Calladine and his partner DS Ruth Bayliss discover a link to some bones found at an old house up in the hills. It was the home of the teenage girl who was attacked. The detectives have more than this puzzling case on their hands.

A two-month-old baby is missing. James’s parents left him with a babysitter while they went out for dinner. But when they get home, there’s no sign of baby or sitter. This is the last thing DCI Rachel King wants to hear on her last night of maternity leave. But worse is to come. The missing infant belongs to Scott Agnew, alleged member of Manchester drug-dealing ring, the Trio. Then the elderly mother of another Trio boss disappears. Rachel knows that if these are retaliation kidnappings, things will only go from bad to terrible. And guess who everyone thinks is behind all of this?

La primera vez que David McFarlan oyó hablar de Finisterre, Cynthia le explicó que cuando la tierra era plana, el mundo se acababa allí. Las almas iban al mar en busca de la vida eterna a bordo de barcos que se despeñaban en el abismo de la nada. Cynthia... La mujer que había iluminado la mejor época de su vida murió por su culpa. Él la mató. Su brillo se perdió entre las sombras.

John Rebus sabe que si su hija Samantha le llama por teléfono de madrugada no es para darle buenas noticias. Angustiada, le confiesa que su pareja, Keith, desapareció hace dos días y no se sabe nada de él. Aunque Rebus no haya sido el mejor padre, Samantha es lo primero, así que pone rumbo al pueblecito costero del norte de Escocia donde ella reside y donde se ocultan más secretos de lo que parece. Es posible que, por una vez, sea mejor no descubrir toda la verdad.

Tras un crimen terrorífico perpetrado mediante un rito prehistórico en una hacienda del Aljarafe sevillano, una extraña rueda litúrgica comienza a girar fatalmente. Artafi Mendoza, arqueóloga, pronto comprende que la policía, con las técnicas del XXI, nunca podrá adentrarse en la mente mágica de la prehistoria, por lo que tendrá que desvelar, por ella misma, el misterioso secreto que se oculta bajo los crímenes megalíticos.

La familia de un joven juez se encuentra amenazada. ¿Por qué los Young tienen que elegir entre la vida o la muerte? Tucson, Arizona, 2015, Día de Acción de Gracias. Rex y Sarah Young reúnen a toda su familia en su nueva casa. Los Young acaban de mudarse a la ciudad para que Rex se incorpore como juez. El día del desfile de Acción de Gracias Salma, la hija de catorce años de la pareja desaparece durante veinticuatro horas. Tras una búsqueda angustiosa por toda la zona, encuentran a la chica que tiene una nota para su padre.

Siobhan Clarke ha estado investigando la muerte de un importante abogado cuyo cuerpo fue hallado junto a una nota amenazante. En el otro extremo de Edimburgo, Big Ger Cafferty -la vieja némesis de Rebus- ha recibido una nota idéntica y una bala a través de la ventana. Entre tanto, el inspector Malcolm Fox aúna fuerzas con un equipo de agentes de Glasgow que está persiguiendo a una conocida familia de gánsteres. Si su presencia en Edimburgo tiene que ver con el asesinato y las notas, quizás esté a punto de empezar una guerra por el control de la ciudad.

Tres personas y tres destinos entrelazados con maestría en este maravilloso thriller acerca del tráfico sexual en Suecia, España y Europa. Con esta novela, Sara Larsson se confirma como una de las grandes voces del género en Escandinavia, a la altura de autoras como Camilla Läckberg o Anne Holt.

El hallazgo del cuerpo sin vida de una joven en el interior de la catedral de Santiago de Compostela cae como un aldabonazo en la ciudad. Al mismo tiempo desaparece de la Biblioteca de la Universidad un manuscrito de Prisciliano, el gran hereje gallego.

Todo el mundo oculta algo de sí mismo. Simon se considera un hombre feliz hasta que su hija mayor, Paige, se convirtió en drogadicta y se alejó de su familia. Hasta ahora, todos los intentos por recuperarla han sido infructuosos. Sin embargo, su padre persiste en su búsqueda y averigua que algunos días ella toca la guitarra en Central Park. Al reencontrarse ambos allí, Paige sale corriendo y en el camino de Simon se interpone repentinamente Aaron, el joven responsable de arrastrar a la chica a su descenso a los infiernos.