Resultados para "Las Posadas" en Misterio

Carmen Posadas se embarca con Doña Emilia Pardo Bazán en una aventura detectivesca. En abril de 1912, la adinerada viuda de Peñasco tuvo un mal presentimiento mientras almorzaba en su palacete de Madrid. Algo les había pasado a su único hijo y su nuera, a quienes en ese momento creía en París, disfrutando de su luna de miel. La dama no se equivocaba: a pesar de las advertencias que les había hecho, los recién casados se habían embarcado en el que se creía el barco más seguro del mundo y sin duda era el más lujoso: El Titanic.

Una ventosa mañana de octubre en un tranquilo suburbio de Copenhague, la policía realiza un terrible descubrimiento. Una joven ha sido asesinada y abandonada en un parque infantil. Le han amputado una mano y sobre el cadáver cuelga una pequeña figura hecha con castañas. La joven inspectora Naia Thulin es la encargada del caso. Su compañero, Mark Hess, es un inspector descontento que recientemente ha sido expulsado de la sede central de Europol, en la Haya.

Corre el año 1834 y Madrid, una pequeña ciudad que trata de abrirse paso más allá de las murallas que la rodean, sufre una terrible epidemia de cólera. Pero la peste no es lo único que aterroriza a sus habitantes: en los arrabales aparecen cadáveres desmembrados de niñas que nadie reclama. Todos los rumores apuntan a la Bestia, un ser a quien nadie ha visto pero al que todos temen.

El señor Molinet, todo un dandi acostumbrado a la mejor sociedad, ha devenido inexorablemente en un hombre mayor, arruinado e incómodo en un mundo que ya no reconoce. Desencantado de la vida, decide poner fin a sus días a lo grande y suicidarse en un lugar de reposo, exclusivo y lujoso, en Marruecos. Lo que no calcula es que allí se encontrará con varios personajes de la alta sociedad madrileña que huyen de las miradas indiscretas para vivir en secreto sus infidelidades.

En su lujosa finca cerca de París, Tom Ripley lleva una existencia apacible, cuidando el jardín, pintando, estudiando francés y escuchando música. Un día le telefonean de Londres sus socios de la Buckmaster Gallery, marchantes de Derwatt, un misterioso pintor que se oculta en un ignorado rincón de México mientras el precio de sus cuadros sube vertiginosamente. Sin embargo, un coleccionista americano sospecha que le han vendido un cuadro de Derwatt falsificado, por lo que urge la aparición del pintor para disipar sospechas... pero por desgracia Derwatt ha muerto.

REGRESA EL MAYOR MAGO LITERARIO CON UN NUEVO Y ESPECTACULAR MUNDO LLENO DE ILUSIÓN Y MISTERIO. Del autor del reconocido exito internacional Trilogía victoriana, con más de 600.000 lectores. Si un corazón desea creer en algo, la razón no se lo podrá impedir. Londres, 1922. Alan y Violet Schofield son los mayores especialistas en fotografía mágica de Inglaterra; una pareja de pícaros que se aprovecha de la fiebre por retratar seres feéricos que se extendió por la crédula sociedad londinense tras la Gran Guerra después de que dos niñas de Cottingley lograran convencer al mismísimo Conan Doyle de que habían fotografiado unas hadas.

¿Podrá un hombre ciego y asediado por sus demonios hacer frente a un asesino imparable? Adriano es un hombre acabado, nada queda de aquel aguerrido sargento que sufrió un atentado en Intxaurrondo que le dejó ciego. La explosión le reventó las cuencas oculares y la vida entera: ahora es un monstruo desfigurado, invidente, que vive en Cádiz dependiente de su mujer, Patricia, que apenas soporta la rutina y que, a pesar del profundo amor que siente por su marido, no puede dejar de estar angustiada, además, por el dolor incesante de no haber tenido hijos.

It’s Oscar night in Hollywood, and media darling Meredith Johansen has taken home a gold statue, while across town rookie Detective Patricia Norelli works late with hopes of breaking through her own glass ceiling in the LAPD. Their paths collide when Johansen is found dead in her Bel Air home, only hours after The Oscars ended. With a note but few clues, authorities rule it a suicide. But Norelli’s instinct says murder; a hunch worth laying her career on the line to prove otherwise.

Ashley Branson has a lot to prove with her new cat yoga studio, A Purrfect Pose. It's a place for humans to find inner wellness—and adopt adorable cats from the local shelter. It's also a chance for Ash to run her own life, out from under her overbearing mother and a stifling relationship. So far, so successful. Until she discovers one of her new clients, a much-disliked college professor, dead in her studio, locked in child's pose . . .

It’s Oscar night in Hollywood, and after years of climbing the entertainment ladder, media darling Meredith Johansen has finally taken home a gold statue. Across town, rookie Detective Patricia Norelli is working late with hopes of breaking through her own glass ceiling with a promotion in the LAPD. Their paths unexpectedly collide when Johansen is discovered dead in her Bel Air home, only hours after Oscar night festivities ended. With one note but few clues, authorities rule it a suicide; however, Norelli’s instinct says murder.

When a county employee is found shot to death in sun-drenched daylight while sitting in his county road grader, Undersheriff Bill Gastner is faced with puzzling questions. The simplest explanation - that an errant bullet from a careless target shooter’s rifle blew out Larry Zipoli’s brains - is soon discarded as inconsistencies surface. The fatal bullet shows no rifling marks, and investigation shows that the shooter walked directly toward the road grader, in full view of the victim - who did nothing to defend himself.

His life at a crossroads, Ric Peters is torn between his perilous job and dreams of a future with Elaina. But their trip to New Zealand throws them into chaos as they are swept up in a whirlwind of danger and dark family secrets. As Ric grapples with accusations of murder back in Indonesia, the discovery of a mysterious skull at a toxic waste site near his family’s home deepens the mystery.

"Escape to Tasmania" they said. But what was supposed to be a dream for Ric Peters and Elaina Williams has turned into a nightmare. The Devil's Island is living up to its name, serving up the ghosts of its dark past, while Ric is haunted by his own demons. The truth is unraveling, and death is closing in from all sides. And now, it's stalking Elaina.

Ric Peters has just returned from a disastrous trip to Indonesia. Ric bills himself as a photojournalist. Elaina suspects he shoots more than just photographs. Ric has insight into the journey he and Elaina must take. He knows Elaina isn’t ready for what’s going to happen. There are too many moving parts for him to control.

Seattle yoga instructor Kate Davidson often acts more like a champion fighting rooster than the Dalai Lama. When she's not teaching yoga, she spends her time hiding from her creepy landlord and dodging her best friend's relentless matchmaking attempts. Even though her father was a cop, Kate has zero crime fighting aspirations. She has enough trouble keeping her struggling yoga business afloat while trying to live up to yoga's Zen-like expectations.

A spirited yoga teacher teams up with a dark horse partner (determined to right wrongs); and together they seek closure on the sudden and mysterious death of a friend.

Good cops have no use for coincidence. When a driver slams his pickup truck—twice—into a tandem bike being ridden by Carlos Guzman and his fiancée, Tasha, in Briones, California, it's more than a simple hit-and-run; the driver clearly intended to harm them. Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman gets the call with the news of her son's accident and wastes no time racing to his side. She is greeted by Police Captain Eddie Mitchell, formerly of Posadas County, who allows Estelle to "consult" on the investigation—but only to a point.

Posadas County, sitting along New Mexico's southern border, has enjoyed a surge in visitors, jobs, and prosperity since rancher Miles Waddell used much of his inherited half billion to create an internationally renowned astronomy complex atop Torrance Mesa. Passion, not profit, drives Waddell. Yet benefits include a narrow-gauge train linking the village of Posadas to NightZone. But a ripple of unease is felt across the county with the arrival of developer - no, speculator - Kyle Thompson.

Gifted 15-year-old Francisco Guzman has become an internationally renowned concert pianist, touring the world under the auspices of his music conservatory. That gives his mother, Posadas County Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman, plenty of reason to worry - and that's magnified when she learns that he's in Mexico's crime-ridden Mazatlan for a concert series where he may be the target for scam artists and kidnappers.

To most people, hat pins are vestiges of the past, used now only by elderly ladies who don't leave home without a hat. But recently, the notion store in Posadas County has been doing a good business selling hat pins to teenage girls. Following a "cat fight" over a boy, one of the girls, Carmen Acosta, had been suspended from school. But Carmen's friends are still around. So Deena, Carmen's rival, wants something with which to defend herself.