Resultados para "Partos" en Policíaca, negra y suspense

Andreu Martín, que ha demostrado en múltiples ocasiones un indudable dominio de las claves de la novela negra, nos deslumbra ahora con una obra en la que la intriga crece desde la primera página. Nos cuenta la historia de una prostituta muerta, una más, sin mayor importancia, a manos de un delincuente común y corriente, proxeneta, alcohólico y jugador. Sin embargo, esta mujer en particular, esta prostituta que a nadie importa, esconde mucho más de lo que parece. Un teniente de la Guardia Civil, un juez y una forense encargados del caso están a punto de averiguarlo.

En el Madrid de 1576, flamante capital del Imperio de Felipe II, abundan las muertes y los duelos, pero cuando el alguacil Diego de Paz, veterano de los Tercios, se hace cargo del hallazgo de un cuerpo cruelmente torturado, sabe que se encuentra ante un crimen poco habitual. Se trata de un boticario con fama de alquimista, y conforme avance en sus investigaciones se encontrará con una peligrosa trama que apunta a altas instancias del poder.

LA ESPERADA NUEVA NOVELA INDEPENDIENTE DE VICENTE RAGA, EL AUTOR DE "LAS DOCE PUERTAS", LA SAGA DE MISTERIO HISTÓRICO MÁS VENDIDA DEL AÑO (MÁS DE 150.000 LECTORES). Aunque esté catalogado como el noveno libro de la serie, se puede leer de forma independiente.

PREGUNTA: ¿Qué podemos esperar de su primera novela independiente, ajena a la saga de «Las doce puertas»?

RESPUESTA: Una apasionante historia basada en hechos reales. Pero mis lectores ya conocen mi faceta algo «gamberra».

P: ¿Qué quiere decir con eso?

"Balandú es el último pueblo río arriba, no llega a las quinientas personas. Más allá no hay nada, sólo las montañas, altas, casi inexpugnables. Una inmensa cordillera que inunda un mundo desconocido, de cientos de kilómetros cuadrados que se extienden hasta el mar. A ese horizonte ignoto lo llaman Ninguna Parte, así que Balandú, Tierra de Paz, está al sur de Ninguna Parte. Ni siquiera la guerrilla, ni el narcotráfico se interesan por este lugar.

Hawk and Fisher, famous for their years of keeping the peace in Haven, are really quite happy being legends. They gave up the hero business when they decided they’d grown too old for it. Now they run the Hero Academy, training young hopefuls to be heroes. Legends never die, but it seems they cannot retire, either. Hawk and Fisher’s adult children, Jack and Gillian, have been kidnapped. They were taken by the Demon Prince, an old enemy from the Forest Kingdom who challenges the couple to one final battle for their lives.

I've got some explaining to do, I know that. I mean, I'd have questions if I were in their position, too. The problem is I don't have any answers for them, and I seem to be unable to keep things to myself when I'm around them, which means I, of course, shared, and now they're panicking about how many times I've died. Silly men. It's not like it's a big deal or anything. Oh wait, it is. Then there's Winston and the spirit guides; I don't even know where to start with them.

David Morrell's First Blood introduced Rambo, who joined the ranks of Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan, James Bond, and Harry Potter as an international thriller icon. In this sequel, Rambo is in prison for his one-man war against a small-town police chief. His former commanding officer, Colonel Trautman, arrives with a promise to release him, with two conditions. First, Rambo must return to the Vietnamese prison camp from which he escaped and find the missing Americans rumored to be prisoners there.

The Warlords of New York have returned. After the funeral of an important member, the group decides to kill again. The kills start to get noticed by the locals and urban legends of their deeds spread. The group, now trying to normalize their lives and save the city, end up destroying it by mistake.

Demons from within rage as death strikes all who surround. No one is safe, and no one is whole as the politics and danger of this thrilling sequel explode. The world has been thrown into a downward spiral of chaos, after the Chinese invasion of Australia. To survive, four very different men, each battling their own darkness, must fight their way across the vastness of the great southern land. But as they seek shelter with their countrymen, will they make friends or enemies?

The plan was perfect: one last wild weekend with the boys before Danny ties the knot. Benidorm. Beaches. Beer. No danger, no bullets, no body count. Then two women disappear into thin air.After a night of drinking, Danny's crew plays hero—rescuing two hotel guests from aggressive locals and walking them safely home. Good deed done. Case closed. Except by sunrise, both women have vanished. No luggage. No checkout. No explanation.

Since 1947 highly reliable witnesses, including airline pilots, military personnel, astronauts, everyday professionals, and children have been witnessing unexplained objects in the world’s skies…Now, Robert Spire is about to be thrust into the rapidly evolving UFO phenomenon in this fast-paced mystery thriller.

When the world is thrown into a downward spiral of chaos, four very different people from the darkness will fight their way across the vastness of the great southern land. Men turn to countrymen, who have now become enemies. Each man must look within in order to overcome their worst nightmares; or worse, to become them....

Tragedy sees the Archer sisters return to New York City, reunited for the first time in five years, emotions still raw even after so long spent apart. However, differences are put aside when Axel Archer's final message to his daughters contains a warning not to investigate his death but to carry on with their lives. It is a warning that the sisters cannot follow, for love, loyalty, and honor demand that they discover who took their father's life and make them pay. Whoever recruited Axel needed the skills of one of the best thieves available.

Axel Archer was a retired soldier, family man, patriot...and the king of thieves. Five years later, tragedy causes the Archer sisters to return to New York to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives, reunite in a quest for vengeance, and uncover a conspiracy which has cost them dear. They will take their father’s training and their own skills and qualities and adopt their own style. They will show New York that the heirs to the king of thieves are back in town, and the queens of the steal are just as worthy of the throne.

With shades of Tom Clancy, Stephen King, and James Rollins, Mount Fitz Roy continues the tale of Patrick O’Doyle and Bertha Lybrand, who were part of the horror show that occurred far below the mountains of Utah. They learn that the "mother of all motherlodes” discovered there was not unique, that there is another deposit similar to it three miles beneath the towering peak of Cerro Chaltén on the disputed border between Chile and Argentina. O'Doyle, a middle-aged former member of a disgraced black-ops unit, gets his aging team back together to go after this fortune. 

1990. Lenka Brett - a smart but unworldly young, Irish teacher - volunteers to deliver aid when the world learns of the horrifying plight of children in Romanian orphanages. An English naval officer, Captain Simon Syrianus, volunteers to be her co-driver. Together, they join a convoy of humanitarian aid drivers known as the Rogues, the last hope for those in areas where official charities cannot enter. Lenka falls in love, but when the Rogues become the target mercenaries, tragedy follows, and she discovers her lover is not who he appeared to be.

AD 255; the Roman Imperium is stretched to breaking point, its authority and might challenged throughout the territories and along every border. Yet the most lethal threat lurks far to the east in Persia, where the massing forces of the Sassanid Empire loom with fiery menace. The far-flung and...

Beneath the surface of East Texas—beneath the land, beneath the deals, beneath the carefully constructed alliances—something far more dangerous is moving. When architect Daniel Thompson vanishes without a trace, what begins as a missing-person case quickly fractures into something deeper and far more complex. Captain Jack Hawk Hawkins, long removed from active duty, is drawn back into a world where jurisdiction blurs, loyalties shift, and the ground itself may be hiding the truth.

Michael Don Riessi, known by his long-standing nickname as the 'boss of bosses,' was a man at the peak of his maturity, almost reaching his fifties. It could be said that he no longer had the old excitement and enthusiasm since he had achieved more than what he wanted. He was neither as lively as in his old days, nor was he a fearless man anymore! The man who used to get what he wanted in a very short time seemed to be far away now. The passing days had worn him out excessively.

'Til Death Do Us Part is a domestic, suspense thriller that challenges the limits of morality, the thirst for revenge, and the weight of the choices we make when the truth becomes our greatest enemy.