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Hace mucho tiempo, Maddie era una niña que jugaba a las muñecas en su habitación y vio algo que no tendría que haber visto... Y ahora intenta recordar aquel momento traumático creando unas esculturas inquietantes.

Cuando se conocen, ambos tienen pareja. Pero se gustan. O eso parece. Al menos lo suficiente como para poner en marcha un mecanismo imparable a pesar de la evidente imposibilidad. El mismo engranaje que entra en funcionamiento cada vez que la razón se nubla y el deseo –o la imperiosa necesidad de gustar– se impone. El accidente cuenta el vértigo de lo que ocurre en los primeros compases del enamoramiento y deja al descubierto la universalidad de ciertos rituales de seducción.

Katherine Nichols knew she’d had too many drinks, but they were only going a short distance. “There’s no traffic anyway,” Eve had pointed out. And they'd had such a great night out, the two of them. Even now, driving them home and knowing she shouldn’t, seemed almost mischievous. All part of the fun. Not anymore.

Hace rato que todos han evacuado a bordo de las cápsulas de escape. Una baliza de emergencia sigue activa. Ahuyentan a los piratas, y la nave abandonada es toda suya. Lo que hace unos momentos era la escena de un crimen acaba de convertirse en el objetivo de un rescate legítimo de todo el material recuperable para un capitán oportunista y la tripulación de su nave. Carl Ramsey es ese oportunista.

La familia, la cultura y las tradiciones nos marcan, pero no nos definen. Quizás por eso es tan acertada la frase que, en el espíritu de Simone de Beauvoir, asegura que no se nace feminista, sino que se llega a serlo. El caso de Salomé Gómez-Upegui es el fiel retrato de esa máxima.

Un asesino inteligente con un plan escalofriante. Solo hay una forma de detenerlo… ¿Qué hacer cuando un asesino ataca a las personas que más quieres,...

La vida de Maritza da un vuelco de ciento ochenta grados la noche en que Patricia, su hija mayor, sufre un terrible accidente de tráfico. Nada volverá a ser como antes: atrás queda una intachable trayectoria profesional en el bufete de abogados de mayor prestigio de Lima...

Hace rato que todos han evacuado a bordo de las cápsulas de escape. Una baliza de emergencia sigue activa. Ahuyentan a los piratas, y la nave abandonada es toda suya. Lo que hace unos momentos era la escena de un crimen acaba de convertirse en el objetivo de un rescate legítimo de todo el material recuperable para un capitán oportunista y la tripulación de su nave.

Pedro Carvalho es Pato Aviador, uno de los perfiles de referencia en temas de aviación en redes sociales. Con casi 70.000 seguidores en Twitter, el autor del éxito Algo espantoso está a punto de ocurrir desmenuza en este nuevo libro los accidentes aéreos más terribles, esos que han traído de cabeza a los investigadores, pero que han permitido hacer grandes cambios en la industria para que estas tragedias no vuelvan a suceder. Porque los accidentes aéreos -insiste Carvalho- no ocurren en vano.

La vida de Maritza da un vuelco de ciento ochenta grados la noche en que Patricia, su hija mayor, sufre un terrible accidente de tráfico. Nada volverá a ser como antes: atrás queda una intachable trayectoria profesional en el bufete de abogados de mayor prestigio de Lima, Perú; para el...

Veronica Pullman's comfortable life comes to a halt when her young daughter Grace tragically dies in a car accident. Months later, unable to come to terms with her daughter's death, detached from her husband and alienated from her friends and family, a chance encounter on a rainy street pushes her into an unlikely new friendship. Scarlet is everything Veronica could've been: feisty, adventurous, unpredictable. But as she approaches what would have been Grace's 10th birthday, it becomes clear to Veronica that the friendship she thought was saving her life could be costing her everything.

In New York, literary agent Isabel Reed is turning the final pages of an anonymous manuscript. In Copenhagen, CIA operative Hayden Gray is suddenly staring down the barrel of a gun. And in Zurich, the author himself is hiding in a shadowy expat life. Over the course of one long, perilous day, these lives collide as the book begins its dangerous march toward publication, placing everything at risk - and everyone in mortal peril.

Megan Logan’s 16th birthday party is in 11 days, and she still doesn’t have a date. For months she’s been secretly in love with her best friend, Justin, but she’s afraid to tell him how she feels. By the time her party starts, though, boys will be the last thing on her mind. While Megan tries on her party dress, three of her friends go for a ride to the lake. As the car makes a sharp turn, the steering malfunctions, and the girls fly headlong into a utility pole. Two escape with minor injuries, but one is rushed to the hospital....

Every time Kate Duggan looks in a mirror she's reminded of the night her life changed forever. Kate managed to walk away from the car accident that ruined the lives of her siblings, but questions still remain about what really happened on that dark stretch of road. Since then Kate’s life has been spiralling. On the surface her fiancé Rob is supportive, but the reality is he’s controlling and manipulative and Kate knows she has to get away. So, when Kate begins work at a firm of private investigators, she hopes this is her chance to shake off her guilt and start again.

When a sudden blast of severe weather causes a traffic accident, the effects will ripple through the lives of many long after the scene is cleared... Hannah has lost a leg, as well as her memory of the event, leading her to fear she may have been at fault. Struggling with recovery and anxiously awaiting the inquest results, she remains at home with her husband and kids. Joe wants to take his own life after his wife died in the accident, leaving him injured and alone.

En Londres, Adam, un joven compositor, pierde la vista en un accidente y ciego descubre lo vacío que estaba su vida a pesar de contar con el éxito profesional y la que todos consideraban la pareja perfecta. Solo y adaptándose a la ceguera, Adam decide buscar lo mejor de sí mismo, de sus amigos y vivir plenamente. Lo único que teme es componer, hasta que un día el director de la ópera de la ciudad acude a pedirle un favor y semanas más tarde escucha a una chica tocar el piano. Y entonces aprende a ver con el corazón.

La vida cambia inesperadamente para Berta Mir con dieciocho años recién cumplidos. Su padre, detective de profesión, sufre un accidente que resulta ser un intento de asesinato. Luchando contra el tiempo, Berta deberá resolver, con su ingenio y su valor, los tres casos en los que trabajaba su padre antes de que el asesino vuelva a intentarlo. Tras ellos se esconde el culpable: ¿una mujer que engaña a su marido?, ¿un chico al que su padre hace seguir para evitar que tome drogas?

Verona Montero loves calling herself a private dick because it makes her sound like she’s in a 1940s detective movie. And it means she gets to say “dick” a lot. So when Miami—a walking Barbie doll with an emoji addiction and bikinis smaller than Verona's patience—needs proof her billionaire husband Javier is cheating, Verona's all over it. Especially when it means working with divorce lawyer Quentin, whose cologne gives her what she professionally diagnoses as “crotch headaches.”

In The Accident of Color, Daniel Brook journeys to 19th-century New Orleans and Charleston and introduces us to cosmopolitan residents who elude the racial categories the rest of America takes for granted. Before the Civil War, these free, openly mixed-race urbanites enjoyed some rights of citizenship and the privileges of wealth and social status. But after Emancipation, as former slaves move to assert their rights, the black-white binary that rules the rest of the nation begins to intrude.

From the author of His Bloody Project, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2016. There does not appear to be anything remarkable about the fatal car crash on the A35. But one question dogs Inspector Georges Gorski: where has the victim, an outwardly austere lawyer, been on the night of his death? The troubled Gorski finds himself drawn into a mystery that takes him behind the respectable veneer of the sleepy French backwater of Saint-Louis.