Títulos en Crímenes de detectives aficionados

Un misteriós robatori a Sant Pere de Rodes desvela la desaparició d'unes restes arqueològiques de valor incalculable, per això el monjo de Montserrat Bernat Balaguer i la mossa d'esquadra Berta Bosch s'endinsen en una investigació que els arrossegarà molt més enllà del que mai s'haurien imaginat. La pista d'un llibre sagrat, robat a la Biblioteca Nacional de França, al bell mig de París, posarà al descobert una conspiració ancestral capaç de sacsejar els fonaments de la fe.

"The world is big enough for us," Sherlock Holmes once told Dr. Watson. "No ghosts need apply." But amateur sleuth Sebastian McCabe and his chronicler Jeff Cody don't have a choice when a popular TV reality show comes to Erin, Ohio, to record a Halloween special about the entity disturbing a local gastropub known as The Speakeasy. Jackie O'Brien was a bootlegger and speakeasy owner gunned down in 1920. Ever since, his unquiet spirit has been said to haunt the building where it happened — one which, after many transformations over the years, is once again a speakeasy of sorts.

Oliver Holmes is summoned to help the police solve a case in which an old security dog is the only witness to murders in a museum. When nothing appears to have been taken, clues unite this crime to the previous one, creating dangerous conditions in which no one is safe.

When his best friend Thad is arrested for a series of murders he didn’t commit on the wrong side of the planet, the young Scottish adventurer, Ridge Walker, must find the real killer in order to prove his innocence. But as Ridge crosses swords with a merciless adversary and the savage ethos of centuries of warrior culture, the death toll speeds up and the seemingly random slayings take on a laser-sharp accuracy slicing ever closer to those he loves.

In Concord, Massachusetts, Ellie Harper has crafted a peaceful new life—running her beloved bookshop, leading the quirky Gumshoe Gang mystery club, and tolerating her black cat Agatha’s demands. But when Ellie’s mentor, Professor Arthur Pearson, collapses during their weekly meeting, her world of fiction collides with a very real murder. The police write it off as natural causes. Ellie knows better. With her knowledge of mystery fiction, the loyal Gumshoe Gang, and Agatha’s knack for sniffing out trouble, Ellie begins to peel back layers of academic deceit at Bellingham University.

Jago Trevithick KC has been busy in London with the complicated and lengthy trial of an underworld criminal. After a disastrous result, he returns to Penbartha to be with Olivia, seeking refuge and peace and to reassess his life choices. The morning after the long-awaited and eventful launch party Jago and Olivia discover a dead body and he immediately fears that his troubles in London have followed him home. As their professional lives collide, will Olivia and Jago be able to work together again to uncover the dark forces that are threatening the success of her latest venture...

May Morrigan was hoping for mulled wine and minimal drama this festive season. But when your eccentric mother asks you to hide a bloody knife, your estranged twin sister moves in, and your housemate is staging a chaotic pantomime starring a washed-up TV actor with a stalker . . . a quiet Christmas is off the cards.

A wedding, a murder, and a retirement community full of suspects... what could possibly go wrong? Sophie “Phee” Kimball thought moving to Arizona to work for a private investigator would bring some peace and quiet. Instead, she's wrangling her seventy-four-year-old Aunt Ina’s over-the-top wedding and her mother Harriet’s nonstop meddling. But when a celebrity chef turns up dead on the golf course outside Harriet’s front door, things really start to heat up.

“Urban fantasy, unexpected romance, and mythology all collide in King's latest. A must for V.E. Schwab and Katee Robert fans.” –Booklist In this stunning contemporary fantasy novel for fans of V. E. Schwab and Kaliane Bradley, a historian’s dream job in Italy takes a dark turn when she...

England, 1914. The world is at war. Captain Hastings, injured and shaken, is invited to Styles Court to recover. It’s a grand old country house - the family home of his old friend - and a perfect haven. Or so it seems. But in the blistering summer heat, trouble is afoot. Simmering tensions are tearing the family apart, and it all comes to a head in the most horrifying way.

Dopo il fallito matrimonio con James, Agatha non sa più che fare. E, come spesso accade, sceglie di fare la cosa più sbagliata in assoluto. Segue James a Cipro, dove lui è andato per cercare di riprendersi dallo smacco, e conosce un piccolo gruppo di turisti inglesi, del genere che ha “adottato tutti i modi peggiori dell’aristocrazia, e nessuno di quelli migliori” e che tuttavia pare aver stretto amicizia con altri tre turisti, che sono il loro esatto opposto.

Hastiado de la aburrida vida universitaria, el excéntrico profesor y detective amateur Gervase Fen (La juguetería errante y Asesinato en la catedral) decide tomarse un descanso y trasladarse al remoto pueblo de Sanford Angelorum, en plena campiña inglesa, para presentarse como candidato al...

El protagonista de la aclamada novela Vivos y Muertos, Aquiles Troyano, regresa a esta novela para enfrentarse a uno de los peores rincones del alma humana: la pederastia. Gracias a su habilidad sobrenatural para ver y comunicarse con los muertos, se enfrentará a una red de adoradores de la Bestia Perfecta, causante principal del sufrimiento de muchos niños. Vázquez-Figueroa regresa con un thriller sin tapujos, descarnado y que lo refrenda como un narrador todoterreno capaz de tener en vilo al lector hasta la última página.

Alice, al morir su tía asesinada, se ha convertido en propietaria por herencia de la mitad de un local llamado Half Moon. El local es un tugurio de los bajos fondos frecuentado por prostitutas y borrachos. Pero además algo nuevo está sucediendo en el Half Moon: alguien está provocando allí la muerte: parece que hay alguna razón obsesiva que a alguien le impide dejar de matar...

A Wall Street Journal ""Best Mystery of 2024"" “If The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair read like Gatsby by way of David Lynch, then The Alaska Sanders Affair recalls True Detective: there's something both classic and daring about it. One of the world's most original voices in crime...

When cinema's hottest superhero, Matt Bane, enters Clare's store to buy some personalized notecards, it's hard not to be starstruck. But when Clare sees the police leading Matt out of The Fountain hotel in handcuffs only a few hours later, she can't believe her eyes. The affable actor is accused of killing his sister, but Clare's convinced he's wrong for that role. Now it's open call for suspects as Clare tries to reel in the killer before another victim fades to black....

El protagonista de esta historia es un sexagenario llamado Pepe, Pepe Lapierre, para ser más exactos, y es cirujano plástico. Forofo hasta la médula del Real Madrid, su vida consiste en trabajar, ver el fútbol, jugar al pádel y cuidar de su madre. Todo en su mundo funciona con la pulcritud...

L'arrivo a Carsely della psicologa Jill Davent non ha di certo suscitato l'entusiasmo di Agatha Raisin. Non solo la donna si è messa a gironzolare attorno a James, il suo ex marito, ma le ha pure fatto capire di essere a conoscenza di certi dettagli poco lusinghieri sul suo passato e non si è trattenuta dal parlarne in giro. Inoltre, tra i suoi pazienti c'è Gwen Simple, che Agatha sospetta fortemente di essere stata complice in un omicidio.

In the small village of Kilbane, County Cork, Ireland, Natalie's Bistro has always been warm and welcoming. Nowadays twenty-two-year-old Siobhan O'Sullivan runs the family bistro named for her mother, along with her five siblings, after the death of their parents in a car crash almost a year ago. It's been a rough year for the O'Sullivans, but it's about to get rougher.

Un misterioso anuncio de una sola línea en una revista culinaria, sin número de teléfono ni dirección: ¡quienes deseen visitar la taberna Kamogawa tienen que confiar en un toque de magia para llegar hasta ella! Solo los asiduos y los curiosos, guiados por el destino, encuentran el camino hasta el pequeño edificio escondido entre las callejuelas de Kioto.