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La venganza de la valquiria (Jan Fabel #Volumen 5)
by Craig RussellVUELVE CRAIG RUSSELL. VUELVE JAN FABEL. Por el autor best seller internacional de El aspecto del diablo y Hyde. Una sicaria. Un asesino en serie. Dos ángeles de la muerte.Después de un lapso de diez años, una asesina en serie, el Ángel de Sankt Pauli, vuelve a ocupar los titulares cuando una estrella del rock inglés aparece en el barrio rojo de Hamburgo, agonizando por las heridas de cuchillo más salvajes. El comisario Jan Fabel se pone al frente de la investigación Los enlaces surgen con una serie de eventos aparentemente no relacionados. Un periodista asesinado en Noruega, la muerte de un gánster serbio y un proyecto olvidado hace mucho tiempo por la Stasi de la Alemania Oriental concebido en el apogeo de la Guerra Fría, que involucra a un grupo altamente capacitado de asesinas, conocidas con el nombre en clave de Valquirias. La búsqueda de la verdad por parte de Fabel lo enfrentará al asesino profesional más aterradoramente eficiente. El último ángel vengador.
Vengeance Road (A Jack Gannon Novel #1)
by Rick Mofina&“Vengeance Road is a thriller with no speed limit! It's a great read!&”—Michael Connelly,#1 New York Times bestselling authorThe body of Bernice Hogan, a troubled young former nursing student with a tragic past, is found in a shallow grave near a forest creek. Jolene Peller, a single mom struggling to build a new life with her little boy, vanishes the night she tries to find Bernice. Hero cop Karl Styebeck is beloved by his community, but privately police are uneasy with the answers he gives to protect the life—and the lie—he's lived.The case haunts Jack Gannon, a gritty, blue-collar reporter whose own sister ran away from their family years ago. Gannon risks more than his job to pursue the story behind Styebeck's dark secret, his link to the women and the mysterious big rig roaming America's loneliest highways on its descent into eternal darkness.&“Gripping, no-holds-barred…lightning paced…with enough twists to keep you turning pages well into the wee hours. Vengeance Road is masterful suspense.&”—Allison Brennan, New York Times bestselling authorOriginally published in 2009.Don&’t miss Her Last Goodbye, the newest thrill-ride from Rick Mofina!
Vengeance Road
by Rick MofinaThe body of Bernice Hogan, a troubled young former nursing student with a tragic past, is found in a shallow grave near a forest creek. Jolene Peller, a single mom struggling to build a new life with her little boy, vanishes the night she tries to find Bernice. Hero cop Karl Styebeck is beloved by his community, but privately police are uneasy with the answers he gives to protect the life-- and the lie --he's lived. The case haunts Jack Gannon, a gritty, blue-collar reporter whose own sister ran away from their family years ago. Gannon risks more than his job to pursue the story behind Styebeck's dark secret, his link to the women, and the mysterious big rig roaming America's loneliest highways on its descent into eternal darkness.
Vengence Road (A Jack Gannon Novel #1)
by Rick Mofina"Vengeance Road is a thriller with no speed limit! It's a great read!"--Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Gripping, no-holds-barred...lightning paced...with enough twists to keep you turning pages well into the wee hours. Vengeance Road is masterful suspense."--Allison Brennan, New York Times bestselling author The body of Bernice Hogan, a troubled young former nursing student with a tragic past, is found in a shallow grave near a forest creek. Jolene Peller, a single mom struggling to build a new life with her little boy, vanishes the night she tries to find Bernice. Hero cop Karl Styebeck is beloved by his community, but privately police are uneasy with the answers he gives to protect the life--and the lie--he's lived. The case haunts Jack Gannon, a gritty, blue-collar reporter whose own sister ran away from their family years ago. Gannon risks more than his job to pursue the story behind Styebeck's dark secret, his link to the women and the mysterious big rig roaming America's loneliest highways on its descent into eternal darkness. Originally published in 2009.
Verde
by Ted DekkerAl fin, el Círculo renacido.La historia de cómo Thomas Hunterentró por primera vez en la Selva Negra y por siempre cambió nuestra historiacomenzó en una fecha cuando los ejércitos estaban reunidos para una batallafinal en el valle de Migdon. Verde es una historia de amor, traición yaplastantes reveses que ocurren en medio de la catástrofe. Es el principio: Laverdad detrás de una saga que ha captado la imaginación de más de un millón delectores con los Libros de Crónicas de Historia.Pero aún más, Verde traesignificado completo a la Serie del Círculo como un todo, lectura como lahistoria preliminar para Negro y la secuela literaria para Blanco,completando un círculo completo. Este es el Libro Cero, el Círculo Renacido,ambos el comienzo y el fin. El preferido punto de partida para lectores nuevosy el clímax perfecto para los incontables admiradores quienes han experimentadoNegro, Rojo y Blanco.
Vested Interests
by Monette MichaelsIndianapolis attorney Brigit Bauer has always fought for the underdog, whether it's sitting on the historic preservation board or mediating a gangland truce. But those battlegrounds are nothing compared to the web of deceit she uncovers, leading her through a maze of holding companies to the Chicago mob presence in her city. When a client dies in her place, she realizes she may have followed one lead too many.Tony Pendrake, a former Navy SEAL and owner of T.P. Security, assists Bree in getting to the bottom of the attempts on her life. While Tony and Bree seek the person or persons behind the attacks, the two find themselves thrown into close proximity. The intensity of the situation leads to a relationship between them, but before they can discover where such a relationship could go, Bree's newfound trust in Tony is tested in a final lethal encounter with the man who wants her dead.
A Vicky Hill Mystery: Scoop! (Vicky Hill #2)
by Hannah DennisonVicky will do anything to get off the obituary circuit and on to the front page!If there's one thing Vicky has learnt as an obituary writer, it's how to spot something fishy at a funeral - and plenty is amiss at the service for Gordon Berry. The man was a champion hedge cutter so why are people willing to believe he electrocuted himself by striking a power line with his own clippers?At the reception there are rumblings of foul play - not to mention a fistfight between a mourner and the local Lothario. And in her quest for a scoop, Vicky will find she has to confront everything - from bad dates to mortal danger...
La vidriera carmesí
by Miguel Angel MorenoEs una lucha contralos instintos más salvajes, donde sólo la fe puede salir victoriosa.El grupo de jóvenes de una fructífera iglesia protestante está a punto deexperimentar un cambio radical en sus vidas. En la noche de Fin de Año,la hija del pastor es atacada y violada poruna banda callejera que la deja inconsciente en un parque. Al enterarse de losucedido, Ismael, su prometido y el líder de jóvenes, planea la venganza. Procuraque el hecho no se sepa en la iglesia, y busca seguir con su vida, perodesconoce que alguien ha presenciado sus acciones.La vidriera carmesíhabla del lado oculto en la naturaleza humana, del modo en que puedepervertirse nuestra idea del bien y del mal cuando nos encontramosfrente a unasituación desesperada. Es una novela que muestra hasta qué puntomalvado ydesconocido puede cambiar una persona, incluso por encima de losvalores que le han enseñado desde su nacimiento, y transformarse así enun ser corruptoy retorcido.
Vienna Secrets
by Frank TallisIn the dangerous, dazzling Vienna of 1903, an ingenious doctor and an intrepid detective again challenge psychotic criminals across a landscape teetering between the sophisticated and the savage, the thrilling future and the primitive past.
The Vintage Caper (Sam Levitt Capers #1)
by Peter MaylePeter Mayle's newest and most delightful novel of France, filled with mouthwatering food, sumptuous wines, colorful characters, and lots of fun. The story begins in Hollywood, at the expensive home and impressive wine cellar of lawyer Danny Roth. Unfortunately, after inviting the Los Angeles Times to write an extensive piece on the treasures of his collection, Roth finds himself the victim of a world-class wine heist. Enter Sam Levitt, former corporate lawyer, wine connoisseur, and expert on cultivated crime. Called in by Roth's insurance company now saddled with a multimillion-dollar claim. Sam follows his leads, first to Bordeaux and the magnificent vineyards where so much wine is aged into delectable existence and then to Provence and the collectors who he rightly assumes might have envied Roth's collection. The unraveling of the ingenious crime is threaded through with Mayle's seductive rendering of France's sensory delights from a fine Pinchon-Lalande and Loville Barton to the bouillabaisse of Marseille and young lamb in Bordeaux. Even the most sophisticated of oenophiles will learn a thing or two in this vintage work from a beloved author.
Vintage Death (The Thriller Shorts #1)
by Lisa JacksonPrepare for edge-of-your-seat suspense in this Thriller Short.Originally published in THRILLER 2 (2009),edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Clive Cussler.In this captivating Thriller Short, #1 New York Times bestselling writer Lisa Jackson blends romantic suspense and danger with complex and damaging family relationships in a read you won’t be able to put down. When a five-year-old boy is found dead and presumed thrown from a window, his mother must live with the loss, reminded each day of his death, all while she plots revenge on the person who killed him. But revenge is never simple, especially when wealth and power are used to hide the truth. Don’t miss any of these exciting stories from Thriller 2: The Weapon by Jeffery DeaverRemaking by Blake CrouchIced by Harry HunsickerJustice Served by Mariah StewartThe Circle by David HewsonRoomful of Witnesses by R.L. StineThe House on Pine Terrace by Phillip MargolinThe Desert Here and the Desert Far Away by Marcus SakeyOn the Run by Carla NeggersCan You Help Me Out Here? by Robert FerrignoCrossed Double by Joe HartlaubThe Lamented by Lawrence LightVintage Death by Lisa JacksonSuspension of Disbelief by Tim MaleenyA Calculated Risk by Sean ChercoverThe Fifth World by Javier SierraGhost Writer by Gary BraverThrough a Veil Darkly by Kathleen AntrimBedtime for Mr. Li by David J. MontgomeryProtecting the Innocent by Simon WoodWatch Out for My Girl by Joan JohnstonKilling Time by Jon LandBoldt’s Broken Angel by Ridley Pearson
El violín del diablo
by Joseph GelinekExisten instrumentos malditos capaces de atraer las desgracias más funestas a quienes los tocan. Aquella música podía matar. Y ella lo sabía... La concertista de violín Ane Larrazábal, estrella rutilante de la música clásica, aparece estrangulada en el Auditorio Nacional de Madrid después de haber interpretado el Capriccio nº 24 de Paganini, probablemente la obra más difícil jamás compuesta para violín. El asesino ha dejado escrita en su pecho, con sangre de la propia víctima, la palabra Iblis, que significa «diablo» en árabe. Su instrumento, un violín Stradivarius que tiene tallada en la voluta la cabeza un demonio, ha desaparecido misteriosamente. Raúl Perdomo, uno de los investigadores más hábiles de la policía, deberá descubrir la identidad del asesino y la escalofriante relación entre el crimen y la macabra muerte de Paganini hace casi dos siglos. Después del éxito internacional de su primera novela, La Décima Sinfonía, publicada en más de quince países, Joseph Gelinek vuelve a utilizar sus amplios conocimientos musicales al servicio de un nuevo thriller trepidante y adictivo. Reseña:«Una novela diabólicamente absorbente.»Diario de Mallorca
El violín del diablo
by Joseph GelinekLa concertista española de violín Ane Larrazábal aparece estrangulada en el Auditorio Nacional de Madrid después de haber interpretado el Capriccio nº 24 de Paganini, la que se dice es la obra más difícil jamás compuesta para violín. El asesino ha dejado escrita en su pecho, con sangre de la propia víctima, la palabra iblis, que significa diablo en árabe. Su valioso instrumento, un Stradivarius que tiene tallada en la voluta la cabeza de un demonio, ha desaparecido. El jefe superior de Policía asigna el caso a Raúl Perdomo, uno de los investigadores más hábiles del cuerpo. Perdomo es muy crítico con los fenómenos paranormales, pero cuando empieza a sufrir extrañas y estremecedoras visiones que no logra explicarse, decide recurrir a los servicios de una parasicóloga. Su intervención será clave para descubrir la identidad del asesino.
The Virtuous Vampire (A Gooden and Knight Mystery #1)
by Monette MichaelsAbigail Merriweather Gooden isn't your typical Austin, Texas lawyer. Sure she has the so very chic law offices on West 6th Street and the prominent social status that comes from old Texas money, but she also has magic with a "k." Abbie, after all, is a witch.So, it isn't surprising that the preternatural community sends all its legal matters to her. Such is the case with Jurnik Golub, owner of Exotica, a popular Austin gentlemen's club. Jurnik is a vampire--and someone has attempted to frame him for the murder of one of his strippers.All lawyers like innocent clients--and Jurnik is definitely innocent, being that he was sleeping the sleep of the undead during the time of the murder.Abbie along with Lucan Knight, the shape-shifter private detective Jurnik has hired, must race to find "whodunnit" before the Austin Police haul Jurnik in--and he becomes a crispy client.
Vision In White: Number 1 in series (Bride Quartet #1)
by Nora RobertsChildhood friends Mackensie, Parker, Laurel and Emmaline have formed a very successful wedding planning business together but, despite helping thousands of happy couples to organise the biggest day of their lives, all four women are unlucky in love.Photographer Mackensie Elliot has suffered a tough childhood and has a bad relationship with her mother, which makes her wary of commitment. But when she meets Carter Maguire, she can't stop herself falling for him, although his ex-girlfriend is prepared to play dirty to keep him. Mackensie soon realises she has to put her past demons to rest in order to find lasting love . . .
Vlad: The Last Confession
by Chris HumphreysA superb gothic novel about the real Dracula, Vlad the Impaler - one of history's greatest psychopaths or a hero of the West? Perhaps both...'A chilling masterpiece that weaves fact and fable. Bedtime reading? Only if you don't need much sleep...' BESTDRACULA. A name of horror, depravity and the darkest sensuality.Yet the real Dracula was just as alluring, just as terrifying, his story not of a monster but of a man - and a contradiction. For the one they called 'The Devil's Son' was both tyrant and lawgiver, crusader and mass slaughterer, torturer and hero, lover and murderer.His tale is told by those who knew him best. The only woman he ever loved, who he must sacrifice. His closest comrade and traitor. And his priest, betraying the secrets of the confessional to reveal the mind of the man history would forever remember as Tepes - 'The Impaler'. But Vlad's actions defy such labels. His extraordinary life burns with passion, taking him from his years as hostage to the Turk, through torture, battle, triumph and betrayal, ultimately to a last crusade - there perhaps, beneath the twin banners of the Dragon and the Cross, to find redemption for his innumerable sins.
Vlad: The Last Confession
by Chris HumphreysA superb gothic novel about the real Dracula, Vlad the Impaler - one of history's greatest psychopaths or a hero of the West? Perhaps both...'A chilling masterpiece that weaves fact and fable. Bedtime reading? Only if you don't need much sleep...' BESTDRACULA. A name of horror, depravity and the darkest sensuality.Yet the real Dracula was just as alluring, just as terrifying, his story not of a monster but of a man - and a contradiction. For the one they called 'The Devil's Son' was both tyrant and lawgiver, crusader and mass slaughterer, torturer and hero, lover and murderer.His tale is told by those who knew him best. The only woman he ever loved, who he must sacrifice. His closest comrade and traitor. And his priest, betraying the secrets of the confessional to reveal the mind of the man history would forever remember as Tepes - 'The Impaler'. But Vlad's actions defy such labels. His extraordinary life burns with passion, taking him from his years as hostage to the Turk, through torture, battle, triumph and betrayal, ultimately to a last crusade - there perhaps, beneath the twin banners of the Dragon and the Cross, to find redemption for his innumerable sins.
Wait Until Twilight: A Novel
by Sang PakA hauntingly strange and powerfully affecting debut novel that heralds the arrival of a unique and captivating literary voice, Sang Pak's Wait Until Twilight is a coming-of-age story that explores the complex darkness infecting a damaged psyche in a small Southern town.Not long after his own mother's death, sixteen-year-old Samuel discovers a set of deformed triplets hidden behind closed doors in his sleepy Georgia community. The babies—whose shut-in mother believes they were immaculately conceived and whose menacing brother is a constant threat—take control of Samuel's every waking and sleeping thought. His only escape, he realizes, will be to save the monster children. But to do so, he must rein in his darkest impulses as he undergoes a profound transformation from motherless boy to self-defined man—because sometimes the most terrible monsters are those that live inside us all.
Waking Evil (Mindhunters #2)
by Kylie BrantWhen the body of a woman is found in rural Buffalo Springs, forensic investigator Ramsey Clark is called in. Ramsey believes in evidence, not superstition. But, when another murder rocks the town, Ramsey begins to wonder if a killer is playing on everyone?s fears?or a prophecy is being fulfilled.
Waking Nightmare (Mindhunters #1)
by Kylie BrantWith a serial rapist loose on the streets of Savannah, hotshot detective Ryne Robel needs answers, not the psycho-babble head games of forensic profile Abbie Phillips. Abbie must convince him that head games are exactly what this elusive suspect is all about.
Waking the Dead (Mindhunters #3)
by Kylie BrantA former forensic anthropologist and an outdoor guide search for clues to seven deaths in the Oregon wilderness. But as desire burns between them, a cold-hearted killer closes in.
Walking Dead
by Greg RuckaAtticus Kodiak knows where people go to hide. That's why he and Alena Cizkova have come to a secluded Georgian town in the former U. S. S. R. What he doesn't know is what his friend and neighbor Bakhar Lagidze was hiding from. Bakhar and his entire family have been viciously murdered-all except for Lagidze's fourteen-year-old daughter, whose nightmare is just beginning. To rescue her, Atticus must enter a lethal web that stretches from Russia to Istanbul, from Dubai to Las Vegas, and into the very heart of evil. But what troubles Atticus the most is that Alena, once one of the world's most fearless assassins, is clearly terrified of what Atticus will uncover-and what he'll become when he does.
Walking Dead (The Walker Papers #5)
by C. E. MurphyFor once, Joanne Walker's not out to save the world. She's come to terms with the host of shamanic powers she's been given, her job as a police detective has been relatively calm, and she's got a love life for the first time in memory. Not bad for a woman who started out the year mostly dead. But it's Halloween, and the undead have just crashed Joanne's party. Now, with her mentor Coyote still missing, she has to figure out how to break the spell that has let the ghosts, zombies and even the Wild Hunt come back. Unfortunately, there's no shamanic handbook explaining how to deal with the walking dead. And if they have anything to say about it--which they do --no one's getting out of there alive.
Walking in Pimlico
by Ann FeatherstoneTo ‘walk in Pimlico’ is, according to the Penguin Dictionary of Historical Slang, the colloquial expression 'to be handsomely dressed'. Comedian, clog dancer, comic vocalist, actor and all-round funny fellow Corney Sage is treading the boards at the Constellation in Whitechapel when he stumbles across the body of an actress outside the theatre and catches sight of the killer as he escapes. Corney was not the only witness. Fellow actress Lucy Strong also saw what happened and when the murderer returns to the scene of the crime that same night, both fear for their lives. Corney and Lucy flee London separately, keeping in touch with each other through a series of advertisements in the trade paper, the Era. Certain they have escaped the same fate as Bessie, they settle into their new lives away from London. But the murderer – a master of disguise – is slowly closing in on them and it is only a matter of time before he pounces . . . From the drawing rooms of polite society to the back rooms of brothels, through music halls, circus rings and freak shows, Ann Featherstone brilliantly reconstructs 19th century England in this gripping psychological thriller.
Walking the Dog
by Peter RobinsonWhen housewife Laura takes her dog for a walk, she doesn't realize that an affair will come of it in this Inspector Banks short story.ove us to harm one another, from love and jealousy to greed and despair, are all explored with fascinating depth. Edgy and smart, thrilling and suspenseful, this remarkable collection is a must-have for Robinson fans-and any fan of compelling crime fiction.