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Dos historias narradas en paralelo. La primera trascurre en los principios del tribunal de la inquisición de Valencia, dónde es protagonista destacado el humanista Luis Vives y sus secretos. Todos los personajes existieron en su época y todos los hechos narrados se corresponden con la realidad histórica. La segunda historia es protagonizada por un grupo de amigos en actualidad, que descubren que el misterio que creían resuelto, en realidad no ha hecho más que comenzar.

Like many mysteries, this one begins with a murder. But in this case, the victim happens to be the detective, on the verge of revealing the culprit in an earlier crime. Had Shadwell Rafferty identified his own murderer? When news of Rafferty’s death reaches Sherlock Holmes, in Chicago on the last leg of an American speaking tour, the world’s most famous detective and his redoubtable companion Watson rush to Minnesota to hunt for their friend’s killer.

Weiß wie Schnee und blau wie Blut – ein neuer Fall für Lady Georgie. Die neue Fortsetzung der Cosy-Krimi-Reihe von New York Times-Bestsellerautorin Rhys Bowen. Schottland, 1933: Während ihre große Liebe Darcy sein feliz navidad in Südamerika verbringt und ihre Mutter sich in einem kleinen Nest namens Tiddleton-under-Lovey verkriecht, steckt Lady Georgie dank einem Schneesturm in Schloss Rannoch fest – zusammen mit ihrem verstockten Bruder Binky und seiner miesepetrigen Frau Fig.

Martha Frisch ermittelt – und wie! Ostfriesland, 1958: Martha Frisch ist Witwe, eine patente Mittfünfzigerin und ihrer Zeit voraus. In ihrer Heißmangelstube in Leer kriegt sie allerhand Klatsch und Tratsch mit. Als eine treue Kundin, die junge Edelprostituierte Vera Malottke, tot in ihrer Wohnung aufgefunden wird, zerreißt sich die ganze Stadt das Maul über das frivole Frauenzimmer. Die Polizei zeigt wenig Einsatz und legt sich schnell auf den Täter fest: einen alten Freund der Toten, der gerade aus dem Gefängnis entlassen wurde.

After the death of her husband, Liz McLuckie has taken early retirement and moved to Whitby, a picturesque fishing town on the North Yorkshire coast. She thinks the renovation of two ramshackle fishing cottages will take her mind off things, but she soon discovers Whitby isn’t quite the peaceful retreat she imagined. When she discovers the body of a local Professor near the medieval Abbey, Liz reluctantly finds herself at the center of a murder investigation. The post mortem reveals death by drowning. So how did he get onto the clifftop? And why did he have a fish in his pocket?

A governess is hired by a bachelor to take care of his nephew and niece. She has barely arrives at the house that she starts seeing ghosts and having other supernatural visions. She decides to share her frightening experience with the maid of the house, Mrs. Grose. The maid, however, is not surprised and tells the governess that the ghosts are those of Peter Quint and Miss Jessel.

The story you’re about to hear is the second Charlie Chan novel, and it features a parrot named Tony who is witness to a crime. The unusual bird spoke Chinese and had a less-than-perfect use of English grammar but was killed by the criminals as a precaution. Chan himself was a friend of a family selling jewels and agreed to deliver them on his first trip to mainland California. While there he masquerades as a pidgin-speaking cook during his undercover investigation. His profound and original intelligence offers genial humor and witty dialogue.

Midnight, June 13, 1942: Peter Burger stands on a foggy beach, ears primed as a submarine hull scrapes the sandy sea bottom. He has endured seventeen months in a Gestapo prison and seventeen days on a Nazi U-boat only to have landed on American shores with six boxes of explosives and no escape. After slipping into New York City, Peter finds himself at a massive military parade where he meets Grete Baum, a German-Jewish refugee grappling with loneliness and loss. Grete is drawn to Peter’s brooding vulnerability, and the pair instantly bond.

The bloody barbarism of the Civil War scarred Morgan’s soul as well as his body. He sent so many soldiers to Hell and almost joined them when he was struck by a bullet from the sniper known as the Arkansas Traveler. The only man to ever survive the notorious Rebel’s sharpshooting skills, Morgan finds himself back in the assassin’s sights. But the ex-Confederate isn’t the only one gunning for Morgan.

Western Australia, 1886. After months at sea, a slow boat makes its passage from London to the shores of Bannin Bay. From the deck, young Eliza Brightwell and her family eye their strange, new home. Here is an unforgiving land where fortune sits patiently at the bottom of the ocean, waiting to be claimed by those brave enough to venture into its depths. An ocean where pearl shells bloom to the size of soup plates, where men are coaxed into unthinkable places and unspeakable acts by the promise of unimaginable riches.

Rancho Santa Elena in 1987 seems like the ideal Southern California paradise—that is, until a series of strange crimes threatens to unravel the town’s social fabric: workers attacked with mysterious weapons; a wealthy real estate developer found dead in the pool of his beach house. The only clues are poison and red threads found at both crime scenes. As Detective Benjamin Wade and forensic expert Natasha Betencourt struggle to connect the incidents, they begin to wonder: Why Santa Elena? And why now?

An influential art critic in the early years of the 20th century journeys from London to the rustic, remote island of Houat, off France's northwest coast, to sit for a portrait painted by an old friend, a gifted but tormented artist living in self-imposed exile.

Aos 13 anos, Maisie Dobbs começa a trabalhar como criada em uma residência da aristocracia londrina. Sua patroa, a sufragista lady Rowan Compton, logo descobre a sede de conhecimento da menina e resolve patrocinar seus estudos. Seu tutor é o famoso investigador Maurice Blanche, que percebe os dons intuitivos da moça e a ajuda a ser admitida na prestigiosa Girton College, em Cambridge.

Siamo a Firenze a metà Quattrocento. Pieno Rinascimento. L'architetto Filippo Brunelleschi e il suo amico astronomo Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli si trovano a indagare su un delitto avvenuto in città. Tra botteghe colorate di pittori e locande affollate di viandanti, Brunelleschi e Toscanelli vengono risucchiati in un giallo che vede le vittime e i colpevoli scambiarsi continuamente di ruolo in un susseguirsi di colpi di scena. Sullo sfondo, la Firenze rinascimentale, una delle città più ricche e belle che l'Europa abbia mai visto.

Who expects to find a corpse in a fairground? Certainly not Clara Fitzgerald, Brighton's first female private detective, who is enjoying some time off when a new case falls straight into her lap. Just exactly whose corpse is sitting propped up in the House of Curios, and why would anyone leave a body on view for everyone to see? Clara has a whole carnival of suspects and very few clues, but the ones she does have suggest she needs to look towards Brighton's seedy underworld for answers, and that may well mean putting her life in danger.

Winter 1954, and in a dilapidated apartment in Brooklyn, Sam Cooper realises that she has nothing left. Her mother is dead, she has no prospects and she cannot afford the rent. But as she goes through her mother's things, Sam finds a stack of hidden letters that reveal a family and an inheritance that she never knew she had, three thousand miles away in Yorkshire. Begars Abbey is a crumbling pile, inhabited only by Sam's crippled grandmother, Lady Cooper, a housekeeper and a handful of servants. Sam cannot understand why her mother kept its very existence a secret.

When MI6 sends Evelyn Ainsworth back to Oslo, no one expects any complications, least of all Evelyn. With her identity locked down and her section classified, both her location and her mission are secure. Or so they thought. After months of inactivity and scattered warnings across Europe, Hitler finally moves, but not in the direction everyone expects. With tensions between England and Norway rising, the Führer seizes the opportunity to send an invasion force north—straight into Norway.

Año 1950. Bernie Gunther deja Berlín huyendo de una absurda acusación y llega a Buenos Aires. Allí se entera del brutal asesinato de una joven, que guarda inquietantes similitudes con otro caso que él investigó cuando era policía en Alemania. La coincidencia en el método no puede ser una simple casualidad. En la Argentina de Perón, muchos criminales nazis que han encontrado refugio y probablemente hay que buscar al culpable entre ellos. A regañadientes, Gunther acepta ayudar a la policía argentina a atrapar al criminal antes de que vuelva a matar.

Barcelona, 1945. Nil Roig es un chiquillo que se pasa el día en bicicleta transportando de un cine a otro viejas bobinas de películas. El día de su decimotercer cumpleaños es testigo de un crimen cometido en el portal de su casa. Mientras el asesino huye después de haberlo amenazado de muerte en caso de no mantener la boca cerrada, el moribundo le entrega el misterioso cromo de un actor de cine de la época; un objeto perseguido y anhelado por un excomandante de la Gestapo y un policía sin escrúpulos.

Shadowseer: Rome continues the story of Kaia, 17, an orphan coming of age in Victorian Europe of the 1850s. Kaia yearns to escape her horrific orphanage, to discover who her parents were, and to understand why she can sense shadows when others cannot. When the brilliant Detective Pinsley, 45, takes Kaia under his wing and enlists her help in solving the mysterious and bizarre murders sweeping over Europe, the two of them become unlikely partners. Are they part of a greater war of light versus dark? And is Kaia the only one who can stop it?