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Lo que se viene es Los bailarines del fin del mundo, una novela negra de aventuras, si cabe. De aventuras más o menos fantásticas o por venir. Algo así, saludablemente inclasificable. Hay que dejarse ir, tomarse el buque imaginario y empezar a andar por arriba y por debajo de la Buenos Aires que parece que se nos viene. Los lectores que tuvo y tiene El síndrome de Rasputín –la novela anterior de Ricardo Romero, publicada en esta misma colección– se reencontrarán con el amistoso terceto protagonista que debutó con ella.

It is London in the early 1960s and Teddy Bean is making a name for himself as a private detective. However, his personal problems are taking over, with his brother, John, only slowly recovering from a heart attack and his wife, Pearl, dying in a car accident. Added to this, he takes on a difficult case involving a woman presumably drowned at sea by her husband. Teddy needs help while his brother is incapacitated and finds it in his friend, ex-Detective Inspector Tony Halliday. With the added support of their secretary Muriel, the Bean Detective Agency is open for business once more!

A small town in Northern California is at risk of being destroyed by a failing levee, and Colter Shaw has been hired to locate a family swept away by the raging water, with just mere hours to survive. But is the levee at risk of failing from natural causes or is someone sabotaging it? With the help of his sister, Dorion, the duo must save the citizens before the old town washes out at the hands of a secret conspirer.

3 volumes in a single offering! I didn't think retiring to Mexico with my Russian girlfriend would last—turns out I was right. What we didn't expect was that we'd be embroiled in a secret war between Heaven and Hell. Yeah, demons and angels exist, and they're about as powerful and deadly as we've been led to believe.

Germán, un eterno perejil, sale de la cárcel con un encargo: el asalto a un camión blindado. Una sucesión de enredos le depara la ayuda de Úrsula López, mujer con la que estuvo involucrado en el secuestro que lo llevó a prisión. Pero esta mujer, a la que la muerte y la gula no le son ajenas, antes necesita resolver algunas cosas.

Twenty years ago Brandon Penny was a criminal prodigy. Today, he’s a broken-hearted movie buff working a dead-end job. But everything is about to change. As a child, Brandon carefully studied his mother and her crew of thieves. Gifted from the start, Brandon was pulling short cons by age six, stealing jewelry by age eight, and orchestrating heists by age eleven. But one night a job went bad, a gun went off, and Brandon’s mother disappeared.

Meiling -- All I’ve ever known is pain. My life has been far from a fairy tale. No parents. No friends. Just an endless nightmare that I can’t wake from. Until the day a man offered me his hand and promised to keep me safe. I’ve never trusted anyone before, but there’s something about him. Maybe it’s insane, but I know he won’t hurt me, and when he puts his arms around me, for the first time in my life I feel loved.

Un homicidio en el campo. Ha caído un líder comunal por defender la laguna del pueblo de las manos de una empresa transnacional que solo quiere utilizar el agua para su beneficio. Una periodista se interna en esta situación para entender la materia del conflicto. Si hay un trasfondo mortuorio que va de lo social a lo político, también está la vivificante experiencia del amor y la sensualidad de una ciudad a otra; esta es, asimismo, una historia sobre contar historias y el viaje como un enigma personal.

Investigative journalist, Billy Daniels, never expected his interview with Riley, a delightful ten-year-old, would result in the overdose of her homeless single mother and Riley’s disappearance. She was last seen next to their broken-down 1996 Impala parked in a DC alley . . . holding her mother’s body. Billy searches for Riley only to discover her life is in mortal danger. A Russian covert operation—one that could shake the nation to its core—is headquartered in Washington. Agent Nika Rolinska, a daring and skilled assassin, has orders to tie up loose ends.

Moriré en dos minutos, ella lo hará en cinco. Si soy su asesino o no es irrelevante. Busque entre estas palabras y ayúdeme. Vidas sometidas. Vidas rotas. Vidas sin justicia. ¿Puede existir reparación? ¿Puede el destello de la serendipidad, a través de un crimen ajeno, reconfortar caminos? Xoxé Avellaneda no tiene elección. La de Elena Márquez está condicionada. El día de su regreso como inspectora, Elena Márquez observa impotente el suicidio de un anciano, a sus pies, mientras requiere su ayuda.

When a wind farm worker is gunned down on the job, the County Sheriff agrees with the locals and deems it an accident: “Wrong place, wrong time.” But to Vigil, it looks like murder. And he says so. Bluntly. Not that it’s any of his business. He’s just passing through. At least until three thugs with Brooklyn accents try to run him out of town. Now they've made it his business.

It’s the ultimate test of endurance: two-hundred-and-fifty miles in the brutal heat of the Sahara, with only the supplies you can carry on your back. Adri is ready. Returning to ultra-running in the wake of a scandal, she needs to prove to herself – and her young son – that she’s a winner. When a fellow runner is badly injured, Adri knows something isn’t right. Yet in a race this extreme, even a dead body can be explained away. But there’s a killer stalking the hot sand. And the problem with running faster than everyone else, is that you’re miles ahead of anyone who can save you...

Barcelona, 1909. Durante un fastuoso baile de máscaras en el Liceo, Victoria, condesa de Cardona, aparece asesinada. Tiene una herida mortal en la cabeza y en la mano un valiosísimo rubí desaparecido tiempo atrás. No será la única muerte en el Gran Teatro. El inspector Ignasi Requesens se pone al frente de la investigación, pero nadie parece haber visto nada. Nobles, coristas, empresarios, vividores, tramoyistas, madames, bastardos, médiums y arribistas...

Unbeliebt war sie schon immer. Doch als die Vize-Direktorin des Flensburger Marie-Louise-Gymnasiums an einem herrlichen Sommermorgen ermordet aufgefunden wird, sorgt das für Aufregung in der ganzen Stadt. Die beiden Ermittler Anne Anders und Hendryk Larsson, die sich seit ihrer Schulzeit an eben diesem Gymnasium kennen, begeben sich sofort auf Spurensuche. Bei Fischbrötchen mit Krabben kommen sie dabei auch nicht um ihre eigene Vergangenheit herum.

La muerte en extrañas circunstancias de un joven de dieciséis años en su propio domicilio hace que los detectives Liz Cromwell y Jeremy Pruner se personen en el lugar del suceso. A pesar de que las evidencias conducen a pensar que se trata de un suicidio, el análisis forense arroja dudas al respecto. La aparición de un nuevo cadáver en condiciones similares empujará a los detectives a una desesperante investigación. Pero ¿quién querría matarlos?

Luther is a darkly humorous mafia book that tells the story of Luther LaMotta, an accidental low-level hitman in the Manchini family mob. Luther wants nothing more from life than to savor music in the solitude of his plant-filled apartment, or to romp in borrowed luxury cars with his girlfriend/stripper Candy Barr, an Amish runaway. Instead, he is forced to clean up after mob hits, feeding victims’ body parts to a crocodile named Bianca who is kept in a pit in a New York City basement.

Jim Gold is a former FBI agent turned Private Investigator, currently living in a small town in Pennsylvania. Jim has earned the respect of the townspeople and the Sheriff's Department, but the peace and quiet is about to be disrupted by something sinister. A number of people travelling the back roads have been disappearing for a month, and with next to no trace of them found, the main suspicion is that they've been kidnapped.

Caught up in a series of hideous headline-generating crimes, Will Stewart confronts the question of whether to reveal himself or allow innocent lives to be lost. An old enemy surfaces. A vile night stalker poses a threat. And helping Andy in a race to determine the fate of a missing Essex police officer while testing the side effects of "the other thing" pushes Will to the edge...

Ben Gibson is living the dream. Married to his high school sweetheart and with two beautiful young children, he’s also achieved his ultimate goal of becoming a member of the elite Victoria Police Dog Squad. For Ben life just couldn’t be better! But disaster strikes when his canine partner, Duke, is killed in the line of duty. Then, as he slowly recovers from the loss of Duke, disaster strikes again when his wife and daughter are tragically killed in a car accident.

Twenty-five years ago, an unimaginable tragedy struck the town of Cherry Hollow, leaving its residents devastated and searching for answers. Grief overwhelmed the town for two decades until five years ago when the truth was finally revealed, but not everyone believed the story … Now, a new family has moved to town, unaware of the secrets and lies that lurk under the floorboards of their new home that once belonged to Amber Walker, one of the five members of the original disaster.