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Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedure for Lieutenant Dave Klein, LAPD. He's a slumlord, a bagman, an enforcer--a power in his own small corner of hell. Then the Feds announce a full-out investigation into local police corruption, and everything goes haywire. Klein's been hung out as bait, "a bad cop to draw the heat, " and the heat's coming from all sides: from local politicians, from LAPD brass, fr...

In the Royal Free Hospital in London every day battle with death, not with murder. So the discovery of the body of Prudence Barrymore, a nurse from a good family creates confusion and amazement. Although police say Kristian Beck, a foreign doctor is at fault, the hospital authorities entrust the investigation of the case to William Monk. Monk, together with wing nurse and friend of the victim Hester Latterly and brilliant lawyer Oliver Rathbon...

It's not often a crime novel offers such a smorgasbord of oddball elements, including autopsy advice, methods of combating tree blight, the use of spiders in sadomasochist torture and couples covering the sexual and psychological waterfronts. There's even a little nasty fun at the expense of television psychoanalysts. With geographic locations switching slightly faster than the speed of sound, it's to Reading's credit that she smoothes out the...

The Fall of Hyperion is the second science fiction novel by Dan Simmons in his Hyperion Cantos fictional universe. The novel was written in 1990, and won both the British Science Fiction and a Locus Awards in 1991. It was also nominated for the Hugo Award that same year, and the Nebula Award in 1990. Like the previous novel Hyperion, it follows a frame structure of sorts, although it is far less explicit: instead of a number of pilgrims tellin...

Gerrard Debbington, Vane Cynster's brother-in-law, is one of London's most eligible gentlemen. Uninterested in marriage, his driving passion is to paint the fabled gardens of Lord Tregonning's Hellebore Hall -- an opportunity that is now at hand...if Gerrard agrees to create an honest portrait of Tregonning's daughter as well. Gerrard chafes at wasting his talents on some simpering miss, only to discover that Jacqueline Tregonning stirs him as...

Out Stealing Horses has been embraced across the world as a classic, a novel of universal relevance and power. Panoramic and gripping, it tells the story of Trond Sander, a sixty-seven-year-old man who has moved from the city to a remote, riverside cabin, only to have all the turbulence, grief, and overwhelming beauty of his youth come back to him one night while he's out on a walk. From the moment Trond sees a strange figure coming out of the...

Fray Bartolome de las Casas assured that "he had been involved in nearly a thousand duels to death and nobody could ever hurt him." Adventurous, charming and tough during his youth, Alonso de Ojeda embarks with Columbus on his second trip, and comes to become commander in chief of his troops. After returning to Spain, Queen Elizabeth receives from the task of traveling again to the newly discovered lands to determine if in fact this is a conti...

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Claire Laurent was a woman who embodied all of New Orleans' sultry paradoxes: beauty mixed with a mysterious elusiveness, a vibrant zest for living shadowed by secrets and hidden passions. Yet she had fought hard to make her fabulous lingerie mail order business, French Silk, into a worldwide success. Now, the three deadly bullets that killed a TV evangelist could snatch every-thing away from her, even her life. Was the killer Claire? District...

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The time of reckoning has arrived. As a final genocidal Crusade threatens to enslave humanity forever, a new messiah has come of age. She is Aenea and she has undergone a strange apprenticeship to those known as the Others. Now her protector, Raul Endymion, onetime shepherd and convicted murderer, must help her deliver her startling message to her growing army of disciples. But first they must embark on a final spectacular mission to discover ...

In My name is Liberty we met Hardy Cates, an irresistible Texan with very humble origins, the bad guy who stole the heart from Liberty Jones. Now, with The Devil has Blue Eyes, Hardy Cates is back ... and all women are at risk! Haven Travis is the rebellious heiress of a Texan oil barons. Two years after marrying a man which her family disapproved, Haven separates and returns home, determined to give new direction to her life. And Hardy Cates,...

Crime and mystery in Victorian society. "A unique mystery novel, extremely well set and great psychological depth." Publishers Weekly. When General Thaddeus Carlyon, a distinguished veteran who served the Majesty's Empire, dies in an elegant party in London, no one suspected a case of murder. However, the beautiful wife of General, Alexandra, confesses as the author of the crime, causing a profound shock to the Victorian aristocracy. The detec...

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Anne Rice ha recreado, con singular talento y brillante imaginación, las historias de vampiros, dotándolas de una mística que trasciende el horror y se interna en el misterio de la existencia. Su fascinante saga Crónicas de un Vampiro, se inició con el Best - Seller Entrevista con el Vampiro, recientemente llevada al cine. El Ladrón de cuerpos, último eslabón de la exitosa serie, ha permanecido largo tiempo en los primeros lugares de las lista...