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  • Sueño profundo

    Sinopsis de Sueño profundo

    Alison Willetts sufre la desdicha de continuar con vida. Sobrevivió a una apoplejía, provocada deliberadamente por una diestra manipulación sobre ciertos puntos sensibles de la cabeza y el cuello. Puede ver, escuchar y sentir; percibe todo lo que sucede a su alrededor, pero está totalmente incapacitada para moverse o comunicarse.

    La policía piensa que el asesino cometió su primer gran error al dejar a Alison Willetts con vida, pero el detective Tom Thorne descubre la horripilante realidad: el error no es el cometido con Alison, sino con las tres mujeres que ya ha asesinado.

    Hay «un premeditado margen de error» en el modo en que el asesino ha acabado con ellas y Thorne está convencido de que habrá más víctimas. Debe encontrar al hombre que posee esa terrorífica agenda y Alison es la única persona que tiene la clave para descubrirle.

    Mi opinión

    Una idea muy buena, o eso me parece a mí: un asesino que realmente comete errores cuando se mueren las vícitmas. Siento decir que me pareció un tostón que no fui capaz de terminar.

  • Snow Blind

    Synopsis of Snow Blind

    When the corpses of three police officers are discovered entombed in snowmen, Grace MacBride and her team of crime-busting computer jocks at the Monkeewrench firm are called in to assist.

    What they discover is a terrifying link among the victims that reaches beyond the badge and crosses the line between hard justice and stone cold vengeance.

    Synopsis taken from Amazon

  • Dead Run

    Synopsis of Dead Run

    It should have been a simple journey – a drive from Minneapolis to Green Bay, Wisconsin.

    But a couple of unplanned detours lead Grace MacBride, Annie Belinsky and police Deputy Sharon Mueller deep in the northern woods, far from civilization and a mobile phone signal. Then the car breaks down.

    The nervous search for a landline and a mechanic leads the women to Four Corners, a sleepy crossroads town. And place they soon wish they’d never stumbled on – because something terrible happened in Four Corners…

    Filled with the same crackling dialogue, pace and rich vivid characters as Want to Play? and Live Bait, Dead Run firmly establishes PJ Tracy as one of the most exciting thriller writers in the world.

    Synopsis of Dead Run taken from Amazon

  • Sail of Stone

    Synopsis of Sail of Stone

    A brother and sister believe that their father has gone missing. They think he may have traveled in search of his father, who was presumed lost decades ago in World War II.

    Meanwhile, there are reports that a woman is being abused, but she can’t be found and her family won’t tell the police where she is.

    Two missing people and two very different families combine in this dynamic and suspenseful mystery by the Swedish master Åke Edwardson.

    Gothenburg’s Chief Inspector Erik Winter travels to Scotland in search of the missing man, aided there by an old friend from Scotland Yard.

    Back in Gothenburg, Afro-Swedish detective Aneta Djanali discovers how badly someone doesn’t want her to find the missing woman when she herself is threatened.

    Sail of Stone is a brilliantly perceptive character study, acutely observed and skillfully written with an unerring sense of pace.

    Synopsis of Sail of Stone taken from Amazon

  • Eight Days to Live

    Eve Duncan and her adopted daughter, Jane Macguire, are pitted against the members of a secretive cult who have targeted Jane and have decided that she will be their ultimate sacrifice. In eight days they will come for her. In eight days, what Jane fears the most will become a reality. In eight days, she will die.

    It all begins with a painting that Jane, an artist, displays in her Parisian gallery. The painting is called ‘Guilt’ and Jane has no idea how or why she painted the portrait of the chilling face.

    But the members of a cult that dates back to the time of Christ believe that Jane’s blasphemy means she must die. But first, she will lead them to an ancient treasure whose value is beyond price.

    This elusive treasure, and Jane’s death, are all that they need for their power to come to ultimate fruition. With Eve’s help, can Jane escape before the clock stops ticking?

  • Aquí hay veneno

    Sinopsis de Aquí hay veneno

    La muerte del patriarca Gregory altera la aparente tranquilidad en la elegante mansión de los Matthews. Si la avara tía Harriet no duda de que la causa fue la opulenta cena a base de pato asado y el mejor scotch, la imperiosa Gertrude exige una autopsia.

    Así pues, en medio de un cruce de acusaciones más o menos veladas, los exámenes confirmarán lo peor: ¡veneno! Y aunque los miembros de la familia parecen dispuestos a colaborar con el comisario Hannasyde, cada nueva pista no hace si no confirmar que todos tenían motivos para matar al «pobre» Gregory.

    Primera entrega de la serie de suspense de Georgette Heyer ambientada en los años treinta. El humor cáustico, los diálogos chispeantes y la viveza de unos personajes moldeados con maestría caracterizan estas novelas que han deleitado a varias generaciones de lectores y recabado múltiples elogios de críticos como el famoso Jacques Barzun, que incluyó a Heyer en el panteón de las mejores escritoras de misterio inglesas.

    Sinopsis de Aquí hay veneno tomada de Amazon

    Mi opinión

    La verdad es que da gusto leer novelas como Aquí hay veneno. Las tramas clásicas son las mejores.

    La historia está llena de humor, los diálogos son estupendos y los personajes, fabulosos, quedan perfectamente definidos desde el principio. Si a esto añadimos que la lectura es ágil y la acción es rápida ¿qué más se puede pedir?.

  • Muerte en el cepo

    Sinopsis de Muerte en el cepo

    En el tranquilo pueblo de Ashleigh Green, bajo la plateada luz de la luna, aparece un cadáver en medio del parque.

    Cuando el inspector Hannasyde se hace cargo del caso se encuentra con una situación inaudita, pues no sólo ninguna de las personas cercanas al acaudalado Arnold Vereker lamenta su muerte, sino que nadie parece tener una coartada, ni muestra el menor interés en simularla.

    ¡Y muchos tenían por lo menos un motivo!

    El inspector se encontrará pronto envuelto en el «torbellino Vereker», esa impetuosa y rebelde forma de comportarse de esta excéntrica familia.

    Giros inesperados y revelaciones sorprendentes exigirán toda la paciencia y la sagacidad de Hannasyde para desenredar la maraña.

    Sinopsis de Muerte en el cepo tomada de Amazon

  • The Betrayal of Trust

    Synopsis of The Betrayal of Trust

    Simon Serrailler is faced with that most complicated of investigations – a cold case. Freak weather and flash floods all over southern England. Half of Lafferton is afloat.

    A landslip on the Moor has closed the bypass and, as the rain slowly drains away, a shallow grave – and a skeleton – are exposed.

    It doesn’t take long to identify the remains as those of the missing teenager, Harriet Lowther, last seen carrying a tennis racket while waiting for a bus.

    But that was sixteen years ago. How long will it take to trawl through the old, stale evidence and assess it anew?

    The Lafferton force is struggling with staff shortages and economies, and Simon has to do a lot of the legwork on his own.

    Meanwhile, his sister, Dr Cat Deerbon, is fighting for extra funding for the hospice which is threatened with cuts and closures.

    All the Simon Serrailler novels offer more than merely a murder mystery, and The Betrayal of Trust is no exception: it takes a brave, truthful look at old age and the associated problems of terminal illness which, in the future, will bring our society to the brink of painful conflicts of conscience.

    Susan Hill’s gifts are displayed here to dazzling effect: her empathy and understanding of the human heart, her brilliance when evoking character and her tremendous powers of exciting storytelling.

    Synopsis of The Betrayal of Trust taken from Amazon

  • Hielo y cenizas

    En el extrarradio de la ciudad danesa de Ahrus, tras una tormenta hallan a un niño de ocho años muerto en un riachuelo, presumiblemente por asfixia. Aunque en un primer momento todo apunta a un asesinato de cariz sexual, los restos de quemaduras en el cadáver llevan a la policía a indagar más y a buscar el lugar donde haya rastros de un incendio reciente.ç

    Extrañamente, los padres de la víctima, ocultan algo y, además, el caso de un chico ahogado en ese mismo río treinta y cuatro años atrás podría estar relacionado con la investigación de la muerte de Lukas.

    En Hielo y cenizas Inger Wolf vuelve a combinar el mejor suspense psicológico con la clásica novela de detectives y consolida, con el introvertido detective Daniel Trokic, de origen croata, y la joven Lisa Kornelius, especialista en informática, una pareja de protagonistas que comparte una inquietante relación profesional.

  • The Shadows in the Street

    Synopsis fo The Shadows in the Street

    In The Shadows in the Street,  Simon Serrailler has just wrapped up a particularly exhausting and difficult case for SIFT – Special Incident Flying Taskforce – and is on a sabbatical on a far flung Scottish island when he is called back to Lafferton by the Chief Constable.

    Two local prostitutes have gone missing and are subsequently found strangled. By the time he gets back, another girl has disappeared.

    Is this a vendetta against prostitutes by someone with a warped mind? Or a series of killings by an angry punter?

    But then one of the Cathedral wives goes missing, followed by another young married woman, on her way to work.

    Serailler follows lead after lead, all of which become dead-ends.

    The fear is that more women will be killed, and that the murderer is right under their noses; meanwhile the public grow more angry and afraid. It is only through a piece of luck, a chance meeting and a life put in grave danger that he finally gets a result…

    Susan Hill has a genius for evoking atmosphere and suspense, and her characters are so real that the reader is caught up not only in the mystery but in the drama of their lives.

    Synopsis of The Shadows in the Street taken from Amazon