Literary Mystery

Es un libro de cuentos donde se dan cita grandes autores y personajes de la literatura universal como Dostoievski, Mary Shelley, Franz Kafka y, por supuesto, Edgar Allan Poe. Libro ganador del premio de cuento Ciudad de Bogotá 2017.

If it were true that the best thing a girl can be in this world is a fool, then Allie Catt would be out of luck. Fortunately, Allie’s business is a smashing success. And following her Pride and Prejudice event, grander plans await. Feast for the Eyes bookstore manager and Allie’s best friend, Tegan, is hosting a book club soiree and wants it to be a glittering affair based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic Jazz Age-set novel, The Great Gatsby. Soon, Art Deco table settings and visions of flappers are dancing the Charleston in their heads. Even Tegan’s prickly sister, Vanna, is on board.

A man turns up dead in his own apartment, locked in his closet, his body crawling with poisonous spiders, and the Boston police are stumped. As all of their leads collapse, they are dreading the killer will strike again. Desperate, the police have no choice but to turn to Boston’s most brilliant and controversial homicide detective - Avery Black. Now retired, Avery, in a low point in her own life, reluctantly agrees to help with the case. But when other bodies start turning up, Avery can’t help but wonder: Is there a serial killer on the loose?

A fact-filled, jargon-free guide to wine, bursting with entertaining anecdotes, literary quotes, and compelling humor that will teach you everything you always wanted to learn about wine but were too scared to ask. A literary twist on traditional food and wine pairings, this book explores how great wines and great writers can be combined to enhance the enjoyment of both. The book describes the history of wine from the time of Noah to the birth of two-buck Chuck.

In his prime, spry senior Truman Kicklighter had been a first-rate reporter for the Associated Press. But not even the hottest story from his newshound days can rival the recent goings-on at the sleepy Fountain of Youth Residential Hotel in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Still grieving the death of his wife, Marlo, and wasting away in a retirement forced upon him under a cloud of suspicion, Raymond “Mack” Mackey finds a new job with the Chandler Illinois Police Department. It might be reason for hope. Or not. Mack can’t seem his to shake his reputation for corruption. Undeserved, sure, but most of his colleagues want to see him locked up or dead anyway. A welcome diversion shows up in the form of Nadia King, an alluring single mother who asks Mack to recover a missing heirloom: an antique Russian nesting doll that belongs to Nadia’s immigrant mother.

Frauen werden im ländlichen Virginia tot aufgefunden - alle auf groteskte Weise getötet - und als das FBI den Fall übernimmt sind sie ratlos. Ein Serienmörder ist unterwegs, die Abstände zwischen den Morden werden immer kürzer und sie wissen, dass nur ein Agent gut genug ist um den Fall zu lösen: Spezialagentin Riley Paige.

I cadaveri di alcune donne, uccise in modi grotteschi, sono ritrovati nelle campagne della Virginia. Non sembrano esserci soluzioni e viene coinvolta l’FBI ma anche i federali sono disorientati. Un pericoloso serial killer è a piede libero e non si vuole fermare. Gli agenti sanno che uno solo, tra loro, è in grado di risolvere il caso: l’Agente Speciale Riley Paige...In un’incalzante corsa contro il tempo, si ritrova spinta al limite: rischia di perdere il lavoro, la sua famiglia é in pericolo e i suoi nervi rischiano di crollare .

Retiree Truman Kicklighter returns in the second installment of a simmering Florida series by one of today's hottest suspense writers. When Truman's twenty-something pal is taken for a ride by a used-car dealer, he has to put the brakes on a scam with a deadly payoff.

Quando delle prostitute vengono trovate morte a Phoenix, non viene prestata molta attenzione. Ma scoperta una scia di omicidi inquietanti, la polizia locale presto realizza che c’è un serial killer a piede libero, ed è vicino. Data la natura peculiare dei crimini, l’FBI, di cui viene richiesto l’intervento, è consapevole di aver bisogno della mente più brillante per risolvere il caso: l’Agente Speciale Riley Paige.

The Shermans have given up successful professional careers as engineer and editor to become booksellers in The Olde Victorian Bookstore in Annapolis, Maryland. Rare 15th-century typesetting artifacts journey through time to the present, leaving behind not only their original innovation, but a horrifying imprint of murder, robbery, kidnapping, and mugging in their wake. Professor Abner Fraume, brother of the bookstore's former owner, possesses these artifacts and gives his life to protect their whereabouts.

Im Hinterland von New York werden Frauen ermordet und ihre Leichen in Ketten gewickelt aufgehängt. Als das FBI übernimmt, ist klar, dass es für so einen bizarren Fall mit kaum vorhandenen Hinweisen, nur eine Agentin gibt: Spezialagentin Riley Paige. Riley will nur ungern einen neuen Fall annehmen, da sie immer noch davon überzeugt ist, dass ein totgeglaubter Serienmörder sie jagt...Sie kann nicht ablehnen - auch wenn es sie über ihre Grenzen bringt.

In Sue Hinkin’s award-winning thriller The Burn Patient, TV news photog, Lucy Vega, thought she’d seen her uncle’s murderer die in Guerrero. He was incinerated in a Jeep explosion while trying to put a bullet through her head. She didn’t know officials had never found the body. Now, Gary Mercer, Hollywood bad boy, drug czar and psychopathic killer, is back from the dead with a new face, literally. This time his perverted sights are set on reporter Bea Middleton’s beautiful, naïve, 13-year-old daughter, Alyssa.

Los Angeles TV journalist Beatrice Middleton has lost her job. With a possible employment offer in Atlanta, she heads home to Savannah, Georgia, to reconnect with her contentious African-American family, arriving to find that her 15-year-old nephew has been murdered. This begins the unraveling of a cloak of family secrets surrounding another devastating crime, one that shattered Bea's world when she was a teen. The traumatic memory has been buried so deep it almost feels like it never happened - almost.

I've always thought that Matlacha (say Mat-la-SHAY), the funky Pine Island Florida fishing village cum art colony, would be a perfect setting for a mystery when along comes Jessie Murphy, the perfect gal to sort out the riff from the raff of it all. You've got to love this lady - a Goodwill fashion queen who comes across as a ditzy airhead and whose best buddy is a gargoyle named Gar. Jessie's taken time off from her job, thrilled to be rekindling the flame of romance with her treasure-hunting guy, Will Rolins, who adores her.

Quando una coppia viene assassinata e non ci sono apparenti sospetti, Kate Wise, una donna di cinquantacinque anni con una figlia ormai adulta e trent’anni di carriera all’FBI alle spalle, viene richiamata dalla pensione (e dalla sua tranquilla vita di periferia) per tornare a lavorare al bureau. La sua mente brillante e la sua irraggiungibile capacità di entrare nella mente dei serial killer è assolutamente indispensabile, e l’FBI ha bisogno di lei per venire a capo di quell’incomprensibile caso.

Dans Avant Qu’il Ne Voie, Mackenzie White, agent du FBI en formation, fait de son mieux pour prendre ses marques au sein de l’académie du FBI à Quantico, tout en essayant de faire ses preuves en tant que femme et transfuge du Nebraska.... Espérant être à la hauteur afin de devenir agent du FBI et laisser pour de bon sa vie dans le Midwest derrière elle, Mackenzie cherche à faire profil bas et à impressionner ses supérieurs. Mais tout change lorsque le cadavre d’une femme est retrouvé dans une décharge publique.

Una donna viene trovata morta nei campi di granoturco del Nebraska, legata a un palo, vittima di un folle assassino. La polizia non ci mette molto a realizzare di avere a che fare con un serial killer - e che la sua furia omicida è appena iniziata. La detective Mackenzie White è giovane, determinata e più intelligente dei maschilisti di mezza età che lavorano con lei nella polizia locale. È quindi a malincuore che viene interpellata per risolvere il caso.

Summer is gorgeous in the mountains of Sheridan County, Wyoming, where Jo Wolf takes to the hiking trails to enjoy the scenery in-between her volunteer responsibilities as the organizer, caretaker, and de facto hiring manager for a rural school nestled among the ranches. A wife of a local sheriff, she wants to adopt a burro so that their own family ranch feels complete. But when she stumbles over a stranger's body in the woods, her to-do list shifts as she takes on the role of sleuth.

College student Tomas Moore is the son of a Pine Island crab fisherman and a Mexican homemaker who often seeks psychic guidance. When the young man is found murdered, his parents and the locals fear the law will not place a high priority on solving his death. It is up to Jessie Murphy to find the killer. As Jessie tries to unravel the mystery of this promising young islander's murder, she finds herself in a heart-stopping race against time in which honesty and love are tested, greed is rampant, and no one is safe.