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El cíclope gafotas (Serie Bat Pat #Volumen 29)
by Roberto Pavanello¡Por todos los mosquitos! No puedes perderte esta aventura del murciélago detective Bat Pat y los hermanos Silver: Leo, Martin y Rebecca en Grecia. ¡¡¡HOLA!!! SOY BAT PAT.OS VOY A CONTAR UNA HISTORIA QUE OS PONDRÁ LOS PELOS DE PUNTA...¿ESTÁIS PREPARADOS? A la tía Gergovia, la arqueóloga de la familia, le han llegado rumores de que en una isla griega existen... ¡cabras gigantes! Rebecca, Leo, Martin y yo hemos decidido acompañarla y hemos descubierto que lo realmente grande son son las cabras... ¡sino el cabrero! Un cíclope enorme, gruñón y con un grave problema de vista. ¿Estáis listos para la aventura?
A cidade antes do amanhecer: Mistérios de Tupper Jones 2 (Mistérios de Tupper Jones #2)
by M. A. GardnerA investigadora particular Caroline Collins simplesmente não consegue fazer uma pausa. Quando um velho amigo liga, Caroline se vê envolvida em um caso envolvendo reuniões clandestinas, assaltos a banco, um negócio obscuro de importação e exportação e o assassinato de uma agente do FBI. E para onde esta destemida detetive for, Tupper Jones certamente a seguirá – só que desta vez, seguir pode significar uma longa caminhada de um píer até o Lago Michigan. Logo após os eventos de NOTA DO SILÊNCIO, A CIDADE ANTES DO AMANHECER explode com ação. Perigo e um toque de sarcasmo. A banda está reunida novamente e o Time Collins não vai parar até que as falsas acusações contra seu amigo sejam descartadas e a máfia de Chicago precise de um novo chefe.
A Cidade Sob a Árvore de Natal
by Jr WirthO Natal é uma época para a família, principalmente para as crianças que mantêm viva a magia do Natal. O que acontece quando as crianças se tornam maldosas e brigam pelos presentes embrulhados embaixo da árvore? Seis primos descobrem na Cidade Sob a Árvore de Natal. No espírito de Charles Dickens, os primos são colocados em um mundo não-familiar, de cabeça para baixo, onde são forçados a lidar e confiar uns nos outros. A jornada começa com a heroína Hailey Jade, de nove anos, pousando em um país das maravilhas do inverno, onde o terror logo se instala quando ela percebe que está sozinha. Logo, Hailey é acompanhado por seu primo mais velho, Isaías. Juntos, eles reconhecem que as crianças mais novas também foram lançadas através do tempo e do espaço e estão agora desaparecidas e em perigo. A corrida para encontrar as crianças mais novas acaba com eles indo em direção à cidade sob a árvore de Natal do avô, onde eles encontram o verdadeiro significado do Natal e o amor um pelo outro.
The Cider Shop Rules (A Cider Shop Mystery #3)
by Julie Anne LindseyAutumn in Blossom Valley means pumpkin patches are ripe and Winona Mae Montgomery and her Granny Smythe&’s cider shop is flourishing. But with this season comes . . . A FATAL HARVEST The Fall Festival is in full swing. Civil War reenactors from three counties are partaking in Blossom Valley&’s tribute to John Brown. Blue Ridge Mountain foliage is in full bloom. And best of all is Jacob Potter&’s pumpkin farm where his hay rides, piglet races, pumpkin picking and corn maze are time-honored draws for locals and tourists alike. That&’s why it&’s such a shock when Mr. Potter is found dead, hidden under a tarp in the back of Winnie&’s pickup truck. This certainly betrays Potter&’s reputation as one of the town&’s most popular citizens. Fortunately, when it comes to solving a murder, no one has a patch on Winnie. Now, all eyes are on her to do it. Unfortunately, that includes those of the killer who&’ll do anything to keep an orchard full of secrets buried.
Cień Ogara
by Jolanta U. Grębowiec-Baffoni Claudio RuggeriZmasakrowane ciało młodej kobiety znalezione w lesie zdaje się jednoznacznie wskazywać na motyw zabójstwa. Wyłaniająca się postać mordercy nie przekonuje jednak komisarza Vincenta Germano, który decyduje na zwrot w prowadzeniu śledztwa.
Cielo y tierra (La isla de las Tres Hermanas #2)
by Nora RobertsRipley Todd es la protagonista de Cielo y tierra, la segunda parte de la maravillosa trilogía «La isla de las Tres Hermanas». Ripley Todd solo aspira a llevar una vida apacible en su isla natal de Tres Hermanas. Su trabajo como ayudante del sheriff la satisface y tampoco tiene problemas para relacionarse con los hombres. Pero hay algo que la inquieta: los poderes especiales que posee y que, aunque lo intente, no es capaz de controlar. Cuando el carismático MacAllister Booke llega a la isla para hacer una investigación sobre brujería, queda inmediatamente impactado por los centelleantes ojos verdes de Ripley. Fascinado por la lucha interior que esta mantiene con sus extraordinarias habilidades, intentará ayudarla a que acepte su destino. Aunque antes Ripley deberá enfrentarse al dolor y al peligro que sobrevendrán desde un pasado remoto.
Cielos de barro
by Dulce ChacónUna novela apasionante sobre el amor, el odio, la venganza y las diferencias entre clases sociales, ambientada en los duros años de la posguerra española y ganadora del Premio Azorín. Un joven pastor es acusado de cometer un triple asesinato en el cortijo extremeño donde sus familiares han trabajado como sirvientes durante generaciones. Su única defensa será el testimonio sin fisuras de su anciano abuelo, que revelará una brutal historia de intriga, sometimiento, erotismo y venganza, de la que amos y criados son a la vez testigos y protagonistas. En una época en que la Guerra Civil abrió una brecha insalvable entre vencedores y vencidos, el relato de un viejo alfarero que no se rinde ante la injusticia abrirá heridas aún sin cicatrizar y cuestionará los férreos cimientos morales de la aristocracia rural española. Reseña:«Una novela de amores y odios, escrita con crueldad, ternura y poesía.»Ángel Basanta, El Cultural
The Cilla Rose Affair
by Winona KentHe played a spy on TV. Now he’s recruiting his sons into the real-life world of international espionage—from the author of Skywatcher. Evan Harris’s experiences as a spy helped make him a star playing one on TV. When Britain’s best-loved breakfast show DJ dies, only Evan knows what it has to do with a pirate radio station, a long-lost diary, a suspected double agent, the London Underground, and mysterious sound waves underneath the Fitzroy Theatre. So Evan recruits his three sons to help him unmask the traitor deep within the British spy community in a sting operation not unlike a storyline from his own cult 1960’s TV show . . .
Cimarron Rose: A Novel (Billy Bob Holland)
by James Lee Burke'Evil, bigotry and doing the right thing. All are done as expertly as ever by a master writer' DAILY TELEGRAPHLucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His lawyer Billy Bob Holland is convinced of Lucas's innocence but proving it means unearthing the truth from a seething mass of deceit and corruption. A corruption endemic in the way it can be only in a gossipy small town where everybody knows everybody else's business. Billy Bob's relationship with Lucas's family is not an easy one - years back he was a close friend of Mrs Smothers, too close according to her husband Vernon. And when Lucas overhears gruesome tales of serial murder from a neighbouring cell in the local lock-up, the waters are muddied even further and Lucas himself looks like a candidate for an untimely death.Praise for one of the great American crime writers, James Lee Burke:'James Lee Burke is the heavyweight champ, a great American novelist whose work, taken individually or as a whole, is unsurpassed.' Michael Connelly'A gorgeous prose stylist.' Stephen King'Richly deserves to be described now as one of the finest crime writers America has ever produced.' Daily MailFans of Dennis Lehane, Michael Connelly and Don Winslow will love James Lee Burke: Billy Bob Holland Series1. Cimarron Rose 2. Heartwood 3. Bitterroot 4. In The Moon of Red Ponies Dave Robicheaux Series1. The Neon Rain 2. Heaven's Prisoners 3. Black Cherry Blues 4. A Morning for Flamingos 5. A Stained White Radiance 6. In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead 7. Dixie City Jam 8. Burning Angel 9. Cadillac Jukebox 10. Sunset Limited 11. Purple Cane Road 12. Jolie Blon's Bounce 13. Last Car to Elysian Fields 14. Crusader's Cross 15. Pegasus Descending 16. The Tin Roof Blowdown 17. Swan Peak 18. The Glass Rainbow 19. Creole Belle 20. Light of the World 21. Robicheaux Hackberry Holland Series1. Lay Down My Sword and Shield 2. Rain Gods 3. Feast Day of Fools 4. House of the Rising Sun* Each James Lee Burke novel can be read as a standalone or in series order *
Cimarron Rose: A Novel (The Holland Family Novels #1)
by James Lee BurkeTexas attorney Billy Bob Holland must confront the past in order to save his illegitimate son from a murder conviction in this brilliant, fast-paced thriller from beloved New York Times bestselling author James Lee Burke.Lucas Smothers, nineteen and from the wrong end of town, has been arrested for the rape and murder of a local girl. His lawyer, former Texas Ranger Billy Bob Holland, is convinced of Lucas’s innocence—but proving it means unearthing the truth from the seething mass of deceit and corruption that spreads like wildfire in a gossipy small town where everybody knows everybody else’s business.Billy Bob’s relationship with Lucas’s family is not an easy one. Years back he was a close friend of Mrs. Smothers—too close, according to her husband. But when Lucas overhears gruesome tales of serial murder from a neighboring cell in the local lock-up, he himself looks like a candidate for an untimely death, and Billy Bob incurs enemies far more dangerous than any he faced as a Ranger.With the same electric language and hard-edged style that brought James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux novels to the forefront of American crime fiction, Cimarron Rose explodes with a harsh, evocative setting and unforgettable characters.
Cinc dies d'octubre (Inspector Mascarell #Volumen 3)
by Jordi Sierra i FabraTercer llibre de la sèrie de novel·la policíaca ambienta a la Barcelona de postguerra, de Jordi Sierra i Fabra. Quan l'inspector Mascarell s'encarrega de la recerca d'un jove anarquista, descobreix que l'èxit de la seva investigació podria implicar la seva pròpia mort. 1948. Un any després d'abandonar el Valle de los Caídos en ser indultat, Miquel Mascarell, el darrer policia de la Barcelona republicana, ha refet la seva vida al costat de la Patro, la jove que ha salvat dues vegades. La visita d'un home temible que li fa un encàrrec estrany, buscar la tomba del seu nebot, mort el 18 de juliol del 36, tornarà a enfrontar el vell inspector amb els seus fantasmes i la seva supervivència, en una ciutat enrarida que acaba de viure una guerra i busca un nou futur. Durant aquests mateixos dies, a Madrid, un consell de guerra jutja el grup dels vuitanta, els maquis que continuen lluitant contra la dictadura. Quin secret amaga el cadàver d'aquell jove de qui busca la tomba, en un cara o creu a vida o mort, al cap de dotze anys dels fets, quan no en queden testimonis vius? Ambientada amb exactitud i precisió en l'Espanya de l'època, Cinc dies d'octubre és una novel·la que ens fa tornar al passat, potser per comprendre el present.
The Cinch
by Richard MartinsA planned crackdown on Chicago's gambling bosses by the FBI takes the form of a sting operation in which agent Frank Thorne infiltrates the syndicate posing as a stock broker with access to funds, not always his own. Thorne befriends Sonny Greco, a vulnerable bookmaker with Mafia connections in the hope of beating Sonny at his own game then leaning on him to get names of his bosses. Of course, the plot thickens when both Sonny and fellow agent Mary Agnes McCaskey turn out to be very likable, while Thorne's wife takes a dim view of the entire affair. Mix in a crooked cop, a con man, and a dope deal, and Frank finds himself knee-deep in a plot that in no way resembles what he had originally planned. Set in 1980s Chicago, The Cinch is an entertaining crime story with well developed characters and believable relationships.
Cinch Knot: Pigs, Politics, and Petroleum. The Multinational Plot to Nuke the Trans Alaska Pipeline
by Ron WaldenPipeline security guard, Dan Webster, and pump station technician, Gwen Stevens, discover a nuclear device inside an ultrasonic inspection pig, and are convinced it is a part of a sinister conspiracy involving the pipeline. They discover a multinational plot, Cinch Knot, masterminded by influential oil and shipping leaders to restrict the flow of oil by nuking the pipeline and driving the price of oil upward. Thus, the fate of the Alaska oil pipeline, Valdez, pristine, Prince William sound, and economic stability of the world, as well as the lives of thousands of people are threatened unless the bomb is disarmed and the schemers are stopped. Fast moving -- Cinch Knot's 200 pages takes the reader on an intriguing international chase to stop the scheme, and to the story's surprise ending.
The Cincinnati Kid: Empty-grave Tango Edition
by Richard JessupThe Cincinnati Kid, first published in 1963 (and made into a feature film starring Steve McQueen in 1965), is a gritty novel of smoky back-rooms and centered on a young card-shark (“The Kid”) who eventually finds himself in a stud-poker game against the undisputed master (“The Man”). From the dust-jacket: “By the time he was twenty-one, he was a full rambling-gambling man, a three river man... . From Jolly’s Omaha Card Club on the Missouri, to Sprügi’s Emporium in Wheeling on the Ohio, down to Memphis on the Mississippi, he was known as The Cincinnati Kid, a comer, with a way about him.”The Kid first saw Lancey Hodges in a game in Kentucky, and he did not have to be told that Lancey was The Man, the number one player who ruled the stud poker circuit from Vegas to Miami. An old pro warned him about Lancey: “You growd some, Cincinnata. You kin make his stomik ulcer bleed, but I ain’t got much faith in nothin’ that will take him.”
The Cincinnati Red Stalkings: A Mickey Rawlings Baseball Mystery (A Mickey Rawlings Mystery #5)
by Troy Soos"Equal parts baseball and mystery are the perfect proportion." --Robert Parker The Big Dead MachineIt's 1921, and journeyman infielder Mickey Rawlings finds himself on yet another team, the Cincinnati Reds, who everyone remembers for "winning" the 1919 World Series against the infamous Chicago Black Sox. In an effort to refurbish their image, Oliver Perrimen, a die-hard Reds fan cooks up a memorabilia exhibit of the 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings, who went undefeated in a historic coast-to-coast romp. But before the tour can reach first base, someone strikes Ollie out with a well-placed bullet. Since murder seems to follow Mickey around like a hitting slump he can't quite quit, he starts snagging clues. Soon enough he finds his hands full with a forgotten murder, breaking and entering, and an angry girlfriend. But when the game of his own life is on the line, Mickey Rawlings is a born survivor. At least he hopes. . .Praise for the Mickey Rawlings Baseball Mysteries"Full of life." --The New York Times Book Review on Hanging Curve"A perfect book for the rain delay. . .a winner!" --USA Today on Murder at Fenway Park"Delightful. . .mixing suspense, period detail that will leave readers eager for subsequent innings." --Publishers Weekly on Murder at Fenway Park
Cinco balas para Manuel Acuña
by Güemes CésarManuel Acuña no se mató. Lo asesinaron. Dice la historia oficial que, a sus veinticuatro años, el poeta Manuel Acuña se suicidó ingiriendo cianuro en su habitación de la Escuela de Medicina el 6 de diciembre de 1873. Añade la tradición que fue a causa del desamor de Rosario de la Peña, a quien le dedicó un célebre poema en cuyos versos finales puede, sin demasiada suspicacia, interpretarse una despedida de ella y del mundo. Pero la verdad es otra. Casi un siglo y medio después, en esta época y en este México, la descubrirá Gardel, un gatillero honesto según su propio código moral, que es contratado por una anticuaria para investigar sobre un par de objetos encontrados en un mueble que perteneció al poeta: una carta y una llave. La encomienda llevará a Gardel al encuentro con insospechados familiares de Acuña, con el siglo XIX mexicano, donde sentó sus reales el crimen organizado a través de bandas tan peligrosas como La Sociedad Siniestra, y con balas del siglo XXI, disparadas contra él y sus asociados Gavilán y Formosa para quitarlos de en medio en un camino que podría llevar a cuantiosas riquezas largamente ocultas. Manuel Acuña no se mató. Lo asesinaron. Dice la historia oficial que, a sus veinticuatro años, el poeta Manuel Acuña se suicidó ingiriendo cianuro en su habitación de la Escuela de Medicina el 6 de diciembre de 1873. Añade la tradición que fue a causa del desamor de Rosario de la Peña, a quien le dedicó un célebre poema en cuyos versos finales puede, sin demasiada suspicacia, interpretarse una despedida de ella y del mundo. Pero la verdad es otra. Casi un siglo y medio después, en esta época y en este México, la descubrirá Gardel, un gatillero honesto según su propio código moral, que es contratado por una anticuaria para investigar sobre un par de objetos encontrados en un mueble que perteneció al poeta: una carta y una llave. La encomienda llevará a Gardel al encuentro con insospechados familiares de Acuña, con el siglo XIX mexicano, donde sentó sus reales el crimen organizado a través de bandas tan peligrosas como La Sociedad Siniestra, y con balas del siglo XXI, disparadas contra él y sus asociados Gavilán y Formosa para quitarlos de en medio en un camino que podría llevar a cuantiosas riquezas largamente ocultas.
Cinco de Mayhem: A Santa Fe Cafe Mystery (Santa Fe Café Mysteries)
by Ann Myers Ann MyersMargaritas, spicy guacamole—and murder—are among this year’s preparations for Cinco de Mayo in the second Santa Fe Café mystery novel.Tres Amigas Café chef Rita Lafitte is busy baking her green chile soufflés and chocolate flans for Cinco de Mayo. If only her friend Linda, the daughter of Rita’s octogenarian boss Flori, could get into the festive spirit. Linda’s cart, Tia Tamales, is losing business to Crepe Empire, the hottest food cart in Santa Fe. Napoleon, Crepe Empire’s owner, is a pompous, celebrity chef who wants to squeeze out the competition. But when Linda gets into a heated argument with Napoleon and his corpse is later found stabbed and pinned beneath the wheels of her tamale cart, she becomes the number one suspect.Determined to prove Linda’s innocence, Rita investigates. From Napoleon’s disgruntled former employees to a shady health inspector, the list of suspects is longer than Flori’s strings of dried chili peppers. And when another corpse surfaces, Rita must scramble to find an elusive killer with an appetite for murder…
The Cinco de Mayo Murder: A Christine Bennett Mystery (The Christine Bennett Mysteries #17)
by Lee HarrisMAYDAY!When Christine Bennett is invited on a sightseeing trip to Arizona, she jumps at the chance for a little adventure. But the excursion reminds her of a former high school classmate, Heinz Gruner, who died twenty years earlier on Cinco de Mayo while hiking Picacho Peak near Tucson. Chris decides to contact Heinz's mother, who has been wondering all these years how her beloved son, an experienced hiker, plunged to his death. Her one wish is to find out the truth-whether it was an accident, as the police report claimed, or murder. So Chris begins sleuthing-tracking down anyone and everyone connected to her old classmate. Determined to unravel a mystery, if there is indeed one to unravel, Chris will stop at nothing to uncover the dire secrets that exist about that fateful day in May.From the Paperback edition.
Cinco de Murder (A Taste of Texas Mystery #3)
by Rebecca AdlerTex-Mex waitress and part-time reporter Josie Callahan serves up more Lone Star justice in this spicy mystery from the author of The Good, the Bad, and the Guacamole.It's fiesta time in Broken Boot, Texas, and tourists are pouring into town faster than free beer at a bull roping for the mouthwatering Cinco de Mayo festivities. Tex-Mex waitress Josie Callahan, her feisty abuela, and even her spunky Chihuahua Lenny are polishing their folklórico dances for Saturday's big parade, while Uncle Eddie is adding his own spicy event to the fiesta menu: Broken Boot's First Annual Charity Chili Cook-off.But Uncle Eddie's hopes of impressing the town council go up in smoke when cantankerous chili cook Lucky Straw is found dead in his tent. And when Josie's beloved uncle is accused of fatal negligence, she, Lenny, and the steadfast Detective Lightfoot must uncover who ended the ambitious chilihead's life--before another cook kicks the bucket.
Los cinco detectives 1: Misterio en la villa incendiada (Los cinco detectives #Volumen 1)
by Enid BlytonLa mítica serie de misterios de Enid Blyton, actualizada para los lectores de hoy. Algo huele a chamusquina... ¿Y si el incendio en la villa del antipático señor Hicks no ha sido un accidente? Pip, Bets, Larry, Daisy y su nuevo amigo Fatty están decididos a averiguarlo. ¡Acaban de nacer Los cinco detectives! ¡Qué emocionante!
Los cinco detectives 10. Misterio del extraño hatillo (Los cinco detectives #Volumen 10)
by Enid BlytonLos misteriosos casos de Los cinco detectives en una atractiva edición ilustrada. Tras los disfraces, ¡llega la ventriloquía! Los cinco detectives aprovechan la nueva habilidad de Fatty para resolver un misterio peliagudo en el que se encuentra implicado Goon.
Los cinco detectives 11: Misterio en la villa de los Acebos (Los cinco detectives #Volumen 11)
by Enid BlytonLa mítica serie de misterios de Enid Blyton, actualizada para los lectores de hoy en una atractiva edición ilustrada. Larry finge ser limpiador de cristales y se topa con un robo. La lista de sospechosos no para de aumentar. ¡E incluso alguno desaparece!
Los cinco detectives #12. Misterio del cuadro robado (Los cinco detectives #Volumen 12)
by Enid BlytonLa mítica serie de misterios de Enid Blyton, actualizada para los lectores de hoy. Ern, el sobrino de Goon, vuelve a colaborar con Los cinco detectives. Ern se aloja junto a la finca Tally-Ho, el escenario de un misterio en el que intervienen un cuadro robado y una perrita de lanas desaparecida.
Los cinco detectives #13. Misterio del fugitivo (Los cinco detectives #Volumen 13)
by Enid BlytonLa mítica serie de misterios de Enid Blyton, actualizada para los lectores de hoy en una atractiva edición ilustrada. Hay un criminal a la fuga. ¡El peor momento para que Fatty tenga visita en casa! Pero la invitada puede resultar clave para que Los cinco detectives desvelen el misterio.
Los cinco detectives 14 - Misterio de los mensajes sorprendentes (Los cinco detectives #Volumen 14)
by Enid BlytonLa mítica serie de misterios de Enid Blyton, actualizada para los lectores de hoy en una atractiva edición ilustrada. Goon está furioso tras recibir unas cartas anónimas, pues cree que Fatty es el autor. Los cinco detectives se ponen en marcha para investigarlo. ¡Empieza una nueva aventura! Los misteriosos casos de Los cinco detectives en una atractiva edición ilustrada.