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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever told. From the novel by best-selling author Agatha Christie, tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone is a suspect. One man must race against time to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn't commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal, Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible, bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison....
4) Watchmen
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the United States, costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society. But, when one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up, but no less determined, masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover the plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion, a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers, Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging...
5) Cuernos
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
1. edición.
Language
Español
Description
After his childhood sweetheart is brutally killed and suspicion falls on him, Ig Parrish goes on a drinking binge and wakes up with horns on his head, hate in his heart, and an incredible new power which he uses in the name of vengeance.
7) Malasangre
Author
Pub. Date
agosto de 2019.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
"Una joven y hermosa mujer yace tendida sobre un sillón con dos ríos de sangre que emanan de su cuello. El legendario reportero de nota roja Adalberto Zaragoza es el primero en llegar al lugar de los hechos y, fascinado con la víctima y la precisión con la que el asesino hizo los cortes, captura con su cámara cada detalle. Todo apunta a un crimen pasional, pero al periodista no pueden dejar de llamarle la atención los libros en los estantes...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Primera edición.
Language
Español
Description
Hay un lugar en el que residen secretos escondidos a lo largo de varias décadas. Bienvenidos a Santa Rita. Un noir mediterráneo de Elia Barceló.
"Santa Rita, an old resort and new home to Sofía, a writer. Greta, Sofia's niece and translator, comes to stay awhile, and it is through her that we meet the other characters: Candy, Sofia's assistant; Robles, a retired police inspector; Nel and his party, college students; Miguel, a blind math teacher;...
10) Mud
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Two boys, Ellis and his best friend Neckbone, find a mysterious man named Mud hiding out on a deserted island in the Mississippi. Mud tells the boys fantastic stories about his life, including how he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper. The boys agree to help him, but it isn't long until their small town is besieged by bounty hunters out...
11) Shaft
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
[English/Spanish version].
Language
English
Description
JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend's untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ's youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem's heroin-infested underbelly. And while JJ's own FBI analyst's badge may clash with his dad's trademark leather duster, there's no denying family....
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
To close murder cases under open skies, he's your man. Out of bestselling author Craig Johnson's mystery novels strides Walt Longmire, the charismatic and unflappable sheriff of Absroka county and the world-weary yet dedicated lead character of this spellbinding hit series.
14) 44 inch chest
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
How far would you go to avenge betrayal? Colin Diamond is about to find out in this gritty, provocative thriller. After he breaks down over the dissolution of his marriage, he kidnaps his wife's lover, and his rage pushes him to the brink of murder as his motley crew of buddies urges him to exact brutal revenge.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Ethel Whitehead learns there's only one way for a woman to survive in a man's world : be as tempting as a cupcake and as tough as a 75-cent steak. Ethel moves from the wrong side of the tracks to a mobster's mansion in high society one man at a time. Some of those men love her. Some use her. And one, a high-rolling racketeer, abuses her. When the racketeer murders his rival in Ethel's swanky living room, she flees a sure murder rap, right back to...
16) Niagara
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Although the quaint motel overlooking the famed falls seems like the perfect honeymoon retreat, in fact, it's where the young and beautiful Rose Loomis plans to kill her husband George.
17) 24: Season 5
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen months after faking his own death, Jack Bauer is forced to return to Los Angeles when it becomes apparent that the only four people who know he is still alive are being systemically targeted for assassination. The assassinations coincide with the signing of an anti-terrorism treaty between Russia and the U.S., leading Jack to suspect a link between the assassinations, the treaty, and a group of Russian terrorists.
18) In cold blood
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A hard hitting docu-drama about two ex-cons who ruthlessly murder a Kansas family in 1959 in order to steal their non-existent stash of money.
19) Parkland
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Formats
Description
November 22, 1963 is a day that changed the world forever when beloved American President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Parkland is the true story behind that tragic day, told from the vantage point of individuals who are forced to make split-second decisions after this incomprehensible event that will change the world's landscape forever.
20) Elena sabe
Author
Language
Español
Description
Poco después de que Rita aparezca muerta en la iglesia que suele frecuentar, la investigación se da por cerrada y su madre es la única que no renuncia a esclarecer el crimen. Pero asediada por la enfermedad, ella es también la menos indicada para encabezar la búsqueda del asesino. Un penoso viaje de los suburbios a la Capital y una conversación reveladora guían la trama de esta novela íntima y crítica donde el cuerpo femenino es...
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