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Twenty-four-year-old Hailey Cain has dropped out of the US Military Academy for reasons she won't reveal. She has had to leave Los Angeles and it would be too big a risk for her to return. Now working as a bike messenger in San Francisco, Hailey keeps a low profile, until her high school best friend Serena Delgadillo makes a call that will turn her whole life upside-down. Serena is the head of an all-female gang on the rough streets of LA. She wants Hailey to escort the cousin of a recently murdered gang member across the border to Mexico. It's a mission that will nearly cost Hailey her life, causing her to choose more than once between loyalty and lawlessness, and forcing her to confront two very big secrets in her past…
Sarah Pribek, una detective de Mineápolis especializada en desapariciones, protege la identidad de una amiga suya, Genevieve. Ambas persiguieron, encontraron y mataron a Royce Stewart, violador y asesino de la hija de Genevieve, en una trama en la que se vio involucrado el marido de Sarah, que se encuentra en la carcel. Nadie del departamento de policía entiende el extraño proceder de la detective, que está protegiendo a una criminal, y un inspector llega a la ciudad para investigarla… Una historia donde las cosas no tienen las motivaciones correctas, o al menos las que se presume que deberian ser.
Sarah Pribek, a Minneapolis missing persons detective, is under suspicion. Investigated but not yet charged in the arson murder of the man who raped and killed her best friend's daughter, she's protecting the identity of the real perpetrator, even though a zealous prosecutor is closing in and threatening to indict her. With her husband in jail in Wisconsin for a crime related to the same case (only alluded to briefly here, but fully explicated in The 37th Hour, the first in the series featuring Pribek), the detective finds herself involved in two other assignments where the line between justice and the law is also murky. When the eldest daughter of reclusive novelist Hugh Hennessy enlists her aid in finding the twin brother mysteriously sent away by her father several years earlier, Sarah agrees to investigate, even though there's no indication that Aidan Hennessy left his last foster home except of his own volition, and as far as Sarah can detrermine, the 17-year-old has committed no crimes. When the elder Hennessy is felled by a stroke, Sarah finds herself appointed as temporary guardian of his children, at least until Marlinchen, the daughter, comes of age and can be appoointed their guardian and Hugh's conservator. And the more time Sarah spends with the family, the more certain she is that Aidan isn't who he and his siblings think he is, although she's reluctant to add to the family's travails by seeking the evidence to support her hunch.
She's just as hesitant to make an arrest in her other case-that of a charismatic quadriplegic suspected of practicing medicine illegally. Sarah's relationship with Cisco Ruiz is a complex one, and in the telling of it, Compton brings into sharp relief the moral quandaries that challenge her protagonist. This is a well-plotted mystery with characters who resonate in the reader's consciousness long after the last page is turned, intelligently plotted and deftly crfafted. -Jane Adams
In a suspense novel of astounding power and depth, Jodi Compton unleashes a haunting tale of secrets and betrayal…and of one woman's search for her missing husband that spirals into a dark journey strewn with bitter truths and damged lives. Here debut novelist Compton introduces an extraordinary character: Detective Sarah Pribek, a woman of strength, complexity, and instinct, a woman caught in an unimaginable nightmare…
The 37th Hour
On a chilly Minnesota morning, Sarah comes home to the house she shares with her husband and fellow cop, Michael Shiloh. Shiloh was supposed to be in Virginia, starting his training with the FBI. A seasoned missing-persons investigator, Sarah is used to anxious calls from wives and parents. She's used to the innocent explanations that resolve so many of her cases. But from the moment she learns that he never arrived at Quantico, she feels a terrible foreboding. Now, beneath the bed in which they make love, Sarah finds Shiloh 's neatly packed bag. And in that instant the cop in her knows: Her husband has disappeared.
Suddenly Sarah finds herself at the beginning of the kind of investigation she has made so often. The kind that she and her ex-partner, Genevieve, solved routinely – until a brutal crime stole Genevieve's daughter and ended her career. The kind that pries open family secrets and hidden lives. For Sarah this investigation will mean going back to the beginning, to Shiloh's religion-steeped childhood in Utah, the rift that separated him from his family – and the one horrifying case that struck them both too close to home. As Sarah turns over more and more unknown ground in her husband's past, she sees her lover and friend change into a stranger before her eyes. And as she moves further down a trail of shocking surprises and bitter revelations, Sarah is about to discover that her worst fear – that Shiloh is dead – may be less painful than what she will learn next…
In a novel of runaway tension, Jodi Compton masterfully weaves together the quiet details of everyday life with the moments that can shatter them forever. At once a beguiling mystery and a powerful rumination on family, friendship, and loss, The 37th Hour is a thriller that will catch you off guard at every turn – instantly compelling and utterly impossible to put down.
Una trepidante trama de acción en la que se investigan unos infanticidios perpetrados por un grupo extremista de la Iglesia Católica y que están relacionados con el nuevo nacimiento del Anticristo.
Photojournalist Mike Burke carried his camera into every war zone and hellhole on earth – and came back with the pictures (and battle scars) to prove it. He was flying high until, quite suddenly, he wasn’t. When Burke’s helicopter crashed and burned in Africa, he came away with his life but lost his heart to the beautiful woman who saved him. That’s when he decided it was time to stop dancing with the devil. But a wicked twist of fate puts an end to Burke’s dreams, leaving him adrift in Dublin with bittersweet memories… and no appetite for danger. But the devil isn’t done with him yet.
An ocean away, Jack Wilson leaves prison burning for revenge. Like Burke, Wilson has had something taken from him. And he, too, dreams of starting over. Only Wilson ’s dream is the rest of the world’s nightmare. Driven by his obsession with a Native American visionary, and guided by the secret notebooks of Nikola Tesla, the man who is said to have “invented the twentieth century,” Wilson dreams of the Apocalypse – and plans to make it happen.
As a terrifying worldwide chain reaction is set in motion, Burke alone grasps the impending horror of Wilson ’s malevolent plan. With nothing left to lose, Burke pursues an American terrorist – a twisted genius who journeys from a lawless weapons arsenal in the Transdneister to the diamond fields of the Congo… to an isolated Nevada ranch. It is here, in a climactic showdown, that a determined Mike Burke faces a nemesis who knows no fear.
As a television news correspondent, Alex Callahan has traveled to some of the most dangerous corners of the globe, covering famine, plague, and war. He’s seen more than his share of blood and death, and knows what it means to be afraid. But what he’s never known is the terror that grabs him when, on a tranquil summer afternoon, he ceases to be an observer of the dark side and, to his shock, becomes enmeshed in it.
Separated from his wife, and struggling not to become a stranger to his six-year-old twin sons, Alex is logging some all-too-rare quality time with the boys when they vanish without a trace amid the hurly-burly of a countryside Renaissance Fair.
Then the phone call comes. A chilling silence, slow, steady breathing, and the familiar, plaintive voice of a child – "Daddy?" – complete the nightmare and set in motion a juggernaut of frenzy and agony.
The longer the police search, exhausting leads without success, the deeper Alex’s certainty grows that time is running out. And when, at last, telltale signs reveal a hidden pattern of bizarre and ghoulish abductions, Alex vows to use his own relentless investigative skills to rescue his children from the shadowy figure dubbed The Piper.
Whoever this elusive stranger is, the profile that slowly emerges – from previous crimes involving twins, from the zealously secret world of professional magicians, and from the eerie culture of voodoo – suggests that The Piper is a predator unlike any other. A twisted soul hell-bent on fulfilling an unspeakably dark dream. A fiend with a terrifying true calling. What Alex Callahan is closing in on is a monster with a mission.
An allegory of the struggle between good and evil, in which Eliot Nailles, a chemist, meets Paul Hammer, who is not the ordinary citizen he seems to be. "We're the Hammers," The stranger said to the priest. Nailles did not think this funny, anticipating the fact that almost everyone else in the neighborhood would. How many hundreds or perhaps thousands cocktail parties would they have to live through, side by side: Hammer and Nailles." Hammer is the illegitimate son of a kleptomaniac, and he plans to awaken the suburban world – by burning Eliot's son Tony in a church.
A study of the elaborate personalities that develop within prison walls, and their tenuous relation to prisoners' past lives and crimes. A convicted drug addict and murderer adapts to the gloom, fascination and eroticism of the new camaraderie.
Sfuggiti a una catastrofe cosmica i Possessori vagavano negli spazi siderali. Le spore erano state lanciate in tempo con la speranza che potessero ricreare su qualche pianeta remoto quelle creature quasi onnipotenti del cui seme erano portatrici. Le spore viaggiano.. e periscono.. nel gelo incommensurabile dei giganteschi pianeti esterni… ma alcune sopravvivono. Riposano tra i ghiacciai in attesa della vita. E sulla Terra, in Svizzera, uno strano contagio minaccia l’uomo. Pazzia, redivivi, strane cose succedono. Questa strana “presenza” deve essere distrutta!
Il romanzo tratta dell’imbarbarimento della società in seguito al diffondersi del virus Chung-Li, il quale colpisce e distrugge irrimediabilmente tutti i tipi di quella che sinteticamente e definita “erba”, in dettaglio tutte le piante erbacee appartenenti alla famiglia delle , tra cui il comune foraggio erbaceo da graminacee, il mais, il miglio, il sorgo, la segale, l’orzo, il riso ed il grano, causando così la lotta globale per l’accaparramento delle scorte alimentari. Il protagonista del romanzo combatte per raggiungere la valle del fratello che rappresenta la salvezza, dove contro l’ottimismo delle autorità mondiali e la distruzione folle delle risorse, si sono isolate e difese le rimanenti piante alimentari, non appartenenti alla famiglia in argomento.
Il romanzo esce per la prima volta in Italia nel 1958 nella collana (n° 43) con il titolo (traduttore Sergio Uglioni). Il presente traduzione di Mario Galli era pubblicato nel 1967 nel collana (n° 476).
This novel is perhaps one of the best treatments of the ecological disaster theme, written with both intelligence and a clear understanding of the human condition when faced with life-threatening circumstances. The storyline starts out with the news that a deadly, resilient plant virus known as the Chung-Li virus has virtually wiped all cereal crops, including rice, in China. Due to an initial Chinese government decision to suppress details of the ensuing famine, the full scale of the disaster is not made known until it is quite too late. Vaccine developed hastily by Western countries proves ultimately to be ineffective and before long, the virus has rapidly spread, reaching Europe including England and wiping out all the cereal crops (with the exception of potatoes) and grass of that particular region. Life in England starts breaking down with catastrophic consequences and the story then focuses on the attempts of the protagonist John Custance, his family and close friends, to reach safety in northern England where his brother has a farm newly set up for potato farming.
John Collier's edgy, sardonic tales are works of rare wit, curious insight, and scary implication. They stand out as one of the pinnacles in the critically neglected but perennially popular tradition of weird writing that includes E.T.A. Hoffmann and Charles Dickens as well as more recent masters like Jorge Luis Borges and Roald Dahl. With a cast of characters that ranges from man-eating flora to disgruntled devils and suburban salarymen (not that it's always easy to tell one from another), Collier's dazzling stories explore the implacable logic of lunacy, revealing a surreal landscape whose unstable surface is depth-charged with surprise.
Some of the stories in this book have been printed in The New Yorker, Harper's Bazaar, The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, and Harper's Magazine; some of them have previously been gathered into a volume called Presenting Moonshine (published by the Viking Press, New York, 1941), and a volume called The Devil and All (published by the Nonesuch Press, London, 1934). Witch's Money was published as a separate volume, for private distribution, in December 1940. The Touch of Nutmeg, copyright, 1943, by The Readers Club. "Gavin O'Leary," copyright, 1945, by H. Allen Smith
Three hundred years ago, the settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary were betrayed by one of their own, and slaughtered. Now a band of killers has returned to Sanctuary to seek revenge on a young woman and her son, and the only people who stand in their way are a young rookie officer and the island’s resident policeman, the troubled giant known as Melancholy Joe Dupree. But Joe Dupree is no ordinary policeman. He is the guardian of the island’s secrets, the repository of its memories. He knows that Sanctuary has been steeped in violence, and that its ghosts will tolerate the shedding of innocent blood no longer. On Sanctuary, the hunters are about to become the hunted.
Grieving over the murder of his family, private detective Charlie "Bird" Parker returns to Maine in search of refuge, and becomes caught up in the murders of a young mother and her child, a crime that could be linked to the troubled history of Parker's own grandfather.
John Connolly, el aclamado autor irlandés de novela negra, sorprende agradablemente con la publicación de El libro de las cosas perdidas, una espeluznante y genial novela para el público juvenil y también adulto.
En su dormitorio del desván, David, un niño de doce años, llora la muerte de su madre. Está enfadado y solo, con la única compañía de los libros de sus estantes. Pero los libros han empezado a susurrarle en la oscuridad, y, mientras se refugia en los mitos y los cuentos que su madre tanto amaba, descubre que el mundo real y el mundo imaginario han empezado a mezclarse. Mientras la guerra se extiende por Europa, David aterriza de golpe en una tierra que es producto de su imaginación, pero aterradoramente real…
John Connolly nació en Dublín en 1968. Considerado como uno de los escritores de suspense más importantes de la actualidad, todas sus novelas se han convertido en best sellers según la lista de ventas del Sunday Times.
Esta novela abre la colección avalado por magníficas críticas en la prensa internacional: The Times, The Independent, Daily Mail, Sunday Times…
Una fría noche de invierno, la paz de Maine se ve perturbada por dos hechos en principio inconexos: un sangriento tiroteo durante el cobro de un rescate y el suicidio de una anciana en pleno bosque. Contra todo pronóstico, todas las pistas apuntan a un mismo hombre. Y Charlie Parker, a quien ya conocimos en Todo lo que muere, deberá actuar con rapidez porque los acontecimientos se suceden a un ritmo vertiginoso, los cadáveres se multiplican y la violencia se extiende como un rastro de sangre por los bosques nevados de Maine. Con esta segunda novela, John Connolly se consagra como un maestro del género negro.
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