CROSS JUSTICE by James Patterson

JAMES PATTERSON

CROSS JUSTICE

The toughest cases hit closest to home. 

Alex Cross left his hometown, and some awful family tragedies, for a better life with Nana Mama in Washington, DC. He hasn't looked back. 

Now his cousin Stefan has been accused of a horrible, unthinkable murder, and Cross drives south with Bree, Nana Mama, Jannie, and Ali to Starksville, North Carolina, for the first time in thirty-five years. Back home, he discovers a once proud community down on its luck, and local residents who don't welcome him with open arms. As Cross steps into his family home, the horrors of his childhood flood back--and he learns that they're not really over. He brings all his skill to finding out the truth about his cousin's case. But truth is hard to come by in a town where no one feels safe to speak.

Chasing his ghosts takes Cross all the way down to the sugarcane fields of Florida, where he gets pulled into a case that has local cops needing his kind of expertise: a string of socialite murders with ever more grisly settings. He's chasing too many loose ends--a brutal killer, the truth about his own past, and justice for his cousin--and any one of the answers might be fatal.

In Cross Justice, Alex Cross confronts the deadliest--and most personal--case of his career. It's a propulsive, edge-of-your-seat thrill ride that proves you can go home again--but it just might kill you. 

Tres abuelas y un cocinero muerto (Trilogía de Helsinki 1) y Tres abuelas y un joyero de ida y vuelta (Trilogía de Helsinki 2)

Sinopsis

Siiri, Irma y Anna-Liisa son tres viudas de noventa años residentes en El Bosque del Crepúsculo, un centro privado de apartamentos para la tercera edad de Helsinki. Más que un nidito acogedor para las personas mayores, la residencia resulta un lugar siniestro en el que los ancianos se ven privados de su identidad, rodeados todos los días por enfermeros vagos e inexpertos, y obligados a hacer gimnasia, a asistir a conferencias y a tomar un gran cantidad de medicamentos prescritos por médicos a los que apenas han visto.

Parece que para las tres amigas los días ya solo traerán partidas de cartas, viajes en tranvía y asistencia a funerales. Pero en la residencia se empiezan a producir unos misteriosos asesinatos... y quizá nadie había contado con la curiosidad y el tiempo libre de unas inocentes ancianitas.

Sinopsis

Tienen más de noventa años. Pero no van a dejar que los criminales se salgan con la suya.

Siiri, Irma y Anna-Liisa creen haber recuperado la tranquilidad de su rutina diaria en El Bosque del Crepúsculo, el centro para la tercera edad de Helsinki en el que viven. Pero pronto las tres abuelas ven cómo su vida pasa a convertirse en un infierno por unas obras de reforma interminables. Los trabajos se inician escandalosamente temprano, el ruido es ensordecedor, en las paredes surgen agujeros, los residentes tienen que usar inodoros portátiles... y el joyero de Anna-Liisa desaparece misteriosamente.

A las ancianas no les queda más remedio que mudarse a un piso compartido, donde sus costumbres y manías no harán la convivencia nada fácil. Siiri, Irma y Anna-Liisa comienzan además a darse cuenta de que las obras de su residencia son bastante sospechosas y pueden encubrir otras actividades criminales. Cuando los secretos empiecen a desvelarse las tres amigas descubrirán que en esta vida poca gente está tan libre de culpa como parece.

EL REGRESO DEL CATON, de Matilde Asensi

MATILDE ASENSI,

El regreso del Catón

¿Qué pueden tener en común la Ruta de la Seda, las alcantarillas de Estambul, Marco Polo, Mongolia y Tierra Santa? Eso es lo que los protagonistas de El último Catón, Ottavia Salina y Farag Boswell, tendrán que averiguar poniendo de nuevo sus vidas en peligro para resolver un misterio que arranca en el siglo I de nuestra era.
Escrita con rigor, con un ritmo que mantiene en vilo a los lectores página a página y capítulo a capítulo hasta el final, El regreso del Catón es una combinación magistral de aventura e historia con la que Matilde Asensi nos atrapa de nuevo para no dejarnos escapar hasta la última palabra.

LA VIGILANTE DEL LOUVRE, de Lara Siscar

LARA SISCAR "LA VIGILANTE DEL LOUVRE"

Reseña del editor

El debut literario de una voz narrativa sorprendente y poderosa.
Con un discurso envolvente y delicado, Lara Siscar narra con sutileza y una afilada ternura la revolución silenciosa que anida bajo la piel de tres mujeres, en sus sentimientos y sus vidas.

Diana es vigilante en el Louvre y cada día pasea por sus salas, rendida a la belleza de las obras que allí se exponen y con las que ha adquirido la costumbre de hablar y relatarles los pormenores de una vida que se ha instalado en la rutina, muy a su pesar.

Un día desembarca en el museo una exposición temporal sobre Courbet que provoca una fascinación inmediata y poderosa en ella. Pero Diana no está sola en esta obsesión, ya que junto a las obras del gran maestro del realismo llegan también visitantes novedosas para la vigilante del Louvre entre las que se encuentra Claudette, una enigmática rubia que, cargada con su violonchelo, asiste fiel a su cita diaria con El origen del mundo, e Isabelle, una hermosa mujer de cabello rojo intenso, cuyo destino ha sido marcado en gran medida por la modelo retratada en dicho cuadro y de la que conserva su diario como su más preciada posesión.

¿Qué sucede cuando la vida no te ofrece lo que esperabas?
¿Es posible dejar de soñar con alcanzar la felicidad?

El origen del mundo es una de las obras malditas del siglo XIX. Concebida por Gustave Coubert en 1866 llevó una existencia casi clandestina durante más de un siglo, oculta por toda clase de artificos, que solo permitieron su contemplación furtiva a un reducido grupo de escogidos. El azar la hizo correr de mano en mano en una larga cadena de propietarios que la llevaron de Francia a Budapest, fue presa del expolio nazi y rescatada por el Ejército Rojo, que la devolvió a su legítimo dueño. Su último propietario conocido fue el psicoanalista Jacques Lacan. Tras su muerte en 1981 el lienzo quedó en manos del estado francés, que no se atrevió a exponerlo públicamente hasta 1995, bajo condiciones especiales de protección, en una sala del Museo D'Orsay, donde se encuentra en la actualidad.
Enigmático e inquietante, este desnudo femenino de realismo desbordante, arrastra hasta nuestros días la leyenda de ser, por méritos propios, el cuadro más escandaloso de la historia del arte.

MAS MALDITO KARMA, DAVID SAFIER

David Safier  "Mas Maldito Karma"

Sinopsis 

Daisy Becker es una actriz de segunda totalmente caótica: bebe, fuma y roba a sus compañeros de piso. A sus veintipocos años tendrá un accidente de tráfico con Steve Barton, una arrogante estrella de Hollywood que está en Berlín rodando la nueva película de James Bond. Una vez muertos, Buda les dice que en sus vidas han juntado demasiado mal karma, y ambos se reencarnan en hormigas. Pero ninguno de los dos tiene muchas ganas de ir a la guerra como soldados-hormiga. Además se enteran de que el mejor amigo de Daisy, del que ella está enamorada, y la mujer de Steve salen juntos. ¿Qué pueden hacer? Ir en busca del buen karma y subir los peldaños de la escalera de la reencarnación hasta volver a ser humanos. Pero no es tan sencillo, pues Daisy y Steve no se soportan y están constantemente echándose la culpa del accidente el uno al otro. Y todavía todo se vuelve más difícil cuando parece que se empiezan a enamorar...


Si disfrutaste con Maldito karma, prepárate para acumular Más maldito karma.

(www.planetdeloslibros.com)

THE LAKE HOUSE by Kate Morton

The Lake House by Kate Morton

From the New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Secret Keeper and The Distant Hours, an intricately plotted, spellbinding new novel of heartstopping suspense and uncovered secrets.

Living on her family’s idyllic lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented sixteen-year-old who loves to write stories. But the mysteries she pens are no match for the one her family is about to endure…

One midsummer’s eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest child, eleven-month-old Theo, has vanished without a trace. What follows is a tragedy that tears the family apart in ways they never imagined.

Decades later, Alice is living in London, having enjoyed a long successful career as an author. Theo’s case has never been solved, though Alice still harbors a suspicion as to the culprit. Miles away, Sadie Sparrow, a young detective in the London police force, is staying at her grandfather’s house in Cornwall. While out walking one day, she stumbles upon the old estate—now crumbling and covered with vines, clearly abandoned long ago. Her curiosity is sparked, setting off a series of events that will bring her and Alice together and reveal shocking truths about a past long gone...yet more present than ever.

A lush, atmospheric tale of intertwined destinies, this latest novel from a masterful storyteller is an enthralling, thoroughly satisfying read.

(goodreads.com)

EL ULTIMO ADIOS de Kate Morton

Una historia de misterio orquestada por personajes pintorescos y ambientada entre los años treinta y la actualidad. Una novela absorbente como solo Kate Morton, autora de El jardín olvidado, sabe hacerlo. Todas las familias tienen secretos. Y, para algunas, basta solo un acontecimiento para cambiarlo todo. Un niño desaparecido... Junio de 1933: en Loanneth, la mansión en el campo de la familia Edevane, todo está limpio y reluciente, listo para la tan esperada fiesta de solsticio de verano. Alice Edevane, de dieciséis años y escritora en ciernes, está especialmente ilusionada. No solo ha encontrado el giro argumental perfecto para su novela, también se ha enamorado perdidamente de quien no debería. Pero para cuando llegue la media noche y los fuegos artificiales iluminen el cielo estival, la familia Edevane habrá sufrido una pérdida tan grande que tendrá que abandonar Loanneth para siempre... Una casa abandonada. Setenta años más tarde: después de un caso especialmente complicado, Sadie Sparrow, investigadora en Scotland Yard, está cumpliendo un permiso forzoso en su trabajo. Refugiada en la casa de su abuelo en Cornualles, pronto comprueba que estar ociosa le resulta complicado. Hasta que un día llega por casualidad a una vieja casa abandonada rodeada de jardines salvajes y espesos bosques y descubre la historia de un niñito desaparecido sin dejar rastro... Un misterio sin resolver. Mientras tanto, en el ático de una elegante casa en Hampstead, la formidable Alice Edevane, ya anciana, lleva una vida tan cuidadosamente planeada como las novelas policíacas que escribe. Hasta que una joven detective empieza a hacer preguntas sobre su pasado familiar en un intento por desenterrar la intrincada maraña de secretos de los que Alice ha pasado toda su vida tratando de escapar.

THE SECRET CHORD by Geraldine Brooks

The Secret Chord by Geraldine Brooks

A rich and utterly absorbing novel about the life of King David, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of People of the Book and March

With more than two million copies of her novels sold, New York Times bestselling author Geraldine Brooks has achieved both popular and critical acclaim. Now,Brooks takes on one of literature’s richest and most enigmatic figures: a man who shimmers between history and legend. Peeling away the myth to bring David to life in Second Iron Age Israel, Brooks traces the arc of his journey from obscurity to fame, from shepherd to soldier, from hero to traitor, from beloved king to murderous despot and into his remorseful and diminished dotage.

The Secret Chord provides new context for some of the best-known episodes of David’s life while also focusing on others, even more remarkable and emotionally intense,  that have been neglected.  We see David through the eyes of those who love him or fear him—from the prophet Natan, voice of his conscience, to his wives Mikal, Avigail, and Batsheva, and finally to Solomon, the late-born son who redeems his Lear-like old age. Brooks has an uncanny ability to hear and transform characters from history, and this beautifully written, unvarnished saga of faith, desire, family, ambition, betrayal, and power will enthrall her many fans. (www.geraldinebrooks.com)

TRILOGÍA DEL BAZTÁN de Dolores Redondo

  

TRILOGÍA DEL BAZTÁN by Dolores redondo

La trilogía completa en un único estuche: El guardián invisible, Legado en los huesos y Ofrenda a la tormenta. A orillas del río Baztán la aparición del cadáver de una adolescente obliga a la inspectora de homicidios Amaia Salazar a regresar al valle en el que nació y del que lleva toda su vida huyendo. Este será sólo e l principio de una historia apasionante en la que los seres legendarios del Norte conviven con crímenes aterradores.

SEE ME by Nicholas Sparks.

See Me by Nicholas Sparks

Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. With a history of violence and bad decisions behind him and the threat of prison dogging his every step, he's determined to walk a straight line. To Colin, that means applying himself single-mindedly toward his teaching degree and avoiding everything that proved destructive in his earlier life. Reminding himself daily of his hard-earned lessons, the last thing he is looking for is a serious relationship.

Maria Sanchez, the hardworking daughter of Mexican immigrants, is the picture of conventional success. With a degree from Duke Law School and a job at a prestigious firm in Wilmington, she is a dark-haired beauty with a seemingly flawless professional track record. And yet Maria has a traumatic history of her own, one that compelled her to return to her hometown and left her questioning so much of what she once believed.

A chance encounter on a rain-swept road will alter the course of both Colin and Maria's lives, challenging deeply held assumptions about each other and ultimately, themselves. As love unexpectedly takes hold between them, they dare to envision what a future together could possibly look like . . . until menacing reminders of events in Maria's past begin to surface.

As a series of threatening incidents wreaks chaos in Maria's life, Maria and Colin will be tested in increasingly terrifying ways. Will demons from their past destroy the tenuous relationship they've begun to build, or will their love protect them, even in the darkest hour?

Rich in emotion and fueled with suspense, SEE ME reminds us that love is sometimes forged in the crises that threaten to shatter us . . . and that those who see us for who we truly are may not always be the ones easiest to recognize.

(www.amazon.com)

JACKIE COLLINS

Jackie Collins, writer of many fiction books, passed away yesterday.....here is her last book



THE SANTANGELOS by Jackie Collins

Synopsis of The Santangelos

A vicious hit. A vengeful enemy. A drug addled Colombian club owner. A sex crazed Italian family. And the ever powerful Lucky Santangelo has to deal with them all, while Max—her teenage daughter is becoming The “It” girl in Europe’s modeling world. And her Kennedyesque son, Bobby, is being set up for a murder he didn’t commit. But Lucky can deal. Always strong and unpredictable with her husband, Lennie, by her side she lives up to the family motto—Never fuck with a Santangelo.

Lucky rules. The Santangelos always come out on top. An epic family saga filled with love, lust, revenge and passion.

THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB by David Lagercrantz

THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB by David Lagercrantz

This fall, Lisbeth Salander and Mikael Blomkvist return in the highly anticipated follow-up to Stieg Larsson's The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

In this adrenaline-charged thriller, genius-hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist face a dangerous new threat and must again join forces.

Late one night, Blomkvist receives a phone call from a trusted source claiming to have information vital to the United States. The source has been in contact with a young female super hacker—a hacker resembling someone Blomkvist knows all too well. The implications are staggering.

Blomkvist, in desperate need of a scoop for Millennium, turns to Lisbeth for help. She, as usual, has her own agenda. In The Girl in the Spider's Web, the duo who thrilled 80 million readers in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest meet again in an extraordinary and uniquely of-the-moment thriller.

LO QUE NO TE MATE TE HACE MAS FUERTE por David Lagercrantz

Lisbeth Salander está inquieta. Ha participado en un ataque hacker sin razón aparente y está asumiendo riesgos que normalmente evitaría. Mientras, la revista Millennium ha cambiado de propietarios. Quienes le critican, insisten en que Mikael Blomkvist ya es historia. Una noche, Blomkvist recibe la llamada del profesor Frans Balder, un eminente investigador especializado en Inteligencia Artificial quien afirma tener en su poder información vital para el servicio de inteligencia norteamericano. Su as en la manga es una joven rebelde, un bicho raro que se parece mucho a alguien a quien Blomkvist conoce demasiado bien. Mikael siente que esa puede ser la exclusiva que él y Millennium tanto necesitan, pero Lisbeth Salander, como siempre, tiene sus propios planes.
En Lo que no te mata te hace más fuerte, la singular pareja aclamada por más de 80 millones de lectores en Los hombres que no amaban a las mujeres, La chica que soñaba con una cerilla y un bidón de gasolina y La reina en el palacio de las corrientes de aire continúa su historia. Ha llegado la hora de que sus caminos se crucen de nuevo. Vuelve Lisbeth Salander. Millennium continúa.
“Salander y Blomkvist han sobrevivido de forma impecable al cambio de autor y son tan absorbentes como siempre. Lagercrantz demuestra una conexión instintiva con el mundo que Larsson creó y con sus dos inusuales detectives.“, The New York Times
“Llegas a olvidar que no estás leyendo a Larsson. El lector devora los libros de Larsson por las tramas, la acción, la rabia, y sobre todo por Lisbeth Salander, un personaje poderoso parecido a Sherlock Holmes o a James Bond, un mito genialmente creado.

GREY fifty shades of Grey as told by Christian, E.L. James

See the world of Fifty Shades of Grey anew through the eyes of Christian Grey.

In Christian's own words, and through his thoughts, reflections, and dreams, E L James offers a fresh perspective on the love story that has enthralled millions of readers around the world.

Christian Grey exercises control in all things; his world is neat, disciplined, and utterly empty—until the day that Anastasia Steele falls into his office, in a tangle of shapely limbs and tumbling brown hair. He tries to forget her, but instead is swept up in a storm of emotion he cannot comprehend and cannot resist. Unlike any woman he has known before, shy, unworldly Ana seems to see right through him—past the business prodigy and the penthouse lifestyle to Christian’s cold, wounded heart.  

Will being with Ana dispel the horrors of his childhood that haunt Christian every night? Or will his dark sexual desires, his compulsion to control, and the self-loathing that fills his soul drive this girl away and destroy the fragile hope she offers him?


This book is intended for mature audiences.


GREY, cincuenta sombras de grey contada por Christian

Descubre el mundo de Cincuenta sombras de Grey a través de los ojos de Christian Grey.

E.L. James nos ofrece unaNUEVA perspectiva de la historia de amor que ya ha seducido a millones de lectores en todo el mundo, contada ahora en primera persona por Christian Grey.

Christian necesita tenerlo todo bajo control. Su mundo es puro orden y disciplina aunque, en el fondo, está vacío... hasta el día en que Anastasia Steele aterriza de bruces en su despacho, hecha una maraña de largo pelo castaño y esbeltas piernas.

Él intenta olvidarla pero, muy al contrario, se ve inmerso en una tormenta de emociones que no consigue controlar y a la que no puede resistirse. A diferencia de todas las mujeres que ha conocido, la tímida e inexperta Ana parece capaz de ver más allá delEXITOSO empresario y la lujosa vida que le rodea, y descubrir el corazón frío y lastimado de Christian.

¿Logrará su relación con Ana disipar las pesadillas que le acechan todas las noches? ¿O serán sus oscuros impulsos sexuales, su obsesión por el control y el desprecio hacia sí mismo los que alejarán a la joven y destruirán la frágil esperanza que ella le ofrece?

Los medios han opinado sobre la trilogía «Cincuenta sombras»...

«El erotismo se convierte en best seller.»

"The Girl on the train" Paula Hawkins

A debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives.

Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost.

And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?

A compulsively readable, emotionally immersive, Hitchcockian thriller that draws comparisons to Gone Girl, The Silent Wife, or Before I Go to Sleep, this is an electrifying debut embraced by readers across markets and categories

"The book of speculation" by Erika Swyler

A sweeping and captivating debut novel about a young librarian who is sent a mysterious old book, inscribed with his grandmother's name. What is the book's connection to his family?

Simon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home, a house perched on the edge of a cliff that is slowly crumbling into the sea. His parents are long dead, his mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks.

One day, Simon receives a mysterious book from an antiquarian bookseller; it has been sent to him because it is inscribed with the name Verona Bonn, Simon's grandmother. Simon must unlock the mysteries of the book, and decode his family history, before fate deals its next deadly hand. 

The Book of Speculation is Erika Swyler's gorgeous and moving debut, a wondrous novel about the power of books, family, and magic

"The little Paris Bookshop" by Nina George

“There are books that are suitable for a million people, others for only a hundred. There are even remedies—I mean books—that were written for one person only…A book is both medic and medicine at once. It makes a diagnosis as well as offering therapy. Putting the right novels to the appropriate ailments: that’s how I sell books.”

Monsieur Perdu calls himself a literary apothecary. From his floating bookstore in a barge on the Seine, he prescribes novels for the hardships of life. Using his intuitive feel for the exact book a reader needs, Perdu mends broken hearts and souls. The only person he can't seem to heal through literature is himself; he's still haunted by heartbreak after his great love disappeared. She left him with only a letter, which he has never opened.

After Perdu is finally tempted to read the letter, he hauls anchor and departs on a mission to the south of France, hoping to make peace with his loss and discover the end of the story. Joined by a bestselling but blocked author and a lovelorn Italian chef, Perdu travels along the country’s rivers, dispensing his wisdom and his books, showing that the literary world can take the human soul on a journey to heal itself.

Internationally bestselling and filled with warmth and adventure, The Little Paris Bookshop is a love letter to books, meant for anyone who believes in the power of stories to shape people's lives.

"THE STORIED LIFE OF A.J. FIKRY" by Gabrielle Zevin

On the faded Island Books sign hanging over the porch of the Victorian cottage is the motto "No Man Is an Island; Every Book Is a World." A. J. Fikry, the irascible owner, is about to discover just what that truly means.

A. J. Fikry's life is not at all what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history, and now his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. Slowly but surely, he is isolating himself from all the people of Alice Island-from Lambiase, the well-intentioned police officer who's always felt kindly toward Fikry; from Ismay, his sister-in-law who is hell-bent on saving him from his dreary self; from Amelia, the lovely and idealistic (if eccentric) Knightley Press sales rep who keeps on taking the ferry over to Alice Island, refusing to be deterred by A.J.'s bad attitude. Even the books in his store have stopped holding pleasure for him. These days, A.J. can only see them as a sign of a world that is changing too rapidly.

And then a mysterious package appears at the bookstore. It's a small package, but large in weight. It's that unexpected arrival that gives A. J. Fikry the opportunity to make his life over, the ability to see everything anew. It doesn't take long for the locals to notice the change overcoming A.J.; or for that determined sales rep, Amelia, to see her curmudgeonly client in a new light; or for the wisdom of all those books to become again the lifeblood of A.J.'s world; or for everything to twist again into a version of his life that he didn't see coming. As surprising as it is moving, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is an unforgettable tale of transformation and second chances, an irresistible affirmation of why we read, and why we love (www.goodread.com)