El obelisco marciano

A Puerto Rican novelist and poet presents a series of multi-faceted short stories with characters much in the vein of Edgar Allen Poe's William Wilson and Paul Auster's Daniel Quinn, in settings that explore the dark and at times violent side of post-industrial society.

Anthony Bridgerton has chosen a wife! The only obstacle is his intended's older sister, Kate Sheffield--the most meddlesome woman ever to grace a London ballroom. She's driving Anthony mad with her attempts to stop the betrothal, but when he's asleep, Kate's the woman in his increasingly erotic dreams...

This Pulitzer Prize–winning novel follows two American academics in London—a young man and a middle-aged woman—as they each fall into unexpected romances. In her early fifties, Vinnie Miner is the sort of woman no one ever notices, despite her career as an Ivy League professor. She doubts she could get a man’s attention if she waved a brightly colored object in front of him. And though she loves her work, her specialty—children’s folk rhymes—earns little respect from her fellow scholars. Then, alone on a flight to London for a research trip, she sits next to a man she would...

Cuando Kay Scarpetta regresa a la clínica forense de Richmond, para investigar la muerte de una chica de catorce años, no encuentra ni su laboratorio anterior ni al personal. Porque sus colegas están investigando una violación que al principio parece no estar relacionada con la niña, Scarpetta se encuentra sola en interpretar los pedazos más pequeños de evidencia. Tiene que rastrear los detalles más extraños para encontrar respuestas y para revelar una verdad que puede ser más de lo que ella puede soportar.