Monógamos y mutilados

Prolific author Stephen King presents a collection of four new novellas. In the story 1922, a man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge in Big Driver. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil in Fair Extension. And in A Good Marriage, a woman discovers her husband's darker side while he is away on a business trip.

For the first time in trade paperback and in one chilling volume come two mesmerizing novels from Anne Rice, linked by two distinct creatures of the night.

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.

A classic title in Edna O'Brien's Country Girls Trilogy - the second volume From eccentric Joanna's boarding house, predatory Baba roams Dublin looking for men to give her a good time - and dragging with her a reluctant Cait, worrying about her figure and wanting to talk about books. Then she meets dark, long-faced Eugene Gaillard, a film director, and for a while Cait's romantic dreams seem to be fulfilled. But Eugene Gaillard is a Protestant divorcé, and when Cait's drunkard father gets to hear of it, he summons a lynch mob¿ Steering expertly between high romance, outright farce and the...