Unas vacaciones de muerte

She's gone rogue. Seraphina Newsom isn't looking for vengeance...she wants justice. Three years ago, Sera's brother was ruthlessly gunned down by one of Brooklyn's most dangerous mob kingpins. The investigation has stalled out, deemed "too dangerous" by the police commissioner. So to track down the evidence she needs to take down her brother's killer, Sera turns in her hospital scrubs, joins the NYPD, and goes undercover. Unsanctioned. Alone. He'll live to keep her safe. With his father behind bars, Bowen Driscol has reluctantly taken over his family's sprawling South Brooklyn crime...

Autor de los bestsellers Roma e Imperio Año 88 antes de Cristo, el mundo antiguo está en guerra. En el oeste, los estados italianos se rebelan contra Roma; en el este, Mitrídates intenta conquistar las provincias asiáticas. Incluso en la relativamente tranquila Alejandría, un golpe ha llevado a un nuevo faraón al poder y el caos a las calles. Allí, el joven Gordiano recibe un críptico mensaje de su extutor y amigo, Antípatro, quien está en Éfeso con el séquito de Mitrídates y cree que su vida corre peligro. Para rescatarlo, Gordiano decide audazmente cruzar las líneas enemigas....

Lawrence Patterson, reconocido pianista, ve truncada su brillante carrera musical cuando un accidente de tráfico le destroza la mano izquierda y su propia vida. Hundido y amargado por su desgracia, para sobrevivir acepta tocar en un cafetín de Montmartre que en nada se parece a los escenarios que frecuentaba, ni la música que allí le reclaman es la que le apasiona y a la que le ha dedicado su existencia. A duras penas recuperado de su infortunio, se ve envuelto en una trama de espionaje político internacional en la que no se duda en asesinar, de forma despiadada, en interés de sus...

For some, Evita was a goddess, a queen, and a patron mother; for others she was a social climber, and a crazy and ordinary analphabet; her body is the protagonist of this novel. This book tells the impressive and absurd story of the peregrinations of Evita's perfectly embalmed corpse across oceans and in and out of Peronists' hands.A superb craftsman, Mr. Martinez moves through stories of Evita's life and deathand the peregrinations of her body? with a dazzling array of literary devices, including imagined interviews and memoirs, even fake screenplays.... he affirms his place among Latin...

Three women in a Scottish fishing village look toward the future after a devastating tragedy in this life-affirming novel inspired by historical events. After a catastrophic storm tore through the village of Eyemouth in 1881, the villagers have slowly started to move on. Inconsolable at the loss of her husband, Rosabelle Maltman has left Scotland to start a new life, leaving her son behind. Meanwhile her sister-in-law, Jessie, is finding ways to manipulate the men of the village for her own gains. But it is their mother-in-law Effie who is the lynchpin of the family, who keeps the community...