Un asesino en Butchers Hill

A trade paperback collection of 16 short stories, some new, some published before, all together for the first time, featuring Tess Monaghan, New York Times Bestselling author Laura Lippman’s acclaimed private eye For the first time together in one collection is a mix of brand new Tess Monaghan short mysteries as well as previously published, award-winning short stories. Split into three parts—Girls Gone Wild (seven stories about girls behaving badly); Other Cities, Not My Own (four stories about places outside of Baltimore); My Baby Walks the Streets of Baltimore (four stories and a...

When Agustin Goytisolo decides to return to Cuba after many years in Spain, he does it with the firm conviction that his arrival will help him put in order the delicate situation of his family business. In addition to the constant worrying about the island's political situation and his personal affairs, an unexpected event will make things worse, the murder of his niece. With "Cienfuegos, August 17th," the authors have managed to convey the reality of a convulsive era previous to 1898. Slavery, the political situation the language used, creates a novel with personality and an intriguing...

La pluma de Rodolfo Santullo navega en las orillas del río Uruguay y nos atrapa en una historia vertiginosa de principio a fin. Comienza la década del cincuenta en las orillas del río Uruguay. Entre sus aguas nocturnas, un hombre que se confunde con un animal recorre los kilómetros que separan la costa de Salto y Concordia, dando brazadas incansables. Es el Carpincho López, un infame contrabandista que burla la ley desde hace demasiado tiempo para gusto de los policías de ambos países. Le han encargado transportar a una pareja con un misterioso paquete desde Argentina hasta Uruguay. Un ...

“Ya hay una nueva generación que trae la calle, la gran ciudad, la esquina, el dialecto, las tribus urbanas, la vida…” Con estas palabras saludaba Francisco Umbral, un escritor que siempre tuvo muy buen oído para el runrún de la modernidad, la llegada al mundo literario de José Ángel Mañas y su "Historias del Kronen". Finalista del Premio Nadal 1994, la primera novela de Mañas une, a sus cualidades narrativas propias, el hecho de haber abierto la puerta para una forma nueva, fresca y diferente de escribir que enseguida desbancó al realismo social que imperaba entre nuestros...

Quinn Blackwood, a sexy and eccentric gentleman-turned-vampire, has been haunted by Goblin all his life. A doppelganger no one else can see, Goblin's power grows with each drop of blood that Quinn unwillingly drinks. Quinn's only hope of liberation from his increasingly dangerous alter ego is to find the legendary vampire Lestat.