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The Summer Children
Dot Hutchison • 2018
<p><b>This FBI agent has come to expect almost anything--just not this...</b></p> <p>When Agent Mercedes Ramirez finds an abused young boy on her porch, covered in blood and clutching a teddy bear, she has no idea that this is just the beginning. He tells her a chilling tale: an angel killed his parents and then brought him here so Mercedes could keep him safe.</p> <p>His parents weren't just murdered. It was a slaughter--a rage kill like no one on the Crimes Against Children team had seen before. But they're going to see it again. An avenging angel is meting out savage justice, and she's far from through.</p> <p>One by one, more children arrive at Mercedes's door with the same horror story. Each one a traumatized survivor of an abusive home. Each one chafing at Mercedes's own scars from the past. And each one taking its toll on her life and career.</p> <p>Now, as the investigation draws her deeper into the dark, Mercedes is beginning to fear that if this case doesn't destroy her, her memories might.</p>
The Vanishing Season
Dot Hutchison • 2019
<p><b>A recent abduction becomes an unexpected link to a decades-long spree of unspeakable crimes.</b></p> <p>Eight-year-old Brooklyn Mercer has gone missing. And as accustomed as FBI agents Eliza Sterling and Brandon Eddison are to such harrowing cases, this one has struck a nerve. It marks the anniversary of the disappearance of Eddison's own little sister. Disturbing, too, is the girl's resemblance to Eliza--so uncanny they could be mother and daughter.</p> <p>With Eddison's unsettled past rising again with rage and pain, Eliza is determined to solve this case at any cost. But the closer she looks, the more reluctant she is to divulge to her increasingly shaken partner what she finds. Brooklyn isn't the only girl of her exact description to go missing. She's just the latest in a frightening pattern going back decades in cities throughout the entire country.</p> <p>In a race against time, Eliza's determined to bring Brooklyn home and somehow find the link to the cold case that has haunted Eddison--and the entire Crimes Against Children team--since its inception.</p>
The Roses of May
Dot Hutchison • 2017
"Four months after the explosion at the Garden, a place where young women known as the Butterflies were kept captive, FBI agents Brandon Eddison, Victor Hanoverian, and Mercedes Ramirez are still entrenched in the aftermath, helping survivors in the process of adjusting to life on the outside. With winter coming to an end, the Butterflies have longer, warmer days of healing ahead. But for the agents, the impending thaw means one gruesome thing: a chilling guarantee that somewhere in the country, another young woman will turn up dead in a church with her throat slit and her body surrounded by flowers. Priya Sravasti's sister fell victim to the killer years ago. Now she and her mother move every few months, hoping for a new beginning. But when she ends up in the madman's crosshairs, the hunt takes on new urgency. Only with Priya's help can the killer be found--but will her desperate hope for closure compel her to put her very life on the line?"--Provided by publisher.
The Butterfly Garden
Dot Hutchison • 2016
<p><b>An Amazon Charts bestseller.</b></p> <p>Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden.</p> <p>In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees...and a collection of precious "butterflies"--young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble their namesakes. Overseeing it all is the Gardener, a brutal, twisted man obsessed with capturing and preserving his lovely specimens.</p> <p>When the garden is discovered, a survivor is brought in for questioning. FBI agents Victor Hanoverian and Brandon Eddison are tasked with piecing together one of the most stomach-churning cases of their careers. But the girl, known only as Maya, proves to be a puzzle herself.</p> <p>As her story twists and turns, slowly shedding light on life in the Butterfly Garden, Maya reveals old grudges, new saviors, and horrific tales of a man who'd go to any length to hold beauty captive. But the more she shares, the more the agents have to wonder what she's still hiding...</p>
CANNIBALISM
Lapvona - Moshfegh, Ottessa
Moshfegh • unde
Los ojos son la mejor parte
Monika Kim • 2025
Un hambre insaciable
Chelsea G. Summers • 2024
Cadáver exquisito
Agustina María Bazterrica • 2023
JOËL DICKER
The Alaska Sanders Affair
Joël Dicker • 2024
<p>A Wall Street Journal "Best Mystery of 2024"</p> <p>"If The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair read like Gatsby by way of David Lynch, then The Alaska Sanders Affair recalls True Detective: there's something both classic and daring about it. One of the world's most original voices in crime fiction." --A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window and End of Story</p> <p>"The Alaska Sanders Affair ... transcends pigeonholing with its abundance of plot, subplots and melodramatic U-turns ... everything seems to be connected ... [and] Mr. Dicker casts an undeniable spell." --Wall Street Journal</p> <p>The thrilling new whodunit from Joël Dicker, master of the plot twist and the author of The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair and The Enigma of Room 622.</p> <p>April 1999. The body of Alaska Sanders is found on the shore of a lake near the quiet town of Mount Pleasant, New Hampshire. The young woman's death rocks the small community, but the murder is quickly solved. Within days, a suspect is identified and soon convicted. Case closed. Or so it seemed. . . .</p> <p>Eleven years later, Marcus Goldman, celebrity author and amateur sleuth, picks up a thread that will unravel not only the "open and shut" case of Alaska Sanders, but the very fabric of his best friend,-Sergeant Perry Gahalowood-'s life. Gahalowood, who led the original Alaska Sanders investigation, is hell-bent on finding the truth and setting the record straight. Teaming up with Marcus, he hopes to find redemption by solving the most intricate and trying case of his career.</p> <p>Set both before and after the events of his phenomenal worldwide bestseller The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair, Dicker's latest delivers the last word in slow-burn police procedurals. Clue by clue, witness by witness, question by question, his characters painstakingly piece together an unguessable puzzle that could only have been set by this acclaimed master of the plot twist. And as they uncover who Alaska Sanders truly was, other ghosts from the past emerge . . .</p> <p>Translated from the French by Robert Bononno</p>
The Disappearance of Stephanie Mailer
Joël Dicker • 2021
<p><b>A twisty standalone thriller from the author of <i>The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair</i></b><br> <b><br> <i>"</i>Twists, turns, cliffhangers and red herrings galore" <i>The Times</i><br> <br> <i>"</i>Nothing will matter to you more than finishing this book" <i>Elle</i></b><br> <br> <b>In the summer of 1994, the quiet seaside town of Orphea reels from the discovery of four murders. Two young police officers, Jesse Rosenberg and Derek Scott crack the case and identify the killer.</b><br> <br> Then, twenty years later and just as he is on the point of taking early retirement, Rosenberg is approached by Stephanie Mailer, a journalist who believes he made a mistake back in 1994 and that the real murderer is still out there, perhaps ready to strike again. But before she can give any more details, Stephanie Mailer disappears, and Rosenberg and Scott are forced to confront the possibility that their error two decades ago may have had deadly consquences.<br> <br> <b>What happened to Stephanie Mailer?<br> <br> What did she know?<br> <br> And what really happened in Orphea all those years ago?</b><br> <br> <b>READER REVIEWS<br></b><br> <b>"So many secrets, so many red herrings, I never guessed the killer at all. An absolute brilliant book I couldn't put down"</b><br> <br> <b>"A real whodunnit from start to finish with characters you can identify with"<br> <br> Translated from the French by Howard Curtis</b></p>
The Enigma of Room 622
Joël Dicker • 2022
<p>A Wall Street Journal "Best Mystery of 2022"</p><p>A September 2022 Amazon Best of the Month Pick</p><p>“Dicker salutes Agatha Christie even as he drops the reader through one trapdoor into another, so that by the end, we doubt we’ve ever read another novel quite like it. (We haven’t.) Fans of Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley will hug this book in between chapters; the many readers who love Anthony Horowitz’s mysteries will celebrate. And me? I’ll be reading it again.”—A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window </p><p>"[The Enigma of Room 622 is an] exhilarating tour de force"–The Wall Street Journal</p><p>A burnt-out writer’s retreat at a fancy Swiss hotel is interrupted by a murder mystery in this metafictional, meticulously crafted whodunit from the New York Times bestselling author of The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair.</p><p>A writer named Joël, Switzerland’s most prominent novelist, flees to the Hôtel de Verbier, a luxury resort in the Swiss Alps. Disheartened over a recent breakup and his longtime publisher’s death, Joël hopes to rest. However, his plans quickly go awry. It all starts with a seemingly innocuous detail: at the Verbier, there is no room 622. </p><p>Before long, Joël and fellow guest Scarlett uncover a long-unsolved murder that transpired in the hotel's room 622. The attendant circumstances: the succession of Switzerland’s largest private bank, a mysterious counterintelligence operation called P-30, and a most disreputable sabotage of hotel hospitality. A European phenomenon, The Enigma of Room 622 is a matryoshka doll of intrigue–as precise as a Swiss watch–and Dicker’s most diabolically addictive thriller yet.</p><p>Translated from the French by Robert Bononno</p>
The Book of the Baltimores
Joël Dicker • 2018
<b>Tras impactar a tres millones de lectores con<i> La verdad sobre el caso Harry Quebert</i>, Joël Dicker regresa con Marcus Goldman en su nueva novela.</b> <br><br>«Jöel Dicker ha vuelto, sí, y lo ha hecho en plena forma.<i> El Libro de los Baltimore</i> es una novela titánica, nabokoviana, altamente recomendable.».-Laura Fernández,<i> El Cultural</i> de<i> El Mundo</i><p>«<i>Si encontráis este libro, por favor, leedlo. Querría que alguien supiera la historia de los Goldman-de-Baltimore</i>.»</p><p>Hasta que tuvo lugar el Drama existían dos ramas de la familia Goldman: los Goldman de Baltimore y los Goldman de Montclair. Los Montclair, de los que forma parte Marcus Goldman, autor de<i> La verdad sobre el caso Harry Quebert</i>, es una familia de clase media que vive en una pequeña casa en el estado de Nueva Jersey. Los Baltimore, prósperos y a los que la suerte siempre ha sonreído, habitan una lujosa mansión en un barrio de la alta sociedad de Baltimore.</p><p>Ocho años después del Drama, Marcus Goldman pone el pasado bajo la lupa en busca de la verdad sobre el ocaso de la familia. Entre los recuerdos de su juventud revive la fascinación que sintió desde niño por los Baltimore, que encarnaban la América patricia con sus vacaciones en Miami y en los Hamptons y sus colegios elitistas. Con el paso de los años la brillante pátina de los Baltimore se desvanece al tiempo que el Drama se va perfilando. Hasta el día en el que todo cambia para siempre.</p><b>ENGLISH DESCRIPTION<br><br>After impacting three million readers with <i>The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair</i>, Joël Dicker returns with Marcus Goldman in his new novel.<br><br> </b>"In just weeks, The Book of the Baltimores has reached the top of the lists of best sellers and we know why. We await any free minute in our daily life—on the subway, on the bus, standing in line—to immerse ourselves in reading it." –Toutelaculture.com<br> <b><br> "If you find this book, please read it. I want someone to know the story of the Goldman-de-Baltimores."</b><br><br> Until The Drama took place, there were two branches of the Goldman family: the Baltimore Goldmans and the Montclair Goldmans. The Montclairs, family of Marcus Goldman, author of <i>The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair</i>, is a middle-class family that lives in a small house in New Jersey. The Baltimores, prosperous and always lucky, live in a luxurious mansion in a high-society neighborhood in Baltimore.<br><br> Eight years after The Drama, Marcus Goldman puts the past under a microscope in search of the truth about the family's decline. Among the memories of his youth, he relives the fascination he felt from a young age toward the Baltimores, who embodied aristocratic America with their vacations in Miami and in the Hamptons and their elitist schools. With the passage of time, the brilliant sheen of the Baltimores faded at the same time that The Drama began to unfold. Until the day that everything changed forever.<br><b> </b>
The Truth about the Harry Quebert Affair
Joël Dicker • 2014
August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day a small New Hampshire town lost its innocence. That summer Harry Quebert fell in love with fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan. Thirty-three years later, her body is dug up from his yard along with a manuscript copy of his career-defining novel. Quebert is the only suspect.
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