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  • Olcade
    SEBASTIAN MARTINEZ MARTINEZ
    Los carpetanos han atacado y destruido su poblado Olcade, la joven vida de Vael ha cambiado drásticamente sin que él pueda hacer nada por evitarlo.Ha sido elegido y Dibus y Deabuslos, dioses gemelos y contrarios se han puesto manos a la obra.El resultado puede ser incierto, el joven puede convertirse en un héroe o en un psicópata, solo el desarrollo de los acontecimientos venid...
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    20,00 €

  • Codex Magdala IV: Desposyni
    John Wolf
    Última entrega de la exitosa saga de novela histórica, 'Codex Magdala'. Se trata de una continuación de 'Codex Magdala III: Apocalipsis'.Prologado por Sandra Aza (Autora de Libelo de Sangre)SINOPSIS OFICIALENLACE DE SAGA CODEX MAGDALA Y 'THE HEIRS'En mi ignorante pensamiento creía que lo había conseguidoEl precio a pagar había sido realmente altoEl velo que cubría los ojos de l...
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    20,70 €

  • Anima Requien
    Juan Luis Hernández
    La muerte nos ha alcanzado a todosHasta ahora.Dos Mundos: el de los vivos y el de los muertos. En el primero, una misteriosa plaga se extiende a gran velocidad: por alguna extraña razón, los moribundos de todo el planeta no terminan de exhalar su último suspiro y, por si fuera poco, a su lado están apareciendo, repentinamente, dos cadáveres en condiciones inexplicables. Al mism...
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    18,04 €

  • El laberinto del cuélebre
    Ricardo Rancaño
    Con El laberinto del cuélebre se completa lo que podríamos llamar una trilogía de la historia desarrollada en las dos novelas anteriores del mismo autor, La Casa del Pirata y El tesoro de La Tayadía.En esta novela, el protagonista principal de la historia regresa a los escenarios del pueblo de Veleta, en la costa occidental asturiana, intentando la recuperación del tesoro que t...
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    16,00 €

  • Bajo el mismo sol
    Victoria Munilla Giménez
    Pensilvania, 20 de febrero de 1776. Walker Showerd y sus hermanos viven alejados de la sociedad por pecados de los que no tienen culpa. Durante una cacería, un antiguo enemigo de la familia captura a Walker para venderlo como esclavo. Arrastrado hasta las lejanas tierras de Calcuta, sorteará toda clase de peligros para conservar la más valiosa de las cualidades humanas: la libe...
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    20,63 €

  • Barrabás el sicario
    Vázquez José Luis
    Barrabás el Sicario fue el mejor amigo de Jesús.Esta es su historia. Repleta de aventuras, de anécdotas compartidas con su amigo.Es también una aproximación a lo que era la sociedad de la época en el Mediterráneo y lo que significaba el dominio romano.Un relato donde hay lugar para lo mejor y lo peor de la condición humana: la violencia, el amor, el sexo, la compasión, la venga...
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    17,68 €

  • Brujas del Viento
    Oskar Benegas Dañobeitia
    Hannah Mac-Alpin, la princesa heredera de la corona escocesa, siendo solo una niña es testigo del salvaje asesinato de sus padres y hermanos a manos del ejército comandado por su propio tío. Ella es puesta a salvo por un grupo de hombres fieles a su padre, y trasladada en un drakkar (La bruja del viento) hasta unas lejanas costas donde es abandonada en la playa.En los comienzos...
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    18,00 €

  • Heredero mío
    Oskar Benegas Dañobeitia
    Tras la muerte de doña Jimena Antxia, su heredero tendrá un inmenso poder político y económico, pero para ello deberá controlar Basabe. Sus hijos se enfrentarán en una lucha fratricida por dicho control.Con este argumento, el autor nos sumerge en el siglo XIV. Una de las épocas históricas de mayor retroceso, más oscura y donde el poder de la fuerza, aderezado con importantes do...
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    20,00 €

  • The Monks Hood Murders
    Karen Baugh Menuhin
    A 1920s Murder Mystery in the depths of rural Yorkshire A scoundrel lies dying, he makes his confession; his sins were despicable and he wants to atone for his wasted life. He bequeaths an invaluable gift to Monks Hood Abbey, an ancient monastery set in a lonely corner of the Yorkshire moors. But sin throws a long shadow and corruption crawls in its shade. Strangers come forwar...
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    14,70 €

  • THE LACED CHAMELEON - Second Edition
    Bob Rogers
    New Orleans native Mademoiselle Francesca Dumas is a kept woman. At age eighteen in the second year of the American Civil War, she is the concubine of a rich New Orleans banker, Joachim Buisson. Born a quadroon, Francesca leads a sheltered life of elegant jewels, gowns, lace, and lavish balls-until a bullet shatters her dream world.An assassin murders 'her man' as Francesca sto...
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    33,54 €

  • An Old Money Murder in Mayfair
    Sara Rosett
    LARGE PRINT HARDCOVER EDITIONMidnight treasure hunts, fancy-dress parties, and a blue-blooded murder . . .November, 1923. Olive’s school chum, Gigi, invites Olive to London because Gigi’s dotty grandmother fears for her life-or so she’s said to Gigi. However Olive is surprised to find that the dowager is far from muddled. The sharp and imperious matriarch refuses to admit to he...
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    34,03 €

  • An Old Money Murder in Mayfair
    Sara Rosett
    Midnight treasure hunts, fancy-dress parties, and a blue-blooded murder . . .November, 1923. Olive’s school chum, Gigi, invites Olive to London because Gigi’s dotty grandmother fears for her life—or so she’s said to Gigi. However Olive is surprised to find that the dowager is far from muddled. The sharp and imperious matriarch refuses to admit to her worries and sends Olive on ...
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    12,02 €

  • Masquerade of Truth
    Gary L. Kreigh / Gary LKreigh
    When Reverend Richard Fountain comes across a homeless person breathing his last after a vicious attack, his visit to New Orleans takes a disturbing turn. Realising the dying man may not be what he seems, Fountain makes enquiries of various colourful New Orleans’ characters.Though warned to leave the investigations to the police, the Reverend sets about uncovering the truth hi...
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    14,40 €

  • POPPY’S PRISON
    Thomas Riddell
    The Bootlegger Murder Mystery involves the grandfather/adopted father of the author. Below is an interview excerpt taken from the newspapers, just days after Russell Brice began serving more than twenty years in Sing Sing Prison. 'Brice is a cheerful chap, with smiling gray eyes and blonde hair. He is twenty-six years old and is not a bit ashamed of the many crimes of which h...
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    22,76 €

  • Knochenbrecher
    David Penny / Elisabeth Münfeld
    Wenn der Wahn ein Monster erschafft, gibt es nur einen Mann, der dem Morden ein Ende setzen kann. März 1483, und der Chirurg Thomas Berrington reist auf Aufforderung seines Meisters widerwillig nach Cordoba. Er rechnet damit, nur einen spanischen Prinzen zu operieren und in seine Heimat des maurischen Al-Andalus zurückzukehren. Doch das Schicksal hat noch etwas anderes für ihn ...
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    14,55 €

  • Fifty Candles
    Earl Derr Biggers
    Biggers had always been interested in mystery fiction, but his interest in Hawaii clearly stems from a 1919 vacation in Honolulu. While there, he read a newspaper article on a Chinese detective named Chang Apana. Apana would become the model for Charlie Chan in Biggers' 1925 novel, House Without a Key, and there quickly followed five more Charlie Chan novels. Fifty Candles ...
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    12,60 €

  • Histe(ó)ricas
    Dana Hart
    Dana Hart, autora de esta publicación, es especialista en el acompañamiento de mujeres y disidentes con perspectiva feminista. Su vasta experiencia profesional la ha llevado a escribir este diario de terapia donde explora y describe con precisión y sin tapujos las vivencias más profundas de tres mujeres históricas para el feminismo que conversan con ella para liberarse, para ro...
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    7,85 €

  • The Prince’s Man
    Sarah Woodbury
    In the aftermath of Prince Rhun’s death, King Owain and King Madog agreed their children should marry as a way to seal the peace between them. Two years later, the wedding date has finally arrived, though relations between the two kingdoms have improved only to the extent that they aren’t actually at war.So when an innocent falls victim to a poisoned dish, even Queen Cristina i...
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    16,91 €

  • The Dockside Murders
    Sharon Rowse
    In 1900, sleek steamliners bridged the vast distance between the Far East and North America. On the West Coast, they brought rare goods and news to cities that still held elements of the rough and tumble frontier. Creating a perfect breeding ground for confidence men and smugglers.A challenge from a lethal gangster pits John Granville and Emily Turner against a shadowy villain ...
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    21,21 €

  • The Gang of St Bride’s
    Emily Organ
    Penny Green faces her toughest puzzle yet.London 1885. A gang of lady thieves is targeting Piccadilly’s wealthy shoppers and no one seems able to stop them. As frustrations build, the body of a young woman is pulled from the River Thames. Reporter Penny Green has a lot to write about, and she faces a new challenge when a stranger approaches her with a riddle. Could it lead to a...
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    23,49 €

  • Sherlock Holmes and The Cornwall Affair
    Johanna Rieke
    Do you love Cornwall, with its cliffs and breakers, sleepy fishing harbours and villages? Would you like to meet a real English Lord? And do you enjoy an authentic, well researched historical crime story? With the author you will accompany the renowned Baker Street detective, Sherlock Holmes, and his friend Dr Watson, on their journey to Cornwall. There, in idyllic surroundings...
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    18,77 €

  • THE TENTH SWORD OF THE PROPHET
    M J Kojack
    The “Tenth Sword of the Prophet” is a story that unravels multiple conspiracies that lie deep within the history of nascent Islam and the Judeo-Christian Heritage.  At the center of the story is Michael, a brilliant Professor at Princeton University who specializes in Middle Eastern anthropology and is an expert in ancient Semitic languages.   Right at the heels of a shocking m...
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    20,65 €

  • Dark Obsession
    Edward Glover
    A world of passion, wealth and influence from the author of The Herzberg Trilogy and The Lute Player.'Sunday the 22nd of August 1875. I saw today an enchanting young woman on the river, bathed in golden sunlight. I cannot remove her from my mind...'So begins the obsession of a man of wealth and influence, its darkening shadow spreading from southern France to Paris, to Cochinch...
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    9,08 €

  • Emperor First
    Conrad Altmann / Debora Șalgău / William Altmann
    Over the last eighty years, the office of the President of the United States has become more and more powerful, overshadowing both Congress and the Judiciary. It’s debatable whether the Founders foresaw this. The Congress is tied up in internecine warfare and accomplishes almost nothing. The courts are stuffed with judges of dubious qualification and little objectivity. With th...
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    25,19 €

  • Bony and the Kelly Gang
    Arthur W. Upfield / Arthur WUpfield
    Tucked away in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales is Cork Valley, inhabited by hard-drinking Irishmen. Here an Excise Officer looking for illicit whiskey 'stills' has been murdered, and it's Bony's job to find the killer. Disguised as a horse-thief, the Aboriginal detective hitch-hikes into the valley to meet a lawless lot…Written by Upfield while living ...
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    22,45 €

  • Madman’s Bend
    Arthur W. Upfield / Arthur WUpfield
    If any man was ever born to be murdered, it was William Lush - a hated drunk who disappeared after beating his wife to death. Plenty of men had the opportunity to murder Lush, some the means, none the motive. Jill Madden, his pretty step-daughter, had all three... When Lush disappears, Inspector Bonaparte must look for a body - and the murderer - before the Darling River rises ...
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    22,46 €

  • Death of a Lake
    Arthur W. Upfield / Arthur WUpfield
    Eight hundred kilometres from the sea, Lake Otway is dying. Heat, drought, and thirst-crazed animals take their toll. When Ray Gillen, lucky lottery winner, went for a swim one night and never came back, some thought it was an accident, or was it murder? As the water level drops, five men and two women wait beside the shrinking lake - for the body, the money, or neither. And wa...
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    22,41 €

  • Murder at the Races
    Carmen Radtke
    1931. Frances Palmer is overjoyed when her brother Robreturns to Adelaide as a racecourse veterinarian. But all is notwell on the turf, and when a man is murdered, there is only onesuspect – Rob.Frances and her boyfriend, charming night club owner Jack Sullivan, along with ex-vaudevillian Uncle Sal and their friends have only one chance to unmaskthe real murderer, by infiltrati...
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    12,73 €

  • FRISCO Honeymoon For Three
    Larry Rau
    Second in the Exciting Frisco Series of Neo Noir Pulp Mysteries, Honeymoon For Three – The Dead Fisherman finds our trio of Nazi Fighters swimming in the dangerous waters of Spy Infested Los Angeles. It’s the late 1930’s. Hard-boiled Detective Phil D’Bourbon, his sexy but dangerous new bride Sally, and their elegant lover Lily had hoped to have a low-key honeymoon, and to hide ...
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    17,35 €

  • The Wynnman and the Black Azalea
    Trevor PKwain
    Enrico LoTrova always wanted to move to London and open his own bakery. When he finally lands a spot at 9/b High Street in Wimbledon Village, it is a dream come true, but when he thinks his career is about to take off, a series of unfortunate and mysterious events are set into motion that will drag him to the depths of the town’s unknown history. From legendary flowers to secre...
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    14,48 €


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