Publicado por Brand: Soho Crime, 2013
ISBN 10: 1616953241 ISBN 13: 9781616953249
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. First American Edition. Based on a chilling true crime, The Monster of Florence follows the reopening of a cold case-a serial killer who targeted unmarried couples and terrorized Florence for two decades.Marshal Guarnaccia's job with the carabinieri-the local Florentine police-usually involves restoring stolen handbags to grateful old ladies and lost cameras to bewildered tourists. So when he is assigned to work with the police in trying to track down a vicious serial killer, he feels out of his league. To make matters worse, the Proc he must report to is Simonetti, the same man he knows drove an innocent man to suicide several years earlier in his blind quest for a conviction. The Marshal can't let the stress of the case get to him if he wants to make sure justice is upheld.
Publicado por Brand: Soho Crime, 2003
ISBN 10: 156947091X ISBN 13: 9781569470916
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Reprint. The thirteenth Amsterdam Cops mysteryThe commissaris is about to retire from the Amsterdam police force when volunteer officer Johan Termeer approaches him for help. Johan fears his elderly uncle has been murdered in faraway New York, the corpse found decimated by animals in Central Park. The commissaris agrees to look into the matter since hes already heading to New York for a law enforcement convention, and brings Sergeant de Gier along with him.
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Publicado por Brand: Soho Press, 2005
ISBN 10: 1569474052 ISBN 13: 9781569474051
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Riveting.-GlamourA commendable debut . . . entertaining and engaging.-The Seattle Times[Barbieris] insights into family dynamics are solid and true.-The Washington Post Book WorldReminiscent of Mona Simpsons novels, in the way that it sneaks up on you with its message of strength as a payoff for hardship . . . a thoughtful and thought-provoking study of family afflictions.-January MagazinePowerful.-Seattle Post-IntelligencerAll of Erins life, her older sister has eclipsed her, stolen her boyfriends, and commanded the familys attention with one meteoric crisis or another. Meghan was always smarter, prettier, more daring and dynamic. As a child, she could charm her way out of any situation, usually leaving Erin to shoulder the blame for their various transgressions. But Meghan has been gone for years, and now Erin is eager to leave Butte behind her, too: to go east to art school or west to Los Angeles to become a jewelry designer-anywhere, so long as its far from Butte, Montana. Then Meghan, a single mother with a six-year-old daughter and an infant, unexpectedly returns, again expecting Erin and their mother to solve her problems. But this time there are other people involved, no easy solution to those problems, and no one else to blame.Meghan, still beautiful and magnetic, is now addicted to men, danger, and drugs. She is the worlds most frequent flier. Little Teensy and baby Si-Si are lonely and endangered. Teensy, especially, has been affected by her mothers neglect, and she clings to Erin, desperately craving the intimacy and affection that has been denied her. When Meghans attempts to stay clean falter, the responsibility for the children becomes Erins. But how much can she be expected to sacrifice for her nieces well-being? Can she find fulfillment and happiness, even in Butte?.
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Publicado por Brand: Soho Crime, 2009
ISBN 10: 1569476004 ISBN 13: 9781569476000
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. The best first novel Ive read in years.Its a flat-out terror trip.-James EllroyNot only one of the finest thriller debuts of the last ten years, but also one of the best Irish novels, in any genre, of recent times.-John ConnollyThe Ghosts of Belfast is the book when the world finally sits up and goes WOW, the Irish really have taken over the world of crime writing. Stuart Neville is Irelands answer to Henning Mankell.-Ken BruenSure to garner attention and stir lively pub discussions.-Library JournalNevilles debut novel is tragic, violent, exciting, plausible, and compelling. . . . The Ghosts of Belfast is dark, powerful, insightful, and hard to put down.-BooklistNevilles debut is as unrelenting as Fegans ghosts, pulling no punches as it describes the brutality of Irelands 'troubles' and the crime that has followed, as violent men find new outlets for their skills. Sharp prose places readers in this pitiless place and holds them there. Harsh and unrelenting crime fiction, masterfully done.-Kirkus[Stuart] Neville has the talent to believably blend the tropes of the crime novel and those of a horror, in the process creating a page-turning thriller akin to a collaboration between John Connolly and Stephen King. . . [The Ghosts of Belfast] is a superb thriller, and one of the first great post-Troubles novels to emerge from Northern Ireland.-Sunday Independent (Ireland)Fegan has been a hard man, an IRA killer in northern Ireland. Now that peace has come, he is being haunted day and night by twelve ghosts: a mother and infant, a schoolboy, a butcher, an RUC constable, and seven other of his innocent victims. In order to appease them, hes going to have to kill the men who gave him orders.As hes working his way down the list he encounters a woman who may offer him redemption; she has borne a child to an RUC officer and is an outsider too. Now he has given Fate-and his quarry-a hostage. Is this Fegans ultimate mistake?Stuart Neville is a partner in a multimedia design business based in Armagh, northern Ireland. This novel, also known as The Twelve in the UK and Ireland, is the first in a series.
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Publicado por Brand: Soho Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 1569474710 ISBN 13: 9781569474716
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Praise for the Billy Boyle series:A meaty, old-fashioned and thoroughly enjoyable tale of WWII-era murder and espionage.-The Seattle TimesThe World War II atmosphere and history are expertly handled.-Denver PostGreat fun. Benn knows his war history. . . . The novel introduces a batch of intriguing characters who seem destined to make another appearance.-The Globe and Mail (Toronto)A memorable debut.-BookPageA must for history buffs and mystery fans.-Connecticut PostIf you enjoy World War II mysteries . . . youll love this book. . . . One of the best books Ive read this year.-Mystery SceneBenn crafts a crackling good adventure, with much flavorsome period color.-Kirkus ReviewsIll look for another book about Billy Boyle, with pleasure.-Deadly PleasuresLieutenant Billy Boyle reluctantly accompanies Major Samuel Harding, his boss, in the first boat to land on the shores of Algeria during the Allied invasion. Their task is to arrange the surrender of the Vichy French forces. But there is dissension between the regular army, the local militia, and De Gaulles Free French. American black marketeers in league with the enemy divert medical supplies to the Casbah, leading to multiple murders that Billy must solve while trying to rescue the girl he loves, a captured British spy.
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Publicado por Brand: Soho Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 1569473013 ISBN 13: 9781569473016
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Inspector Chens mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort U.S. Marshal Catherine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an important criminal trial, to the United States. Inspector Rohn is already en route when Chen learns that Wen has unaccountably vanished from her village in Fujian. Or is this just what he is supposed to believe? Chen resents his role; he would rather investigate the triad killing in Shanghais beauteous Bund Park. But his boss insists that saving face with Inspector Rohn has priority. So Chen Cao, the ambitious son of a father who imbued him with Confucian precepts, must tread warily as he tries once again to be a good cop, a good man, and also a loyal Party member.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Publicado por Brand: Soho Crime, 2003
ISBN 10: 1569470170 ISBN 13: 9781569470176
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. On a quiet street in downtown Amsterdam, the founder of a new religious society/commune-a group that calls itself Hindist and mixes elements of various Eastern traditions-is found hanging from a ceiling beam. Detective-Adjutant Gripstra and Sergeant de Gier of the Amsterdam police are sent to investigate what looks like a simple suicide, but they are immediately suspicious of the circumstances.This now-classic novel, first published in 1975, introduces Janwillem van de Weterings lovable Amsterdam cop duo of portly, worldly-wise Gripstra and handsome, contemplative de Gier. With its unvarnished depiction of the legacy of Dutch colonialism and the darker facets of Amsterdams free drug culture, this excellent procedural asks the question of whether a murder may ever be justly committed.
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Publicado por Brand: Soho Crime, 2008
ISBN 10: 1569474850 ISBN 13: 9781569474853
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. In Vientiane, a booby-trapped corpse, intended for Dr. Siri, the national coroner of Laos, has been delivered to the morgue. In his absence, only Nurse Dtuis intervention saves the lives of the morgue attendants, visiting doctors, and Madame Daeng, Dr. Siris fiancée.On his way back from a communist party meeting in the north, Dr. Siri is kidnapped by seven female Hmong villagers under the direction of the village elder so that he will-in the guise of Yeh Ming, the thousand-year-old shaman with whom he shares his body-exorcise the headmans daughter whose soul is possessed by a demon, and lift the curse of the pogo stick.
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Publicado por Brand: Soho Crime, 2009
ISBN 10: 1569475423 ISBN 13: 9781569475423
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Illustrated. Parisian P.I. Aimée Leduc is head-over-heels when a former boyfriend, an investigative journalist, reappears and proposes-but his professional past has caught up with him, and now Aimée must figure out who would want him deadAimée Leduc seems to be having a streak of good luck. First, she secures a lucrative computer security contract for her Paris detective agency. Then her ex-boyfriend Yves, the gorgeous bad-boy investigative journalist, reappears in her life. He insists hes back in Paris indefinitely-and wants to make the ultimate commitment. He proposes to her that very night, and Aimée cant help but say yes.When she wakes up in the morning, though, Yves is gone without even leaving a note. Aimée is irate until she learns the awful truth: Yves was murdered early that morning. Heartbroken and convinced the Brigade Criminelle are not following the right leads, Aimée pursues the mystery behind her fiancés murder. Yves was killed trying to further a cause he believed in. Even if it means putting her own life on the line, Aimée wont let him die in vain.
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Publicado por Brand: Soho Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 9627160385 ISBN 13: 9789627160380
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. As the takeover of Hong Kong nears, the entrepreneurial Pak family of Hong Kong hire accountant Will Sears to shift around ownerships, set up holdings in the U.S. and Nassau, and transfer title to kin in Macao. Ronnie Pak had entrusted Will with bilingual spreadsheets and information on the family businesses, all of which has gone missing from Will's apartment after Ronnie's arrest in Los Angeles for smuggling heroin hidden in shrimp paste containers. Will, arrested as well, is granted immunity in return for his testimony. Will he live to give it?.
Publicado por Brand: Soho Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 1569470723 ISBN 13: 9781569470725
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. In ancient Egypt, an intelligent, ambitious woman named Thu, leaves her native village aboard the boat of a prophet and eventually becomes a powerful concubine of Ramses III.
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Publicado por Brand: Soho Press, 2011
ISBN 10: 1569479178 ISBN 13: 9781569479179
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. In April 1945, Hitlers Reich is on the verge of extinction. Assaulted by Allied bombs and Soviet shells, ruled by Nazis with nothing to lose, Berlin has become the most dangerous place on earth.John Russells son Paul is stationed on the Eastern Front with the German Army, awaiting the Soviets final onslaught. In Berlin, Russells girlfriend Effi has been living in disguise, helping fugitives to escape from Germany. With a Jewish orphan to care for, shes trying to outlast the Nazis.Russell hasnt heard from either of them since fleeing Germany in 1941. He is desperate to find out if theyre alive and to protect them from the advancing Red Army. He flies to Moscow, seeking permission to enter Berlin with the Red Army as a journalist, but when the Soviets arrest him as a spy, things look bleak-until they find a use for him that has him parachuting into Berlin behind German lines.
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Publicado por Brand: Soho Crime, 2012
ISBN 10: 1616952415 ISBN 13: 9781616952419
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Fegan has been a "hard man," an IRA killer in northern Ireland. Now that peace has come, he is being haunted day and night by twelve ghosts: a mother and infant, a schoolboy, a butcher, an RUC constable, and seven other of his innocent victims. In order to appease them, he's going to have to kill the men who gave him orders.
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Publicado por Brand: Soho Crime, 2011
ISBN 10: 156947947X ISBN 13: 9781569479476
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. The eleventh Peter Diamond InvestigationPop diva Clarion Calhoun has packed the house with her celebrity appearance in Baths Theatre Royal production of I Am a Camera. But within moments of her much-anticipated onstage appearance, shes pulled out of character as she screams and claws at her face.When tainted stage makeup is found to have caused the disfiguring burn, fingers point to her makeup artist. Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond investigates when the makeup artist is found dead, pushed from a catwalk far above the stage. As Diamond digs deeper, he uncovers rivalries among the cast and crew and is forced to confront his own mysterious and deep-seated theatre phobia to find the killer.
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Publicado por Brand: Soho Press, 2004
ISBN 10: 1569473692 ISBN 13: 9781569473696
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Praise for A Loyal Character Dancer:"Another wonderful novel featuring Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police Bureau for Sinophiles like myself who fantasize about taking an insiders tour of Shanghai."-Maureen Corrigan, NPR, "Fresh Air," Washington Post Book World"A sequel [to Death of a Red Heroine] that in many ways is even more impressive . . . [Qiu] has moved from the poetic, exotic milieu of his first book (although plenty of elements remain) into a tougher, wider, probably more commercial and modern version of China as seen by America."-Chicago TribuneInspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police Bureau is taking a vacation, in part because he is annoyed at his boss, the Party Secretary, but also because he has been made an offer he cant refuse by a triad-connected businessman. For what seems to be a fortune-with no apparent strings attached-he is to translate into English a business proposal for the New World, a complex of shops and restaurants to be built in Central Shanghai evoking nostalgia for the "glitter and glamour" of the 30s.So Detective Yu, Chens partner, is forced to take charge of a new investigation. A novelist has been murdered in her room. At first it seems that only a neighbor could have committed the crime, but when one confesses, Detective Yu cannot believe that he is really the murderer. As the policeman looks further, ample motives begin to surface, even on the part of Internal Security. But it is only when Inspector Chen steps back into the investigation that the real culprit is apprehended. And then Chen discovers how the triad has played him.Qiu Xiaolong was born in Shanghai. He is the author of two previous Inspector Chen Mysteries, Death of a Red Heroine and A Loyal Character Dancer. He lives in St. Louis with his wife and daughter.
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Publicado por Brand: Soho Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 1569473072 ISBN 13: 9781569473078
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. After being horribly disfigured during the war and sent to a hospital on the outskirts of Paris, Officer Adrien F. forms a special bond with the other soldiers dealing with pain and reconstructive surgery, and when a gorgeous woman joins their group, he learns that hope, humor, and humanity can exist in even the darkest of hours. Reprint.
Publicado por Brand: Soho Constable, 2008
ISBN 10: 1569475032 ISBN 13: 9781569475034
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Praise for the Powerscourt series:Fine prose, high society, and [a] complex plot recommend this series.-Library JournalOne hopes to see more of Lord Powerscourt and his friends in the near future.-Publishers WeeklyIn 1905, Lord Francis Powerscourt investigates a series of art thefts from stately homes of the Protestant gentry in Ireland. Then people begin to vanish. As Powerscourt closes in on the killer, his own life is threatened and his patriotism is questioned.David Dickinson, a BBC editor, lives in West London.
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Publicado por Brand: Soho Crime, 2007
ISBN 10: 1569474524 ISBN 13: 9781569474525
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Know[s] how to craft a truly satisfying police procedural.-The Philadelphia InquirerThe principal of a high school telephones his friend, Inspector Andersson of the Gteborg Crime Police; one of his teachers failed to show up for work. To Inspector Irene Huss surprise, on the basis of this vague complaint her boss drives out with her to a remote cottage in snowbound southern Sweden to investigate. There they find a body, its head blasted by a rifle. Teacher Jacob Schyttelius has been murdered. When they go to break the news to his elderly parents, Pastor Sten Schyttelius and his wife, they find the couple dead in their beds, each shot between the eyes. Upside-down pentagrams have been drawn in blood on their computer screens. The only surviving member of the family is a daughter, now residing in London, but she is too distressed to be interviewed. Is the killer a member of a satanic cult? Is it the parish treasurer, rumored to have been embezzling church funds? Or one of the assistant pastors, tired of waiting for a promotion? Perhaps the attractive blonde who sings in church and practices witchcraft? Irene Huss has a hunch that the answer lies in England, and she travels there twice to discover the reason for this triple homicide.Helene Tursten is the author of Detective Inspector Huss and The Torso. The latter is now a German film, and her series is being filmed for Swedish television. She lives with her husband in Gteborg.
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Publicado por Brand: Soho Press, 2006
ISBN 10: 1569474230 ISBN 13: 9781569474235
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Product Description Funny, bewitching, observant.-The Oregonian Hits all the frets of a powerful story: sharp-witted dialogue, vivid characters, insight into medical challenges and prose that snaps like well-placed plucks of guitar strings. . . . I hold up my lighter and turn it full-flame for [Garth] Steins latest work. Encore!-The Seattle Times Compelling.-Seattle Post-Intelligencer Stein handles the many narrative elements deftly.-Seattle Weekly An engrossing family drama.-Publishers Weekly Evan had a hit single, but that was ten years ago. Thirty-one now, hes drifting, playing in a local band and teaching middle-aged men to coax music from an electric guitar. Beset at a young age with a life-threatening form of epilepsy, hes kept his condition a secret. But his deepest secret is that he got his high school sweetheart pregnant. Then her conservative parents whisked her out of Seattle and out of Evans life. Now, fourteen years later, he experiences unplanned parenthood when he undertakes to raise the resentful teenage son hes never known. Off beat and disarming, How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets portrays a contemporary American family with unfailing honesty. About the Author Garth Stein, a former documentary filmmaker, was co-producer of an Academy Award-winning short film. He is the author of the #1 bestselling The Art of Racing in the Rain and Raven Stole the Moon. He lives in Seattle with his wife and children.
Publicado por Brand: Soho Pr Inc, 1995
ISBN 10: 1569470235 ISBN 13: 9781569470237
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. 3. Book by Faulhaber, Linda, Rayman, Graham, Pennybacker, Mindy.
Publicado por Brand: Soho Press, 2014
ISBN 10: 1616953098 ISBN 13: 9781616953096
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. "With surgical insight, Inside Madeline delves into the most complex female territory imaginable and dissects until every honest bone is revealed. Bomer's prose doesn't flinch, doesn't filter-the bravery of these stories left me breathless.-Alissa Nutting, author of TampaFrom the author of Nine Months and Baby comes a daring new collection that seethes with alienation, lust and rage. Bomer takes us from hospitals, halfway houses, and alleyways, to boarding schools and Park Avenue penthouses, exploring the complex relationships girls have with their bodies, with other girls, and with boys. The title novella tracks the ins and outs of an outsiders life: her childhood obesity and kinky sex life, her toxic relationships, whether familial or erotic, and her various disappearing acts, of body and mind.
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Publicado por Brand: Soho Crime, 2013
ISBN 10: 161695292X ISBN 13: 9781616952921
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Wyatt, the cool, ever-evasive thief, snatches the cash easily enough. He bypasses the alarm system, eludes the cops, makes it safely back to his hideout in Hobart. It's the diamond-studded Tiffany brooch-and perhaps the girl-that undoes him. Now some very hard people want to put Wyatt and that brooch out of circulation. But this is Wyatt's game and Wyatt sets the rules-even if it means a reckoning somewhere far from home. In a murky world where the cops are robbers, old-style criminal Wyatt positively shines.
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Publicado por Brand: Soho Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 1569476349 ISBN 13: 9781569476345
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1. In the fall of 1941, Anglo-American journalist John Russell is still living in Berlin, tied to the increasingly alien city by his love for two Berliners: his fourteen-year-old son, Paul, and his longtime girlfriend, Effi. Forced to work for both German and American Intelligence, he's searching for a way out of Germany. Can he escape and take Effi with him?From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Publicado por Brand: Soho Press, 2013
ISBN 10: 1616952539 ISBN 13: 9781616952532
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. For readers weary of literary fiction that dutifully obeys the laws of nature, heres a story that stirs the Brothers Grimm and Salvador Dali with its claws . . . as gorgeous as it is devastating.-The Washington PostIn this epic, mythical debut novel, a newly-wed couple escapes the busy confusion of their homeland for a distant and almost-uninhabited lakeshore. They plan to live there simply, to fish the lake, to trap the nearby woods, and build a house upon the dirt where they can raise a family. But as their every pregnancy fails, the child-obsessed husband begins to rage at this new world: the song-spun objects somehow created by his wife's beautiful singing voice, the giant and sentient bear that rules the beasts of the woods, the second moon weighing down the fabric of their starless sky, and the labyrinth of memory dug into the earth beneath their house.This novel, from one of our most exciting young writers, is a powerful exploration of the limits of parenthood and marriage-and of what happens when a marriages success is measured solely by the children it produces, or else the sorrow that marks their absence.
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Publicado por Brand: Soho Crime, 2003
ISBN 10: 1569471576 ISBN 13: 9781569471579
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Softcover. Condición: Good. Detectives Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler investigate a series of arson fires and murders in World War II's occupied France.
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Publicado por Brand: Soho Crime, 2009
ISBN 10: 1569475792 ISBN 13: 9781569475799
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Praise for the Tao Yun Shan series:Majestic.-The New York Times Book ReviewA powerful picture of courage in the face of tyranny.-The Washington PostNothing Ive read or seen about how China has systematically crushed the soul of Tibet has been as effective.-Chicago TribuneShan Tao Yun is an exiled Chinese national and a former Beijing investigator on parole from the Tibetan gulag to which he had been consigned as punishment. He is ferrying a corpse on muleback over the slopes of Chomolungma-Everest-at the request of a local wisewoman who says the gods have appointed this task to him, when he encounters what looks like a traffic accident. A government bus filled with imprisoned illegal monks has overturned. Then Shan hears gunfire. Two women in an approaching sedan have been killed. One is the Chinese minister of tourism; the other, a blond Westerner, organizes climbing expeditions. Though she dies in his arms, Shan is later met with denials that this foreigner is dead.Shan must find the murderer, for his recompense will be the life and sanity of his son, Ko, imprisoned in a Chinese yeti factory where men are routinely driven mad.Eliot Pattison is an international lawyer based near Philadelphia. His five previous Shan novels have been critical and commercial successes. He won the Edgar Award for Best First Novel and was nominated for the Crime Writers Association Golden Dagger.
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Publicado por Brand: Soho Pr Inc, 1987
ISBN 10: 0939149079 ISBN 13: 9780939149070
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Hardcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. A story of a young couple who abandoned their careers in New York and moved to Ireland tells of their idyllic life in a cottage, surrounded by the beauty and character of the land of their ancestors.
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Publicado por Brand: Soho Press, 2003
ISBN 10: 1569471339 ISBN 13: 9781569471333
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. The author invites readers on an adventurous and humorous journey as he hitchhikes the full length of Japan, beginning in a small town where local gardeners dust their blossom petals after the nearby volcano sprinkles them with ash.
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Publicado por Brand: Soho Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 1569474680 ISBN 13: 9781569474686
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Little Face is a wonderful work, a brilliant use of mirrors and the writer's magic. Chilling, tantalizing, and ultimately fair and deeply satisfying.-Barbara DAmato, author of Death of a Thousand CutsHannah adapts to crime fiction with arresting aplomb: Her characters are vivid, the novels challenging double narrative is handled with flair, and its denouement is ingenious.-The Sunday Times (London)Outstandingly chilling.-The SpectatorSuperb . . . good, old-fashioned spine-tingling stuff, but also a fine modern thriller.-The Times (London)A terrifying mystery of manipulation, counter-manipulation and, finally, astounding revelation. Its a haunting story told with bewitching skill.-The ScotsmanImpressive.-The Mail on SundayThe first time she goes out after their daughter is born, Alice leaves the two-week-old infant at home with her husband, David. When she returns two hours later, she insists that the baby in the crib is not her child. Despite her apparent distress, David is adamant that she is wrong.The police are called to the scene. Detective Constable Simon Waterhouse is sympathetic, but he doubts Alices story. His superior, Sergeant Charlie Zailer, thinks Alice must be suffering from some sort of delusion brought on by postpartum depression. With an increasingly hostile and menacing David swearing she must either be mad or lying, how can Alice make the police believe her before its too late?Sophie Hannah is an award-winning and best-selling poet in the United Kingdom. She has also previously published fiction. This is her first psychological crime novel. She lives in West Yorkshire with her husband and two children.
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Publicado por Brand: Soho Press, 2010
ISBN 10: 1569478511 ISBN 13: 9781569478516
Librería: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Softcover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Irish-American Army Lieutenant Detective Billy Boyle returns to his family's homeland only to get sucked into a complex web of wartime intrigue.Autumn, 1943: Fifty Browning Automatic Rifles and thousands of rounds of ammunition have been stolen from a US Army base in Northern Ireland. A few miles from the depot, the body of a known IRA man has been found with a bullet in the head and a pound note in his hand-the mark of an informer.Fearing a German-sponsored IRA uprising, General Eisenhower, Billys uncle by marriage, sends him to recover the weapons before more damage is done. Billy searched for the missing weapons with the help of a beautiful Irish woman, an officer in British intelligence. Soldiers of the US Army, members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, as well as of local Protestant societies, and local Catholic laymen all come under suspicion. Bodies begin to accumulate, and Billy finds unexpected challenges to his Boston-Irish upbringing and his own IRA sympathies. There are rogues on both sides, he learns.
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