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New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts serves up a sizzling novel of explosive suspense and sensual romance as the search for a murderer ignites passion between a beautiful psychiatrist and the sexy, brooding detective determined to crack the case. In the unbearable heat of another...

The story of an FBI agent chasing a serial killer that steals the DNA of his victims and grows skin suits to commit crimes dressed as them. Nobody has a clue of what he looks like or who he really is behind the mask. FBI agent Curtis Sanders meets an unspeakable evil that changes the lives of his friends and family forever.

Combining explosive suspense with sensual passion, the bestselling author of Carnal Innocence and The Reef turns up the heat in this classic tale, available for the first time in hardcover-the sizzling story of a man and woman on the trail of a demented killer... and on the verge of...

A whisper is a secret that keeps you safe in the dark. It may hold truth, but it may bring about pain. When Eli said goodbye to love, he never counted on Gia. The darkened soul he'd kept hidden for far too long was tainted. And she was too beautiful, too innocent. But he didn't bank on the feisty beauty taming the beast he held inside. Living with guilt and anger, he promises to never love again. But fate has other plans.  

No Sin Unpunished is the second collection from the master of contemporary psychological horror, John Farris. The collection includes two new, never-before-published stories. Originally published as Elvisland.

Por primera vez, William Faulkner introduce el monólogo interior y revela los diferentes puntos de vista de sus personajes: Benjy, deficiente mental, castrado por sus propios parientes; Quentin, poseído por un amor incestuoso e incapaz de controlar los celos, y Jason, monstruo de maldad y sadismo.

En Luz de agosto aparecen retratados algunos de los personajes más memorables de Faulkner: la cándida e intrépida Lena Grove en busca del padre de su hijo; el reverendo Gal Hightower, atormentado por constante visiones de soldados de caballería confederados, y Joe Christmas, un misterioso vagabundo consumido por los orígenes raciales de sus antepasados.

Get inside the glamour with the Sunday Times bestselling author, Tasmina Perry… Stunning Brooke Asgill is about to marry into one of the richest and most powerful families in the Unites States, and matriarch Meredith Asgill is determined that her daughter will walk down the aisle at whatever...

Molly Mae has embarked on a new journey in the opposite direction of where she'd once been heading, and was unknowingly predestined to go due to the sins of her forefathers. Leaving behind the small town in rural Victoria where she was born, she relocates to Melbourne to start a new life. Having battled substance abuse for a decade and haunted by her own secrets and demons, she is determined to make a fresh start away from the scandal of her father's arrest, gaining him the notorious title of the country's most prolific serial killer.

It's RN Gina Mazzio's wedding eve. But when she takes the week's final Ob/Gyn telephone advice call, a deadly serious male voice says, "She's all cut up." The police, the hospital administrator, and even Gina's fiancé, Harry Lucke, insist it was only a crank call, some sicko getting his Friday evening jollies. Gina doesn't buy it. After a second similar call, at her home, she starts to link the calls and caller with a series of nurse disappearances.

Arrested for shoplifting, a woman with amnesia fears both her past and her future, and claims no knowledge of the mysterious young girl found with her. Sins of the Father focuses on the efforts of a daring psychologist to bring an emotionally troubled woman face to face with a horrifying reality, yet protect her from a complete and permanent emotional breakdown.

Not even the warning label on the experimental project could have prepared Jane Spears for the nightmare she would walk into when the Ashley Potter case landed in her lap. Deep inside the victim's mind, Jane finds clues hinting at the worst crimes she has ever come upon. But the bread crumbs don't lead anywhere, and in the waking light Jane discovers nothing is as she believed. The conspiracy goes deeper than she can reveal, and the crimes are too hideous to leave unsolved.

El libro es el relato de una educación sentimental, sexual y artística, y de la búsqueda de la identidad, con un retrato de fondo de la España –y la Europa– de los años cincuenta y sesenta, a la que aún llegan los fantasmas de la Guerra Civil. En sus páginas comparecen ciudades...

Becoming a cop changes everything you thought you knew about life. Midnight Sin is an inside look at the dark and mysterious world behind the cop's badge. Rookie cop Gary Hollings quickly learns that wrestling street thugs and arresting drug dealers while trying to track down a serial rapist is nowhere near as tough as watching his back from his fellow cops. He must also fight his inner demons - ones that he never knew he had until he put on that police uniform.

A prismatic novel that records the indelible marks a mother leaves on her son after she abandons their home in Italy for a business she's building in Romania. Lorenzo, just a young boy when his mother leaves, recalls the incisive fragments of their life - when they would playfully wrestle each other, watch the sunrise, or test out his mother's newest scientific creation. Now a young man, Lorenzo travels to Romania for his mother's funeral and reflects on the strangeness of today's Europe, which masks itself as a beacon of Western civilization while iniquity runs rampant.

A Perception of Sin is a dark tale of forbidden sex, loneliness, and love. The story begins in modern-day London with a suicide bomb attack aboard an underground train. During the subsequent forensic investigation DNA taken from one of the adult victims is flagged up as a match to a Cold Case blood sample, dating back 25 years. The case is re-opened with chilling consequences.

Al final parece que esto va de ser feliz. La vida es una simple y curiosa sucesión de altibajos. No siempre te encuentras igual. Ni te sientes del mismo modo. Yo he conseguido llegar muy alto (tanto, que casi rocé el cielo con la punta de mis dedos). He soñado fuerte. He querido por encima de todo. Y, sobre todo, durante una bonita temporada, logré vivir sin miedo. Pero ¿sabéis cuál es el problema de llegar tan alto? Que cuando caes, el golpe puede llegar a ser mortal...

She had to come to from the cocktail's spell soon. He had to make her think that she had slept off the Cognac cocktail, rather than his odiously prepared sedative. If she doubted his veracity, should there be residual evidence like blood smear, Armstrong knew he had to make her believe that her period came on that afternoon. "I'm not worried," he consoled himself. "I have no prison record. Colleagues consider me a pillar of the community."

Dr. Anna Brown is a psychiatrist made famous in her own way for her work dealing with serial killers. This is her story of Tom Hickens, the infamous serial killer of babies.

Kevin Kendrick must come to terms with his grandfather not being who he's always been thought to be and that he killed Kevin's real grandfather decades ago. As times wears on, Kevin feels his mind slipping away, with each tick of the clock stealing something from him. Can he learn to forgive and put everything in the past, where it's always been, or can he, a mild-mannered man, bring justice full circle?