Calling out for You - formato ePub

Segundos negros es el sexto caso del inspector Sejer.Ida Joner está a punto de cumplir diez años cuando desaparece en una pequeña población noruega rodeada de granjas y bosques. Helga, su madre, está...

En un pequeño pueblo de Noruega, unos terribles malentendidos perturban la tranquilidad de sus habitantes: hospitales que anuncian accidentes que no han ocurrido, periódicos que publican esquelas de ancianos...

La cuarta entrega de la serie protagonizada por el inspector Konrad Sejer es una de las novelas más oscuras y siniestras de Karin Fossum, autora destacada de la nueva narrativa policíaca escandinava.Dos...

La séptima entrega de la serie del inspector Konrad Sejer.Charlo Torp no es un hombre afortunado. Aún llora la muerte de su mujer, ha perdido su trabajo y las acuciantes deudas de juego lo han distanciado...

Octavaentrega de laseriedel inspector Konrad Sejer.Es domingo, y Reinhardt y Kristine Ris han salido a dar un relajado paseo cuando descubren el cuerpo sin vida de un chico y ven a alguien que, cojeando,...

El noveno caso del inspector Konrad Sejer, por una de las autoras más aclamadas de la novela negra europea actual, así como abanderada destacada de la nueva narrativa policíaca escandinava.Es septiembre...

En El ojo de Eva, primer caso del Inspector Sejer, el detective deberá investigar la muerte de una prostituta y su relación con una joven pintora.Eva Magnus, una joven pintora de escaso éxito, se encuentra...

Segundo caso del inspector Sejer: un nuevo y misterioso caso que resolver.Novela ganadora del premio La llave de cristal a la mejor novela policíaca escandinava, un galardón que comparte con Henning Mankell...

Un nuevo caso del carismático comisario Sejer.El calor agobiante del verano se ha instalado en la pequeña localidad noruega de Finnemarka. En la soledad de su cabaña la anciana granjera Halldis Horn es...

Quinta entrega de la serie de novela negra escandinava protagonizada por el inspector Sejer.Gunder Jomann se siente un hombre feliz tras regresar de un viaje a la India. Allí ha conseguido lo que más...

«¿Los thrillers no te parecen tan emocionantes últimamente? ¿Los asesinos en serie son demasiado tontos? ¿Los detectives demasiado sensibles? ¿Te preguntas dónde fueron a parar los tipos duros? Solo hay...

Beneath the imposing Kollen Mountain lies a small village where the children run in and out of one another's houses and play unafraid in the streets. But when a naked body is found by the lake at the...

Gunder Jomann, a quiet, middle-aged man from a peaceful Norwegian community, thinks his life has been made complete when he returns from a trip to India a married man. But on the day his Indian bride...

Early one September three friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin by Dead Water Lake. With only a pale moon to light their way, they row across the water in the middle of the night. But only two of...

“A truly great writer and explorer of the human mind.” — Jo Nesbø“What grips readers is the enormous amount of emotion [Fossum] works up as we get closer and closer to reliving the murderous event in...

“Tantalizing.” — Washington Post “One of the standouts of the Nordic thriller boom.” — New York Magazine   “No one can thoroughly chill the blood the way Karin Fossum can.” — Los Angeles Times   “A truly...

Victoria Finney has always been the planner. So, when she's blindsided by a terminaldiagnosis, she's not just worried about her own future—she's worried about herhusband, Troy. Determined to ensure he's...

Alan Thurston was an immunologist at Midwestern University Medical School. Like most men in the teaching trade, he also had a research project. If it worked out, he'd be one of the great names in medicine;...

Whose Body? is a 1923 novel by Dorothy L. Sayers, which introduced the character of Lord Peter Wimsey. CHAPTER I "Oh, damn!" said Lord Peter Wimsey at Piccadilly Circus. "Hi, driver!" The taxi man,...

The Pit and The Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe "The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's...

Eldorado is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. It was first published in 1913. The novel is notable in that it is the partial basis for most of the film treatments of...

The Warden, published in 1855, is the first book in Anthony Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series of six novels. It was his fourth novel.The Warden concerns Mr Septimus Harding, the meek, elderly...

The Mirror of the Sea is a collection of autobiographical essays originally published variously in several magazines between 1904 and 1906. In discussing the work, Conrad described it as "a very intimate...

Glenn Killbourne and his fiancee Carley Burch find a strange test of their love in the mountains and canyons of Arizona. What subtle strange message had come to her out of the West? Carley Burch laid...

The senator took an elevator directly to the helicopter landing on the roof of the building. It was several minutes before he had located the little runabout he had bought for his wife the previous Christmas....

Mme. Vauquer (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the...

"A Daughter of the Snows" is Jack London's first novel. The novel features a strong female heroine, Frona Welse. Frona was born into a wealthy family and educated at Stanford but she takes to the Yukon...

You will, I know, permit me to address you these essays which are more the product of your erudition than of my enthusiasm. With the motives of their appearance you are familiar. We have wondered together...

This don't pretend to be "Literature." This is just a tale for red-blooded folks who want a story and not just a lot of "psychological" stuff or "analysis." Boy, you'll love it! Read it here, see it...

The Purloined Letter Edgar Allan Poe The Purloined Letter" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe. It is the third of his three detective stories featuring the fictional C. Auguste Dupin,...

This collection contains translations of Roumanian tales which, however, comprise but a small portion of the inexhaustible treasure that exists in the nation. The originals are scattered throughout Roumanian...

On the second day of July in the year 1863 the Civil War in America was at its height. Late in the preceding month Lee had turned his face northward, and, with an army of a hundred thou-sand Confederate...

Unseen Genius follows the journey of Jabari, a young inventor with dreams bigger than his circumstances. In each installment, Jabari grapples with the challenges of balancing his family obligations, friendships,...

FIRE MOUNTAIN IS "A THRILLING SEA STORY BY "NORMAN SPRINGER", AUTHOR OF "THE BLOOD SHIP" Years. Bright, aslant eyes, and a suave and ever-ready smile that broke immediately Martin met his gaze. "You...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "This has got to be one of the most out loud funniest books I've read all year."⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Any women that are going through menopause need to read this. Such a great book and it's laugh out loud funny." For...

Mr. Greene, a wealthy Englishman on a European holiday with his family, carried his money and his wife's jewels in one of their many boxes. On transferring from the boat on Lake Como to their hotel, the...

"We heard the tecbir, so the Arabs call Their shout of onset, when with loud appeal They challenge heaven, as if commanding conquest." Hugh de Payens, having now laid in Europe the foundations of the...

The Return of the Native is English author Thomas Hardy's sixth published novel. It first appeared in the magazine Belgravia, a publication known for its sensationalism, and was presented in twelve monthly...

For half a century the housewives of Pont-l'Eveque had envied Madame Aubain her servant Felicite. For a hundred francs a year, she cooked and did the housework, washed, ironed, mended, harnessed the...

All they want for Christmas is ...Breanna Henderson lives by lists, strict schedules, and preparations galore. Being pregnant while climbing up a ladder into her best friend Billy's bedroom was definitely...

The year 146 B.C. was an annus mirabilis in the development of Roman dominion. Of course it had long been a foregone conclusion that Carthage and Corinth must fall before her, but the actual time of their...

The highly anticipated follow-up to bestselling BIG HORN, WALKER PRAIRIE is a thrilling Jenn Herrington legal mystery set in Wyoming's rugged Bighorn Mountains. When former prosecutor and mystery writer...

We is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920-1921. The novel was first published as an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 in New York. The novel describes a world...

The beautiful scenery of the Moselle has too long been left without notice. It is true, some of our Artists have presented to us scenes on the banks of this river; but English travellers are, for the...

One more point deserves notice. Butler often refers in "Life and Habit" to Darwin's "Variations of Animals and Plants under Domestication." When he does so it is always under the name "Plants and Animals."...

AS you open this book you will probably ask, "What is a golden deed?" Let me tell you. It is the doing of something for somebody else doing it without thought of self, without thought of reward, fearlessly,...