Elizabeth George, página 2 de 11

«Un libro inteligente, bien encuadrado y preciso; cada una de sus palabras ha sido escogida con cuidado. Los libros de la señora George son para iniciados en el género criminal. Como un buen vino, ha

Late summer on Whidbey Island after nine weeks of no rain and fire season has arrived ...along with a fire starter who soon begins tormenting the residents of this peaceful Pacific Northwest idyll with fires that escalate in intensity. Becca King and her friends Jenn and Derric are with her at the county fair when the third fire starts in a shed housing animals. The shed is destroyed, some of the animals are killed, and Becca hears from the nearby forest the 'whispers' of the fire starter who has remained to watch the havoc. More fires ensue and the situation escalates until someone dies. Becca thinks she knows who's behind it all, but only with the help of her friends and the development of her own incipient psychic talents can the perpetrator be brought to justice.

Comece cada dia com a perspectiva de Deus para a sua vida Descubra novas oportunidades a cada dia para se tornar uma mulher segundo o coração de Deus com estes devocionais úteis e encorajadores, extr

Lynley kehrt zurück Der Blick des Wanderers bleibt an etwas Rotem hängen. Tief unten, am Fuß der Steilküste, liegt ein zerschmetterter Körper. Als die Polizei die Ermittlungen aufnimmt, kann der Wanderer keine Papiere vorweisen. Ist er wirklich der, der zu sein er behauptet . Es ist Ende April. Durch das wechselhafte Frühlingswetter wandert ein Mann die Küste Cornwalls entlang. Seit Wochen hat er nicht mehr in einem Bett geschlafen, sich gewaschen, sich rasiert. Als er über der Klippe bei Polcare Cove innehält, bleibt sein Blick an etwas Rotem hängen. In der Tiefe liegt ein zerschmetterter Körper. Was zunächst wie ein Unfall aussieht, entpuppt sich als Sabotageakt und Mord, und die örtliche Ermittlerin Bea Hannaford steht bald schon einem ganzen Dutzend Verdächtigen gegenüber - darunter auch der Wanderer, der von sich behauptet, Thomas Lynley zu heißen, doch ausweisen kann er sich nicht. Als Hannaford bei New Scotland ...

¿Descubrirá el inspector de la policía de Londres Thomas Lynley qué hay detrás del brutal asesinato de su esposa? Ness, Joel y Toby afrontan un nuevo cambio en sus vidas. Su excéntrica abuela, dispuesta a eludir sus responsabilidades, decide abandonarlos frente a la puerta de la casa de su hija, la tia de los niños, que vive en la periferia marginal de Londres. La vida de los tres hermanos, no ha sido facil hasta ese momento, y no lo sera a partir de ahora. Ness es una adolescente desagradable que juguetea con las drogas y con la delincuencia. El mas pequeño, Toby, es un niño con problemas de aprendizaje y que vive anclado en la dependencia que siente por su hermano Joel, un poco mayor que el y que parece asumir la responsabilidad de mantener unida a su extraña familia. Tal ambiente, como prueba la autora del libro, enmarca el camino que se ha de desandar para hallar el origen del mal, para encontrar el principio casi invisible de sucesos terribles que un dia coparan las primeras paginas de los periodicos. En su momento, el asesinato de Helen Lynley ocupara la atencion de todos, pero ¿cual fue el verdadero origen del crimen? La presente novela, desde un planteamiento original y arriesgado que la autora resuelve con maestria, propone la "deconstruccion" de un asesinato. Elizabeth George plantea que al reves no interesa tanto que pasara tras el asesinato, pues este el el punto final del libro; lo que se ha de buscar es el origen, lo que se ha de averiguar es aquello que provoco que alguien disparara a una mujer de buena posicion en un callejon de un barrio de Londres. Ahi, en el principio, se esconde siempre la explicacion del trauma que arrastra el inspector Lynley, protagonista de la serie.

Você já se perguntou qual é o propósito da sua vida? Sente que a sua vida está acumulando-se em você mais rápido do que a sua possibilidade de impulsioná-la? Que seus dias estão condenados antes do a

Fat, unlovely Roberta Teys is found beside her father's headless corpse, wearing her best dress and with an axe in her lap. Her first words are: 'I did it. And I am not sorry' and she refuses to say more. Inspector Thomas Lynley and DS Barbara Havers are sent by Scotland Yard to solve this particularly gruesome murder. And as they navigate their way around a dark labyrinth of secret scandals and appalling crimes, they uncover a series of shocking revelations that shatter the facade of the peaceful Yorkshire village.

Elena Weaver was a surprise to anyone meeting her for the first time. In her clingy dresses and dangling earrings she exuded a sexuality at odds with the innocence projected by the unicorn posters on her walls. While her embittered mother fretted about her welfare from her home in London, in Cambridgewhere Elena was a student at St. Stephen''s Collegeher father and his second wife each had their own very different image of the girl. As for Elena, she lived a life of casual and intense physical and emotional relationships, with scores to settle and goals to achieve--until someone, lying in wait along the route she ran every morning, bludgeoned her to death. Unwilling to turn the killing over to the local police, the university calls in New Scotland Yard. Thus, Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, enter the rarefied world of Cambridge University, where academic gowns often hide murderous intentions. For both officers, the true identity of Elena Weaver proves elusive. Each relationship the girl left behind casts new light both on Elena and on those people who appeared to know her bestfrom an unsavory Swedish-born Shakespearean professor to the brooding head of the Deaf Students Union. What''s more, Elena''s father, a Cambridge professor under consideration for a prestigious post, is a man with his own dark secrets. While his past sins make him neurotically dedicated to Elena and blind to her blacker side, present demons drive him toward betrayal.

Hailed as the "king of sleaze," tabloid editor Dennis Luxford is used to ferreting out the sins and scandals of people in exposed positions. But when he opens an innocuous-looking letter addressed to him at The Source, he discovers that someone else excels at ferreting out secrets as well. Ten-year-old Charlotte Bowen has been abducted, and if Luxford does not admit publicly to having fathered her, she will die. But Charlotte''s existence is Luxford''s most fiercely guarded secret, and acknowledging her as his child will throw more than one life and career into chaos. Luxford knows that the story of Charlotte''s paternity could make him a laughingstock and reveal to his beautiful wife and son the lie he''s lived for a decade. Yet it''s not only Luxford''s reputation that''s on the line: it''s also the reputationand careerof Charlotte Bowen''s mother. For she is Undersecretary of State for the Home Office, one of the most high-profile Junior Ministers and quite possibly the next Margaret Thatcher. Knowing that her political future hangs in the balance, Eve Bowen refuses to let Luxford damage her career by printing the story or calling the police. So the editor turns to forensic scientist Simon St. James for help. It''s a case that fills St. James with disquiet, however, for none of the players in the drama seem to react the way one would expect. Then tragedy occurs and New Scotland Yard becomes involved. Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley soon discovers that the case sends tentacles from London into the countryside, and he must simultaneously outfox death as he probes Charlotte Bowen''s mysterious disappearance. Meanwhile, his partner Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, working part of the investigation on her own and hoping to make the coup of her career, may be drawing closer to a grim solutionand to dangerthan anyone knows.

When thirteen-year-old Matthew Whately goes missing from Bredgar Chambers, a prestigious public school in the heart of West Sussex, aristocratic Inspector Thomas Lynley receives a call for help from the lad''s housemaster, who also happens to be an old school chum. Thus, the inspector, his partner, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, and forensic scientist Simon Allcourt-St. James find themselves once again outside their jurisdiction and deeply involved in the search for a childand then, tragically, for a child killer. Questioning prefects, teachers, and pupils closest to the dead boy, Lynley and Havers sense that something extraordinarily evil is going on behind Bredgar Chambers''s cloistered walls. But as they begin to unlock the secrets of this closed society, the investigation into Matthew''s death leads them perilously close to their own emotional woundsand blinds them to the signs of another murder in the making....

La hija ilegítima de Dennis Luxford, director de un importante periódico londinense de la oposición, es secuestrada. La madre de la niña es Eve Bowen, miembro del gobierno conservador. Dennis y Eve mantuvieron una fugaz y pasional relación años atrás, cuando ninguno de los dos imaginaba el rumbo que tomarían sus vidas. Ahora, cuando ambos han guardado en estricto secreto la existencia de la niña y se enfrentan despiadadamente en la arena política, el secuestrador exige algo de consecuencias desastrosas: si quiere recuperar a su hija, Dennis deberá admitir públicamente, en la primera plana del periódico, su paternidad...

El inspector Lynley sigue de baja. Todavía no se ha recuperado de la muerte de su esposa, quien fue asesinada brutalmente. Sus paseos por Corwall le hacen bien, pero la policía de Londres le necesita y mucho. Despues de una serie de meteduras de pata que los han situado bajo el escrutinio de los medios, la percepcion de los ciudadanos de su labor es poco menos que lamentable. Ademas, la incorporacion de Isabelle Ardery para sustituir a Lynley no es bienvenida por parte del equipo que anteriormente estaba al cargo de Lynley y, para colmo, aparece el cadaver de una joven en un cementerio. Un caso de asesinato de complicada resolucion que puede devolver al departamento su antiguo prestigio o bien acabar de hundirlos a los ojos de la opinion publica? Isabelle Ardery decide entonces jugar bien sus cartas: llamara a Lynley para que se reincorpore, apelando a su sentido de la obligacion. La investigacion tomara caminos inesperados, que conduciran a la reserva natural de New Forest un lugar hermoso pero en que acecha mas de un oscuro secreto.