Claudia Conde Fisas Books

El jueves siguiente, Elizabeth ha recibido una carta de un viejo colega, un hombre con el que tiene una larga historia. Ha cometido un gran error y necesita su ayuda. Su historia involucra diamantes robados, un gánster violento y una amenaza muy real para su vida. A medida que los cuerpos comienzan a acumularse, Elizabeth recluta a Joyce, Ibrahim y Ron en la búsqueda de un asesino despiadado. Y si encuentran los diamantes también, ¿no sería eso un bonus? Pero esta vez se enfrentan a un enemigo que no dudaría en eliminar a cuatro septuagenarios. ¿Podrá el Club del Crimen de los Jueves encontrar al asesino (y los diamantes) antes de que el asesino los encuentre a ellos?

Krimi. In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved killings. But when a local property developer shows up dead, 'The Thursday Murder Club' find themselves in the middle of their first live case. The four friends, Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron, might be octogenarians, but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it's too late?

«–¿Diga? La voz de Emma, alterada y vulnerable, me habló a través de un mar de lágrimas. –Mamá… –sollozó– Me dijiste que no hiciera ninguna estupidez, pero la he hecho.» Jennifer Lewis, su marido Mark y sus tres hijos son la perfecta familia americana: ricos, guapos, listos, perfectos. Pero una llamada en mitad de la noche lo cambia todo y destruye la vida cuidadosamente construida de Jennifer. Su hija Emma, que cursa un año universitario en Sevilla, ha sido detenida tras el brutal asesinato de otro joven. Jennifer se apresura a acudir a su lado, convencida de que la detención es un error terrible y decidida a hacer todo lo necesario para llevarse a Emma a casa. Pero a medida que comienza a investigar el crimen, empieza a preguntarse si de verdad conocía a su hija. La policía acusa a Emma, y la prensa se hace eco de la historia, exagerando cada sórdido detalle. Uno por uno, el equipo de defensa de Emma, su padre y finalmente incluso la propia Jennifer empiezan a tener dudas.

What was lost will be found...Washington DC: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned at the last minute to deliver an evening lecture in the Capitol Building. Within moments of his arrival, however, a disturbing object - gruesomely encoded with five symbols - is discovered at the epicenter of the Rotunda. It is, he recognizes, an ancient invitation, meant to beckon its recipient towards a long-lost world of hidden esoteric wisdom.When Langdon's revered mentor, Peter Solomon - philanthropist and prominent mason - is brutally kidnapped, Langdon realizes that his only hope of saving his friend's life is to accept this mysterious summons and follow wherever it leads him.Langdon finds himself quickly swept behind the facade of America's most historic city into the unseen chambers, temples and tunnels which exist there. All that was familiar is transformed into a shadowy, clandestine world of an artfully concealed past in which Masonic secrets and never-before-seen revelations seem to be leading him to a single impossible and inconceivable truth.A brilliantly composed tapestry of veiled histories, arcane icons and enigmatic codes, The Lost Symbol is an intelligent, lightning-paced thriller that offers surprises at every turn. For, as Robert Langdon will discover, there is nothing more extraordinary or shocking than the secret which hides in plain sight...

July 2005. In the Pyrenees mountains near Carcassonne, Alice, a volunteer at an archaeological dig, stumbles into a cave and makes a startling discovery-two crumbling skeletons, strange writings on the walls, and the pattern of a labyrinth. Eight hundred years earlier, on the eve of a brutal crusade that will rip apart southern France, a young woman named Alais is given a ring and a mysterious book for safekeeping by her father. The book, he says, contains the secret of the true Grail, and the ring, inscribed with a labyrinth, will identify a guardian of the Grail. Now, as crusading armies gather outside the city walls of Carcassonne, it will take a tremendous sacrifice to keep the secret of the labyrinth safe.

Camilla Läckberg, una delle autrici di romanzi gialli più lette al mondo, ci regala la sua opera più oscura e avvincente: Donne che non perdonano, una storia carica di tensione, suspense e colpi di scena imprevedibili. Ingrid, Victoria e Birgitta sono tre donne molto diverse. Per il resto del mondo, conducono vite apparentemente perfette, ma tutte e tre condividono un segreto: soffrono nel silenzio la tragedia di vivere sottomesse ai loro mariti. Fino a quando, un giorno, spinte al limite, pianificano, senza neppure conoscersi, il crimine perfetto.