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Published separately and at different times, these three novellas put the infallible Commissioner Adamsberg back on the scene, this time…
immersed in the Parisian underworld and the bizarre world of the vagabonds.... In "Health and Freedom," an eccentric vagabond settles on a bench, with all his belongings, in front of Adamsberg's police station while he receives mysterious threatening anonymous letters and a woman appears dead on the train tracks. In "The Night of the Brutes," Danglard and the commissioner investigate the strange death of a woman who appears drowned under a bridge on the Seine. In "Five Francs Unity," a bizarre sponge peddler witnesses the attempted murder of a rich lady, and the commissioner will get him to cooperate with the police in a truly ingenious way." --Translation provided by NLSEl caso del mensaje de despedida (Enola Holmes mystery. Spanish #06)
By Nancy Springer. 2021
"Fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes--Sherlock's much-younger sister--tackles two mysteries: finding the missing Lady Blanchefleur, who disappeared in the seedy underbelly of nineteenth-century…
London, and deciphering a message from her own estranged mother." -- Provided by NLSEl caso del pictograma (Enola Holmes mystery. Spanish #05)
By Nancy Springer. 2020
"London, late 1850s. Enola, the much-younger sister of Sherlock Holmes, turns to Florence Nightingale for help when Enola's investigation into…
the disappearance of her landlady Mrs. Tupper, a Crimean War widow, grows cold." -- Provided by NLSLos poderosos lo quieren todo (Nuevos tiempos (Madrid, Spain) #328)
By José María Guelbenzu. 2016
"Hermógenes Arbusto, tax adviser and successful businessman, sees death enter his office one day, and, reacting quickly, manages to dodge…
the blow of the scythe, rushes to the door, leaves in a hurry, and locks and deadbolts it behind him, leaving the reaper locked inside. Shortly after, and while he is getting his wits about him in Madrid's Plaza Mayor, he reaches a Faustian pact with the devil, the distinguished Forcas (with permission to travel to Earth), to whom he sells his soul in order to be free, at least temporarily, from meeting the Cold Lady again. Meanwhile, Tomás Beovide, poet and Literature teacher at the Juan García Hortelano Secondary School, corrects exams, laments the abandonment of his girlfriend, grieves happily over his unhappy love encounter with Maribel Arbusto and consoles himself by listening with joy to the long-suffering love songs of his admired Julie London. And we don't go on counting because everything that follows is pure nonsense, a narrative implausibility where a wild and stubborn nonsense builds its own logic until it blows any reasonable expectation or argument out of the water." -- Translation provided by NLSOído atento a los pájaros (Nuevos tiempos (Madrid, Spain) #329)
By Luis Goytisolo. 2016
"Ramón Rada is a successful painter who finds himself at a vital crossroads: he feels the need to connect his…
life and his work, and to do this he plans a memory book that will also be a guide for the reinterpretation of his artwork. His memories will take us to Miralrío, a village where someone is investigating some tragic events that occurred forty-five years earlier. From there, Luis Goytisolo develops a kaleidoscopic novel where historical recreation, artistic reflection and the chronicle of everyday life run parallel." -- Translation provided by NLS"Disturbing things have been happening up in the French mountains; more and more sheep are being found with their throats…
torn out. The evidence points to a wolf of unnatural size and strength. However Suzanne Rosselin thinks it is the work of a werewolf. Then Suzanne is found slaughtered in the same manner. Her friend Camille attempts, with Suzanne's son Soliman and her shepherd, Watchee, to find out who, or what, is responsible and they call on Commissaire Adamsberg for help." -- GoodreadsEl hombre de los círculos azules (Commissaire Adamsberg mystery #01)
By Fred Vargas. 2012
"When blue chalk circles begin to appear on the pavement in neighborhoods around Paris, Adamsberg is alone in thinking that…
they are far from amusing. As he studies each new circle and the increasingly bizarre objects they contain-empty beer cans, four trombones, a pigeon's foot, a doll's head-he senses the cruelty that lies within whoever is responsible. And when a circle is discovered with decidedly less banal contents-a woman with her throat slashed-Adamsberg knows that this is just the beginning." -- GoodreadsColombian psycho
By Santiago Gamboa. 2021
"Some human bones are unexpectedly discovered in the mountains of La Calera, east of Bogota. It's prosecutor Edilson Jutsiñamuy's mission…
to find their owner, hand in hand with agent Laiseca and the rest of his team. Julieta Lezama, his journalist friend, will join the investigation to unravel a chain of atrocious crimes that will lead her to get to know the writer Santiago Gamboa and his work, where she will find a fundamental key to understand the mystery of that disturbing discovery. The shrewd and intuitive Jutsiñamuy and the intrepid but troubled Lezama return in a dizzying story full of unique characters, including an indigenous professor who practices polyamory and an enigmatic Argentinean mercenary. Colombian Psycho is a fascinating plot of mirrors between reality and fiction, but also within the author's own fictions, who stakes his life on this disturbing X-ray of national reality." -- Translation provided by NLSEl caso del marqués desaparecido (Enola Holmes mystery. Spanish #01)
By Nancy Springer. 2018
"England, 1888. When her sixty-four-year-old mother disappears on Enola's fourteenth birthday, Enola sends telegrams to her much older brothers Mycroft…
and Sherlock Holmes. After deciphering why her mother left, Enola escapes to London to search for her and becomes involved in a second mystery." -- Provided by NLSEl caso del abanico rosa (Enola Holmes mystery. Spanish #04)
By Nancy Springer. 2020
El caso de los extraños ramos de flores (Enola Holmes mystery. Spanish #03)
By Nancy Springer. 2019
"While still hiding from her older brothers, Enola investigates the disappearance of Dr. Watson. A bouquet of flowers symbolizing death,…
delivered to Dr. Watson's home, is her first clue." -- Provided by NLSMorirás lejos
By José Emilio Pacheco. 2020
"In the 1960s, when this novel appeared, there was a fierce debate within the Latin American literary movement between the…
avant-garde methods of the nouveau roman and the traditional style of realist narration (defended by members of the boom). Pacheco, in 1967, delivered to the press |You Will Die in a Distant Land|, which sought to reconcile both fronts with a narrative that draws from both sources. A labyrinth of voices and narrative levels serve, in seven sections, to retrace the Jewish diaspora from the time of the Roman invasion of Judea under the command of Titus to the Nazi extermination camps. In the midst of that temporal ocean also emerges a probable Nazi scientist hiding out in Mexico City, who senses that a siege is being laid around him." -- Translation provided by NLSLas mil y dos noches (Nuevos tiempos (Madrid, Spain). Serie policiaca #438)
By Carole Geneix. 2019
"In 1912, shortly before the Titanic's maiden voyage, a huge party is held in Paris, bringing together the most prominent…
members of high society: a splendid reception hosted by the renowned couturier Paul Poiret to present his line of perfumes inspired by One Thousand and One Nights. Among the evening's select guests were the capricious Russian countess Svetlana Slavskaya and her personal secretary Dimitri Ostrov, a young Jew who had fled from the Bolsheviks. A very valuable diamond necklace (a gift from an admirer) stands out among the finery worn by the aristocrat for the occasion. But, at one point during the evening, the jewel disappears from her neck and the body of its owner, probably strangled, is found lifeless... In this dazzling and attractive evocation of the Belle Époque, Carole Geneix offers us a work that dialogues with the great French masters of the mystery novel, casting a nostalgic glance on a period of European history that, very soon, the First World War would reduce to ashes." -- Translation provided by NLSMañana no estás (Jack Reacher novel #13)
By Lee Child. 2020
"Riding the New York subway late at night, former military policeman Jack Reacher sees a woman exhibiting all eleven signs…
of being a suicide bomber. He approaches her and she kills herself--thrusting Jack into the nightmare she was trying to end." -- Provided by NLSNada que perder (Jack Reacher novel #12)
By Lee Child. 2019
"Hitchhiking through Colorado, ex-military cop Jack Reacher comes upon the unfriendly town of Despair. After being told to leave, Reacher,…
with the help of a female cop from neighboring Hope, sneaks back in repeatedly to investigate a mysterious factory and missing young men." -- Provided by NLSUn apartamento en París
By Lucy Foley. 2022
"In need of a fresh start, Jess heads to Paris to stay with her half brother Ben. Except Ben isn't…
home and his apartment is a lot nicer than she expected. The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess digs into his life. To Jess, all of Ben's neighbors are suspects." -- Provided by NLSEl caso de la dama zurda (Enola Holmes mystery. Spanish #02)
By Nancy Springer. 2018
"London, 1889. Eluding her brothers Mycroft and Sherlock Holmes, fourteen-year-old Enola sets up her own detective agency in London under…
an assumed name. Using many disguises and costumes, Enola investigates the disappearance of sixteen-year-old Lady Cecily, who may have eloped." -- Provided by NLSEl amigo del héroe
By Alvaro Enrigue. 2012
"'It's not that I've chosen to be second place, I'm just a natural. Besides, I've believed in the goodness of…
second place for many years.' So begins The Hero's Friend, first published in 1998 and remastered for this edition. This story by Álvaro Enrigue dusts off the naivety and vanity of childhood: Ponchito, a child like any other, played at being the hero. A memorable literary exercise. A sobering experience. Enrigue puts himself at the feet of his protagonist and relives the dialogues of two middle school kids who in their relentless fight against crime are forced to face the ultimate and most unexpected consequences." -- Translation provided by NLSMaldad
By Leticia Sierra. 2022
"A thirteen-year-old girl is found dead in a wasteland in Oviedo with a brutally disfigured face and a mangled body.…
Elsa, the young victim, was a student at a high school in the area, and the journalist Olivia Marassa (from the regional newspaper) and the inspector Agustín Castro (from the police) are assigned to the investigation. When the news comes out, both have been away for several days and Olivia seems to be too late for an exclusive. But she has shown before that she doesn't give up easily and has a special nose for the most gruesome cases. She soon begins to investigate on her own and discovers that the victim had many secrets and enemies. Students younger and older than her, as well as teachers, feared her for her abusive and violent behavior...." -- Translation provided by NLSLas fabulosas aventuras de Aurora (Fabulosas aventuras de Aurora #01)
By Douglas Kennedy. 2021
"Aurora is autistic and has a secret: she can see behind people's eyes and know what they are thinking at…
every moment. This will be very useful for her investigation into Lucie's disappearance at the Monster Land amusement park. Although the Cruel Girls, the class bullies, won't make it easy for her." --Translation provided by NLS