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Beneficio Duran is like the wild lava capped mesa where he lived all but the last two years of his eighty-three. They are both remnants of the past. Black Mesa survived eons of erosion by its had basaltic cap--Beneficio survived by living with the pride and rough wisdom of los Castizos, his ancestors. On the mesa, he had been isolated from pressures and forces that were changing New Mexico and the other Hispanics living on and off the land grants. Beneficio discovered his wife, Maria, in the village of Cebolleta at the base of Black Mesa. Maria bore him Philip then died while trying to...

From his village in post-war France, Brodeck makes his solitary journeys into the mountains to collect data on the natural environment. Day by day he also reconstructs his own life, all but lost in the years he spent in a camp during the war. No-one had expected to see him again. One day, a flamboyant stranger rides into the village, upsetting the fragile balance of everyday life. Soon he is named the Anderer, "the other," and tensions rise until, one night, the newcomer is murdered. Brodeck is instructed to write an account of the events leading to his death, but his report delivers much...

¿Por qué Louis Kehlweiler, alias el Alemán, Marc, Lucien y Mathias ;atrincherados en su caserón cochambroso de la calle Chasle de París; pierden el tiempo con un tonto con cara de imbécil y no muy simpático, cuya culpabilidad es indudable para todo el mundo, incluso para ellos? ¿Por qué se empeñan en salvar a este Clément Vauquer, un sujeto buscado por la policía de Nevers y de París por los espantosos asesinatos de al menos dos chicas?Sin hogar ni lugar es otro apasionante libro que confirma a Fred Vargas como una de las autoras más originales del género policiaco.

Segundo de la serie. Alessandro Leopardi se enorgullece de su capacidad de conocer muy bien a las mujeres, así que cuando descubre a Leonora Thaxton pilotando su jet privado, ¡monta en cólera! En primer lugar, él no emplea a pilotos femeninas porque distraen la atención. En segundo, es una belleza, y le cuesta creer que haya podido engañarlo.Leonora no se librará sin represalias. El millonario de corazón oscuro necesita una amante durante una noche. Luego la dejará ir. Pero cuando la representación pública se transforma en una seducción privada, Alessandro se da cuenta de que...