La luz de la memoria

“Una historia dinámica que atrapa desde el primer capítulo y no te deja ir”. --Midwest Libro Review, Diane Donovan (en torno a “Una vez ido”) Del autor de misterio, #1 en ventas, Blake Pierce viene una nueva obra maestra de suspenso psicológico. En UN RASTRO DE CRIMEN (Libro #4 en la serie de misterio Keri Locke), Keri Locke, Detective de Personas Desaparecidas de la División de Homicidios del Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles, sigue una nueva pista sobre su hija secuestrada. Ella se abre paso a través de un submundo pervertido, y paso a paso, se acerca al hallazgo de su...

At the center of this novel are two women—worlds apart, yet neighbors—who come together by chance in a neighborhood pharmacy. Janna, a middle-aged contemporary woman is the editor of a women's magazine. She is good at her work and her life seems to her a success. Then there is Maudie, skinny, rag-and-bone tattered and in her late eighties, she is a bundle of ferocity who has spent the last years sustaining herself on pride, and expressing that pride as a cat’s hissing anger. This strong and affecting novel traces the friendship of these wildly disparate women.

It is about a London lawyer who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the misanthropic Edward Hyde. The work is known for its vivid portrayal of the psychopathology of a split personality; in mainstream culture the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" has come to mean a person who may show a distinctly different character, or profoundly different behaviour, from one situation to the next, as if almost another person, possibly because of the rare disorder "multiple personality disorder."

El velero Narcissus inicia su regreso a casa, de Bombay hacia Inglaterra, y el gigante negro James Wait se incorpora, muy enfermo, a la tripulación. Caprichoso y tirano, Wait logra avasallar desde el lecho en el que agoniza al resto de los marinos, hechizados y solícitos ante aquella presencia ominosa y oscura. Entre ellos se cuenta el capitán, Allistoun, severo aunque justo; el viejo y sabio lobo de mar Singleton; el inútil y cizañero Donkin; un cocinero pío e iluminado, y los grandes personajes: el barco, al que todos adoran sin reservas, y el mar, la gran presencia que aísla a los...