Un bebé para Owen (Los Beckett 2)

Wearing a dress that is splattered with blood and clasping a doll to her chest, Sylvie de Valaines, a four-year-old girl, wanders the streets of the small village of Anet. The year is 1626 and her entire family has just been murdered, likely on the orders of Cardinal Richelieu. When a young boy of 10—Francois de Borbón-Vendôme, the prince of Martigues—finds her, he brings her to his castle. Sylvie's gratitude to her savior promptly grows into love, a love that will face innumerable obstacles. She will become a lady in waiting to Queen Anna of Austria and a good friend to Madame...

Ese hogar para la tercera edad del Bronx, al final de la avenida Grand Concourse, es el lugar donde la gente va a morir. Lo malo es que suelen ir antes de tiempo. El detective privado Bill Smith recibe el encargo de un amigo que ahora dirige una empresa de seguridad. Un vigilante ha sido asesinado mientras trabajaba en el hogar para la tercera edad del Bronx. El edificio está rodeado de secretos; no hay forma de hacer avanzar la investigación. Cuando tiene lugar el segundo asesinato, Smith se da cuenta de que necesita ayuda, y llama a la detective Lydia Chin, gracias a la cual conseguirá...

Gathers stories about a writer visiting Mexico, an hermaphrodite, conversations at the barbershop, a woman's exhibitionist son, a girl's search for her natural father, and a series of suicide attempts

This is a story of a young beautiful Jewish woman, trained as a gemologist, who experiences the excitement and intrigue of the world of diamonds and murder in the African Desert. She is accused of murdering the family who owns the Alonso Diamond Mining Company and whose home she had just left ten days earlier. On her return to New York City by way of ocean liner and in the course of being arrested for murder she meets a young reporter by the name of Stephen Hauk. It is a story of deep love and emotion with determination to succeed under all circumstances that will leave you in awe of Emmy...