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Happy Doll is a charming, if occasionally inexpert, private detective living just one sheer cliff drop beneath the Hollywood sign with his beloved half-Chihuahua half-Terrier, George. A veteran of both the Navy and LAPD, Doll supplements his meager income as a P.I. by working through the night at a local Thai spa that offers its clients a number of special services. Armed with his sixteen-inch steel telescopic baton, biting dry humor, and just a bit of a hero complex, the ex-cop sets out to protect the women who work there from clients who have trouble understanding the word no. Doll gets by...

What is so seductive about the idea of escaping? Why do we all feel the desire to flee and only few dare to fulfill it? In this novel, Norma Knot introduces us to four possible artists of escapism: Sofia, a woman caught in her own melancholy that is not able to run away from herself; Carmelo, an old escapist that is able to break away from a magic box while he continues to be trapped in a tortuous relationship; Sebastian, a former prodigy boy trying to forget the disillusion that he caused his parents and, finally, a Bengala tiger that escapes from its captivity causing chaos in the city. The ...

Esta novela negra a gran escala parte de un hecho histórico perfectamente conocido: la ocupación de la embajada de Alemania Occidental en Estocolmo por terroristas en 1975. La historia pasa rápidamente a 1989 y al apuñalamiento no resuelto de un funcionario, y a continuación, a 1999, cuando el servicio de inteligencia sueco investiga al ministro de Defensa recientemente investido, encontrando conexiones inesperadas con crímenes del pasado. Con su habitual ingenio irónico y conocimiento de la intriga policial, Persson urde una repugnante red de extorsión, agentes de la Stasi y avaricia ...

DINERO ROJO Así lo llamaba la gitana. "¡Dinero rojo porque está manchado de sangre!", declaró la Madre Cockleshell, entre sus ataques de adivinación en medio de las caravanas romaníes estacionadas en Abbott Wood en la mansión de Lord Garvington. ¡Y la sangre fluye libremente en la mansión, gracias a la señorita Greeby! ¡Y las llamas y el dolor!