La cara del miedo

El detective Christophe La Barthe y su ayudante Emma Halvick viajan a Madrid en octubre de 1888 para resolver el asesinato mediante un dardo envenenado del padre Hontañón, clérigo de la parroquia de San Andrés, sobre el que han dejado una nota en tinta roja que reza “Erebus”. El caso se complicará con la muerte por degollamiento de una prostituta que frecuentaba la parroquia y que también lleva la firma de Erebus. El pánico se apodera de Madrid al tiempo que el criminal envía cartas a la prensa, y La Barthe empieza a sospechar que el asesino imita a Jack el Destripador, que opera...

Antón Lopo sitúa a súa novela no século XXII, nunha Galicia republicana na que o goberno perdeu o control sobre todo o territorio agás a capital, Compostela. A cidade é centro dunha puxante economía que se contrapón á mísera Alemparte, un deserto salvaxe sen regulamento democrático. Nunha residencia de Compostela para científicos con problemas piscolóxicos, está ingresada Elba Mácara, unha paciente con crises de amnesia que cre prever o destino mediante cálculos matemáticos. Cando menos o agarda, Mácara consegue fuxir para refuxiarse na Alemparte, un ermo salvaxe onde ten...

Twenty-two-year-old Amber St. James's focus is on her education. Her plan is clear: finish the elite San Francisco/Berkeley Medical School program early and become a pediatrician. She hasn't given much thought to dating or to men in general, until she enrolls in the required human sexuality course, a subject foreign to her for religious and personal reasons... Tantric yoga practitioner Dash Alexander is Lotus House Yoga's most sought after sensual teacher. Women flock to him for his unique teaching style, calm nature, and wicked hot body. When he hears of Amber's plight, he offers to help....

Alexei Maximovich Peshkov 28 March 1868 – 18 June 1936, primarily known as Maxim (Maksim) Gorky was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the Socialist realism literary method and a political activist.Gorky's reputation grew as a unique literary voice from the bottom strata of society and as a fervent advocate of Russia's social, political, and cultural transformation. By 1899, he was openly associating with the emerging Marxist social-democratic movement, which helped make him a celebrity among both the intelligentsia and the growing numbers of "conscious" workers. At the heart of all...