A darkly compelling serial-killer novel introducing the next big name in psychological thrillers and, in Carson Ryder, a fascinating and complex protagonist set for many books to come.A body is found in the sweating heat of an Alabama night; headless, words inked on the skin. Detective Carson Ryder is good at this sort of thing – crazies and freaks. To his eyes it is no crime of passion, and when another mutilated victim turns up his suspicions are confirmed. This is not the work o...

L'assassino di Dio: il primo thriller con Jack CarsonEra il miglior assassino del mondo... finché non gli hanno portato via tutto.Jack Carson ha trascorso la sua vita nell'ombra, un assassino d'élite addestrato a eliminare senza esitazione il peggio dell'umanità. Ora, ha finito. Pronto a ritirarsi, sceglie una vita tranquilla con sua moglie e sua figlia.Ma la pensione ha un prezzo.Una devastante esplosione sconvolge il suo mondo, uc...

L'Assassin de Dieu — Le premier thriller de Jack CarsonIl était le meilleur tueur au monde… jusqu’à ce qu’on lui prenne tout.Jack Carson a passé sa vie dans l'ombre : un assassin d'élite entraîné à éliminer sans hésiter les pires criminels. Aujourd'hui, il a tourné la page. Prêt à se retirer, il choisit une vie paisible auprès de sa femme et de sa fille.Mais la retraite a un prix.Une explosion dévastatrice bouleverse son monde et em...

It's time to turn the "man and his dog wandering through a dystopian world” trope on its head, and tell the stories about cats and their women - their badass women!Cat Ladies of the Apocalypse wanders through broken worlds with stories of survival, technology, magic, and sheer determination. But – like their cats – the authors frequently slipped out the upstairs window or knocked things off of countertops, and their stories are stronger for it.In these pages, cats help thei...

La balada del cafè trist i altres relats conté la novel·la breu que dóna títol al volum i sis contes: un compendi de la singular i subtil narrativa de Carson McCullers. La balada del cafè trist és la història fascinant i terrible d'un triangle amorós. La protagonista, la senyoreta Amelia, que regenta el cafè que fa de punt de trobada d'un poble del sud dels Estats Units, és un dels personatges més inoblidables que ha donat la narrativa nord-americana dels últims cent anys. També ho són mol...

A terrifying new serial-killer thriller featuring Carson Ryder, hero of the bestselling The Hundredth Man.Thirty years after his death, Marsden Hexcamp's ‘Art of the Final Moment’ remains as sought after as ever. But this is no ordinary collection. Hexcamp's portfolio was completed with the aid of a devoted band of acolytes – and half a dozen victims, each of whom was slowly tortured to death so that their final agonies could be distilled into art.When tiny scraps of Hexcam...

"La millor escriptora que ha donat el sud dels Estats Units", Tennessee WilliamsRellotge sense agulles és l'última novel·la de Carson McCullers, publicada l'any 1961, pocs anys abans de morir. Ambientada en un poble petit del sud dels Estats Units, i a partir de la vida de quatre personatges memorables, McCullers torna als temes fonamentals de la seva obra —la solitud, les complexitats i contradiccions de les nostres emocions i obsessions, la responsabilitat dels n...

Detective Carson Ryder returns, on the trail of a brutal killer with mysterious motives.Two psychologists are murdered 2000 miles apart – one in Phoenix, Arizona, one in Miami, Florida.Amazingly, both have noted down the name of Carson Ryder – a detective with the Florida Center for Law Enforcement who specializes in catching psychopathic killers.Carson joins forces with troubled Phoenix Detective Tasha Novarro to trace a ruthless killer whose advan...

Reflexos en un ull daurat, publicada només un any després d'El cor és un caçador solitari, el celebrat debut de Carson McCullers, va confirmar en el seu moment el talent literari d'aquella jove escriptora i va escandalitzar l'opinió pública americana perquè tocava temes com l'homosexualitat i la infidelitat. Situada en una base militar al sud dels Estats Units durant els anys trenta, la novel·la narra la història del capità Penderton, un oficial turmentat per la s...

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Gangly, outspoken 12-year-old Frankie Addams yearns to belong to the “we of me,” and in a Southern kitchen, pours her heart out to the family cook, Berenice. One of the most beautiful plays ever written about loneliness and love.An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring June Angela, John Cothran Jr., Ruby Dee, Daniel Henson, Victor Mack, Jena Malone, Lawrence Pressman, Jacquelyn Riggs and Tegan West.

The fourth in the bestselling series of psychological thrillers featuring Carson Ryder, the detective with a unique perspective on serial killers.Children are disappearing in Mobile, Alabama, the latest snatched from her own bedroom. There are no clues – and, as yet, no bodies.Homicide Detective Carson Ryder is called in to investigate the abduction of little LaShelle Shearing only to find the case getting tangled up in murky departmental and civic politics. And with his pa...