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It begins with a letter . . . The letter contains a request � think of a number, any number � and a sealed envelope. Inside the envelope is that number. When Dave Gurney, retired NYPD homicide detective, is contacted by an old college acquaintance about some startling letters he�s been receiving, it is at first little more than a diverting but sinister puzzle. Until the acquaintance is brutally killed. Suddenly Gurney finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation that makes no sense. The killer seems to have known his victim intimately. How else was he able to predict his...

Right after high school, Joe Goffman left sleepy Bush Falls, Connecticut and never looked back. Then he wrote a novel savaging everything in town, a novel that became a national bestseller and a huge hit movie. Fifteen years later, Joe is struggling to avoid the sophomore slump with his next novel when he gets a call: his father's had a stroke, so it's back to Bush Falls for the town's most famous pariah. His brother avoids him, his former classmates beat him up, and the members of the book club just hurl their copies of Bush Falls at his house. But with the help of some old friends, Joe...

Laura Tweedle Rambotham tiene doce años y es de una familia venida a menos. Su madre se gana la vida bordando pero está decidida a que tenga una buena educación, lo que para ella se resume en el siguiente principio: «Prefiero que seas buena y útil antes que inteligente». La envía, pues, a un prestigioso internado de Melbourne... donde lo primero que aprende la chica es que debe ocultar su origen y el modesto oficio de su madre. Para H. G. Wells, El principio de la sabiduría (1910) era la mejor school story que había leído y sigue siendo, sin duda, una novela de formación rica, con...

Tercera entrega de la serie McLeod en la que la intriga y el misterio se cruzarán con el amor, la guerra y la incertidumbre sobre el futuro. La joven despierta abruptamente. Un dolor agudo martiriza su cabeza y apenas puede abrir los ojos para ver que sus ropas están sucias y desgarradas. Aterrada y confusa, no sabe dónde se encuentra y es incapaz de recordar quiénes y qué le ha sucedido. La tenue luz que proviene de un rescoldo apenas le permite reconocer el interior de lo que parece una carpa militar. En un improvisado jergón, a poca distancia de ella, duerme un hombre cuyo rostro...