La cautiva de las trenzas de oro

En este crimen no es oro todo lo que reluce París, 1904. Un caballero respetable aparece muerto en su vivienda. Las autoridades sospechan de los vecinos del inmueble, que empiezan a recelar unos de otros en un ambiente donde la apariencia pesa más que la virtud y los criados tienen el sueño más ligero que sus amos. Puede que monsieur Bonancieux ocultase cuentas pendientes, pero ¿quién tuvo motivos para dibujarle una sonrisa sangrienta en la garganta? Sospechosos, víctimas e implicados: - Ferdinand Bonancieux, el difunto. Solitario y excéntrico. - Violeta, vizcondesa con pasado...

In this 10th novel from author Diamela Eltit, the protagonist is a young woman from a marginal neighborhood who works as a prostitute in a cyber cafe, her life at the height of tragedy and misfortune. The setting is a section of town surrounded by police special forces. But in a sad yet defiant play on words, the special forces of the title also refer to the will required to resist, to survive on the edge of society under such forms of repression and oppression. Violence and the scars left on bodies both physical and social appear in many of Eltit's novels, carefully constructed with uneasy...

An annotated cosmology of Anne Rice's Vampiredom from A(kasha) to Z(enobia)--all fifteen books of the Vampire Chronicles detailed, by a longtime Anne Rice reader and scholar; the who, what, where, why, (and often) how of her beloved characters, mortal and 'im', brought together in a book for the first time. Illustrated by Mark Edward Geyer. An Alphabettery of Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles gathers together, from all fifteen of the books in the series, the facts, details, story lines, genealogies of her characters, vampiric subjects, geographical influences, and cultural and individual...

From the moment the stranger bursts into her antiquities shop in Rome, Lavinia Lake knows he is nothing but trouble. Announcing that he is a spy, Mr. Tobias March claims to be in pursuit of a killer and swears that Lavinia's life is in danger, but she is convinced that he is bent on destroying her. After being hustled all the way back to England, Lavinia vows to find a way to get back at him, never dreaming that Mr. March has actually been telling the truth.