18 books like El corazón del Tártaro

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Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1617 · ★ 2.5 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Demanding Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda es la última obra de Miguel de Cervantes, una novela bizantina que no hay que confundir con la comedia Persiles y Sigismunda de Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla, inspirada en ella. En Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda, publicada en 1617 casi simultáneamente en Madrid, Barcelona, Lisboa, Valencia, Pamplona y París (seis… Shares: Novela española, Spanish fiction

Tears of the Giraffe (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith · 2000 · ★ 4.3 · 230p · ≈ 7h · Moderate In 1999 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency received two Booker Judges' Special Recommendations and was voted one of the ‘International Books of the Year and the Millennium' by the Times Literary Supplement. Tears of the Giraffe takes us further into the life of the engaging and sassy Precious Ramotswe, the owner and detective of Botswana's only Ladies' detective agency. Among her cases are… Shares: Novela de misterio, Ficción

The Man Who Was Thursday Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1908 · ★ 3.8 · 114p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Can you trust yourself when you don't know who you are? In a park in London, secret policeman Gabriel Syme strikes up a conversation with an anarchist. Sworn to do his duty, Syme uses his new acquaintance to go undercover in Europe's Central Anarchist Council and infiltrate their deadly mission, even managing to have himself voted to the position of 'Thursday'. When Syme discovers another… Shares: Novela de misterio, Ficción

Black and Blue Ian Rankin · 1997 · ★ 4.2 · 520p · ≈ 17h · Moderate John Biblia aterrorizó a Glasgow en los años 60 y 70, cuando asesinó a tres mujeres. asesinatos por los cuales nunca pudieron detenerlo. Ahora, Johnny Biblia, como lo han bautizado los medios de comunicación, parece matar para apropiarse de la gloria del legendario asesino. Son cuatro los casos que el inspector, John Rebus, relaciona y que aparentemente conducen al depravado asesino. Al mismo… Shares: Novela de misterio, Ficción

Q Is for Quarry Sue Grafton · 2002 · ★ 4.0 · 385p · ≈ 12h · Moderate She was a "Jane Doe," an unidentified white female whose decomposed body was discovered near a quarry off California's Highway 1. The case fell to the Santa Teresa County Sheriff's Department, but the detectives had little to go on. The woman was young, her hands were bound with a length of wire, there were multiple stab wounds, and her throat had been slashed. After months of investigation, the… Shares: Novela de misterio, Ficción

Black house Stephen King · 2001 · ★ 4.3 · 645p · ≈ 21h · Moderate Preceded by: [The Talisman][1] Black House is a horror novel by American writers Stephen King and Peter Straub. Published in 2001, it is the sequel to [The Talisman][1]. This is one of King's numerous novels that tie in with the Dark Tower series. Black House was nominated to the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. The novel is set in Straub's homeland of Wisconsin, rather than in King's… Shares: Novela de misterio, Ficción

Lord Edgware Dies Agatha Christie · 1933 · ★ 3.9 · 226p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to 'get rid of' her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead, but how could Jane have stabbed Lord Edgware to death in his library at exactly the same time she was seen dining with friends? And what could be her motive now that the aristocrat had vinally granted her a divorce? Shares: Novela de misterio, Ficción

The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett · 1929 · ★ 3.9 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Classic noir. Private detective Sam Spade is hired to search for a valuable, gem-encrusted antique in the shape of a falcon. Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursby. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, and when Spade's partner Miles Archer is shot while on Thursby's… Shares: Novela de misterio, Ficción

DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (Easy Rawlins Mysteries) Walter Mosley · 1990 · ★ 4.0 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins has few illusions about the world--at least not about the world of a young black veteran in the late 1940s in Southern California. His stint in the Army didn't do anything to dissuade him from his belief that justice doesn't come cheap, especially for men like him. "I thought there might be some justice for a black man if he had money to grease it," Easy says. Fired… Shares: Novela de misterio, Ficción

At Risk Patricia Cornwell · 1746 · ★ 3.4 · 204p · ≈ 6h · Demanding A ‘one-off’ from the best-selling creator of the Dr Kay Scarpetta series, based on the serialisation in the New York Times.Moving between the chill of Cambridge, Massachusetts and the sultry humidity of Knoxville, Tennessee, Winston Garano, a police investigator, is instructed to look into a twenty-year-old murder case. Although Win reckons there are many more pressing current cases which should… Shares: Novela de misterio, Ficción

Sweet Revenge Nora Roberts · 1988 · ★ 4.1 · 430p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Kurzbeschreibung Gefährliche Verstrickung (Sweet Revenge) - Nora Roberts Die Prinzessin Adrianne scheint ein glückliches und ausgefülltes Leben zu führen. Die ebenso schöne wie elegante Frau verbringt ihre Tage damit, Wohltätigkeitsgesellschaften zu unterstützen, nachts eilt sie von einer glamourösen Gala zur nächsten. Doch die Wirklichkeit sieht anders aus. Seit zehn Jahren lebt Adrianne nur… Shares: Novela de misterio, Romance & Relationships

Mind Prey John Sandford · 1995 · ★ 4.5 · 354p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Davenport matches wits and wills with an obsessed kidnapper whose victims are edging ever closer to a fate worse than any nightmare... Shares: Novela de misterio, Ficción

La tía Julia y el escribidor Mario Vargas Llosa · 1977 · ★ 4.0 · 391p · ≈ 13h · Moderate La relación amorosa del joven escritor Varguitas con una mujer de su familia mayor que él, la tía Julia, y la desaforada presencia del folletinista Pedro Camacho en la misma emisora de radio donde Varguitas trabaja, son las dos historias en que se vertebra el argumento de La tía Julia y el escribidor. La noble pasión amorosa entre la tía Julia y el aprendiz de novelista, que la sociedad limeña… Shares: Spanish fiction, Graphic Novels

Echoes Maeve Binchy · 1985 · ★ 3.9 · 491p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Having grown up in small Irish seaside town in the 1950s, Clare and David meet again years later as students in Dublin. But eventually their home town will draw them back, and it is there that this Maeve Binchy drama of ambition, betrayal and love reaches its turbulent conclusion. Shares: Spanish fiction, Romance & Relationships

Comics Zhiqing Li · 1998 Comics a medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, captions, and onomatopoeia can indicate dialogue, narration, sound effects, or other information. There is no consensus among theorists and historians on a single definition of comics; some… Shares: Graphic Novels

Shen tong xiao zhen tanMotohiro Katō

Shen tong xiao zhen tan Motohiro Katō · 1999 · 191p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares: Graphic Novels

Tian sheng miao shou Kazuki Yamamoto · 2002 · 181p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares: Graphic Novels

Yin he zhan guo qun xiong zhuanJohji Manabe

Yin he zhan guo qun xiong zhuan Johji Manabe · 1994 · 206p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Shares: Graphic Novels

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