18 books like El prisionero del cielo

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St. George and St. Michael George MacDonald · 1876 · 450p · ≈ 15h · Challenging It was the middle of autumn, and had rained all day. Through the lozenge-panes of the wide oriel window the world appeared in the slowly gathering dusk not a little dismal. The drops that clung trickling to the dim glass added rain and gloom to the landscape beyond, whither the eye passed, as if vaguely seeking that help in the distance, which the dripping hollyhocks and sodden sunflowers… Shares Historical Fiction, History

Pan Michael An historical novel Henryk Sienkiewicz · 1893 · ★ 5.0 · 542p · ≈ 18h · Challenging The third and final book of Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Trilogy takes a closer and more intimate look at one of the series’ protagonists: Pan Michael Volodyovski. The Polish Commonwealth has been through intense periods of war, and the peace that follows leaves one of its greatest heroes, Pan Michael, finally free to marry his beloved Panna Anusia. But in a twist of fate, she falls ill and dies, leaving… Shares Historical Fiction, History

Otherwise Engaged Jayne Ann Krentz · 1960 · ★ 3.9 · 347p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Barely escaping a would-be abductor who has left a trail of victims in his wake, world traveler Miss Amity Doncaster discovers that her attacker has become obsessed with gossip that ties Amity to scientist Benedict Stanbridge, a spy for the throne who resolves to bring the killer to justice. Shares Novela, Spanish language materials, Thriller, History

Ghost Ship Clive Cussler · 2014 · ★ 4.2 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate "The dazzling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series from Clive Cussler, the grand master of adventure. When Kurt Austin is injured attempting to rescue the passengers and crew from a sinking yacht, he wakes with fragmented and conflicted memories. Did he see an old friend and her children drown, or was the yacht abandoned when he came aboard? For reasons he cannot explain, Kurt… Shares Action & Adventure, Ficción, Thriller

The Wrong Woman

The Wrong Woman O. J. Mullen The psychological thriller from O.J. MullenEveryone has secrets. Are yours worth dying for?Julia Sutherland isn’t too sure about her new colleague. Ellis Kirkbride is friendly, charismatic and handsome, but there’s just something about him – a bit too slick, a bit too confident, and he stands a bit too close. Normally she'd share her concerns with her husband Rob, but he’s been distant lately and… Shares Thriller

Bang Switch

Bang Switch Jamie Lee Scott Something stinks in Peculiar, Texas, and it's not just the dead cop Sergeant Zane Gwilly found shortly before midnight. Kate Darby misses patrolling the streets of Peculiar, Texas, but she has unfinished business. And she can't have the cops knowing what she's doing.What do the death of a drug dealer and (two months later) a cop have in common? That's what Kate and Zane need to find out. Shares Thriller

Find Me Nowhere

Find Me Nowhere Andrew Klavan Shares Thriller with this book.

Her Final Confession

Her Final Confession Lisa Regan · 2022 Watching her friend dragged away in handcuffs, Josie couldn't believe for one second that Gretchen had killed that poor boy. Confession or not, someone else was involved. She would find out who… When the body of a young student is found on the driveway of a local Denton home, a photograph pinned to his collar, Detective Josie Quinn is first on the scene. The house belongs… Shares Thriller

The Mercy Chair

The Mercy Chair M W Craven Winner of the Fingerprint Award 2025 for Crime bookShortlisted for Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel 2025 ----'Macabre and wry' Telegraph'Mesmerising, macabre and magnificent. The Mercy Chair is truly terrifying, laugh-out-loud funny, and impossibly clever. Poe and Tilly are unstoppable' Chris Whitaker'Washington Poe is a brilliant creation, from one of the finest and most inventive crime… Shares Thriller

In a Hard Wind

In a Hard Wind David Housewright · 2023 · ★ 4.5 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Once a homicide detective in St. Paul, Minnesota, Rushmore McKenzie is, through a series of unlikely events, both a millionaire and an occasional private investigator. As an unofficial PI, McKenzie only looks into the occasional situation for friends or friends of friends. Jeanette Carrell stretches McKenzie’s guidelines but she's in a bind. She's been arrested, indicted, and about to go on… Shares Thriller

The Kill Clause

The Kill Clause Gregg Hurwitz The series that started it all!A riveting and explosive novel, The Kill Clause is a brilliantly inventive tour de force by a powerful new master of suspense.Tim Rackley is a dangerous man of honor, a deputy U.S. marshal who is very good at his job—until everything he believes in is shattered by the brutal murder of his own daughter.Betrayed by an imperfect judicial system, Rackley watches… Shares Thriller

Scarcity

Scarcity Randall Wood A teenage girl is kidnapped in Mexico City as a young boy in Afghanistan is wounded by artillery fire. A plane crashes in Florida while a man desperately waits for a new heart in Maryland. A senator’s daughter is critically injured in a car accident as a captured drug runner makes a deal with the DEA.  Before he can settle into his new job with Homeland Security, Jack Randall of the FBI… Shares Thriller

The Disloyal Coroner

The Disloyal Coroner Paul Austin Ardoin A dead deputy. A reopened murder case. And a coroner caught in the crossfire.When a young sheriff's deputy is killed in a late-night hit-and-run, Coroner Fenway Stevenson soon discovers it was no accident. The deputy had only been on the job for a few days—but had he started unraveling secrets within his department?Then a second case is thrown back on Fenway's desk: a murder that was supposed to… Shares Thriller

The Botanist

The Botanist M W Craven Shares Thriller with this book.

Dead Boyfriends

Dead Boyfriends David Housewright · 2007 · ★ 4.0 Right up until they put him in jail, McKenzie thought the cops were kidding. After all, he did them a favor by stopping a rookie cop from roughing up a distraught woman at a murder scene. But the next thing Mac knows he's in jail, missing an important date with his girlfriend and reliving nightmares he thought he'd finally left behind – and he's vowing payback for all of it. If that means… Shares Thriller

The Blue Ice Hammond Innes · 1948 · 246p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Ten years after George Farnell's disappearance, two lines of poetry and a lump of mineral ore are found. It's enough to send mineral expert Bill Gansert to Norway. But word of his findings has leaked out and Gansert finds himself caught in a maze of ambition and treachery. Shares Thriller

The Sound of Regret

The Sound of Regret Trey Gowdy & Christopher Greyson Shares Thriller with this book.

The Silent Boy

The Silent Boy Cheryl Bradshaw & Janet Fix Private Investigator Sloane Monroe is about to face the most challenging case of her life, and this time, it hits a little too close to home.In the dirty hallway of a local tavern, six-year-old Louie Alvarez plays with his race cars, waiting for his mother to take him home. A scream rips through the air. Louie freezes, then turns, staring at the room at the end of the hallway where the sound had… Shares Thriller

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