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Jodi Picoult's poignant number one New York Times best-selling novels about family and love tackle hot-button issues head on. In The Storyteller, Sage Singer befriends Josef Weber, a beloved Little League coach and retired teacher. But then Josef asks Sage for a favor she never could have imagined - to kill him. After Josef reveals the heinous act he committed, Sage feels he may deserve that fate. But would his death be murder or justice?

On a long, cold Icelandic night in March 1920, Gunnar, a hermit blacksmith, finds himself with an unwanted lodger - Sigurd, an injured stranger who offers a story from the past. But some stories, even those of an old man who can barely walk, are too dangerous to hear. They alter the listeners' lives forever...by ending them. Others are keen on changing Gunnar's life as well. Depending on who gets to tell his story, it might lead toward an unwanted marriage, an intervention, rejoining the Church, letting the elf drive him insane, or succumbing to the demons in his mind.

1940: When twenty-one-year-old Nita Bineham is offered the chance of independence, away from the high walls of her family’s Surrey estate, she grasps it with both hands. But her new role at a local newspaper coincides with the emergence of a sinister rumour in their quiet village: that there is a traitor in their midst. Nita is determined to prove herself by uncovering the truth, but is she prepared for revelations that could change her life forever?

Tras el éxito de Miradas de humo y Silencios de niebla, vuelve la detective más admirada. Julia Soler tiene una personalidad arrolladora, unas habilidades innatas y un pasado que la persigue. Junto al comisario Diego Jiménez, a la inspectora Maite Berrocal y a la Guardia Civil, colabora en una investigación para esclarecer una serie de asesinatos que se están produciendo en un ámbito rural: Castaño del Robledo. Las víctimas aparecen degolladas, con los ojos arrancados, una rosa negra prendida en la ropa y... un mensaje en la piel: "Es de justicia".