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'One of the greatest anti-heroes ever written' LEE CHILD Berlin, March 1943. The mood in Germany is bleak after their stunning defeat at Stalingrad. Private Investigator Bernie Gunther is at work in the German War Crimes Bureau - weary, cynical but well aware of the value of truth in a world...

Los Angeles, 1986. A group of right-wing Christians has put an initiative on the November ballot to allow health officials to force people with HIV into quarantine camps - and it looks like it’s going to pass. Rios, now living in LA, agrees to be counsel for a group of young activists who call themselves QUEER. QUEER claims to be committed to peaceful civil disobedience. But when one of its members is implicated in the bombing of an evangelical church that kills its pastor, Rios finds himself with a client suddenly facing the death penalty.

Critically acclaimed author David Joy, whose debut, Where All Light Tends to Go, was hailed as “a savagely moving novel that will likely become an important addition to the great body of Southern literature” (The Huffington Post), returns to the mountains of North Carolina with a powerful...

Sant Jordi coincideix enguany amb el diumenge de Pasqua. En una Barcelona que es prepara per a la gran festa del llibre comencen a aparèixer cadàvers en algunes esglésies i també a les paradetes preparades per a les signatures. Tenen res a veure uns assassinats i els altres. Un periodista cultural, un integrista catòlic apassionat pels exorcismes de Verdaguer i la sergent dels Mossos d’Esquadra Mireia Pla tenen a les seves mans la resolució del que s’amaga a les mans del drac.