Juan Gómez-Jurado
1) Red queen
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Introducing Antonia Scott--the most compelling and original detective since Lisbeth Salander--in Juan Gómez-Jurado's Red Queen, the #1 international award-winning bestseller & thriller that has taken the world by storm. Antonia Scott--the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish mother--has a gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. But after a personal trauma, she's refused to continue...
Author
Publisher
Planeta
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Portuguese
Formats
Description
Antonia Scott é uma mulher muito especial. Tem um dom, que ao mesmo tempo é uma maldição: uma inteligência extraordinária. Não é polícia nem criminalista. Nunca empunhou uma arma, nem tem distintivo, e, no entanto, resolveu dezenas de crimes.
Mas já há algum tempo que Antonia não sai do seu sótão em Lavapiés. O que perdeu interessa-lhe muito mais do que tudo o que a espera lá fora. Também não recebe visitas. Por isso não gosta...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
As spies, mercenaries, archaeologists, and powerbrokers-equipped with sophisticated technology and modern weaponry-struggle to possess the Ark of the Covenant, the action careens from terrorist cells in New York to a lost valley in Jordan.
4) Black wolf
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Antonia Scott has an unusually gifted mind, able to see what others miss, able to solve the crimes that baffle all others. The only thing she fears is herself. Antonia is the lynchpin of the Red Queen project, created to work behind the scenes to solve the most devious and dangerous crimes. But she is unwilling to move past the last case, convinced it's related to a personal tragedy, until a series of deadly events pulls her back in. In southern...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Many years after a sea captain rescues a group of German castaways from a storm and receives a gold-and-diamond emblem from a grateful survivor, the captain's son learns of the object's link to a World War II tale about a man's effort to solve his soldier father's murder.
6) Reina roja
Author
Language
Español
Description
"Antonia Scott es especial. Muy especial. No es policía ni criminalista. Nunca ha empuñado un arma ni llevado una placa, y, sin embargo, ha resuelto decenas de crímenes. Pero hace un tiempo que Antonia no sale de su ático de Lavapiés. Las cosas que ha perdido le importan mucho más que las que esperan ahí fuera. Tampoco recibe visitas. Por eso no le gusta nada, nada, cuando escucha unos pasos desconocidos subiendo las escaleras hasta el último...
7) God's spy
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the pope's death, police inspector Paola Dicanti is called in to investigate the brutal murders of two cardinals, assisted by American priest and former Army intelligence officer Anthony Fowler.
8) Rey Blanco
Author
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"La trilogía Reina Roja se ha convertido en un éxito abrumador, conquistando por igual a los lectores y la crítica. La peculiar pareja de investigadores formada por Antonia Scott y Jon Gutiérrez regresa a las librerías en la tercera entrega de la saga, donde se enfrentarán por fin al enigmático Rey Blanco, garantizando un final espectacular para una historia que ha conquistado a una legión de lectores." -- provided by publisher
"The Red Queen...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In this superbly written, nail-biting thriller, a top neurosurgeon is forced to choose between ending the life of the most important person in America or guaranteeing his own daughter's horrifying death."--provided by publisher.
12) Cicatriz
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones B
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
"Simon should feel like a lucky guy. He's developed an algorithm that could net him millions from a multinational tech firm, but he's short on social skills and always lonely. Simon takes the leap into an online dating site, where he surprisingly easily launches a heated long-distance courtship with Irina. But soon it becomes obvious the scar on Irina's cheek only hints at much deeper emotional scars and the very palpable peril she and Simon are now...
Author
Series
Amanda Black ; 2
Publisher
B de Blok
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Lord Thomas, toda una institución en la ciudad, reclama a los Black que le devuelvan un amuleto familiar, un brazalete que robaron hace años por el bien de todos. Sin embargo, el amuleto ya no está en manos de la familia de ladrones. Cuando la tía Paula le confiesa a Amanda que su bisabuela regaló el brazalete años atrás, elaboran un endiablado plan para recuperar la joya. Amanda y Eric seguirán la pista del brazalete hasta una mansión...