La máquina de Dios

The third and penultimate novel in the Detective Kyoichiro Kaga series by bestselling Japanese crime writer Keigo Higashino On the Nihonbashi Bridge in Tokyo stands the statue of a mythic beast - a kirin. One evening a man staggers onto the bridge and collapses beneath the winged creature. The patrolman on watch goes to rouse the man, who he presumes to be drunk - only to discover that the man had been stabbed in the chest. He is dead. Meanwhile, a young man named Yashima is injured in a car accident nearby while trying to flee from the police. Found on him is the wallet of the murdered man....

In his latest "New York Times" bestseller, Koontz delivers "a good, old-fashioned, barn-burning, beat-the-clock thriller that pits an innocent man against the worst sort of evil" ("Denver Post").

Louise Cooper ha padecido un cncer durante los ltimos quince aos. Su vida, simple y a la vez difcil, como la define su hijo Danny, un abogado homosexual, llega a su trmino, y en el ncleo familiar - ese vrtice que fascina a Leavitt, para quien la familia es la mayor y mejor excusa literaria que se ha inventado - todo parece estallar, y salen a luz sentimientos reprimidos durante largo tiempo.Pero Amores iguales, aunque hable de la muerte, no es un libro triste. De l ha dicho su autor que es una novela que trata sobre el poder femenino, sobre mujeres fuertes, mucho ms fuertes que los hombres, y ...

50 extremely short (the longest is three pages) and dark tales. Astonishing transformations and unexpected twists take place: an angel, ill with acrophobia, cannot use his wings and must turn to other forms of transportation; a chess match between a mediocre worker and a tyrant boss changes into a medieval duel; a scientist decimates all the birds in the world while trying to record everything he can about these creatures' behavior. Some of Rubiano Vargas' tales are grouped by themes: five concern the art of writing. In "Sufrimiento" ("Suffering"), for instance, the Muse really exists and is...