Catherine Jinks

Magnífica historia de asesinatos, depravación y traición en la Francia del siglo XIV.Francia, 1318. El padre Bernard Peyre, inquisidor de la abadía de Lezet, es el encargado de investigar los brutales asesinatos del padre Agustin y su guardaespaldas, cuyos descuartizados cuerpos han sido descubiertos a las afueras de la ciudad. Su meta es desenmascarar al verdadero asesino y revelar las razones de su crimen; solo asi podra salvar a una inocente que, acusada injustamente, ha sido condenada a morir en la hoguera. Lo que el padre Bernard desconoce es que el mismo se convertira en el objetivo de una misteriosa persecucion que pretende acallar la verdad.

Jinks vuelve a deleitarnos con sus personajes e historias de la Francia medieval, llenas de misterios e intrigas.Cinco años después de trabajar al servicio del famoso inquisidor del siglo XIV Bernard Gui, Helie se ha convertido en un respetable fabricante y esta intentando olvidarse de su ultima vida de engaño. Pero todo cambia cuando recibe un encargo de la Inquisicion y lo obligan a infiltrarse en un nuevo grupo heretico. De esta forma, Helie se vera envuelto en una peligrosa conspiracion y descubre lo que le sucedio al anterior espia enviado para hacer el mismo trabajo. ¿Lo asesinaron o huyo?

Jinks vuelve a deleitarnos con sus personajes e historias de la Francia medieval.Cinco años después de trabajar al servicio del famoso inquisidor del siglo XIV, Bernard de Gui, Helié Bernier se ha convertido en un respetable fabricante de pergaminos y esta intentando olvidarse de su vida de engaño. Pero todo cambia ccuando recibe un encargo de la Inquisicion que lo obliga a retomar su antigua actividad: infiltrarse en un grupo heretico y averiguar el paradero de un inquisidor que habia intentado desenmascararlo. En sus pesquisas, Bernier se ve envuelto en una peligrosa conspiracion, pero debera llevar a cabo la mision que se le ha encomendado sin perder de vista su obligacion moral de revelar la Verdad.El secreto del Inquisidor es la segunda novela de la serie dedicada a Bernard de Gui

Raimon Maillot es un joven escribano que es contratado para que investigue el brutal asesinato del ayudante del cardenal Di Vicio, hallado muerto y con los órganos sexuales amputados. La misión del muchacho consistira en determinar la identidad del agresor si es que hay alguno o bien descubrir si se trata de un acto de brujeria.

Una novela sobre un período histórico al mismo tiempo esperpéntico y desconocido. Año 1873, I República española. En medio de la proclamación cantonalista, socialistas y anarquistas se debaten entre la idea de apoyar el movimiento como mal menor o la de no hacer nada ni a favor ni en contra de una republica burguesa. Una pleyade de personajes desfila por las paginas de esta novela -en la que se mezcla la ironia con la veracidad de unos hechos que parecen inventados, por grotescos- entre sus convicciones, sus sentimientos y su ignorancia.

Francia, 1318. El padre Bernard Peyre, el inquisidor de la abadía de Lezet, es el encargado de investigar el brutal asesinato del padre Augustin y su guardaespaldas, cuyos descuartizados cuerpos han sido descubiertos a las afueras de la ciudad. El padre Bernard debera desenmascarar al verdadero asesino y averiguar cuales fueron los motivos que le indujeron a cometer el crimen, antes de que la inocente que ha sido acusada injustamente muera en la hoguera. Lo que el padre Bernard desconoce es que el mismo se convertira en el objetivo de una misteriosa persecucion para callar la verdad.

En la tradición de El nombre de la rosa, Catherine Jinks ha creado una magnífica historia de asesinatos, depravación y traición en la Francia del siglo XIV. Publishers Weekly" El padre Bernard Peyre de la abadia de Lezet, el inquisidor del tituloes el narrador de este bien construido suspense situado en la Francia el siglo XIV, en el que uno de sus superiores, el padre Agustin, es brutalmente asesinado y descuartizado junto con su guardaespaldas. La investigacion que inicia el padre Bernard debe desenmascarar al verdadero asesino y revelar las razones de su crimen para salvar a una inocente que ha sido acusada de manera injusta. El Inquisidor, una novela que en ocasiones roza la satira al hablar de la corrupcion eclesiastica y las maquinaciones del clero en la Edad Media, esta en la linea del suspense y rigor historico de El nombre de la rosa. La australiana Catherine Jinks ha conseguido con El Inquisidor dotar de vida, accion y humor una de las epocas mas oscuras de la historia francesa y europea.

A werewolf? I kept stumbling over that word; it made no sense to me. How could I be a werewolf? Werewolves didnt exist. When Tobias Vandevelde wakes up in hospital with no memory of the night before, he is told that he was found unconscious. In a zoo pen. The doctor rules out epilepsy and Tobys prank-loving friends are just as freaked out as he is. Then the wild-eyed Reuben turns up talking in hushed tones about Toby being a werewolf. Reubens pale, insomniac friends seem equally convinced and offer to chain him up every full moon. They also claim to be part of some sort of vampire support group. This has to be a joke - right? Its only when hes kidnapped, imprisoned and in desperate need of rescuing that Toby begins to believe them...

Eleven year old Marcus loves video games and hates the beach. So he is not happy when his mum Holly drags him to Diamond Beach, the place she loved as a child. Once there, Holly meets Coco, her friend from her childhood. She is there with her electronics-obsessed husband, Sterling Huckstepp, and their kids, cool teenage Newt, pizza-loving Edison and the family robot, Prot. Opening a door into the basement of Hollys caravan, Edison discovers the most amazing amusement park. Whoever opens a door in the basement finds themselves in their very own dream vacation. But when the dream becomes impossible to escape from, it all begins to feel more like a nightmare: Marcus, Holly, and the Huckstepps find themselves trapped in a matrix of terrifyingly perfect dreamscapes peopled with strange characters that will allow them to do anything they want, except leave... A whirlwind adventure at a breakneck speed.

The trouble with being a vampire is . . . You cant get a decent haircut. You live on guinea-pig blood. And even worse, most of the worlds population wants to kill you. For no good reason. Nina Harrison became a vampire in 1973, when she was fifteen. Since then, lifes been one big drag - mostly because she spends all her time with a bunch of vampires, in a vampire therapy group.Then one of them gets staked by an anonymous vampire slayer, and things become even worse: while tracking down the culprit, Nina and her fellow vampires end up in the middle of an illegal werewolf-fighting racket, and find themselves the target of some genuine villains wholl stop at nothing to get their werewolf back.

Think vampires are romantic, sexy, and powerful? Think again. Vampires are dead. And unless they want to end up staked, they have to give up fanging people, admit their addiction, join a support group, and reform themselves. Nina Harrison, fanged at fifteen and still living with her mother, hates the Reformed Vampire Support Group meetings every Tuesday night. Even if she does appreciate Dave, who was in a punk band when he was alive, nothing exciting ever happens. That is, until one of group members is mysteriously destroyed by a silver bullet. With Nina (determined to prove that vamps arent useless or weak) and Dave (secretly in love with Nina) at the helm, the misfit vampires soon band together to track down the hunter, save a werewolf, and keep the world safe from the likes of themselves. The perfect anecdote to slick vampire novels, this murder-mystery comedy of errors will thrill fans of Evil Genius.

This is top-notch storytelling, full of wit, a colorful cast of rogues, and delectable slang. Publishers Weekly, starred review of How to Catch a BogleJem Barbary spent most of his early life picking pockets for a wily old crook named Sarah Picklesuntil she betrayed him. Now Jem wants revenge, but first he needs a new job. Luckily Alfred the bogler, the man who kills the child-eating monsters that hide in the shadows of Victorian London, needs a new apprentice. As more and more orphans disappear under mysterious circumstances, Alfred, Jem, and Birdie find themselves waging an underground war in a city where science clashes with superstition and monsters lurk in every alley.

Boy-genius Cadel Piggot has a new name (Cadel Greenaius), a new family, and a new life. No more illegal hacking, no more false identities, and most of all, no more Prosper English. But when his best friend Sonja is attacked, its up to him to figure out who was behind it. Before he knows it, Cadel is crossing oceans and continents, barrelling back into the depths of the criminal activity he thought hed left behind, and coming face to face with Prosper English once again. Can Cadel track down Prosper before its too late? And what rules will he have to break in the process?

Now that the Axis Institute for World Domination has been blown up; the founder, Dr. Phineas Darkkon, has died; and Prosper English (who enrolled Cadel in the first place) is in jail for myriad offenses, Cadel Piggott has round-the-clock surveillance so hell be safe until he testifies against Prosper English. But nobody seems to want Cadel. Not Fiona, his social worker; not Saul Greeniaus, the detective assigned to protect him. When he is approached by the head of Genius Squad--a group formed to investigate GenoME, one of Darkkons pet projects--Cadel is dubious Genius Squad can offer him a real home and all the technology his heart desires. But why cant he bring himself to tell Saul what the group is really up to? And how can Genius Squad protect Cadel once Prosper English breaks out of jail? This ebook includes a sample chapter of GENIUS WARS.

Âgé de seulement quinze ans, Cadel Piggott a l’impression d’avoir déjà eu une centaine de vies. Adopté dès sa naissance, il découvre un jour que sa famille adoptive est factice et ne sert que d’écran

Un an après son passage à l’Institut Axis, Cadel Piggott ne va pas tarder à découvrir que plusieurs génies valent souvent mieux qu’un seul ! Après avoir mis sous les verrous le menaçant Prosper Engli

What happens when a single moment changes everything? For seventeen-year-old Cheney, life on earth exists only in history books. He and more than one thousand other people have known life only aboard the Plexus spacecraft: self-contained, systematic, and serene. But that was before the radiation wave. Now Plexus has suddenly turned on them, becoming a terrifying and unrecognizable force. As the crew dwindles under attack, Cheney and his friends need to fight back before the ship thats nurtured them for so long becomes responsible for their destruction.

Cadel Piggott has a genius IQ and a fascination with systems of all kinds. At seven, he was illegally hacking into computers. Now hes fourteen and studying for his World Domination degree, taking classes like embezzlement, forgery, and infiltration at the institute founded by criminal mastermind Dr. Phineas Darkkon. Although Cadel may be advanced beyond his years, at heart hes a lonely kid. When he falls for the mysterious and brilliant Kay-Lee, he begins to question the moral implications of his studies. But is it too late to stop Dr. Darkkon from carrying out his evil plot? This ebook includes a sample chapter of GENIUS SQUAD.