Mexico Mystery

Der mysteriöse Anruf eines FBI-Kollegen führt die Special Agents Jeremiah Cotton und Philippa Decker nach New Mexico. In einer gottverlassenen Geisterstadt stoßen sie auf ein riesiges Drogenlabor, in dem tonnenweise Crystal Meth hergestellt wird. Doch bevor Cotton und Decker Hilfe herbeirufen können, werden sie überwältigt. Sie können zwar fliehen, kommen aber nicht weit, denn Decker wird dabei schwer verletzt.

The stories in this collection reflect a fundamental truth about Santa Fe: history depends on who's telling it. Too often the story of this city has been told only by the conquerors and the tourism PR firms. Hear the stories that never make the glossy tour brochures: the working class and the underground, the decolonized and the ever-haunted; the Santa Fe only we know.... Conquered and reconquered, colonized and commodified, Santa Fe understands - from historical genocide to the murders of family members - the intimacy of violence.

When the story opens, the eponymous hero of Rudolfo Anaya's novel is in an ambulance en route to a hospital for crippled children in the New Mexican desert. A poor boy from Albuquerque, 16-year-old Tortuga takes his name from the odd, turtle-shaped mountain that is rumored to possess miraculous curative powers. Tortuga is paralyzed, and not even his mother's fervent prayers can heal him. But under the mountain's watchful gaze, with the support of fellow patients, he begins the Herculean task of breaking out of his shell and becoming whole again.

Between 1910 and 1920, vigilantes and law enforcement-including the renowned Texas Rangers - killed Mexican residents with impunity. The full extent of the violence was known only to the relatives of the victims. The Injustice Never Leaves You offers an invaluable account of why these incidents happened, what they meant at the time, and how a determined community ensured that the victims were not forgotten.

Thirteen-year-old Boli and his friends are deep in the middle of a game of marbles. An older boy named Mosca has won the prized Devil's Fire marble. His pals are jealous and want to win it away from him. This is Izayoc, the place of tears, a small pueblo in a tiny valley west of Mexico City...

In Mount Dragon, einem Forschungslabor in der Wüste von New Mexico, arbeiten Wissenschaftler an einem Präparat, das Tausenden von Menschen tagtäglich das Leben retten könnte. Doch etwas läuft gewaltig schief in diesem Labor...

La ciudad perdida de los aztecas encierra un laberinto de secretos que puede cambiar el rumbo de la historia. La profecía de Aztlán es una trepidante mezcla de ficción y realidad en un mundo que se mueve al borde del abismo, obra del autor superventas Mario Escobar. Mientras Londres está siendo bombardeada por el ejército del Káiser, Hércules Guzmán Fox, George Lincoln y Alicia Mantorella reciben el encargo de investigar la serie de macabros rituales aztecas aparentemente ligados a la desaparición de un códice del siglo XVI que habla sobre la legendaria ciudad de Aztlán.

A questo autore dall'inconfondibile vena pessimista e cruda, dall'originale scrittura raffinata e apparentemente naturale, tratta dal linguaggio parlato, ma piena di intrusioni e slanci d'autore, appartiene una serie di romanzi dimenticati, a metà tra il romanzo criminale e il western. A questo filone, quasi sfociante nel dramma antirazzista, che allora furoreggiava in certo cinema e in certo teatro americano alla Tennessee Williams, appartiene "Rossa".

Destination: Mexico. The Global Protection Force has summoned Secret Agent Jack Stalwart to Mexico to hunt down a stolen map leading to hidden Aztec gold. Suddenly, he finds himself trapped in the hands of one of the most treacherous treasure hunters in the world. Can Jack stop Callous Carl and his band of thieves before they plunder again?

For the first time ever, bestselling novelists Jonathan and Faye Kellermen team up to deliver the launch book in a thrilling new series of short crime novels. This book--printed as a reversible volume with two different covers--contains two stories featuring different detectives solving crimes...

Bart, un gringo con la faccia da latino, varca la frontiera a Tijuana, scendendo in Messico per l'ennesimo incarico che svolgerà con la consueta indifferenza: uccidere un uomo che potrebbe minacciare gli interessi di una multinazionale farmaceutica. Ma a Tijuana arriva anche un battagliero videogiornalista italiano. Leandro, e le loro strade fatalmente si incontrano. Da una parte il cinismo dell'esecutore professionista, dall'altra la passione ferita ma non piegata dell'utopista: eppure scatta qualcosa di simile a un rapporto, a una complicità sotterranea.

Jaded reporter Andrew and his photographer boyfriend, Carlos, are sick of telling just another story. From cartel massacres to corrupt politicians, sifting the dregs of Mexico's drug war, they think they've seen it all. But when they find a body even the police are too scared to look at, what started out as just another reportage becomes the sort of story all reporters dream of. Until Carlos pushes for answers too fast and winds up murdered, leaving Andrew grief-stricken and flailing for answers, justice and revenge.

An elaborately woven novel of intrigue about one of America's most curious and enduring legends -- the enigma of the Lady in Blue In Los Angeles, Jennifer Narody has been having a series of disturbing dreams involving eerie images of a lady dressed in blue. What she doesn't know is that this...

Der Fall, der Kommissarin Marie Maas bis nach Mexiko führt - aufwühlend und spannend. Hamburg verschwindet gerade im Winternebel, als in einer Baugrube im ruhigen Vorort Wellingsbüttel ein fast vollständig erhaltenes menschliches Skelett ausgebaggert wird. Die Gerichtsmedizin datiert den Tod des etwa 70-jährigen Mannes auf vier bis fünf Jahre vor dem Fund. Kriminalkommissarin Marie Mass stößt bei ihren Nachforschungen auf die Nichte des ehemaligen Grundstückseigners, die als Filmproduzentin in Mexico-City lebt.

Dorian Gray, en una atmósfera de perversión dominada por el arte y los poderes de un misterio que está más allá de la realidad: gracias a los dioses, el culto a la belleza puede trasladar las huellas del paso del tiempo a un cuadro, mientras el rostro de Dorian Gray permanece inalterado e inalterable....

Hermit’s Peak is a seminal novel in the crime fiction series that places New Mexico lawman Kevin Kerney in the pantheon with Tony Hillerman’s heroes—while carving out territory that is distinctly his own across the American Southwest. When Kevin Kerney, deputy chief of the New Mexico State...

Despite the government's best efforts to explain it away, after nearly 70 years, Roswell is a story that just won't disappear. Parents who were present during or immediately after the incident may have passed on, but their children know what happened‚ and have paid dearly for their knowledge. These are their stories.

Als blijkt dat haar voormalige collega Diego Martinez wordt vermist, twijfelt journaliste Tara Linders geen seconde. Ze moet naar Mexico, waar hij voor het laatst is gezien. Diego verbrak zijn relatie en verliet huis en haard om in Mexico, het thuisland van zijn vader, uit te zoeken wat hij nu echt wil: vrijheid en avontuur of een gesetteld gezinsleven. Tara's baas heeft aanvankelijk zijn bedenkingen – nergens sneuvelen er momenteel zoveel journalisten als in Mexico – maar stemt toch toe als hij kansen ziet voor een wereldwijde primeur.

When JadeAnne Stone and her German shepherd, Pepper, are kidnapped off a lonely highway in Mexico en route to locate a banker’s missing wife, she unwittingly enters a world of high-stakes oil politics, money laundering, and El Narco’s grab for power. JadeAnne finds the missing wife and realizes she’s been set up. To stay alive, she must unravel the Aguirre family’s secrets. Who will she trust as loyalties shift and greed rules?

More than any other cop in Acapulco, Emilia Cruz has reason to be shaken by the execution-style murders of three law enforcement officers in as many weeks. When her partner Franco Silvio's wife is killed, it's obvious to Emilia that the murders are connected and she could be the cop killer's next target. She expects to join a task force to investigate but is reassigned instead. Her new police unit is a political time bomb championed by Acapulco's ambitious mayor and overseen by a shady union strongman. Corruption and paranoia rule the day.