Keaton Ville

Even a lone wolf wants to belong... Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the beautiful, austere backwoods of northern Minnesota. The other girls at school call Linda 'Freak', or 'Commie'. Her parents mostly leave her to her own devices, whilst the other inhabitants have grown up and moved on. So when the perfect family - mother, father and their little boy, Paul - move into the cabin across the lake, Linda insinuates her way into the family's orbit. She begins to babysit Paul and feels welcomes, that she finally has a place to belong. Yet something...

Segundo libro de la serie «La sombra del fantasma». Dos almas marcadas por la tragedia y la maldad humana lucharán para recuperar lo que, un día que parecía tan lejano, los unió. Christine no podía pedir más, tenía una vida plena, un padre amoroso y el mejor prometido del mundo. Vincent era un hombre maravilloso y la hacía sentir en las nubes. De pronto, el sueño terminó y todo a su alrededor se transformó en ruinas. Habían trascurrido ya dos largos años desde que intentó la tontería absurda de terminar con su vida. Una vez más observó con pena las cicatrices en sus...

Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi. When he shows up one day to extort money from her, threatening both her and her teenaged daughter Misato, the situation quickly escalates into violence and Togashi ends up dead on her apartment floor. Overhearing the commotion, Yasuko’s next door neighbor, middle-aged high school mathematics teacher Ishigami, offers his help, disposing not only of the body but plotting the cover-up step-by-step. When the body turns up and is identified, Detective Kusanagi draws the case and Yasuko ...

Las academias de Siam representa una visin antolgica diferente del Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis que el lector de lengua castellana acostumbra tener. Incluye textos como "Miss Dollar," "La iglesia del Diablo" o el que da ttulo al volumen.