Showing results for "Messages" in Literary Fiction

For years, Alfred Ludens has pursued mathematician and philosopher Marcus Vallar in the belief that he possesses a profound metaphysical formula, a missing link of great significance to mankind. Luden's friends are more sceptical. Jack Sheerwater, painter, thinks Marcus is crazy. Gildas herne, ex-preist, thinks he is evil. Patrick Fenman, poet, is dying because he thinks Marcus has cursed him. Marcus has disappeared and must be found.

The message is hand written on a scrap of paper stuffed in an envelope. It reads: 'Are you blind to the truth?' I study the shaky capitals, attempting to winkle out some clue about the sender, then I stow it in the filing drawer with the others. The messages are delivered when I'm out. They lie on the doormat waiting for me in their cheap manila envelopes, the flap tucked in rather than stuck down.

Pablo es un pequeño delincuente, un traficante con ciertas inquietudes científicas y poéticas. Una mañana de septiembre recibe un e-mail enviado por su compinche y amigo Ángel Bru - con quien había planeado un atraco, finalmente abortado, a un prostíbulo de carretera - , citándolo en una nave abandonada de un polígono industrial. Al llegar allí descubre el cadáver de Ángel con un disparo en la frente.

Premio Gran Angular 2007. Mensaje cifrado es una novela de intriga, con una trama que no deja indiferente. Pocas horas después de morir su abuelo, Santiago descubre una nota que le invita a desenterrar un secreto. Para ello, debe seguir una serie de pista.

A debut novel from a promising new voice in fiction, Healing Maddie Brees is the story of a marriage and the memories that pit themselves against it, of the uncanny power of the body in both disease and desire, and of whether true healing ever really happens. Maddie Brees has been given bad news. She is seriously ill. But she also has an old friend, an ex-boyfriend who might be able to heal her. She was witness to Vincent Elander's so-called miracles in the past. But that was a long time ago, a memory that she would rather stay buried.