Sonia Soto Libri

Faltam onze minutos para a meia-noite. No sistema central do Vaticano infiltra-se um vírus informático com uma estranha mensagem acerca de uma igreja em Sevilha que "mata para se defender". Alguns instantes depois um dos computadores ligado à rede dá o alarme, o que provoca movimentações imediatas no seio dos serviços secretos, empenhados em descobrir a identidade do autor da informação e em investigar o que se passa naquela igreja sevilhana. Injustiças cometidas em nome de crenças religiosas, diálogos labirínticos plenos de equívocos e uma teia de intrigas, temperam a narrativa de Pérez-Reverte envolvendo o leitor num ambiente de mistério cultivado a cada página. Para esta trama habilmente urdida contribui ainda a caracterização das personagens que discorre densa e progressivamente de conversas, pensamentos e sensações, o que resulta numa obra de onde emergem vários tipos de romances, do policial ao amoroso.

"Prudencia Prim is a young woman of intelligence and achievement, with a deep knowledge of literature and several letters after her name. But when she accepts the post of private librarian in the village of San Ireneo de Arnois, she is unprepared for what she encounters there. Her employer, a book-loving intellectual, is dashing yet contrarian, always ready with a critique of her cherished Jane Austen and Louisa May Alcott. The neighbors, too, are capable of charm and eccentricity in equal measure, determined as they are to preserve their singular little community from the modern world outside."--

Two mathematicians must join forces to stop a serial killer in this spellbinding international bestseller A paperback sensation in Argentina, Spain, and the United Kingdom, The Oxford Murders has been hailed as "a remarkable feat" ( Time Out London) and its author as "one of Argentina's most distinctive voices" ( The Times Literary Supplement ). It begins on a summer day in Oxford, when a young Argentine graduate student finds his landlady-an elderly woman who helped crack the Enigma Code during World War II -murdered in cold blood. Meanwhile, a renowned Oxford logician receives an anonymous note bearing a circle and the words "the first of a series." As the murders begin to pile up and more symbols are revealed, it is up to this unlikely pair to decipher the pattern before the killer strikes again.