La ley de los justos

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Christian Jacq. Aus dem Franz. von Stefan Linster

Pazair es un joven juez en una provincia del sur del antiguo Egipto. Neferet es médico en Menfis, la gran ciudad del norte, adonde Pazair es llamado. Conforme a las predicciones de un viejo visionario, un monstruoso complot ha sido maquinado para derrocar a Ramsés el Grande. Nada podrá evitarlo, nada excepto un insignificante juez que se niega a firmar un documento administrativo que no entiende. Con la ayuda de su hermano de sangre, Suti, el juez Pazair busca la verdad. En el camino se encuentra con Neferet, bellísima doctora que ha logrado triunfar en su carrera a pesar de la oposición del jefe de los médicos de la corte. El juez se enamora de ella y llega a descubrir la traición de un importante general del ejército egipcio. Pero los implicados en el complot están decididos a acabar con Pazair. Éste es el motivo por el que el juez es detenido y por lo que hacen creer a Neferet que él ha muerto. La pirámide asesinada es la primera novela de la trilogía El juez de Egipto. Los títulos siguientes son La ley del desierto y La justicia del visir.

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Jacqueline Winspear

Maisie Dobbs must unravel a case of wartime love and death—an investigation that leads her to a long-hidden affair between a young cartographer and a mysterious nurse. August 1914. Michael Clifton is mapping the land he has just purchased in California's beautiful Santa Ynez Valley, certain that oil lies beneath its surface. But as the young cartographer prepares to return home to Boston, war is declared in Europe. Michael—the youngest son of an expatriate Englishman—puts duty first and sails for his father's native country to serve in the British army. Three years later, he is listed among those missing in action. April 1932. London psychologist and investigator Maisie Dobbs is retained by Michael's parents, who have recently learned that their son's remains have been unearthed in France. They want Maisie to find the unnamed nurse whose love letters were among Michael's belongings—a quest that takes Maisie back to her own bittersweet wartime love. Her inquiries, and the stunning discovery that Michael Clifton was murdered in his trench, unleash a web of intrigue and violence that threatens to engulf the soldier's family and even Maisie herself. Over the course of her investigation, Maisie must cope with the approaching loss of her mentor, and her growing awareness that she is once again falling in love.

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Sheila Burnford

When his owner is killed during the German invasion of France in the summer of 1940, a little performing dog changes the lives of successive caretakers as he journeys through the war-ravaged countryside looking for a permanent home

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Victor Hugo

Trying to forget his past and live an honest life, escaped convict Jean Valjean risks his freedom to take care of a motherless young girl during a period of political unrest in Paris.