Pocos días después de haber llegado a Oxford, un joven estudiante argentino encuentra el cadáver de una anciana que ha sido asfixiada con un almohadón. El asesinato resulta ser un desafío intelectual lanzado a uno de los lógicos más eminentes del siglo, Arthur Seldom, y el primero de una serie de crímenes. Mientras la policía investiga a una sucesión de sospechosos, maestro y discípulo llevan adelante su propia investigación, amenazados por las derivaciones cada vez más riesgosas de sus conjeturas.

Crímenes imperceptibles, que conjuga a los sombríos hospitales ingleses con los juegos de lenguaje de Wittgenstein, al teorema de Godel con los arrebatos de la pasión y a las sectas antiguas de matemáticos con el arte de los viejos magos, es una novela policial de trama aparentemente clásica que, en el sorprendente desenlace, se revela como un magistral acto de prestidigitación.

Diez años después, nada queda en Luciana de la muchacha alegre y seductora a la que el famoso escritor Kloster dictaba sus novelas. Tras la trágica muerte de su novio y, después, uno a uno, las de sus seres más queridos, Luciana vive aterrorizada, atenta a cada sombra, cada persona que pasa a su lado, con la sospecha de que esas muertes son parte de una venganza metódica urdida en su contra, un círculo que sólo se cerrará con la séptima víctima. En la desesperación más absoluta, recurre a la única persona capaz de adentrarse en el siniestro universo de Kloster. Los cuadernos de notas de Henry James y una Biblia de Scofield serán claves en un pasaje sin retorno a la región más primitiva del mal.

¿Podría un asesino simular cuidadosamente el azar, concebir una geometría de muertes y quedar impune? ¿Cuál es el castigo para el que nos ha despojado de todo y nos ha causado el máximo dolor?

Tras el éxito internacional de Crímenes imperceptibles, Guillermo Martínez ha escrito una obra maestra del suspenso, intensa y extraordinaria, que lo destaca como uno de los escritores más importantes de su generación.

A gripping tale of revenge and rivalry from the author of The Oxford Murders

Argentinean author Guillermo Martínez's work appeals to fans of both literary fiction and mysteries. Now, with this new tale of psychological suspense, Martínez is poised to expand on the success of The Oxford Murders.

The narrator is an up-and-coming young writer who has little in common with Kloster – a literary giant whose disturbing crime novels dominate the bestseller lists. However, they have both, at one time, employed the secretarial services of the alluring Luciana B. Out of the past, Luciana makes a desperate plea to the young writer. She thinks that Kloster is slowly killing off everyone close to her – can he help before her grandmother and younger sister are murdered?

While the narrator suspects her misfortunes have driven her mad, Kloster has a powerful motive; and eerie parallels surface between the murders in Kloster's books and the real-life deaths surrounding Luciana. As the body count multiplies, the question arises: Can words really kill? Fans of both Alfred Hitchcock and Carlos Ruiz Zafón will be thrilled with Martínez's literary murder mystery.

« Écoutez, mes sœurs !
Écoutez cette rumeur qui emplit la nuit !
Écoutez... le bruit des mères !
Des choses sacrées se murmurent dans l'ombre des cuisines. Au fond des vieilles casseroles, dans des odeurs d'épices, magie et recette se côtoient.
Les douleurs muettes de nos mères leur ont bâillonné le cœur. Leurs plaintes sont passées dans les soupes : larmes de lait, de sang, larmes épicées, saveurs salées, sucrées. Onctueuses larmes au palais des hommes ! »
Frasquita Carasco a dans son village du sud de l'Espagne une réputation de magicienne, ou de sorcière. Ses dons se transmettent aux vêtements qu'elle coud, aux objets qu'elle brode : les fleurs de tissu créées pour une robe de mariée sont tellement vivantes qu'elles faneront sous le regard jaloux des villageoises ; un éventail reproduit avec une telle perfection les ailes d'un papillon qu'il s'envolera par la fenêtre ; le cœur de soie qu'elle cache sous le vêtement de la Madone menée en procession semble palpiter miraculeusement...
Frasquita a été jouée et perdue par son mari lors d'un combat de coqs. Réprouvée par le village pour cet adultère, la voilà condamnée à l'errance à travers l'Andalousie que les révoltes paysannes mettent à feu et à sang, suivie de ses marmots eux aussi pourvus – ou accablés – de dons surnaturels...
Le roman fait alterner les passages lyriques et les anecdotes cocasses ou cruelles. Le merveilleux ici n'est jamais forcé : il s'inscrit naturellement dans le cycle tragique de la vie.

An uproarious new novel in the tradition of Robert Asprin and Terry Pratchett!For someone who's immortal, Never Dead Ned manages to die with alarming frequency--he just has the annoying habit of rising from the grave. But this soldier might be better dead than face his latest assignment.Ogre Company is the legion's dumping ground--a motley, undisciplined group of monsters whose leaders tend to die under somewhat questionable circumstances. That's where Ned's rather unique talents come in. As Ogre Company's newly appointed commander, Ned finds himself in charge of such fine examples of military prowess as a moonstruck Amazon, a very big (and very polite) two-headed ogre, a seductively scaly siren, a blind oracle who can hear (and smell) the future, a suicidal goblin daredevil pilot, a walking tree with a chip on its shoulder, and a suspiciously goblinesque orc.Ned has only six months to whip the Ogre Company into shape or face an even more hideous assignment, but that's not the worst of his problems. Because now that Ned has found out why he keeps returning from dead, he has to do everything he can to stay alive. . . .In the Company of Ogres does for fantasy, what A. Lee Martinez's previous novel, Gil's All Fright Diner, did for horror--and elves and goblins may never be the same!At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

From Publishers Weekly

Martinez (Too Many Curses) pokes at big-picture questions, like the nature of the universe and the meaning of life, with abundant, zany humor in this charming tale. Monster, who works in cryptobiological containment, first encounters Judy when he rescues her from a yeti that's trashing the frozen foods aisle of the Food Plus Mart. They meet again when trolls infest her apartment. As an incognizant—someone whose mind can't acknowledge magic—Judy soon forgets the bizarre events, but Monster suspects she's somehow involved with the recent uptick in dangerous cryptobiological happenings. When Lotus, keeper of a stone mysteriously linked to Judy, spirits Judy away, Monster attempts to come to her rescue, only to discover that he's in way over his head. Scary monsters and hilarious scenarios embellish a convoluted plot that suggests even night-shift workers might have a destiny. (May)
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About the Author

A. Lee Martinez was born in El Paso, Texas. At the age of eighteen, for no apparent reason, he started writing novels. Thirteen short years (and a little over a dozen manuscripts) later, his first novel, Gil's All Fright Diner, was published. His hobbies include juggling, games of all sorts, and astral projecting. Also, he likes to sing along with the radio when he's in the car by himself. For more information on the author, check out www.aleemartinez.com.