Book description
El autor de La mujer en la ventana, bestseller #1 del New York Times, vuelve con un thriller fascinante, parte Entre navajas y secretos, parte Agatha Christie... y al mismo tiempo como nada que hayas leído antes. "En tres meses estaré muerto. Ven a contar mi historia." Escribe Sebastián Trapp, novelista de misterio recluso, a Nicky Hunter, su amiga por correspondencia y experta en novela policiaca. Con pocos meses de vida, Trapp invita a Nicky a su espectacular mansión en San Francisco para ayudarlo a poner en papel la historia de su vida... conviviendo con su hermosa segunda esposa, Diana; su rebelde sobrino, Freddy, y su protectora hija, Madeleine. Pronto, Nicky queda atrapada en un irresistible caso de "fiebre detectivesca" en la vida real. "Es posible que resolvamos uno o dos viejos misterios." Veinte años antes, en la víspera de Año Nuevo de 1999, la primera esposa de Sebastián y su hijo adolescente desaparecieron desde distintas locaciones y nunca se les volvió a ver. ¿Acaso el perfecto escritor de novelas de crimen cometió el crimen perfecto? ¿Y por qué ha salido del aislamiento dos décadas después para permitir que una extraña hurgue en su pasado? "La vida es dura. Te mata después de todo." Mientras Nicky intenta tejer los hilos en la vida de Sebastián, se obsesiona con descubrir la verdad... en tanto que Madeleine empieza a cuestionar lo que su querido padre sabe realmente de lo ocurrido aquella noche tanto tiempo atrás. Y cuando aparece un cadáver en el estanque koi de la familia, ambas mujeres quedan en shock al descubrir que el pasado no quedó atrás... solo está esperando. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Woman in the Window returnswith a mesmerizing thriller - part Knives Out, part Agatha Christie . . . yet utterly unlike anything you've ever read. "I'll be dead in three months. Come tell my story." So writes Sebastian Trapp, reclusive mystery novelist, to his longtime correspondent Nicky Hunter, an expert in detective fiction. With mere months to live, Trapp invites Nicky to his spectacular San Francisco mansion to help draft his life story . . . living alongside his beautiful second wife, Diana; his wayward nephew, Freddy; and his protective daughter, Madeleine. Soon Nicky finds herself caught in an irresistible case of real-life "detective fever." "You and I might even solve an old mystery or two." Twenty years earlier--on New Year's Eve 1999--Sebastian's first wife and teenaged son vanished from different locations, never to be seen again. Did the perfect crime writer commit the perfect crime? And why has he emerged from seclusion, two decades later, to allow a stranger to dig into his past? "Life is hard. After all, it kills you." As Nicky attempts to weave together the strands of Sebastian's life, she becomes obsessed with discovering the truth . . . while Madeleine begins to question what her beloved father might actually know about that long-ago night. And when a corpse appears in the family's koi pond, both women are shocked to find that the past isn't gone--it's just waiting.
About the Author
Soy A.J. Finn, autor de La mujer en la ventana, una primera novela que Stephen King describe como "excepcional" y yo como "lo máximo que he dado". No hay duda sobre cuál de los dos comentarios es el que va incluido en la cubierta del libro. Los derechos de publicación de La mujer en la ventana se han vendido a 38 lenguas. Fox 2000 ya está trabajando en su adaptación cinematográfica, que producirá Scott Rudin a partir de un guion de Tracy Letts, ganadora de un premio Pulitzer. No me importaría tener un cameo en la película, por si alguien está escuchando. Durante una década trabajé en el mundo editorial de Nueva York y Londres, concentrándome sobre todo en thrillers y novelas de misterio. Entre los autores que he publicado a lo largo de esos años están Robert Galbraith (seudónimo de J.K. Rowling), Agatha Christie, Patricia Cornwell, Carl Hiaasen, Nelson DeMille y Karin Slaughter. Ahora escribo a tiempo completo. La mujer en la ventana nace de varias experiencias: mi amor por la literatura de suspense, desde los relatos de Sherlock Holmes que devoraba de niño hasta la obra de Patricia Highsmith, que estudié cuando estuve en la Universidad de Oxford; mi pasión por el cine clásico, sobre todo las películas de Alfred Hitchcock, y mi lucha personal contra la agorafobia y la depresión. El resultado, espero, es un thriller psicológico en la línea de Gillian Flynn, Tana French y Kate Atkinson, entre otros. Las cosas que me gusta hacer: leer, nadar, cocinar, los perros, los helados, viajar. Si fuera posible, pensaría seriamente en clonar a Tugboat, mi perro labrador (2001-2011), una de las creaciones más perfectas de la Historia. Colecciono primeras ediciones de libros y vivo a caballo entre Nueva York y Londres.
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Playing a wide variety of audio formats
Works on all devices with iOS 13 and newer
Huge amount of features for a small price
Frequent updates to add new features and improve existing ones
Advanced playback controls
Live sound processing
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice and noise reduction
Translated into more than 20 languages
If you love listening to fiction audiobooks, ListenBook has features to make the process easier.
Edit book data: title, author, cover
Use equalizer to make the sound comfortable for you
Adjust the playback speed
Enjoy dark and light app themes
Supported formats: MP3, M4B, AWB, FLAC, OGG audio files and many more (must be DRM free)
Auto-Bookmarks make it easy to find your place
AirPlay support allows redirection of audio output.
VoiceOver support
Dark mode for night owls
Convenient bookmarking system helps you mark the most important places.
Unlimited bookmarks for each audiobook
Put your own cover on the wager
Share your audiobook with friends
Lock-screen control
Customise app with extensive options
Sleep timer with shake to reset, set custom notification sounds, and a few unique options
Auto rewind depending on paused time, customize rewind times to your liking
Removing background noise from recordings made in classrooms and meetings
Changing the timbre of the reader's voice for a better listening experience