"An epic novel of crime and conspiracy told in four books, [beginning] with a man on the run and [ending] with a burned body. [Moves] across continents, characters, and genres and with the intelligence of John le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and the scope of Roberto Bolaño's 2666"--

After catching his shady son-in-law, Jack Hardisty, in the act of embezzling, wealthy banker Vincente Blane plans to hang him out to dry. Then murder turns Blane's restful mountain retreat into Hardisty's final resting place.When the evidence points to wronged wife Millicent, her father makes a point of calling in Perry Mason. And it's up to the legendary legal eagle to unravel the case's most baffling mystery: a buried clock at the murder scene....

Her dating service is neglected, as Samantha Shaw's investigation of her friend Janie Tuggle's husband for embezzling soccer funds sees both Samantha and Janie become suspects in his murder.

Un magnate de Barcelona aparece ahorcado en su mansión. Enfrentado a la ruina y al desprestigio social, todo apunta a un suicidio. En su garganta, incrustada, una diminuta cruz, la misma que la madre del fallecido llevaba el día en que fue asesinada cuando el era todavia un nino. Roberto es un honrado inspector de Hacienda, bien conocido por su capacidad de investigar las tramas más turbias de fraude y que está siendo sometido a un cruel chantaje...

This collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national crises. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art collapse under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; and, in "Bronze," a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future.

This collection of stories presents characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other people's wealth during the real-estate bubble, becomes an embezzler; a clavichordist whose dreams of art founder under the obligations of marriage and fatherhood; a sexually confused college freshman whose encounter with a stranger on a train leads to a revelation about his past and his future; and a high school...