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Valley of bones

Jimmy Paz is investigating the murder of a Sudanese businessman, and finds a most unlikely murder suspect - an otherworldly person named Emmylou Dideroff who claims to commune with saints and to be doing the work of God. Her 'confessions' scribbled in a series of notebooks, tell the life of a woman from the wrong side of the tracks - a thief, durg dealer, prostitute and one who would be called into the service of God in a most unusual way. Police psychologist Lorna Wise has to determine whether Emmylou is legally insane, and when people associated with Emmylou turn up dead, Paz and Lorna suspect there's something larger at stake than Emmylou's guilt or innocence.

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  • "Jimmy Paz is investigating the murder of a Sudanese businessman, and finds a most unlikely murder suspect - an otherworldly person named Emmylou Dideroff who claims to commune with saints and to be doing the work of God. Her 'confessions' scribbled in a series of notebooks, tell the life of a woman from the wrong side of the tracks - a thief, durg dealer, prostitute and one who would be called into the service of God in a most unusual way. Police psychologist Lorna Wise has to determine whether Emmylou is legally insane, and when people associated with Emmylou turn up dead, Paz and Lorna suspect there's something larger at stake than Emmylou's guilt or innocence."@en
  • "Tito Morales, jeune flic, voit tomber du 10e étage d'un hôtel un riche émir du pétrole. L'enquête est alors confiée à l'inspecteur Paz. La principale suspecte est on ne peut plus étrange. Elle dit être en communication avec des saintes."
  • "Investigating the murder of oil tycoon, detective Jimmy Paz interviews an unlikely suspect in pious young Emmylou Dideroff, whose claim about her ability to commune with saints places her sanity in question."
  • "The startling reviews of Tropic of Night announced Michael Gruber as one of the most talented thriller writers to debut in many years. Now, with the much-anticipated publication of Valley of Bones, Gruber fulfills that genre-bending promise as perhaps no writer since Graham Greene, with a genuinely exhilarating thriller that simultaneously offers a profound, deeply provocative exploration of the nature of faith itself. The setting is Miami. Rookie cop Tito Morales arrives at the Trianon Hotel to investigate a routine disturbance call -- and, to his shock and horror, watches as a wealthy oilman plunges ten stories and impales himself on a nearby fence. Soon Morales is joined by detective Jimmy Paz, famous throughout the city for solving -- or at least providing a plausible solution to -- the so-called Voodoo Murders that left Miami burning months earlier. Together Paz and Morales enter the hotel and discover, in the dead man's room, a most unusual suspect, an otherworldly woman by the name of Emmylou Dideroff. She emerges from a rapturous, prayerlike state and admits that she had a motive for killing the oilman. Ultimately, she says she wants to confess, and asks for a pen and several notebooks in which to convey the details of her confession. What Emmylou writes is nothing like what Paz expects; he enlists psychologist Lorna Wise in an effort to make sense of things that go beyond Emmylou's explanation of the murder: details of childhood abuse, of other crimes committed, of regular communion with saints -- and with the devil. Is she mentally disturbed or playacting in hopes of getting declared unfit for trial' Or does she really believe herself to be an instrument of God' And why is it that so many people -- including Paz's biological father -- are suddenly interested in the contents of these notebooks and in preventing them from becoming public' As Valley of Bones moves toward its startling and dramatic finale, Emmylou's "confessions" lead Jimmy Paz, Lorna Wise, and Tito Morales down a series of unexpected and dangerous turns that puts them in the path of perhaps the most terrifying evil imaginable and forces each of them to confront questions about faith, love, and the possibility of the miraculous."@en
  • "Annotation. The body of a wealthy oilman plunges ten stories from the balcony of a Miami hotel, and is impaled on an iron fence below. In the dead man's room, Jimmy Paz, the famed detective who solved the grisly Voodoo Murders, and Tito Morales, a young cop who witnessed the fall, find a woman on her knees, engaged in intimate conversation with Saint Catherine of Siena. Emmylou Dideroff had a strong motive for murder, and the evidence against her is overwhelming -- but she insists she's innocent of the crime, while freely admitting her guilt in numerous other amoral and unspeakable acts. And the shocking confessions of this complex enigma -- abused victim or vengeful whore, god-touched prophetess or delusional psychopath, demon or saint -- are leading Paz, Morales, and psychologist Lorna Wise into a terrifying dance with the Devil himself."
  • "Investigating the murder of an oil tycoon, detective Jimmy Paz interviews an unlikely suspect in pious young Emmylou Dideroff, whose claim about her ability to commune with saints places her sanity in question."@en
  • "Een detective onderzoekt of een vrouw, die is aangehouden omdat ze is aangetroffen op de plaats waar een Soedanese man is vermoord, er echt iets mee te maken heeft."
  • "A wealthy oilman plunges ten stories to his death and the suspect in his death, Emmylou Dideroff, fills several notebooks with her confessions. The confessions detailing childhood abuse, other crimes committed and communion with saints and with the devil lead rookie cop Tito Morales, detective Jimmy Paz and psychologist Lorna Wise down a series of unexpected and dangerous turns as they try to solve the case."@en

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  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Americké romány"
  • "Detektivní romány"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Roman policier"
  • "Roman psychologique"
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Thrillers (novels)"
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "American fiction"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Detective novels"
  • "Mystery"@en
  • "Thrillery (romány)"

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  • "Dolina kostiju"
  • "Долина костей"
  • "Dolina kosci"
  • "Valley of bones"
  • "Valley of bones"@en
  • "Duivelsritueel"
  • "Údolí kostí"
  • "Dolina kosteĭ"
  • "Valley of the bones"
  • "Das Totenfeld : Roman"
  • "Biḳʻat ha-ʻatsamot"
  • "Les rivages de la nuit"
  • "Les Rivages de la Nuit"
  • "Dolina kości"@pl
  • "Dolina kości"
  • "Hē koilada tōn ostōn"
  • "Valley of bones : a novel"
  • "Valley of bones : a novel"@en
  • "Les rivages de la nuit : roman"

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