LIBROS DEL AUTOR: john scherber

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  • Death in The Third Act
    John Scherber
    DEATH IN THE THIRD ACTA young actress is murdered onstage on opening night of a new play. There’s no need to call the Paul Zacher Agency––they’re all sitting in the front row. But is witnessing the shooting going to be any help in solving this crime? The conflict between reality and theater is never so tense as in this, the nineteenth Paul Zacher mystery.   ...
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    22,37 €

  • Twilight at Tikal
    John Scherber
    A call for help on a missing person case brings the Paul Zacher Agency down to the untamed jungles of Guatemala. Is it a kidnapping? And what is the true story behind a missing jade burial mask? Because even among the pyramids of the ancient tropical Mayan city of Tikal, nothing is as it seems. Who is more dangerous, old friends or new enemies in this, the 18th book in the Paul...
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  • Noble Rot
    John Scherber
    When a prominent Northern California winery family comes to San Miguel to check out additional properties, a disturbing conflict is already running deep beneath the surface.  As they rent an upscale mansion for a month’s stay, the head of the family is murdered on a stone staircase worthy of a coronation procession. With five family members and nine staff people in the house, t...
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    21,07 €

  • THE JERICHO JOURNALS
    John E. Scherber
    THE JERICHO JOURNALS The eccentric San Miguel painter, Edward Jericho, is known for his unannounced absences, but usually he cleans his brushes before he leaves. It would be so like him to be off in search of one of the great lost artifacts of western culture. He is, after all, an eccentric collector with some means at his disposal. Eventually the sinister tone of his presen...
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  • Lost in Chiapas
    John Scherber
    LOST IN CHIAPAS A young Minnesota woman travels to the extremes of southern México in search of a cult to join. High in the cloud forest of the rebellious state of Chiapas, she is surrounded by the Zapatistas in their autonomous zones, an area abandoned by the Mexican government. She becomes an exile in the misty highlands without Internet, phone, or electricity. Terrified by...
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    22,93 €

  • Beyond Terrorism
    John Scherber
    BEYOND TERRORISM: SURVIVALThe Next ISIS Plot Find out what’s next for the ISIS army of terror in this fictional account of what could be the next ISIS plot. Has the attack in San Bernardino left you wondering what could be the next round? In a bioterror epidemic, the genetically engineered plague is invisible. Our borders are open, metal detectors are useless, even as ISIS, th...
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    22,02 €

  • Uneasy Rider
    John Scherber
    UNEASY RIDERRunning neck and neck with spirited horses, passionate women, grandiose ranches and outsize egos, the Paul Zacher Agency takes on a killer in the San Miguel equestrian community. Nothing is quite the way it seems as they race for a solution. Coming in second is not a survivable option in this, the fourteenth mystery in the Murder in México Series. ...
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    22,26 €

  • Living in San Miguel
    John Scherber
    Thinking about living in Mexico? Perhaps you've heard it's cheaper, warmer, and the culture is rich. Places like San Miguel de Allende have support communities of expatriates (about 8,000) to make you feel at home. But this is a big change. Thinking about it can keep you awake nights. You ask yourself: *How do other people make this work? *How do I avoid making a mistake?...
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    23,07 €

  • Into the Heart of Mexico
    John Scherber
    INTO THE HEART OF MEXICO: EXPATRIATES FIND THEMSELVES OFF THE BEATEN PATHFor those who are thinking to retire in Mexico, the expatriate colonies in San Miguel de Allende and Lake Chapala are well known. For many Americans and Canadians coming south of the border to simply live or start a business abroad, the ability to tread a well-worn path is reassuring. Other folks who know ...
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    22,36 €

  • A Writer's Notebook
    John E. Scherber
    A WRITER'S NOTEBOOK: Everything I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Starting Out. Learning to write well is a solitary and often frustrating task, but help is on the way. Here is the distilled experience of 50 years of writing (and writer's block) that covers the following in detail, as well as 21 other topics: Character Plot Setting Dialog Point of View Voice & ...
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    22,88 €

  • Twenty Centavos
    John E Scherber
    Twenty CentavosDoes an artist really see things differently?Painter Paul Zacher, preparing for a gallery show in the Yucatan, is unwillingly drawn into amurder investigation in his home town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. A prominent antiquesdealer has been shot in the head, and a twenty centavo coin found in his mouth. Zacher draws onthe help and expertise of his Mexican gi...
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    22,26 €

  • The Book Doctor
    John Scherber
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    22,28 €

  • The Theft of the Virgin
    John Scherber
    THE THEFT OF THE VIRGINWhen Paul Zacher finds a genuine old master’s painting hanging in an exhibit of great fakes, it can only mean one thing: the fake must be hanging in place of the real one he’s seeing. Is this a new way of transporting stolen masterworks? And who was skilled enough to paint that copy?This ninth of the San Miguel mysteries puts Paul on the trail of a world-...
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    22,47 €

  • The Fifth Codex
    John E Scherber
    The Fifth CodexIt’s a routine job for painter Paul Zacher, now getting a reputation for his abilities as a detective. Simply facilitate the authentication and transfer of what could be a genuine Mayan book (codex) from the 1500s, of which only four others are known.But when the book’s inflammatory message proves to be at the core of a three-way struggle among the Mexican govern...
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    22,26 €

  • San Miguel de Allende
    John Scherber
    SAN MIGUEL de ALLENDE: A PLACE IN THE HEARTExpatriates Find Themselves Living in MexicoWhat if you could reinvent yourself at any age?You don’t have to go back to school, and it doesn’t require a religious conversion. Many people--hundreds of thousands--have used nothing more than geography and an open mind to bring it off.What do the terms Living Abroad, Living in Mexico, and ...
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    21,00 €

  • The Devil’s Workshop
    John Scherber
    THE DEVIL’S WORKSHOPAn investment advisor falls 27 floors to his death in St. Paul. An auxiliary bishop is strangled in Houston. An art gallery owner dies in Santa Fe in the middle of the night.Their only link is an obscure painter living underground in Mexico, pulling the levers of a plan of revenge that goes back to the 1530s.Homicide detective Ken Abrams and mystery writer R...
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    21,96 €

  • Brushwork
    John E. Scherber / John EScherber
    BRUSHWORKWhat looks like a routine portrait commission for a flamboyant former vice president of the United States quickly turns to disaster when he is murdered after only one session. The artist turned detective, Paul Zacher, becomes intrigued by the reason for his presence in San Miguel, but his curiosity turns to desperation when accumulating evidence indicates that Zacher h...
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    22,08 €