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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
No one to trust No one to trust Iris Johansen The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Final Target, Iris Johansen raises the stakes and the heart rate with this relentless new thriller that follows the harrowing trail of a ruthless killer on… OL115401W
Running from the devil Running from the devil Jamie Freveletti Emma Caldridge, a chemist for a cosmetics company, is en route from Miami to Bogotá when her plane is hijacked and spins out of control into the mountains near the Venezuelan border. Thrown unhurt fr… OL11958513W
Delirium Delirium Laura Restrepo "Aguilar, an unemployed literature professor who has resorted to selling dog food for a living, returns home from a short trip to discover that his wife, Agustina, has gone mad. He doesn't know what … OL15924907W
Los informantes Los informantes Juan Gabriel Vásquez When Gabriel Santoro's biography is scathingly reviewed by his own father, a public intellectual and famous Bogotá rhetorician, Gabriel could not imagine what had pierced his icy exterior to provoke … OL1663451W
First Descent First Descent Pam Withers Montana-born Rex loves nothing more than to take his kayak out on a river, the faster and more powerful the better. When he gets the opportunity to tackle the well-named El Furioso in southwest Colum… OL16794111W
Yeny and the children for peace Yeny and the children for peace Michelle Mulder Yeny's family moved from a village to a city in Colombia hoping to escape violence, only to face kidnappers and bullies. Yeny and her friends decide to face the danger and organize a peace carnival, … OL17850248W
The sound of things falling The sound of things falling Juan Gabriel Vásquez In 2009, Antonio Yammara recalls his relationship years before with Ricardo Laverde, a man with a hidden past who was killed in the days when the drug trade in Colombia was at its height, and examine… OL17874053W
Killpath Killpath Don Pendleton A powerful Colombian cartel goes too far when they torture and kill a DEA agent. Tasked with dismantling their operation and taking out their leader, Mack Bolan heads to Cali with an unlikely ally--a… OL17902938W
Bogota Bogota Alan Grostephan In Bogota, a taut, moving novel set in present-day Colombia, Wilfredo decides to uproot his family from their small town, where his ferry service on the river subjects him to the gruesome errands dem… OL17929430W
Boy kills man Boy kills man Matt Whyman Two thirteen-year-old boys, blood brothers and best friends, get drawn into a dangerous, violent world on the streets of a troubled Columbian city. OL18165159W
The sound of things falling The sound of things falling Juan Gabriel Vásquez No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde than disaffected young Colombian lawyer Antonio Yammara realizes that his new friend has a secret, or rather several secrets. Antonio's fascination with … OL19665499W
Fruit of the drunken tree Fruit of the drunken tree Ingrid Rojas Contreras "When women of color write history, we see the world as we have never seen it before. In Fruit of the Drunken Tree, Ingrid Rojas Contreras honors the lives of girls who witness war. Brava! I was swep… OL19746437W
Feast of the innocents Feast of the innocents Evelio Rosero Diago Doctor Justo Pastor Proceso Lopez, adored by his female patients but despised by his wife and daughters, has a burning ambition: to prove to the world that the myth of Simon Bolivar, El Libertador, i… OL20703013W
El coronel no tiene quien le escriba El coronel no tiene quien le escriba Gabriel García Márquez El coronel no tiene quien le escriba fue escrita por Gabriel García Márquez durante su estancia en París, adonde había llegado como corresponsal de prensa y con la secreta intención de estudiar cine,… OL274509W
Crónica de una muerte anunciada Crónica de una muerte anunciada Gabriel García Márquez Also contained in: - [Collected Novellas](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL274508W) OL274574W
Tales from the Town of Widows Tales from the Town of Widows James Canon In the small Colombian mountain village of Mariquita, a band of guerrillas storms in to protest the country's ruling government. They arrive with propaganda and guns, and when they depart they have f… OL278074W
A king's ransom A king's ransom James Grippando E-book extra: "Kidnapper Leaves Eleven Dead" by James Grippando.A King's Ransom is a race-against-time thriller from the bestselling author of Beyond Suspicion and The Pardon, in which a young lawyer… OL30545W