Bøger af Richard Blaine

In late summer of 1948, L.A. private detective Michael Garrett is hired to travel to El Paso, Texas, to represent his client at an auction. At stake is a jade statuette believed to be of great historical value but said to come with an Aztec curse four centuries old. Willis Canton Ordway fears the curse, but wants the statuette anyway. And he ends up on a hotel bed with his throat slit. Standing over the bloody body is a cool-looking blonde with hard eyes. Garrett wants to believe she is innocent, and yet he notes, "With blondes, you can't ever be sure."

30 Days is the collected journal of one man who is trying to look within himself, with depth and shallowness in equal measure, to discover if he's ready for the relationship he spent a decade trying to recapture. When, after reconnecting months earlier, it's announced that "the one that got away" is coming back, Richard realizes he has the chance he's dreamed of, if he can avoid the mistakes that ruined things the first time. As the waiting becomes a ticking clock, one defined by longing and anticipation and fear, Richard Blaine tries to look inward and figure out exactly where things went wrong last time, how they can go differently this time, and most importantly, whether he knows well enough who he is to see how to become who he wants to be. These are the pages written over the 30 days of waiting, the thoughts, sometimes painfully poignant and other times rambling playful, of a man who is both trapped in joyous anticipation and devastating self doubt in equal, if somewhat veiled, measure. As he examines his own ideas and beliefs he begins to piece together a better understanding of what brought him to this point, and looks for ways that he can change his own story. With an honesty of a man lost with himself, this work follows this actual journey of discovery and doubt that led one man to ask if he has, or even can, change enough to become the man and partner than she needs, and that he'd failed to be a decade earlier, all the while wondering if he'll even get the chance to find out. This is the actual journal of thirty days of one man waiting to find out his fate.

El amor no correspondido de Ernesto por su compañera Teresa se verá entremezclado con la investigación de un manuscrito por parte de un investigador universitario de la universidad de Montanilla del Arlanzón. La narración saltará del intimísimo más propio de Proust al de la narración de aventuras, pasando por una abundancia casi dickensiana de personajes que brotan de sus paginas, pasando por una sucesión de sorpresas y momentos trepidantes llenos de suspense."Te deseo un día de lluvia" junto con su continuación "Al otro lado de la bruma" es una obra conmovedora que hace reflexionar sobre la condición humana, la búsqueda de la verdad y el amor. Una autentica reflexión sobre lo que constituye la realidad, el significado personal de la existencia y la unión del tiempo pasado con el presente.Las referencias culturales que abundan en la obra se entrecruzan con una simbología que el lector va encontrando a su paso, así como el lirismo y la melancolía que constantemente brotan de la lluvia, de la niebla y el viento que rodean a un Burgos paralelo fruto de la mente del autor que ha querido cristalizar en esta ciudad muchas de las claves literarias y románticas de su juventud. El sorprendente final, aunque en cierto modo esperado, no deja indiferente y llena de resonancia toda la obra.Lejos esta de la afirmación de verdades rotundas, permanecemos en el terreno de la incertidumbre romántica donde nada es lo que parece.Una lectura amena y ligera que se lee como un cuento bajo la lluvia.