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3) Maria M
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A brutal, original graphic novel crime noir from comics legend Gilbert Hernandez (Love and Rockets). Femme fatale Maria M.'s life south of the border is a sordid cacophony of sex, drugs, and power. She emigrates to America in search of a better life, only to find that it takes more than a change of scenery to break the cycle of violence..."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Just a couple of months before his tragic passing in March 2020, cartooning master of the macabre Richard Sala completed his final book--or, actually, his final four books. Poison Flowers and Pandemonium collects all four of these original graphic novellas in one beautiful hardcover worthy of Sala's legacy. First up in Poison Flowers is "House of the Blue Dwarf," a 125-page thriller featuring master criminal the Bloody Cardinal, who leaves a wake...
6) Body double
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Lonely actor Jake Scully house-sits an upscale apartment. He enjoys its view of a sensual neighbor until he accidentally spies her shocking death. But in a labyrinth of erotic deception, nothing is what it seems, including the identity of the femme fatale. To unlock the mystery, Jake must lure the woman who holds the key.
Author
Language
English
Description
Camille Lammenais has grown up in the beauty of the Napa Valley, surrounded by acres of her family's vineyards. Her parents, Christophe and Joy, still deeply in love after two decades of marriage, have built a renowned winery and château modeled after Christophe's ancient family estate in his native Bordeaux. Camille has had a perfect childhood, safe in her parents' love. After graduating from Stanford, she returns to help manage Château Joy, her...
8) Focus
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Nicky is a seasoned master of misdirection who becomes romantically involved with novice con artist Jess. As he's teaching her the tricks of the trade, she gets too close for comfort and he abruptly breaks it off. Three years later, the former flame, now an accomplished femme fatale, shows up in Buenos Aires in the middle of the high stakes race-car circuit. In the midst of Nicky's latest, very dangerous scheme, she throws his plans for a loop, and...
9) Maestra
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
By day, Judith Rashleigh is a put-upon assistant at a prestigious London art house. By night, she's a hostess at one of the capital's notorious champagne bars. Desperate to make something of herself, Judith knows she has to play the game. She's transformed her accent and taught herself about wine and the correct use of a dessert fork, not to mention the art of discretion. She's learned to be a good girl. But when Judith is fired for uncovering a dark...
10) Under the skin
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An existential, experimental science fiction film with erotic overtones that journeys to the heart of what it means to be human in which an alien in the form of a voluptuous young woman prowls the streets of Scotland in search of isolated lonely and unsuspecting men whom she lures into her otherworldly lair, where they are seduced, stripped of their humanity, and never heard from again.
11) Bringing up Baby
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
All the earnest paleontologist wants is an intercostal clavicle to complete his brontosaurus skeleton. What he gets is an out-of-control toboggan ride with a scatterbrained heiress nuts about him (or maybe just nuts).
12) Silken prey
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
At 1:15 a.m, a Minnesota political fixer answers his doorbell. The next thing he knows, he's waking up on the floor of a moving car, lying on a plastic sheet, his body wet with blood. When the car stops, a voice says, "Hey, I think he's breathing," and another voice says, "Yeah? Give me the bat." And that's the last thing he ever knows. Lucas Davenport is investigating another case when the trail leads to the man's disappearance, then--very troublingly--to...
13) Maestra
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
Meet femme fatale Judith Rashleigh. She's a woman who knows what she wants, and exactly how to get it. A smooth confidence woman with a talent for self-invention, she's seen inside the invisible club of the debonair and wealthy, and she knows where she belongs.
Conoce mujer fatal Judith Rashleigh. Ella es una mujer que sabe lo que quiere, y exáctamente cómo conseguirlo. Una mujer de confianza suave con un talento para la auto-invención, que ha...
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