The first month of the year ends and I bring 5 Editorial news in February. They are from established authors, such as Sarah Lark or Robert Bryndza, and debutants like Kerry Maniscalco. The second title of Ana Ballabriga and David Zaplana, a couple that debuted very well. And I particularly highlight the launch, after waiting a long time, of the first novel by my colleague and also a fellow editor of this famous blog, Ana Lena Rivera, which publishes its winning title Torrente Ballester Award 2017.
A bit of everything
They are novelties of literature youthful, romantic and black. And it is remarkable that, in all, there is a protagonist in the form of a nineteenth-century adolescent researcher, an adventurer pursuing her dream of being a marine biologist, and three detectives with very different characters. Let's see.
Hunting for Jack the Ripper - Kerri Maniscalco
Debut of North American author Kerri Maniscalco with this novel by mystery and horror set in Victorian London. With great success and being a # 1 best seller on the list of the New York Times, a good reception is also expected here.
Seventeen-year-old Audrey Rose Wadsworth is the daughter of a lord and leads a life of wealth and privilege. But between tea parties and silk dresses she also has a forbidden secret life. And it is that he sneaks out frequently to study forensic medicine in his uncle's lab. This hobby will take her to investigate mysterious serial murders.
This is also the start of a saga that will follow the new cases that the protagonist investigates related to the dark and the supernatural.
The year of the dolphins - Sarah Lark
New novel by the successful author of in the White Cloud Country. This time he proposes us to follow in the footsteps of Laura, a mother still young, who wants to fulfill her dream of become a marine biologist. For this reason, he does not hesitate to travel from Germany to the country of the white cloud to work as a guide in a tourist company specialized in cruises to spot whales and dolphins.
What the dead are silent - Ana Lena Rivera
Ana Lena Rivera, Asturian by birth and Madrid by adoption, won the Torrente Ballester Award in 2017 with this novel that sees the light at the beginning of February. The stars Grace Saint Sebastian, a new name that, surely, will have to be taken into account in the wave of good female researchers of the current literary scene.
San Sebastián investigates the case of Don Marcelo Pravia, an old man of one hundred and twelve years of age, ex-Franco military, who receives a substantial retirement pension. Don Marcelo has not been treated by any doctor in the last three decades and for a few years he has switched to internet banking. So everything points to someone wearing those thirty years receiving their pension improperly and knows how to hide good.
During the investigation it also happens that a neighbor of Gracia's mother throws herself into the yard from the window of his sixth-floor kitchen. And she has a note pinned to her skirt, which is addressed to the doorman.
Grace has also returned to her hometown on the shores of the Cantabrian Sea, fleeing her old life as a financial executive in New York and after Martin's death, his three-year-old son. And it will be wrapped squarely in a intriguing family history full of secrets.
I'm rose black - Ana Ballabriga and David Zaplana
At the beginning of February the new novel by this Cartagena couple also goes on sale. won the third Independent Authors Literary Contest in Spanish of Amazon with No true scottish. Now they launch a new title that mixes mystery, humor and love, and has a private detective as the protagonist. This is the first book in a series that they hope readers will like.
Rose Black has everything you think you could want: a stable, well-paying job as abogada in a law firm in Ibiza, a italian boyfriend great and three unconditional friends and funny. However, when he turns 40, he realizes that his life seems to have peaked.
The next day a wealthy client who suspects her husband is cheating on her go to his firm. Rose, who had fantasized about being an investigator since her boyfriend Alex mysteriously disappeared at age 20, decides to start his own investigations. But don't know what the case is going to be much more dangerous About what I thought. However, you will have the help of a funny hustler from Murcia, more accustomed than she to the tricks and the street.
At the same time Rose will meet the policeman in charge of the investigation of Alex's disappearance: Mark Wolf. A man who makes her uncomfortable and attracts her in equal measure.
Dark waters -Robert Bryndza
And finally we have the third book from the series starring the detective Erika foster, from the best-selling English author with I'll see you under the ice y A shadow in the dark.
This time Detective Erika Foster receives a tip that the key to solving an important case of narcotics is hidden in a abandoned quarry on the outskirts of London, so he orders her to be searched. There, among the thick mud, they find a drug stash, but also what appears to be the skeleton of a little boy.
The remains are identified as those of Jessica Collins, age seven, the missing girl who made all the headlines twenty-six years ago. As Erika tries to piece together the new evidence with the old, she also he inquires about the Collins family past and gets in touch with the main detective of the case at that time, Amanda Baker, a woman tormented by the failure of not having found the girl at the time. But there is someone who keeps terrible secrets, does not want the case to be solved and that he will do everything possible to prevent Erika from discovering the truth.