Begins March and we have editorial novelties like every month. This is a selection of 6 titles among which I highlight those of national authors such as Victor of the Tree, Ana Lena Rivera, Benito Olmo, Javier Cercas and Javier Marías, and one international, the Swedish Niklas Natt och Dag.
Independence - Javier Cercas
Winners will be announced in March
Fences brings back to Melchor Marin and also returns it to Barcelona, where you will have to research a blackmail case with a sex video to the mayor of the city. Marín continues to regret not having found his mother's murderers, but so is his sense of justice and his moral integrity. So he will enter those circles of power where cynicism, ambition and corruption reign.
1794 - Niklas Natt och Dag
Winners will be announced in March
The second part of the trilogy with black tints that started with 1793, considered the Best Book of the Year in Sweden last year. It was highly acclaimed by critics and readers. Now this blue-blooded Nordic author returns with a new plot of deceptions, revenge and crimes with the background of Stockholm from the time of the French Revolution. They star in it again Mickel cardell, the rough war veteran that he now accompanies Emil winge, little brother of Cecil Winge.
The dead can't swim - Ana Lena Rivera
Winners will be announced in March
A Ana Lena Rivera we know her well around here, apart from personally as is my case. And now he presents the third case of Grace Saint Sebastian, the protagonist of his novels What the dead are silent y A murderer in your shadow. In this Grace is incorporated as external investigator for the police and will collaborate with the curator's team Rafa miralles.
They will have to investigate InverOriental, an international real estate investment company, which is suspected of having carried out a pyramid scheme. The case becomes very popular when on the San Lorenzo beach in Gijón they find the CFO arm and main suspect of the fraud. But it is that shortly after the mutilated body appears and with signs of torture.
At the same time Grace also tries redo your personal life, but her new relationship suffers when her ex-husband returns from New York.
Father's son - Victor of the Tree
Winners will be announced in March
Víctor del Árbol returns with this new title whose protagonist is Diego Martín, a man who has made himself and who, at the same time, comes from the generation of the sixties that jumped from rural to industrial Spain. He has also renounced those origins, although he feels unable to free himself from them, the shadow of his father and the confrontation between his family and the Patriota family.
Diego meets Martin Pearce, a nurse who takes care of his sister Liria, admitted to a psychiatric center. Martin seems like a sensitive boy, but he hides another face that Diego will discover in the worst possible way and that will also bring out his worst side.
Thomas Nevinson - Javier Marías
Winners will be announced in March
The new novel by Javier Marías takes us to 1997 and now focuses on Thomas Nevinson, the Berta Isla's husband, which returns to Secret services after being away. He is proposed to go to a northwestern city to identify a person, half Spanish and half Northern Irish, who participated in attacks by the IRA and ETA ten years ago.
The Big Red - Benito Olmo
Winners will be announced in March
Author of The turtle maneuver, of which a film adaptation is being made, and The Sunflower Tragedy, here he introduces us to Detective Mascarell, who is used to moving through the red light district, the narcoslas and the worst slums of Frankfurt. One day he will be forced to take on a very strange and too well paid case.
On the way he meets Aylaa teenager who wants to find out the truth after the death of his brother and clarify the issues in which he was involved before dying. Together they will put themselves in the crosshairs of Great Red, an organization in the shadows who have no regard for those who interfere in their business.