May arrives loaded with new arrivals publishers of all genres and tastes. This is a selection of 6 titles signed by national authors and an international one. Are Bernard minier, Lawrence Silva, Guillermo Galvan, Benedict Elm, Bárbara Gil y Alba Carballal. We take a look.
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Lucia - Bernard Minier
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Minier is one of the great black novel authors in France, creator of the commander Martin Serváz. Now comes this title set in Salamanca, where six college criminology students discover the existence of a mysterious homicidal, aided by a computer program to cross police data. This murderer, who has been hidden for 30 years, has as modus operandi the staging of renaissance compositions gluing the bodies of their victims.
At the same time we have the young Lieutenant Lucia Guerrero, Member of the UCO of the Civil Guard, who has just discovered his crucified companion and glued on a hill on the outskirts of Madrid. The terrible crime will put her in contact with Salomon Borges with which he will tour Salamanca, Segovia and the Huesca Pyrenees in search of the murderer.
The Widows Club - Guillermo Galván
May 10
Back Carlos lombardi, the post-war policeman created by Guillermo Galván, who stars in this his fourth novel already. Set in May of 1943, and due to adverse labor circumstances, Lombardi joined the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the now new General Police Corps.
Your first job will be to investigate the disappearance of four Francoist soldiers in the battle of belchitealmost six years ago. But what at first seems to point to failure due to the very probable death of the four men changes its tone when investigating their widows. And all in the midst of Lombardi's complicated relations with the political police due to his background. But he will have the helps of three regular characters who accompany him in the series: the former assault guard Andres Torralba, the office assistant Alicia Quiros and the young journalist Ignacio Mora.
Spike —Lorenzo Silva
May 10
With this title, Lorenzo Silva enters the world of secret agents, its wars and miseries and how its past can knock on the door again to return ghosts and unexpected problems. That is what happens to the protagonist of this novel who one day participated in the dirty state war, convinced of the cause that was the defense of a democratic society and the innocent victims against terrorist violence.
Now the time has passed, not everything worked out and the justification is far away, while he can no longer leave the dark side. Then he receives a cryptic message from a friend which he needs it to keep his daughter out of danger that runs. The quest will take you back to those days and shadows gone by.
Happy days - Benito Olmo
May 11
Benito Olmo reaped enormous success with his novels starring the policeman Manuel Bianquette. Then he introduced us to Mascarell, a very particular and established detective in Frankfurt, riding a The big red. And now comes this second title, also starring him and Ayla, the uprooted immigrant teenager whom he helped in the first story.
In this we find Ayla who, at sixteen years old, is immigrant, make a living boxing and takes care of his father who is sick with Alzheimer's. The appearance of someone from his past He will force her into a risky game of favors, debts and deceit. But he will also meet her again with Mascarell, who has received a most peculiar commission. In short, a story with the background of the clandestine fights and the networks of exploitation of beggars.
you will dance on my grave – Alba Carballal
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Alba Carballal surprised the public and critics in 2019 with her debut novel titled Three ways to induce a coma. Now he presents this second, more ambitious one, which reviews the recent history of Galicia and part of the countercultural history of an entire country —the birth of environmentalism, the “movida vigo” or the Bakalao route in Valencia in the nineties— through three characters from a town in the Rías Altas, to whom the crisis of chapapote it will also mark lives that already had their own shadows.
The legend of the volcano — Bárbara Gil
May 25
We end with another author who publishes her second novel after Water lilies that shine in sad waters. In it he takes us to Costa Rica of the end of 1883 and introduces us to Aitana Ugarte, a young woman from Bilbao who disembarks in that country to get married for arranged marriage with a landowner much older than her and owner of a coffee plantation located on the slopes of a volcano about which a mysterious legend is told.
When he arrives at the hacienda he finds a devastated land, Its husband newly passed away and hijo of this, a man alcoholic, about to lose the farm due to gambling debts. So Aitana will have to face many obstacles to seize his inheritance, establish himself and forge his own destiny.