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Antonio Mercero is a Spanish journalist, writer and professor. The author is well known for being the co-creator —together with Jorge Díaz and Moisés Gómez— of one of the oldest series on Spanish television: Central Hospital. He has also worked on scriptwriting for shows like Pharmacy open (1994-95), and Wolves (2005)
Despite his fame as a screenwriter, Mercero is more recognized in the literary universe for having written works such as the fourth death; The case of the dead Japanese; Inattentive life o The end of man. Likewise, she also writes under the pseudonym Carmen Mola in the company of authors such as Jorge Díaz Cortés and Agustín Martínez.
Synopsis of the five most popular books by Antonio Mercero
the fourth death (2012)
Antonio Mercero debuted in literature with this narrative novel. In her, the author talks about adolescence, the step towards adulthood and those first disappointments that life insists on granting the human being. The story is narrated from the perspective of Leo, a young man about to turn 18, hypersensitive to the injustices of life and the unhappiness of man.
This sensitivity and tenderness of Leo begin to become more palpable when he has to experience four deaths.: one that will take him away from the love of his life; another that will show him the true face of his mother; a third, which will remind him of the cruelty of the world; and a fourth, which will be the most decisive of all, and will change his way of living forever.
Inattentive life (2014)
Inattentive life is a play that talks about the destruction of the family, and how, because of work or simple selfish reasons, the members of a family group are unable to love or understand others. The Vildsvin men own a law firm that is going through a rough patch. His cases include a corrupt councilor and a young woman abused by her parish priest.
They must also defend an elderly millionaire who her nephew wishes to incapacitate in order to keep her money. Nevertheless, These cases are nothing more than small windows that allow the reader to meet Ignacio Vildsvin and his three children, in addition to the three women who accompany them. These ladies suffer from the lovelessness of their men, and yet cling to life alongside them with claws and jaws.
The end of man (2017)
The protagonist of this story is perhaps the first transsexual police officer in the crime novel genre. The plot, inspired by a real event, narrates the strange events around the life of Carlos Luna. On the morning he decides to leave his old self behind to become who he was always meant to be—Sofía Luna—a shocking murder rocks the Homicide Squad.
Apparently, Jon, the son of Julio Senovilla, a prominent writer of historical novels, is found on a swing with an unusual medieval knife embedded in his belly. In the interviews carried out by Sofía Luna and the Homicide Brigade, they all seem suspicious: the head of the family, his young lover, her sister—who was secretly in love with the deceased—the girls' father, Jon's brother, and his assistant.
While the investigations progress Sofia He must overcome -together with his colleague and former lover, Laura- the problems that police work itself entails. Likewise, she has to deal with a world resistant to change, fight to keep his job and try to maintain the stability of his family and the love of his adolescent son.
The case of the dead Japanese women (2018)
This novel It is considered as the sequel to The end of man. After being reinstated to the Homicide Squad following her sex reassignment surgery, Sofía Luna must comply with the obligation to investigate an extraordinary case and mysterious: an unknown assassin chooses Japanese women in the tourist center of Madrid. Who is this person and why is he carrying out these crimes?
All tracks lead to a common goal: organized tourist trips. However, it is not about any type of trips, but rather specific ones: those chosen by asexual people who seek to escape the hypersexualization of big cities. As if the specifics were few, these last characters —the asexual group— love starfish.
The Brigade is joined by a Japanese translator with hidden interests. Also, Sofía Luna receives unexpected news that breaks her calm: his father, whom he has not seen for many years, hmurdered a man in self defense, and she must investigate about it. The traces that she is leaving the case promise revealing details regarding the past, present and future of her family.
High tide (2021)
How does the current society addicted to the internet and governed by the influencers of the moment, and a macabre crime? The Müller sister duo is a success in YouTube thanks to your channel High tide, where, as a blog, they tell anecdotes about their lives. However, in their most recent video they appear locked in a dark basement, while crying heartbreakingly.
The young women, gagged and bound, keep the spectators speechless, not knowing if what they see is part of a show in bad taste, or a cruel reality. Shortly after, the sisters' parents announce their disappearance, and the investigation is awarded to a peculiar couple: Darío Mur, a divorced man and a fan of academic music, and Nieves González, a recurring member of internet dating.
Investigators see how a video is broadcast showing the premature death of Martina Müller, one of the YouTuber sisters. It is in that context where Darío Mur will have to face the world of internet celebrities, to which his daughter is addicted, which has made her a conflictive and violent young woman.
About the author, Antonio Mercero Santos
Antonio Mercero
Antonio Mercero Santos was born in 1969, in Madrid, Spain. He is the son of the famous filmmaker Antonio Mercero, from whom he inherited his name and his love for cinema. This Spanish writer graduated in journalism from the Faculty of Information Sciences in 1992; Since then, she has worked at various news networks such as The Gazette o New York Business.
In addition to creating scripts for television series, such as MIR ((2007-2008) or Run over (2006), in 2021, Mercero was winner of Planet Award for his historical novel The beast, which he wrote under the collective pseudonym carmen mola, also attributed to the writers Jorge Díaz, and Agustín Martínez.