carnivals. Costumes, masks, parades, parties, debauchery, fun ... Change your skin and lose your mind for a few days. And between parties and murga you can also read, I say. There you go 7 literary proposals. Meta, various loves, humor and crimes. Anything goes at Carnival.
The Carnival - Julio Caro Baroja
In this book, Caro Baroja makes almost a doctoral thesis, which collects abundant documentation on this festival, not only in very different places in Spain, but also in ancient times. An essential part of the work is the classical study on Carnival proper in which it explores its relationships with ancient pagan cults. But it does establish well what it has with the implantation of Christianity and the season of Lent.
Carnival - Julia Ortega
Un love triangle can not be missing these days. This is what the writer Julia Ortega proposes in this story, which begins one day in 1977, when in Navarra and hanging from a tree appears the corpse of a young girl who has committed suicide. Twenty years later Izaskun and Raúl, two young people who grew up together in the same town without knowing that they are brothers they separate abruptly.
Raúl goes to Barcelona and begins a new life alongside Inés and Juanjo, two libertine twins who will put his principles to the test. At a carnival party Raul meet two beautiful women, Irene and Azucena, and attraction is inevitable.
Plinio (Early novels) - Francisco García Pavón
Plinio, the infallible chief of the Tomelloso Municipal Guard, it never fails, neither at Carnival nor at any time of the year. These first novels set during the dictatorship of Cousin of Rivera They comprise three titles: The empty cars, where we have a multiple murderer who kills his victims with a brutal knife. The Carnival, which deals with a strange murder that has behind a plot where ambition and love passion are mixed. Y The pool of blood, where there is a crime that begins without the body of the crime appearing, and its solution will be hidden around Andrés el Ciego's brothel.
Midnight carnival - Shirlee Busbee
And how not to read a romantic to use… Set in 1812, in Louisiana, we have this story of a stormy love between Melissa seymour, a proud and independent young woman, and Dominic slade, a hopelessly seductive man. As soon as they met, a verbal duel ensued between them. Both deny their feelings with a dangerous crossing of words. But then the war between the United States and Great Britain and around him political intrigues and betrayals reign. And in these circumstances the more turbulent passions they also explode.
I fell in love with you because of the carnivals - Fernando Macías
With a successful antecedent such as his first novel, The murderer of comparsistas, this writer Cadiz Carnival is in his blood. In this story there is a heartbroken girl, travel or with a boy able to heal wounds with his voice. And the two are in Cádiz. But what destiny seems to want to separate, music will try to unite.
Carnival Harbinger - Liliana Bodoc
Nothing better to honor this Argentine writer and poet, who died suddenly a few days ago, than read one of his books. For example, this Carnival omen, a tragic novel that reflects on the miseries of human existence. Set during the carnivals in the San Pedro neighborhood, it tells the story of Sabino colque, a young man born in Bolivia, who emigrates to Buenos Aires, to improve his life. Another of the characters is Ángela, a girl who suffers from anorexia and is abused by her boyfriend Renzo. Sabino and Ángela will meet in a destination already marked.
The lord of carnival - Craig Russell
Essential take a walk around Colonia Carnival in this fourth book in the series of inspector fabelby Craig Russell. For many it is the best of the saga and without a doubt it is very entertaining. The very correct half-German half-Scottish commissioner and his team will have to find the Lord of Carnival, bloodthirsty serial killer that during the last three years he has killed his victims during the famous festivals.
On the other hand, Mary Klee, Fabel's assistant, suffers an anxiety attack because of her traumatic past experiences and is on indefinite leave. But, unbeknownst to anyone, he also decides to travel to Cologne to hunt down an even more dangerous murderer than the previous one. One with whom you have outstanding accounts.
Finally, a third character, Taras Buslenko —Special forces commander — is also in town choosing members of his unit for a covert operation. He wants to end the life of a criminal of legendary cruelty, a compatriot exiled in Germany. His orders are not to let anything or anyone get in the way of his mission.