Selection of editorial news for April

Arrives April, the month of books and spring almost par excellence. And as usual they arrive editorial novelties. Impossible to review all or as many as they are, so this goes selection of 6 titles of different tone and authors of various nationalities. One pair with a rehearsal touch, one historic and three black cut.

Ethics for investors - Petros Markaris

Winners will be announced in March

It has just come out, but this new case of the fireproof is included in the month Costas Jaritos, who walks in an Athens full of unscrupulous investors. Although he leads a quiet life with his wife, Jaritos is going to have to take charge of a possible murder case, since the corpse of a wealthy Saudi that he had invested a fortune in land to build a luxury hotel complex.

Victor Ros and the secrets of overseas - Jerónimo Tristante

April 1

The inspector returns Victor Ros in this novel set in the last years of the Cuba colonial.

We are in the Madrid of 1885 when Ros is called by María Fuster, the wife of Martin Roberts, an old friend of the policeman who now works for the Spanish secret service and who it has disappeared without a trace. Ros will discover that this disappearance has to do with Giselda Albertos, an attractive Cuban variety artist. So Ros will travel to Havana, where he will meet international spies, double agents, American businessmen, and Spanish soldiers.

The age of walnuts. Children in the Roman Empire - José María Sánchez Galera

April 5

An interesting study about childhood in the Roman Empire. With the idea of ​​answering questions about the children's toys and games Or, for example, what they used to do with a handful of walnuts. He also talks to us about whether they helped their parents at work or what they learned at school. All supported by samples of la literature, art and archeology, to find out if the children of classical antiquity and those of today were so different or similar.

Silenced - Karin Slaughter

April 7

Karin Slaughter presents this new novel starring Will trent, who is investigating the murder of a prisoner during a riot in a jail. Another of the prisoners tells him that he is innocent of the attack of which he was always the main suspect. He insists that it was all organized by a corrupt police team, led by Jeffrey Tolliver, and that the real culprit remains at large: a serial killer who has targeted women for years. The convict wants to testify, but to do so, Will must reopen a case in which he will have to implicate a decorated officer.

In addition, Trent will have to enlist the help of a person whom he does not want to involve either: the Coroner Sara Linton, his girlfriend and Tolliver's widow.

Land of clans - Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish

April 14

With the subtitle of Whisky, wars and a Scottish adventure like no other and having two of the stars of the series as signatories Outlander, we are clear about what we find on this road trip across Scotland.

En motor home, the two actors and friends embark on an adventure to explore their country. They will also take us by boat, kayak, bicycle and motorcycle through dream landscapes and through the History and culture. And at the same time they reflect on their careers in film and theater and their love for their homeland.

For fans of the hit series.

The final journey - José Calvo Poyato

April 14

I finish the review with this novel by the historian and writer José Calvo Poyato. It's about the continuation of The infinite route, which reviews the figure of Juan Sebastian Elcano, which in 1522 received a coat of arms with the motto "Primus circumdedisti me" from the hands of Carlos I, who granted it to him after carrying out the first round the world. Having become one of the kingdom's most respected sailors, he was also rewarded with a generous pension, but he was not going to stay on land so easily.


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