Barcelona: Scene of the cases of Petra Delicado.
Petra Delicado is the first detective of the black genre in Castilian. Alicia Giménez-Barlett has gifted us with eleven exceptional stories starring Inspector Delicado and we hope the saga continues.
Deputy Inspector Fermín Garzón shares cases with her: Tacky, football fan, macho, a little redneck and a good person. They are yin and yang: She, yang, pure force; he, the yin, calm and good intentions.
Who is Petra Delicado?
Petra Delicado is in her forties when the series begins, turns fifty in My Dear Serial Killer, the last installment in 2017. She studied law, practiced, got bored and became Inspector of the National Police Corps in Barcelona.
Three divorces, she lives alone for much of the series, although, in the end she gives up and marries a man with three children. She does not have or wants to have children, but ends up being a stepmother and establishes a very special relationship with his stepchildren.
It is easy to find Petra and Fermín in the usual bars.
Petra Delicado: Quite a Character.
Petra begins her police career looking for her place in the police from Spain in the mid-XNUMXs, when things were difficult for women entering the Corps.
Drink chinchón, whiskey, gin and tonic, cava wine or beer and distrust those who don't drink.
She is tough and sensitive, honoring her name chosen with all the intention of her creator (Petra, de Piedra, Delicado). Competent and fighting police: fight, don't give up, he never gets down and at the same time is idealistic and compassionate, maybe a little insecure, hence her sharp irony, Why who is not insecure deep down?
Petra does not shut up, and says tacos, but the force does not go through her mouth. She forces a witness to undress just to intimidate him, accuses her superiors of machismo when they try to remove her from the case, attacks her subordinate Garzón for being soft.
Feminist and defender of her independence, He shares a classic trait of the cops of the genre: he hates politicking and is annoyed by his superiors. At times, it might be thought that he would make great friends with Commissioner Brunetti, by Donna León, or with Commissioner Dupin by Jean-Luc Bannalec, exiled to Brittany for inconvenience, for being annoying to the Parisian police leadership.
Petra Delicado: The First Detective on Television
Played by Ana Belén, accompanied by Santiago Segura in the role of Fermín Garzón, they had thirteen episodes in 1999. The adaptation was not to the liking of the authorIn his own words, “They took away his sense of humor. Ana Belén is tragic. But I'm not complaining. You charge and you shut up. If you want loyalty, buy yourself a dog. " Surely if he returns, with the help of the new series producers, Petra will record several seasons.