Many new arrivals that are published in March and, since it is not possible to cover them all, you always have to make a selection. These are the six titles selected from national authors, mainly, and one international. They are names as important as those of Eva G.ª Sáenz de Urturi, with a new novel in his Kraken series, Paco Gomez Notary: Jo Nesbo, which presents the 13th title of his Harry Hole series. And I also highlight three tone Historical such as Olga Romay, Angelica Morales y Oscar Soto Colas.
The house of broken threads — Angelica Morales
Winners will be announced in March
At the end of January it is interview with Angelica Morales, he was talking to us about this new novel that is being published now.
Set in the Second World Wartells us the story of Otti Berger, a young Hungarian from a wealthy Jewish family, who wants to study textile design in the Bauhaus. She suffers from deafness due to an accident in her childhood, but she manages to stand out for her great creativity and eagerness to experiment and she becomes one of her best students.
Then arrives Mercè Ribó, heiress of an important weaving factory who intends to succeed his father despite being a woman. Both will become friends forever despite going through more than difficult times. Be Penelope, Mercè's great-granddaughter, who will discover this story and also a mysterious family past.
narco floor — Paco Gomez Escribano
Winners will be announced in March
Gómez Escribano takes us back to his private black, cañí and castizo universe with a rosary of characters each more particular that will coincide in the common fight with some neighbors for the eviction of some camels in the building where they have set up a drug store. we have the pirri, who spends most of his time in Julito's bar, where the Pearl with his buddy the Spider, as well as the Scissors, who lost his friends in the last "job"; either Carmen, a false pythoness.
And those neighbors, who have had enough of asking the Police for help, turn to Perla to see if they can get rid of those dealers. So he, the Spider, the Pirri and the Scissors decide to intervene without knowing the completely unknown paths for those who are going to get in.
venetian red — Oscar Soto Colas
Winners will be announced in March
Historical novel set in the Valladolid of 1620. so we know Martin de Castro, a painter of saints whose wife died giving birth to their daughter Juana, a girl who soon demonstrates a great talent for the painting. A few years later, when Juana is already a teenager, her father is seduced by an intriguing woman who ends up becoming her stepmother and she begins an intense relationship with Francisco Peña, her father's best apprentice.
From there the story will take us from Venice a Roma, Through the Madrid of the Habsburgs, and Juana will get to know the artistic environment of her time and historical figures such as Velázquez or Felipe IV.
The rise of Pericles —Olga Romay
Winners will be announced in March
This also historical novel that presents us, or recovers, the figure of one of the most important men of the ancient world How was the Athenian Pericles. Thus we know a childhood marked by the exile of his father and the discredit of his maternal family, which they accused of treason. Afterwards he spent his youth in the exile while the persians they smashed his polis, and when he returned to Athens, he found the city razed to the ground. In addition to the problems with the Persians, there was also always tension with their neighbors from Sparta.
When he joined the Democratic party, began to change his luck of position and, furthermore, also his social relationships with characters of the height of Aeschylus and Sophocles, the philosophers Anaxagoras and Socrates and the artists Phidias and Damon. And of course we know your love relationships.
Eclipse — Jo Nesbo
Winners will be announced in March
Four years after the publication of Knife and the shock that he left in the legions of readers of Jo Nesbø reaches the 13th novel starring Harry hole, his most followed, admired and loved character. We meet him again in Los Angeles, where it seems that he has been carried away definitely by alcohol. But on his way he crosses Lucille, a veteran film actress who, in exchange for his protection, offers him a roof.
At the same time, in Oslo, a girl who had been looking for days has turned up dead, after being at a party organized by Markus Roed, a real estate magnate, and there is another also related to him whose whereabouts are unknown. Røed, advised by his lawyer, decides to clear his name and hire Harry as private investigator, which he accepts to get his benefactor and himself out of a very serious mess. But he will only have ten days to return to Norway and solve the case. The term is fulfilled the same day that there will be a blood moon eclipse (original title) in Oslo.
in a personal capacityI will only say that, as always, Nesbo does not disappoint. And his mastery of crafting intense plots full of twists and turns is still intact.
The angel of the city —Eva Garcia Saenz de Urturi
Winners will be announced in March
Once again we have the city of Venice as the setting for the new mystery that the Inspector Kraken.
After fire of a palazzo where a meeting of the League of Antiquarian Booksellers is held, the bodies of the guests, all known to Kraken, do not appear among the rubble. It is suspected that his mother, Ithaca, was involved in another fire that happened in identical circumstances years ago.
While in Vitoria, Inspector Estíbaliz Investigate a case that may hold the keys to the robbery that ended the life of Kraken's father.