These news for september What we bring is intended to be a selection among the many titles that are launched with the approach of autumn and the return to routine after summer. With a little bit of everything, we highlight the new names like Stephen King, María Oruña, Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Ana B. Nieto, José Ángel Mañas and Kiran Millwood, who sign stories of all genres.
News for September
The final problem — Arturo Pérez-Reverte
September 5
We start this review with the new Pérez-Reverte, a Homage to the figure of Sherlock Holmes with a clear cinematographic reference both in one of its characters and in the treatment of the plot, which is also reminiscent of those of Agatha Christie and her crimes and enigmas of locked room.
Set in June 1960, we are on the idyllic island of utakos, in front of Corfu, where a storm keeps isolated nine guests staying at the small local hotel. There she appears dead in the beach pavilion Edith Mander, an English tourist. And what at first seems like a suicide soon reveals clues that she only seems to see. Hopalong Basil, fading actor who once played the most famous detective of all time on the screen. other characters are Ernest Hemingway, a French aristocrat, a Soviet spy, a Spanish journalist, an English couple and two hotel employees.
Berenguela — Jose Angel Manas
September 6
Historical novel that recovers the figure of Berenguela the Great, daughter of Alfonso VIII, winner of Las Navas de Tolosa, and mother of Ferdinand III the Saint, who was queen of Castile for a single day before abdicating there. But she was also the one who achieved the definitive union of Castilla y León. In short, the most important queen after Isabel la Católica who, however, is a great unknown. José Ángel Mañas wants to clear up his enigmas and tell his story in this title that closes his trilogy on the Reconquest after Pelayo! y Fernan Gonzalez!
The Dancing Tree — Kiran Millwood Hargrave
September 11
novel set in Strasbourg in the summer of 1518, where a woman starts to dance in the city square and does it for days and without rest, dragging hundreds more people. So the rulers call an emergency council.
Outside the young lisbet, pregnant, lives with her husband and mother-in-law and takes care of the bees that are her way of life. There they do not seem to find out what is happening in the city, but her quiet life is altered by the return of his sister-in-law, Nethe, who has spent seven years in the mountains as punishment for a crime that nobody wants to name, but that Lisbet intends to discover.
The inocents — Maria Oruna
September 13
Another of those novelties for September is this novel by María Oruña where we find ourselves Lieutenant Valentina Redondo that, two weeks before her wedding to Oliver Gordon, she will have to take charge of investigating a serious outrage in the Water Temple of the famous Cantabrian spa of Puente Viesgo. There a group of entrepreneurs have been massacred by what appears to be a very dangerous chemical weapon.
Together with the army and with a UCO team They will soon discover that a very cruel mind may be behind it. Thus, Lieutenant Redondo will come to doubt the steps she should take because the you suspect soon they will fall on someone who has never seen but who, deep down, knows that he knows.
Candle Light — Ana B. Nieto
September 13
The title of this novel refers to one of those seductive and ambiguous historical figures that left their mark on the popular imagination as it was louis candles.
Ana B. Nieto places its beginning on the also historic date of the May 2 and makes us a portrait from another perspective of the Madrid of that moment, as lively and boisterous as dangerous. Thus we know not only those who were real, like the writer Jose Zorrilla, but also those more hidden as poets, thieves, prostitutes, booksellers and street people. All with the background of the charisma as rogue as Candelas' attractiveness.
Holly - Stephen King
September 21
And we close these September news with the new novel from the quintessential king of terror that going to remember his other titles such as Misery. The protagonist, in her first time in the role, is a character very loved by her readers: the private detective Holly Gibney.
This time Gibney will have to take charge of investigating the disappearance of a woman's daughter, Penny Dahl, that she is desperate when she contacts the agency. A first clue will be that the teachers live near where Bonnie Dahl disappeared. Rodney and Emily Harris, a respectable wedding of octogenarian academics. So no one would say that, in the basement from their house full of books, they hide a secret directly related to that disappearance. So Holly Gibney will have to work hard to solve the case.