Selection of books by Alicia Giménez Bartlett

Maybe this name sounds familiar to you. Yes, it has been the winner a very short time ago as Planet Award 2015 with his novel "Naked men". But Alicia Giménez is not only a Planeta Award, it is much more. Today we review in this article some of his best works. Stay with us especially if you like the detective novel, you will find it here.

Here is a selection of books by Alicia Giménez Bartlett thought especially of those who said they did not know her very much when she was awarded her last award. His work is worth reading, I assure you.

"Rites of death" (1996)

It is the first novel of the Petra Delicado series. Police inspector Petra Delicado from the Barcelona Documentation Service and her subordinate Fermín Garzón will have to take charge of a rape case with a single clue: the strange mark that the rapist has imprinted on the victim's arm.

"Where No One Will Find You" (2011)

A Sorbonne psychiatrist specialized in criminal minds travels to Barcelona in 1956. He wants to carry out a study on the case of Teresa Pla Meseguer, called La Pastora, a woman accused of twenty-nine deaths. It is the maquis most sought after by the Civil Guard, and it has become a popular legend because if go free. Only a journalist from Barcelona seems to have important clues about the character, but what the French traveler proposes is something out of the ordinary: he does not want information about Teresa, but a face-to-face meeting. Throughout their investigation they will have to avoid the vigilance of the guards, distinguish the true clues from the false ones and avoid the thousand obstacles that come their way. The novel then becomes a search, a flight, an adventure that reveals the miseries and humanity of a terrible Spain. And in the center of this crude and fascinating story, beyond the myth of the guerrilla fighter, emerges the unsuspected character of La Pastora, historical and real, who was always on the run from the world and from himself.

Where No One Will Find You is a novel about the rediscovery of our past and the infinite loneliness of the human being.

"Nobody wants to know" (2013)

Inspector Petra Delicado and Deputy Inspector Fermín Garzón have inherited a deceased who had remained silent for five years: Alfonso Siguán, a 70-year-old textile businessman from Barcelona, ​​killed in difficult sexual circumstances. His body was found in his apartment, where he had gone in the company of a young prostituteta. The blame fell on her pimp; but he was found dead in turn in Marbella, three days later. The investigations were closed in false. Now Petra and Fermín face the fearful silence of the only witness, the prostitute, and the puzzle of the businessman's professional and family life. The investigation moves to Rome, where Petra experiences situations of risk and challenge that are new to her and that confirm Alicia Giménez Bartlett's ability to make Petra Delicado one of the most attractive characters in today's Spanish novel.

"Crimes I Will Not Forget" (2015)

Throughout nine episodes, Petra Delicado stars in the investigation of many other crimes that break the usual future of annual milestones such as Christmas, carnivals or summer holidays. Not even in those moments the inspector can ignore what chance has in store for her. Family life with its unavoidable moments is continually disrupted by the recurring presence of crime, and reveals the most hidden episodes of the most suggestive of our polis.

This novel was the 2015 Pepe Carvalho Prize.

"Naked Men" (2015)

No one can imagine to what extent troubled times are capable of turning us into who we did not even imagine we could become. Naked Men is a novel about the present we are living in, where men of thirty or more lose their jobs and can end up doing striptease in a club, and where More and more women prioritize their professional careers over any sentimental or family commitment. In this story, these men and women come into contact and collide, and they will do so with unforeseeable consequences. Sex, friendship, innocence and evil, all in this book.

And you, which one are you going to start with?