June, new month and new varied readings to take us on the next vacation. Of varied topics, this is my selection of 6 titles of historical, black, mystery and horror novels and a fictionalized review of that classic film star and brilliant woman who was Hedy Lamarr.
Fields of glory - Pedro Santamaría
Pedro Santamaría presents a new novel when the last one is still recent, The sack of Rome. It takes us back to Antiquity to tell us another story set in the year 450 d. C. The Huns of Atila they have conquered and defeated again and again the Eastern Roman Empire, which is already at their mercy and pays them tribute.
Flavius AetiusGeneral of the Western troops, he is clear that soon it will be their turn. In addition, the rich province of Africa has fallen into the hands of the Vandals, Swabians and Bagaudas have taken Hispania and the Goths have established a small kingdom around Toulouse. To top it off, in Ravenna, where is the imperial court of the weak Valentinian III it is a nest of conspiracies and betrayals. So Aetius knows that if there is a chance to save what remains of Rome, he will have to make a deal with his former enemies, the Theodored's goths, to face the hordes of Attila.
Premonition - Rosa Blasco
Rosa Blasco is from Alcañiz from Teruel, although she works as a family doctor in Tudela, a profession that she combines with literature. He has written The sanatorium of Provence y The wrong blood. And now he presents this new story with two protagonists, the forensic Simonetta brey and the commissioner Dario Ferrer, who will have to investigate the cases of some murdered doctors in Menorca.
After - Stephen King
What would these dates be without a book of Stephen King? So there goes this umpteenth title that stars Jamie conklin, the only child of a single mother, who just wants to have a normal childhood. But it turns out that he was born with a supernatural ability that allows you to see what no one can and find out what the rest of the world does not know. By collaborating with an inspector from the New York Police Department, who forces you to avoid the latest assassin attack threatening to attack even from the grave, Jamie may have to pay a heavy price for that power.
The healers - Emanuela Valentina
We also have this thriller set in the Italian north. We are in 2019 in a small town in the mountains that gathers to mourn the loss of a girl whose bones were found in the forest, twenty-two years after her disappearance. It reaches him Sara romani, a successful surgical oncologist, who had not returned since her childhood and is now reunited with a past from which she escaped. But then disappear another girl called Rebecca, who is the last heir to the ancient tradition of the healers. And Sara will have to leave her analytical mind behind to find out what could have happened.
In the middle of the night - Mikel Santiago
Michael Santiago go back to Illumbe, the imaginary town of the Basque Country where he had already set his previous novel, The liar. Now it takes us back to the XNUMXs, to the night of a rock concert where a girl disappeared. That night was also the end of the band and group of friends from Diego Letamediaa rock star declining who, after that, left and embarked on a successful solo career. The police never managed to find out what happened to Lorraine, the missing girl and Diego's girlfriend, who had left the concert very quickly.
Already in the present, and knowing that one of the members of the band dies in a strange fire, Diego will decide to return to Illumbe. The reunion with the old friends will be difficult and, in addition, it is now suspected that this fire was perhaps not accidental.
Imperfect passion - Roberto Lapid
The Argentine writer Roberto Lapid presents this novel based on real events about the life of Hedy Lamarr, not only the actress and movie star, but a beautiful and brilliant woman, key in the history of the XNUMXth century. In addition to his film career, he studied engineering and invented and patented a communications system to teleguide torpedoes and ensure contacts between the allies during the war. It is on this technology that the system that we use today for mobile phones, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS is based.
So we have Friedrich Mandl, a young Austrian who takes over his father's destroyed arms factory and in just ten years manages to make one of the largest European fortunes. But seeing the actress Hedwig Kiesler in a movie falls in love with her and they marry. However, when the relationship deteriorates due to jealousy and infidelity, he locks her up in his castle in Salzburg.
Hedy will manage to escape and will flee across Europe. It is on an ocean liner bound for New York that he meets Louis B Meyer, president of Metro Goldwyn Meyer, who immediately hires her and turns her into Hedy Lamarr.