Domingo sangriento

In the tradition of the modern classics The Remains of the Day and A Gentleman in Moscow comes The Waiter, in which the finely tuned balance of a timeworn European restaurant is irrevocably upset by an unexpected guest... The Hills dates from a time when pigs were pigs and swine were swine, the Maître D' likes to say--in other words from the mid-1800s. Every day begins with the head waiter putting on his jacket. In with one arm, then the other. Shrugged onto his shoulders. Horn buttons done up. Always the same. There is clinking. Cutlery is moved around porcelain and up to mouths. But in...

El trepidante relato sobre la investigación periodística de un crimen de estado perpetrado por la dictadura portuguesa, en 1965 en la frontera que delimita el Guadiana. NOVELA GANADORA DEL PREMIO L'H CONFIDENCIAL DE NOVELA NEGRA 2020

In 1756, Giacomo Casanova escapes from prison and flees to Bolzano. He receives an unwelcome visitor: the Duke of Parma, who years before had defeated Casanova in a duel over Francesca. The duke has taken his wife Francesca and intercepted a love letter from her to his old rival. Rather than kill Casanova on the spot, he makes him an offer that is perverse and irresistible.

“Y entonces luego estábamos parados, saliendo del agua, y mientras las gotas de agua caían rodando por mi cuerpo desnudo me imaginé a mí misma como una versión mortal y menos inspiradora de Afrodita, y Jesse como Poseidón, excepto con una sola punta en su tridente.” El amigo de Cindy Jesse es maravilloso – especialmente porque siempre se marcha después de una noche de sexo con ella sin exigirle ningún tipo de compromiso. Es por ello, que cuando él le propone un viaje de fin de semana a un lago cercano, a ella le parece naturalmente muy sospechoso – ¿acaso no es ese el tipo...