Esteban Navarro Soriano
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After the Second World War, the world divided into five major blocs: the Third Empire, encompassing most European countries; the Capitalist Axis, consisting of the United States, England, Russia, and Israel; the Arab Kingdom, comprising Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, joined later by Morocco; the Latin Empire, formed by all Latin American countries with Cuba at the forefront; and the Yellow Dynasty, constituted by China, Taiwan, Korea, and Mongolia....
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A group of powerful men -a mayor, a president of the Provincial Council, a prosecutor, a judge, a commissioner of the National Police and a lieutenant colonel of the Civil Guard- meet once a month in the chalet that the alderman owns in Guadalajara. municipal. The reason? Something apparently as innocent as a reading club: chatting about a crime novel that they agree to read... However, days after the first meeting, the author of the book dies in...
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A newlywed couple buys a second-hand apartment. In the storage room there are belongings of the owner, who died ten years ago, and the intermediary of the sale (a friend of the current owner) tells them that once they buy the apartment, they can get rid of those effects. Before closing the deal, she gives them a succulent discount with only one condition: they will have to keep the trunk with three locks that is in the storage room until the owner...
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An emergency call warns of strange noises on Calle Legalidad in Barcelona, possibly caused by a brawl between several drunks. The armed police force finds in an orchard on that street the corpse of a young woman who is half buried in a grave, she is a high-level prostitute. The crime shakes an entire country, rumors say that high dignitaries of the church, the military and the civil guard are involved. The scandal is imminent, so it is convenient...
5) Midnight
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In 1960, Gretel, a nine-year-old girl, returns home after playing with some friends at the park. To her surprise, neither her mother, nor her grandfather, nor her brother are there. They never showed up, and after the time stipulated by law, the authorities officially declare them dead.
Thirty years later, she must return, now as a police inspector, to investigate a series of crimes related to fairy tales.
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On the night shift at the Huesca police station, Andrés learns of the death of an old friend he has not seen for twenty years, but who for some reason has travelled from the Barcelona coast to tell him something. With the help of Diana, a young police trainee, the veteran police officer sets out on an investigation that will force him to go back to his childhood to find out what has reunited them after so long.
Ths novel La noche de los peones...
7) Natasha
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Sabino falls in love with Natalia, a girl he meets on the bus. The two start going out together, but every time Sabino accompanies her to her street she refuses to let him follow her round a corner where she carries on alone.
A few weeks later, Natalia dies in a fatal traffic accident. When Sabino finds out, he discovers that she was not travelling alone and that her companion was a man nicknamed El Turco, (The Turk) who also died. The police...
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The small coastal town of Roquesas is shocked by the disappearance of one of its neighbors: the young Sandra López, 16 years old. When they find the horribly mutilated body of the teenager in the back of the house of one of the most distinguished residents of the town, everyone suspects that Álvaro Alsina is the perpetrator of the crime. The well-thought-out local society begins a witch hunt, blaming Álvaro for the crime, while a dense web of deceit...
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A sixty-something writer, weary of his dull life and lacking inspiration for a new book, decides to seek refuge in an abandoned village, where he rents a ramshackle house. After the first week, and without having written a single line of his new book, he realizes that atop a dilapidated hermitage, there is a gargoyle.
10) The Altruist
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In the year 1995, the National Police of Barcelona faces a series of accidents and suicides that have the peculiarity of occurring on terraces of buildings where the deceased did not live. These deaths, initially unrelated, give the Homicide Group 3, led by Inspector Bellido and Sub-inspector Mónica, a headache. With the imminent deployment of the Autonomous Police, the August vacation just around the corner, the increasingly precarious financial...
11) Rock Island
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Un aereo precipita in un punto imprecisato della costa dell'Indonesia. Gli unici quattro sopravvissuti allo schianto si rifugiano su una piccola isola deserta, in attesa dell'arrivo delle squadre di ricerca. Nel frattempo, però, iniziano ad accadere dei fatti strani, che spingono i naufraghi a temere di non essere soli sull'isola. La situazione si complica quando decidono di ripararsi su una barca in avaria che si è arenata nei pressi della scogliera,...
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Novela de uno de los autores más leídos en todo el mundo, cuyas intrigas policíacas y de misterio apasionan a miles de lectores y lectoras. Teresa, una empleada de limpieza de la comisaría de policía de Huesca, le regala a su hijo una memoria USB que adquiere a través de una página de internet. Su hijo, Alejandro, pone el grito en el cielo cuando se da cuenta de que el regalo de su madre no es nuevo y contiene una carpeta oculta que el anterior...
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Corre el año 1997 cuando Rebeca Marín, hija de un militar de rango, decide presentarse a las pruebas de acceso de la Policía Nacional, contraviniendo los deseos de su madre. Tras superar el proceso selectivo, y pasar nueve meses en la escuela de Ávila, su primer destino es Barcelona. En unos días, un inspector con mala fama entre el resto de compañeros, aparece asesinado de un solo tiro en la cabeza. Las primeras investigaciones arrojan que...
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En el año 1995, la Policía Nacional de Barcelona se enfrenta a una cadena de accidentes y suicidios, que tienen la particularidad de ocurrir en terrazas de edificios donde los fallecidos no vivían. Esas muertes, en un principio inconexas, llevan de cabeza al Grupo 3 de Homicidios, dirigido por el inspector Bellido y la subinspectora Mónica. Con el inminente despliegue de la Policía Autonómica, las vacaciones del mes de agosto a la vuelta de...