It is 1963, and in her mansion in the foothills of the Pyrenees, Joana idles her days away, banished by her powerful husband and alienated from her family. Meanwhile, in Barcelona, her daughter Carla is impoverished and in trouble.Hating...

Don’t be fooled – Barcelona, with all its illustrious colour and exterior finery, hasn’t always been able to curb its darker yearnings. Blame it on a bubbling, repressive concoction made with a pinch of Church, a touch of Crown...

Barcelona is the stunning background to this unusual novel, sex, a killer uses sex to kill and the investigator likes the best in life. Add art trafficking and you have a good combination to make a good story.

Let me tell you a story…The granddaughter of Spanish refugees, who fled Barcelona after the Civil War, Paloma Batton is an attentive student of the Paris Opera Ballet, that is, until she is visited by a ghost …Leaving her...

A sympathetic look at the history of Barcelona, its art, culture, cafe culture, churches. A delight for anyone who wants a bit more depth about the place they are visiting. Very readable.

Young Moroccans gather regularly in a seafront cafe to gaze at the lights on the Spanish coast glimmering in the distance. Azel, the protagonist, is intent on leaving in one way or another. On the brink of despair he...

In May 1980, 15-year-old Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in the old quarter of Barcelona. For seven days and nights no one knows his whereabouts… His story begins in the heart of old Barcelona, when he...

In 1999, at the age of 52, Dvora Treisman flew off with her cat Pumpkin from the San Francisco airport to begin a new life in Barcelona. Since then she has moved to Tarragona, the small fishing village of...

The body of Stuart Pedrell, a powerful businessman, is found in a Barcelona suburb. He had disappeared on his way to Polynesia in search of the visionary spirit of Paul Gauguin. Who better to find the killer of a...

David Martin makes a living in Barcelona writing novels under s pseudonym. Following a troubled childhood he has made books his world. From his imagination come the deep mysteries of the deeper side of the city. He lives in...