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The Invisible Guardian (The Baztan Trilogy, Book 1)

The Invisible Guardian (The Baztan Trilogy, Book 1)
  • Author(s): Dolores Redondo
  • Location(s): The Basque Country, Baztán valley
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A killer at large in a remote Basque Country valley , a detective to rival Clarice Starling, myth versus reality, masterful storytelling – the Spanish bestseller that has taken Europe by storm. The body of a teenage girl has...

The Island Villa

The Island Villa
  • Author(s): Lily Graham
  • Location(s): Formentera
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Marisal. A villa on a sleepy Spanish island. A place that time had forgotten. A place of long ago summers, sun-kissed memories and one terrible betrayal … When Charlotte’s husband James tragically dies, he leaves her an unexpected gift...

The Last Fiesta

The Last Fiesta
  • Author(s): Andy Rumbold
  • Location(s): Northern Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1995

It’s summer 1995 and Dan Willis is living in Santander, northern Spain, trying to get his life back on track, when he receives an unexpected call from an old school friend and Gulf War veteran, Billy Wyatt, who wants...

The Legacy of the Bones (The Baztan Trilogy, Book 2)

The Legacy of the Bones (The Baztan Trilogy, Book 2)
  • Author(s): Dolores Redondo
  • Location(s): The Basque Country, Baztán valley
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The second book in Dolores Redondo’s atmospheric Baztan trilogy, featuring Inspector Amaia Salazar. With masterful storytelling and a detective to rival Sarah Lund, this Spanish bestselling series has taken Europe by storm. IT TAKES JUST ONE WORD TO STIR...

The Lonely Hearts Club

The Lonely Hearts Club
  • Author(s): Raul Nunez
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A night porter in a sleazy Barcelona hotel, the only thing the 40-year-old Antonio Castro has going for him is his resemblance to Frank Sinatra. Thinking he has nothing to lose, Antonio joins a lonely hearts club and into...

The Lustful Youth of Rodrigo Borgia

The Lustful Youth of Rodrigo Borgia
  • Author(s): Elena Martignoni, Michela Martignoni
  • Location(s): Italy, Spain
  • Genre(s): Novella, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): renaissance

A sort of prequel to the television series “The Borgias”, here Rodrigo Borgia is a man in his youthful prime looking back on what has shaped him and with an eye toward his future. The story opens on a...

The Madness

The Madness
  • Author(s): Narcís Oller, Douglas Suttle (Translator)
  • Location(s): Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid/Late 19th Century

Written in nine chapters separated into three blocks, Narcís Oller’s The Madness is one of the first literary pieces of work to aim to truly analyze the social and genetic causes and results of mental illness. Told through the...

The Mallorcan Bookseller

The Mallorcan Bookseller
  • Author(s): Pete Davies
  • Location(s): Mallorca, Armenia, India, London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Present day

“Is Anna in?” It took just three words to change his life. Sam Martínez, a London detective, is put on sick leave suffering from PTSD resulting from a firearms incident that went wrong and his best friend was shot....

The Man of Feeling

The Man of Feeling
  • Author(s): Javier Marías
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1980s

Glinting like a moonstone with layers of emotion, The Man of Feeling is a sleek and strange tale of cosmopolitan love. An affair between a married woman and a young man just becoming an opera star (curiously helped along...

The Man of My Life

The Man of My Life
  • Author(s): Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

After a visit to Argentina, Spain’s most famous detective Pepe Carvalho is back in his beloved Barcelona and is swiftly embroiled in a murderous scandal amid the murky politics of 21st century Catalonia. When the son of a rich...

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