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The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and other stories

The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and other stories
  • Author(s): Teresa Solana
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Modern

A dark, humorous collection of stories by one of Spain’s best-known crime writers. The oddest things happen. Statues decompose and stink out galleries, two old grandmothers are vengeful killers and a prehistoric detective trails a triple murder that is...

The Flanders Panel

The Flanders Panel
  • Author(s): Arturo Pérez-Reverte
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1980s

The clue to a murder in the art world of contemporary Madrid lies hidden in a medieval painting of a game of chess. In a 15th-century Flemish painting two noblemen are pictured playing chess. Yet two years before he...

The Forging of a Rebel

The Forging of a Rebel
  • Author(s): Arturo Barea
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Historical, Biography
  • Era(s): 20th Century

The Forging of a Rebel is an unsurpassed account of Spanish history and society from early in the twentieth century through the cataclysmic events of the Spanish Civil War. Arturo Barea’s masterpiece charts the author’s coming-of-age in a bruised...

The Fountains of Silence

The Fountains of Silence
  • Author(s): Ruta Sepetys
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1957

Madrid, 1957. Tourists and foreign businessmen flood into Spain under the welcoming guise of sunshine and wine while Spanish citizens are gripped by a dark secret. Daniel Matheson, the son of an oil tycoon, hopes to connect with the...

The Fountains of Silence

The Fountains of Silence
  • Author(s): Ruta Sepetys
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1950s

Madrid, 1957. Daniel, young, wealthy and unsure of his place in the world, views the city through the lens of his camera. Ana, a hotel maid whose family is suffering under the fascist dictatorship of General Franco. Lives and...

The Frozen Heart

The Frozen Heart
  • Author(s): Almudena Grandes, Frank Wynne (Translator)
  • Location(s): Madrid, Torrelodones
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Spanish Civil War

A sweeping epic saga about the Spanish Civil War – the Spanish DR ZHIVAGO. In the small town of Torrelodones on the outskirts of Madrid a funeral is taking place. Julio Carrin Gonzalez, a man of tremendous wealth and...

The Gaudí key

The Gaudí key
  • Author(s): Esteban Martín
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): Early Twentieth Century

In the early twentieth century, when Barcelona was celebrated as the center of modernist art and design, the grand master of an ancient religious brotherhood prepares to die – passing the care of a sacred relic to a prominent...

The Getaway

The Getaway
  • Author(s): Maria Duffy
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Will escaping for two weeks save her marriage? Or change her life? To the outside world, bestselling author Linda Costa has it all: a successful career, a wonderful marriage and two gorgeous children. But appearances can be deceiving …...

The Ghost of Villa Winter

The Ghost of Villa Winter
  • Author(s): Isobel Blackthorn
  • Location(s): Fuerteventura
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

English psychic Clarissa Wilkinson is holidaying in the Canary Islands. Hoping to have an adventure, she boards a tour bus bound for Villa Winter, a secret Nazi base on the idyllic island of Fuerteventura. Instead, she discovers a body...

The Ghost Ship

The Ghost Ship
  • Author(s): Kate Mosse
  • Location(s): Amsterdam, Gran Canaria
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Early 17th Century

Piracy. Romance. Revenge. Across the seas of the seventeenth century, two seafarers are forced to fight for their love and their lives. The sequel to The City of Tears, The Ghost Ship is the third novel in The Joubert...

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