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The Hidden Assassins

The Hidden Assassins
  • Author(s): Robert Wilson
  • Location(s): Seville
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

The gripping new psychological thriller featuring Javier Falcon, the tortured detective from ‘The Silent and the Damned’ and ‘The Blind Man of Seville.’ As Inspector Jefe Javier Falcon investigates a faceless corpse unearthed on a municipal dump, Seville is...

The Hive

The Hive
  • Author(s): Camilo José Cela
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1940s

Banned for many years by the Franco regime, Cela’s masterpiece presents a panoramic view of the degradation and suffering of the lower-middle class in post-Civil War Spain. Readers are introduced to over a hundred characters through a series of...

The Holiday Swap

The Holiday Swap
  • Author(s): Zara Stoneley
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): contemporary

Two women, two very different lives – one perfect solution to a Christmas holiday fraught with potential pitfalls. The Holiday Swap. Florence Cortes has the perfect life – an apartment in the trendiest district of Barcelona, a job she...

The Hurtle of Hell

The Hurtle of Hell
  • Author(s): Simon Edge
  • Location(s): The Canary Islands (Las Islas Canarias)
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1999

Gay, pleasure-seeking Stefano Cartwright is almost killed by a wave on a holiday beach. His journey up a tunnel of light convinces him that God exists after all, and he may need to change his ways if he is...

The Ignorance of Blood

The Ignorance of Blood
  • Author(s): Robert Wilson
  • Location(s): Seville
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A new psychological thriller in the Javier Falcon quartet, that includes THE HIDDEN ASSASSINS and The Blind Man of Seville. The sweltering city of Seville is still recovering from a shocking and unsolved terrorist attack but now a spectacular...

The Impostor

The Impostor
  • Author(s): Javier Cercas
  • Location(s): Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Who is Enric Marco? An old man from Barcelona who claims to be a Nazi concentration camp survivor and rises to be president of Spain’s leading Holocaust survivor movement, the Friends of Mauthausen. By the time he is unmasked...

The Infatuations

The Infatuations
  • Author(s): Javier Marías
  • Location(s): Madrid
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Every day, Maria Dolz stops for breakfast at the same café. And every day she enjoys watching a handsome couple who follow the same routine. Then one day they aren’t there, and she feels obscurely bereft. It is only...

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 Camino

The Last Camino
  • Author(s): Mackenzie Rhodes
  • Location(s): Central Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A woman walks the Camino de Santiago meeting new friends and finding a version of herself that she thought was lost. One year after her husband’s death, Julie embarks on the 500-mile Camino de Santiago, a journey of pain,...

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