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City of Buried Ghosts

City of Buried Ghosts
  • Author(s): Chris Lloyd
  • Location(s): Girona (Gerona)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(The Catalan Crime Thrillers Book 2) Still recovering from the tragedy that hit her team, Elisenda takes on a new case. Except it’s not new. On an archaeological dig by the coast a body is uncovered, seemingly executed with...

City of Drowned Souls

City of Drowned Souls
  • Author(s): Chris Lloyd
  • Location(s): Girona (Gerona)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
  • Era(s): Contemporary

(The Catalan Crime Thrillers Book 3) The second a child disappears, the clock starts ticking. When the son of a controversial local politician goes missing at election time, Detective Elisenda Domènech is put on the case. They simply must...

City of Good Death

City of Good Death
  • Author(s): Chris Lloyd
  • Location(s): Girona (Gerona)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Present Day

A serial killer is targeting hate figures in the Catalan city of Girona – a loan shark, a corrupt priest, four thugs – leaving grisly clues about his next victim. Each corpse is posed in a way whose meaning...

Death in Spring

Death in Spring
  • Author(s): Mercè Rodoreda
  • Location(s): Catalonia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Death in Spring is a dark and dream-like tale of a teenage boy’s coming of age in a remote village in the Catalan mountains; a place cut off from the outside world, where cruel customs are blindly followed, and...

Even the Darkest Night

Even the Darkest Night
  • Author(s): Javier Cercas
  • Location(s): Terra Alta, Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A Melchor Marín novel. Winner of Spain’s biggest literary prize – the Premio Planeta When Melchor goes to investigate the horrific double-murder of a rich printer and his wife in rural Cataluña nothing quite adds up. The young cop...

Isla and the Happily Ever After

Isla and the Happily Ever After
  • Author(s): Stephanie Perkins
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Barcelona, Paris
  • Genre(s): Romance, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Hopeless romantic Isla has had a crush on brooding artist Josh since their first year at the School of America in Paris. And, after a chance encounter in Manhattan over the summer break, romance might be closer than Isla...

Legacy

Legacy
  • Author(s): Hannah Fielding
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Love, intrigue and redemption under the scorching Spanish sun, Legacy is Book 3 in the Andalucian Nights Trilogy by Hannah Fielding, award-winning author of Indiscretion and The Echoes of Love. A troubled young journalist goes undercover in Spain, and...

Love in the City by the Sea

Love in the City by the Sea
  • Author(s): Lilac Mills
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): RomCom
  • Era(s): Contemmporary

Sometimes crossing the finish line is only the first step Tess Barton is stuck in a rut. Her dream of becoming an artist has stalled as she works three jobs just trying to survive. She’s barely got time to...

Mac and His Problem

Mac and His Problem
  • Location(s): Barcelona
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Mac is not writing a novel. He is writing a diary, which no one will ever read. At over sixty, and recently unemployed, Mac is a beginner, a novice, an apprentice – delighted by the themes of repetition and...

Marks of Identity

Marks of Identity
  • Author(s): Juan Goytisolo
  • Location(s): Barcelona, Spain
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s onwards

An exile returns to Spain from France to find that he is repelled by the fascism of Franco’s Spain and drawn to the world of Muslim culture. In this novel, Juan Goytisolo, one of Spain’s most celebrated novelists, speaks...

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