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A mystery novel that pays homage to great works of literature: The Neverending Story, Todas las almas, Alice in Wonderland, Anna Karenina, 2666, The Red and the Black or One Hundred Years of Solitude are cited here to become protagonists and characters who, as fragile invisible threads, guide the reader toward a surprising final.

A strange email puts the editor Anna Krayss on alert. Her author and friend Jon Vivaldi, who is immersed in the investigation of one of the cases for his book Project XI -an investigation that has to do with an to occultism fraud -, needs her help and Victor Crest’s, one of the researchers working with him on one of the cases. Anna and Yago Duran, Victor’s assistant, come to the place where Jon made the appointment, Poeta Cabanyes 115, but something totally unexpected happens: each one of them arrives to a different place.

Since then Anna is confined in a space and time that is completely different from her own, Bastian’s universe. Bastian is the subject of Jon Vivaldi’s investigation. He is a child who, thirty years ago, had the ability to see the future of people through the characters of fiction. Through different tracks and an intricate labyrinth of literary references that are joining the ends, Yago and Victor try to reach Anna. Meanwhile, she looks for Jon Vivaldi and investigates Bastian’s mysterious story.

This is a frantic novel where surprise, mystery and literature are the main ingredients.

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El octavo clan (The Eighth Clan), a totally addictive novel

Nobody remembers how it happened, just that the waters rose and devoured everything. Only the highest buildings still stand out of the sea. Titanium, steel and glass that keep defying the ocean, and the dangerous creatures that live in it.

Inside these towers, in the city now known as Nyork, seven big clans are in dispute over the cherished “dry ground” — as well as over the even more scarce resources. It’s a fight to death.

In the shadow of these seven big clans, however, there is yet another one — one that everyone believed exterminated, but whose last members are refusing to succumb; a clan that, in its struggle for survival, comes across the opportunity to change everything, to bring back hope to a world where nobody dares hoping for anything anymore.

That is the eighth clan.

The HO Detective Agency has three members, and they are siblings: 10-year-old Adrián — meticulous and analytic —; 9-year-old Elia — optimistic and passionate —; and Álex, who is 7 years old and loves trying bizarre methods. The three of them will try to solve the mysteries of everyday life, that will always bring them big surprises.

Though still it begins to show some nights of insomnia, Viktor, emigrant of the East in Barcelona, has managed to keep his traumatic infancy buried under the caps of a life accommodated together with his wife and his son. He has fled of a people that is destroying little by little what more wants, of a defeat that seems to be inevitable. Until one morning of September it calls to his door It Allies. During the day that happens together with this enigmatic friend of his infancy, Viktor will have to locate all the pieces of his past: the relation with a father maltratador, a murder that conceals a mystery and the first love that trastocará the rest of his life.

Award winner with the Prize of Narrative Valencia 2013.

There is a planet in the middle of the galaxy which seems to be the Earth but has a peculiar difference: all its inhabitants are superheroes. Well, not all of them… Piedra Sencilla is not that powerful. However, he is the only one capable of confronting the dangerous giant threatening his planet.