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A volcano subsides over three thousand people as Hurricane Mitch devastated Central America. A Basque journalist arrived at the scene of the tragedy to make a report and unearths a man without identity, dying in the rubble.

Without knowing it, he saves the life of a man who is doomed to face and which has two things in common: both hands stained with blood and none of them is who they claim to be.

Together they star a long travel through a desolate scene, destroyed by the hurricane, which must face themselves, discover who the other and face, perhaps, a last crime. Is this a story of victims and executioners?

1898. Young Pablo Picasso is in Horta de Sant Joan, then called Horta d’Ebre, a rural town in southern Catalonia. After wandering with a friend several weeks by wild forests, vast gorges and icy torrents, he decides to stay in a cave, where they sleep on a bed of grass and eat rice cooked on a bonfire. Near this cave Picasso meets a fifteen-year-old Gypsy painter boy with whom he has a brief affair. Before their separation, the villager gives him a sketch that shows the hiding place of an Arabic treasure hidden in 1152. According to the gipsy, he had seen it in a dream where it was prohibited, under threat of death, to try to dig it. More than a century later, a mighty art critic will ask journalist Leo Vidal to track the whereabouts of “the secret of Picasso”. An adventure that will take him to study the clues the painter left in his works and to know the environment of the famous painter. An exciting novel, based in real documents, that shows a completely unknown Picasso who practiced shamanism and was introduced into the mysteries best kept in a territory so untamed as isolated and legendary: the deep south of Catalonia and Matarrana, in Aragon.

Israel Buendía, a star football player for the Real Triunfo FC, ​​is found murdered at El Grande Stadium. But this murder is just the latest in a series of scandals coming from a second division club that hides a few dark secrets.

Maria Moreno, a journalist who lands in the club as Communications Manager, is slowly discovering a world of shady deals, homophobia, match fixing, corruption… In the Real Triunfo FC everyone seems to have a motive to kill.

In her first novel, La muerte del 9, Paz Castelló creates an intrigue full of surprises. It is set in an environment she knows well — one the public has a particularly festive vision of.

In a small city in Argentina in the late 1980s, Bardin’s three brothers try to survive the weight of the past, the hyperinflation of the present and the low future of each project they undertake. Boris, the oldest, dreams of taking revenge on the criminal who let him disabled with three shots years ago to keep on being a policeman. Ivan, the medium brother, responds to poor job opportunities with the worst ideas. And Aleksandar, the youngest, sees how his marriage goes into a blind alley. The arrival of an agent sent from the capital to investigate the theft of an armoured truck will definitely change the existence of them all.