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A thrilling fight on multiple fronts against an increasing war of gangs, written by an undeniable expert in criminology known for his impactful black novels.

Based on the war of gangs that occupied the headlines in Barcelona between 2016 and 2017, Xavier Álvarez presents his new astonishing novel:

Emilio, a Colombian’s FARC ex-militar with a dark past, Raül, a father unable to forget his son, and Esmeralda, a Colombian victim of internal drug trafficking conflicts now infiltrated in the criminal organization, will put to the limit Sargent Elisa Codina and Caporal Jordi Carter. These two members of the Catalan police shall fight in all kinds of scenarios, in order to put an end to an increasing bloodbath and the criminal organizations behind it.

A fascinating novel about the unknown love story between Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger.

Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt met in 1925 at Marburg University. He was a teacher and she was his pupil. He was married and she was single. She was eighteen years old, and he was thirty-five. At this point starts Amor sense món, an extraordinary novel about the relationship they maintained throughout all their lives facing all obstacles.

Narrated in an exciting, though delicate way, this novel follows the romance between two of the greatest figures of European Philosophy. How could a Jewish intellectual and a highly prestigious teacher who joined Hitler’s party share love together? This is one of the most complex, passionate, contradictory, and incredible love story of the last century, becoming an example of a philosophical and spiritual love that goes through earthly bonds: a love beyond world.

“The southern breeze blows in the mountains of the Aran Valley. The Cachou bear  gently awakens from hibernation, very little by little. The first thing he is aware of is the clear and intense smells that the fresh mountain air infiltrates to the bottom of the cave. They are pleasant. […] The smells have awakened his appetite, and he feels the urge to go in search of food and water.”

On April 9, 2020, the body of the Cachou bear appeared lifeless on a mountain in the Aran Valley. At first the death was attributed to an accident, but a call to the forestry police agents changed everything: Cachou could have been poisoned. The judicial investigation that opened next is the first to be deployed into the death of a protected animal, and has focused on the controversial reintroduction of the brown bear in the Pyrenees and on an organized plot that would have collaborated in the removal of an inconvenient animal.

The journalist David Marín has immersed himself in the existing documentation, he has interviewed the various people involved and, finally, he has recreated in an exciting chronicle all the events that led to the death by poisoning of the ill-fated Cachou – a case that is already in the final phase of the judicial investigation.

Virginia Gibert, a prosecutor in an examining magistrate’s court, feels that, at the age of thirty-something, life is slipping through her fingers. She has a job she is passionate about, a model husband, Diego… And no desire to be a mother, although she has not dared to tell him that. It’s not that they are in crisis, but she suspects that there must be something else in life.

After a night shift, when she gets home, she discovers Diego in bed with Fernando, their best friend. They are half-naked and appear to be asleep, but her husband is dead.

The judge on duty in charge of the investigation of the case is Mario Laredo, who was Virginia’s first boyfriend and who has returned to her life with the clear intention of recovering what they had.

A dead husband, a close friend as the main suspect, an ex-boyfriend in charge of the investigation and a prosecutor with personal interests in the case. Cross suspicions, hidden desires and forbidden loves in a disturbing criminal investigation plot.

The Catalonia of the gastronomic vanguard of the year 2010 is the setting that the international sommelier, Meritxell Falgueras, regains in order to undertake this exciting journey through the senses it features in the first person, accompanied by a cast of unique characters, lovers of good cooking and the most secret passions. With an angry, glamorous and vital style—and a rich variety of wine references—, Meritxell Falgueras is determined to eat the world and accompany it with the best wines.