«Antes de arrojarse al mar, la señora Brown fue a misa»

Quentin Coldwater's life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up for his entrance interview to Princeton he finds his interviewer dead - but a strange envelope bearing Quentin's name leads him down a very different path to any he'd ever imagined. The envelope, and the mysterious manuscript it contains, leads to a secret world of obsession and privilege, a world of freedom and power and, for a while, it's a world that seems to answer all Quentin's desires. But the idyll cannot last - and when it's finally shattered, Quentin is drawn into something darker and far...

Miguel Navarro, who has his differences with the Spanish Civil Guard, flees the village of Lekeitio and ends up in Guernica, where he meets a beautiful dancer named Miren and falls in love as the horrific bombing of the city by the German Luftwaffe approaches.

Prolongando la estela de las grandes figuras del género policiaco, Guido Brunetti, es el comisario que encarna la percepción de Maigret, la personalidad de Carvalho y el encanto de Montalbano. Su olfato es infalible, su humor es complaciente, su lengua afiladísima, su melancolía es una inspiración, su corazón es manso, y su mente demasiado perspicaz. Sobre todo para los asesinos que quieren borrar su huella con muertes y engaños. En Muerte y juicio, la cuarta entrega de la serie que viene publicando Seix Barral, Donna Leon nos conduce magistralmente, de la mano de Brunetti, desde el...

Con un estilo intimista, oral y poético, Mónica Echeverría logra devolver a la vida a una de las mujeres más excepcionales de nuestra historia reciente