Noche de Fuego = Night Fire

He's worth millions, but he's worthless without her.It's been a month since her traumatic break-up with Derick, and Siobhan now lives in Detroit, where she can support herself and her painting career. But suddenly Derick's back after flying halfway across the country for her. And though Siobhan's body comes alive at his touch, she doesn't know if she can trust him again....

Bellatin's always disconcerting narrative experiments enable us to enter a parallel reality where uneasiness is the dominant feeling; in this story, the acquisition of an unusual pet –a female monkey– unleashes a family tragedy.

Eager for action in the numbing wake of 9/11, V.I. Warshawski is glad to take on a routine stakeout for her most important client, Darraugh Graham. When lights come on at the empty family estate in the middle of the night, Darraugh sends V.I. out to investigate-and the detective finds a dead journalist in the pond. The man is an African-American; when the suburban cops seem to be treating him as a criminal who stumbled to a drunken death, his family hires V.I. to investigate.

Mónica y Ramón se conocen por azar, en un local nocturno, en el que ninguno de los dos pinta gran cosa. A veces, las historias comienzan así. Mónica y Ramón no han tenido mucha suerte en la vida, ni les quedan demasiadas esperanzas de tenerla alguna vez. Mónica es una periodista al borde de los treinta que subsiste con un subempleo que detesta. Ramón, mediados los cuarenta, se obstina en ser un misterio: no desvela a qué se dedica. Podrían no haberse vuelto a ver nunca, pero una semana después se reencuentran y la cosa ya no tiene remedio: la música que se les negaba empieza a...