Seducing Ingrid Bergman

Inheriting her grandfather's fabulous California Impressionist paintings, art buyer and landscape artist Lacey Quinn uncovers a murderous plot when she investigates her grandfather's past.

The work is preceded by a prologue which discusses the author, the importance of his novels & an analysis of the technical & stylistic aspects of the title. An excellent collection for your 20th century Spanish literature classes.

Portraying the discontinuity of the streets of Barcelona, of time, and, above all, of the existence of each one of its inhabitants, this noir novel turns the everyday into something epic. Five chapters contain five independent stories with characters that speak for themselves yet share the same tone, and the Gracia neighborhood serves as the main line that connects them. The plot revolves around a man named José García, who is killed by his own son, also named José García. The event is witnessed by a neighbor who bears the same name and is reminded of another murder he had seen years...

A mala sangre es una novela negra alejada de clichés, heterodoxa. No surge de una mente inventora de personajes y circunstancias; se hila la historia a partir de documentos policiales y judiciales recibidos por el autor: un crimen no resuelto en el olvido de carpetas polvorientas. Un asesinato ocurrido en 1943 y un expediente que se cierra sospechosamente. Juego, alcohol, morfina, anfetaminas, prostitución, espionaje… Décadas después, un periodista y un novelista entrevistan en España, Argentina y Cuba a supervivientes de una época de gran turbulencia en el mundo. Gracias a ellos los...