New Spanish Titles - Spring 2011

One night, Víctor leaves his house to go and discover Buenos Aires at night, unexplored territory for him, aiming not to go home until the sun comes up. After a few tense situations for a teenager like him, he ends up accepting a prostitute's invitation to have a drink in some dive. What happens between then and sunrise will mark Víctor's life forever.

Ela is a promising, ambitious young civil servant who has just been named director of operations of CNI, the Spanish intelligence agency, a secret service post occupied by a woman for the first time in history. She is very attached to her grandfather, who has given her a series of tapes he recorded as his will.

Detective novel set in turn of the century Barcelona. Baron Castellfullit is at the centre of a plot of hatred that culminates in a failed assassination attempt that will cost the lives of five people. Everyone has a motive for killing the baron. Behind the suspect is the figure of the young painter Ramón Casas, who reconstructs this story.

In an unknown region, lost in the mists of the Middle Ages, lives Baronet Otto Pette, a man committed in body and soul to the ever difficult task of forgetting the past itself. This labour is even harder in the case of someone like the baronet who, after suffering disappointment after disappointment, crossed over the tenuous border of skepticism a long time ago.