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When Primitivo Dátalo replies to an advertisement in which the writer Mauro Ledesma Peris seeks a secretary, he is unaware that he is entering a labyrinth of horror. After suffering in the service of the author, Primitivo sets out to gather together the testimonies of other victims in the form of an anthology.
A Samurai adventure in feudal Japan, 1331. After two attempted Mongol invasions, the nation decides to establish a permanent military state. Until then the highest political and spiritual authority was the emperor, but now the powerful Samurais have relegated him to a second level.
The emperor of Japan is determined to regain the power that the samurais seized from his ancestors at any price. However, the Hōjō clan attacks the imperial capital before the uprising. Outside the city, a landowner remains faithful to the emperor, who has been forced to take refuge in the monastery of the warrior monks of Kyoto, and his oath of loyalty is the only hope of those besieged.
A group of Westerners living in Egypt set out on a journey to the Libyan Desert in February 2006, during the 'Cartoon Controversy'. They are following the trail of Rohlfs, the German explorer who had striven to find the legendary oasis of Zerzura. Their trip is disrupted by the appearance of an enigmatic personage who puts their moral codes, confidence and equilibrium to the test.
Maria Roderich (The Old Lady), Maria Magí (The Mrs) and Maria Costa are three women who, throughout almost a century, have run La Principal, the most important house in the village of Pous, in the heart of the grape-producing region of La Abadia. Those three, grandmother, daughter, have made the vines flourish due to a series of transformations that have kept the business going.
The brutal murder of two partners of a financial advice company in Barcelona unleashes a huge police operation that implicates Germán Rojo, a powerful figure who believes himself to be untouchable, conferred with the gift of immunity and far above other mortals, mere repulsive cockroaches to be crunched underfoot whenever he pleases. But he has a weak point.
An audacioius story surrounds this Visitors' Book. Found by an English traveller at the end of the 19th century in the library of the Monastery of Mount Athos, the original manuscript was copied, translated and, such is fate, sold by the traveller's heirs as a legacy of unimportant papers, now considered to be lost.
While spending a weekend at home with his family, Sergeant Major Bevilacqua receives the news that the body of the mayoress of a town on the eastern coast of Spain, whose disappearance had been reported by her husband, has been found on the beach by some tourists.
In this fast-paced thriller set in the world of wine, an investigation about some murders related to the world of wine falls into the hands of a police officer. A meeting with an informer will start her off in a race she must win without knowing who her opponents are.
When Lorenzo and Natalia meet, the chemistry between them the means that they cannot help starting a secret relationship because they are both married. Lorenzo has two brothers, Nicolás who is a police officer and Gabriel who works in IT and seems to be mixed up in dodgy dealings. Natalia is a heart-stopper of a woman and has only been married to Gabriel for a few weeks.