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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.
The wealthiest family in an inland city is composed of the Wife, her Husband, their two young children, the Wife's mother and Amalia, the maid. In the large house where they live, everything is impeccable but appearances can be deceptive.
The internet dominates the world, and what would you think about our reality if we told you that everything is controlled by a single company? Only certain people question what for millions is a reality.
Old rock stars don't have it easy. And if anyone disagrees, tell it to Iván Uturría. At 40, his life is a disaster. He's been fired from a job he hates, his girlfriend has thrown him out and to top it all off nobody knows how to pronounce his surname correctly. Iván moves in with the only friends he has left, waiting for a solution from on high.
A costumbrista novel, but with strange customs. A realist story, but from a reality different from yours. Or not. More or less. 'Do you know who you are? Me neither.' An age when confusion is easy; a journey back to a world that isn't yours; a land so real it seems magical, where metaphors are real and tangible.
A young Galician schoolteacher has just split up from her partner. To make a break with the past, she decides to spend her holidays on the Canary Islands, where she devours Fifty Shades of Grey and meets a rich, attractive Russian businessman with whom she has a passionate liaison, so becoming the heroine of her own fantasy.
Miedo de ser dos is a reflection on bipolar disorder, a condition suffered by the author, recounting novelised episodes from his and his family's lives, mixing fictional elements and fantasies so that the borderline between fiction and reality is hard to perceive, as in the duality of bipolar disease.
Some retired artistes cross Europe in a bus, fleeing from the Nazi police. Berlin, 1945. An Allied bombing raid destroys the Artists House where great figures of the world of performance live in retirement.