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Milena's beauty was also her downfall. A sex slave since adolescence, she attempts to escape on the death of her protector, a communications magnate who suffers a heart attack while making love to her. During her anguished flight she comes across the Azules, a trio of the just formed by the journalist Tomás Arizmendi, the politician Amelia Navarro and high-security specialist Jaime Lemus.
A woman is found hanged on the blade of one of the wind turbines the company Mistralia is installing in an until then idyllic landscape. Her name is Esther and she is an engineer working in the company. Murder or suicide? When Detective Ricardo Cupido is asked to deal with the case, he can have no idea where his investigations will lead.
Ciudadela, Menorca. When María Médem returns to her job as an officer in the local police after maternity leave, two sexagenarians are murdered on the island. The house where their bodies are discovered has three notable features: a strong smell of mint, the same song by Raphael playing continuously on the computer and absolute order in all the rooms.
What is current western society like? What will it be like? Are we as individuals ready to face our downfall? In the present day, politicians are asking for volunteers to work in libraries. They will soon disappear. In the present day, we sleep to forget. We will soon sleep to work. You Won't Be Anyone straddles two parallel stories, one in the present day and one in the near future.
With time, Daniel has found his place in the world, but on this night, in the deserted station of Portbou, while he awaits the arrival of a friend, memories come flooding back. Daniel's story interweaves his own uneventful life with that of Sofía Durán, tarnished by a secret tragedy which reflects recent European history.
Javier Goitia is an investigative journalist with a long career behind him who ends up being fired. To get over this blow, he goes to G...., where he has a friend who takes him in for a while, and where he hopes to rethink his future. In the train buffet, Javier is fascinated by a beautiful, pensive woman he does not dare approach, but who makes an indelible impression on him.
Manuel, the hero of this novel, is a sensitive, Catholic, Republican small town boy… and he is a homosexual. Through his diaries the reader begins to understand his personal, emotional, existential and spiritual development.
1890. Bastian and Hugo Fortuny leave for Tahiti in search of opportunity after losing their jobs as glass blowers in their native Mallorca. During the crossing they meet Laia Kane, daughter of a corrupt English consul in Menorca who has been exiled to the Polynesian island. This meeting will mark the lives of Laia and the Fortuny brothers forever. 1930.