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The Altruist
In the year 1995, the National Police of Barcelona faces a series of accidents and suicides that have the peculiarity of occurring on terraces of buildings where the deceased did not live. These deaths, initially unrelated, give the Homicide Group 3, led by Inspector Bellido and Sub-inspector Mónica, a headache. With the imminent deployment of the Autonomous Police, the August vacation just around the corner, the increasingly precarious financial resources of the National Police, and the accumulation of cases, following the trail of these seemingly random deaths becomes a true torment for the investigators. But the biggest surprise for the police comes when, collecting the data, they discover that all these deaths occur on the same day of the week: Thursday. And between one event and another, there are usually five to six months. In all cases, there is always a witness who claims to have seen the victim in the company of someone they have never been able to recognize.
The Debutant's Luck
Sometimes, all that glitters is not gold. Simón, a teenager from a coastal town whose parents are ill, decides to commit petty thefts with the intention of helping them financially. Within weeks, he realizes that stealing can earn him more money, and faster, than working. When he finds out that a schoolmate and an older girl from the neighborhood are doing the same, the three decide to team up. But during the first distributions of the profits, disagreements arise when his partners notice that Simón has extraordinary luck in everything he does.
The House In Front
The small coastal town of Roquesas is shocked by the disappearance of one of its neighbors: the young Sandra López, 16 years old. When they find the horribly mutilated body of the teenager in the back of the house of one of the most distinguished residents of the town, everyone suspects that Álvaro Alsina is the perpetrator of the crime. The well-thought-out local society begins a witch hunt, blaming Álvaro for the crime, while a dense web of deceit is woven around him, with the sole purpose of incriminating him. Álvaro sees how the whole world is collapsing around him without him, nor his family, being able to do anything to stop it. His friends, his wife, his children, his lover, and even the police chief, consider him the perpetrator of the crime.
The Elite Club
A group of powerful men —a mayor, a president of the Provincial Council, a prosecutor, a judge, a commissioner of the National Police and a lieutenant colonel of the Civil Guard— meet once a month in the chalet that the alderman owns in Guadalajara. municipal. The reason? Something apparently as innocent as a reading club: chatting about a crime novel that they agree to read... However, days after the first meeting, the author of the book dies in a traffic accident. The writer's widow mistrusts the "official version" and hires a private detective, who also dies strangely. The friendship of Sonia Ruiz and Pau with her research colleague will push them to investigate the case. Who are these men who gather together? Why did the author of the novel die? How did the detective's accident occur? His investigations begin by finding out who chooses each book that this "elite club" reads.
The Chess Player
A newlywed couple buys a second-hand apartment. In the storage room there are belongings of the owner, who died ten years ago, and the intermediary of the sale (a friend of the current owner) tells them that once they buy the apartment, they can get rid of those effects. Before closing the deal, she gives them a succulent discount with only one condition: they will have to keep the trunk with three locks that is in the storage room until the owner (who lives in a nursing home) dies.
Executioners
In 1952, the Encarnación and Matilde Silva Montero sisters were murdered inside the tobacconist's shop they ran in the city of Seville. The police soon arrested the three authors: Juan Vázquez, Antonio Pérez and Francisco Castro, being sentenced to death by garrote. The executioner, Bernardo Sánchez Bascuñana, coincides a few weeks after the execution with a friend of his, a retired civil guard, and tells him a terrible truth: the accused were innocent. The civil guard decides to start an investigation on his behalf to find the real culprits of the double crime.
Night Of The Pawns
On the night shift at the Huesca police station, Andrés learns of the death of an old friend he has not seen for twenty years, but who for some reason has travelled from the Barcelona coast to tell him something. With the help of Diana, a young police trainee, the veteran police officer sets out on an investigation that will force him to go back to his childhood to find out what has reunited them after so long. Ths novel La noche de los peones (Night of the Pawns) was runner up for the 69th edition of the prestigious Premio Nadal in Spain, January 2013.
Bacchus
A businessman from Barcelona is murdered in the town of Canfranc, near the French border, with a gunshot to the head. The police arrest an immigrant from Somalia, who is caught with the gun inside the house. The corpse has a wine glass with the word "Bacchus" tattooed on its abdomen. Drago, the public defender, who is called to defend the Somali, suspects that the accused is innocent and that in reality he has been framed for the crime. And, drawing on his experience as an ex-cop, he embarks on an adventure through Barcelona, trying to find out who was the man who was murdered and why someone would want to kill him. In the first inquiries he discovers that since 2016, every year, without fail, someone dies with a tattoo identical to the one on the man from Canfranc. And, in every case, an immigrant has always been arrested as the perpetrator of the crime
Otin’s Gargoyle
What begins as a voluntary exile with the aim of writing a book turns into an adventure that the protagonists will never forget. Isidro Mezquita, a sixty-year-old writer, tired of his daily routine and his boring life, decides to isolate himself in the abandoned village of Otín, located in the province of Huesca, in search of inspiration for his next book. Upon arrival, he rents an old house and begins a solitary life, motivated to write what will surely be his last novel. After a few days, and without having found the necessary inspiration to write, he notices that there is a gargoyle on the ruined hermitage in front of the house.
Midnight
A series of crimes related to fairy tales shakes a small town. Only one inspector, born in the village, can understand what is happening. In 1960, Gretel, a nine-year-old girl, returns home after playing with some friends in the park. To her surprise, neither her mother, her grandfather, nor her brother are there. They never appeared, and after the time stipulated by law had passed, the authorities officially declared them dead. Thirty years later, she must return, now as a police inspector, to investigate a series of crimes related to fairy tales.
