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Seville, October 1936. Crisanta is given a dangerous assignment. A 16th century triptych by Jan Van Eyck has disappeared amid the looting. If she tracks it down and hands it in, she’ll get help her get out of the country. She realizes that there is no place for her in a Spain shrouded in obscurantism, and accepts, regardless of the fact that her divination instruments have advised her to stay clear of that enterprise. Legend has it that... - Read more

  The most crime-ridden and fatally romantic of Biedma's stories, winner of the XXI Premio Unicaja de Novela Fernando Quiñones . It dawns in the three thousand dwellings, Seville, one of the most dangerous suburbs in Europe. From the evangelical church, cordoned off by riot police, a team of forensic operators exit, pushing a stretcher with the tortured and mutilated body of a young woman. Inspector Perpetua Carrizo, in charge of... - Read more

Spring of 1943. On the eve of the allied landing on the Mediterranean, the British Secret Service has put in place operation “Mincemeat” to fool the Germans: they will abandon before the coast of Huelva (Spain) the dead body of a fake pilot of the RAF, who carries documents which give clues to the forthcoming landing as taking place somewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean or in the South France. A few days later, Gordon Pinner, an ex... - Read more

A story about the mysterious Kristina Haakonardottir, the young Norwegian princess forced to become Princess of Castilla on marrying Don Felipe, brother to Alfonso X, The Wise. Kristina will embark upon a journey from her cold northern country to Castilla, to finally end up in a Seville that is beginning to bloom and which amazes her with its customs, colors and brand new sensations. But all of her discoveries will be impregnated with suffering... - Read more

In the year 1587, Seville was the most important city in the world. With a hundred and fifty thousand hungry mouths to feed and the plague, which had already decimated thousands of lives, this was the perfect breeding ground for the picaresque to flourish. The underworld, wheeling and dealing, corruption, beggars and prostitutes, noblemen and merchants, swordsmen and thieves—all lived behind the city's famous walls. In those days, a party... - Read more