Although, with each new month that passes, the bookstores are filled with new novelties that bury those of previous months, good stories don’t have an expiration date. So if you are one of those readers for whom the bestseller label is the best prescriber, the titles on the list of best-selling books for April may interest you to have them on hand during May as well.
The Black Book of Hours, Eva Garcia Saenz de Urturi
Vitoria, 2022. Former inspector Unai López de Ayala, alias Kraken, receives an anonymous call that will change what he thinks he knows about his family past: he has one week to find the legendary Black Book of Hours, an exclusive bibliographic jewel, if not, his mother, who has rested in the cemetery for decades, will die. But, someone who’s been dead forty years can’t be kidnapped and certainly can’t bleed. How is this possible? A novel that is a race against the clock between Vitoria and the Madrid of bibliophiles to trace the most important criminal profile of his life, one capable of changing the past, forever.
The Black Book of Hours (Spanish and Ibero-American Authors)
Bluebeard’s castleJavier Fences
Years after what happened in Independence, Melchor Marín is no longer a police officer: he works as a librarian and lives with his teenage daughter. One day he discovers that her father has hidden from him how her mother died and this fact confuses and revolts her. Shortly after he goes on vacation to Mallorca, but does not return; he doesn’t answer Melchor’s messages or calls either, who, convinced that something bad has happened, decides to plant himself on the island in search of her. From here the novel enters an absorbing labyrinth, both sinister and luminous, where its protagonist discovers that human beings are capable of the worst, but also the best.
Bluebeard’s Castle: Terra Alta III (Wanderings)
The mentalistCamilla Lackberg
The body of a young woman murdered in a macabre way appears in an amusement park on the outskirts of Stockholm. The reserved and methodical police officer Mina Dabiri is part of the special investigation team that takes charge of the case. When Mina exhausts all possible leads, she turns to mentalist Vincent Walder. With the appearance of a new body, they both understand that they are facing a serial killer and begin a fast-paced race against the clock to decipher the numerical codes and the visual traps that it leaves behind.
The Mentalist (Planet International)
NeverKen Follette
Never is a thriller full of heroines and villains, false prophets, elite agents, disenchanted politicians and cynical revolutionaries. In the Sahara desert, two intelligence agents track down a powerful terrorist group risking their lives (and, when they fall head over heels in love, their careers) at every turn. In China, the old hawks of the hard wing of the Party threaten to push the country to a point of no return and in the United States the president faces a global crisis willing to do anything to avoid an unnecessary war. Can anyone, even with the best of intentions and the most exceptional abilities, stop the inevitable?
Never: By the author of The Pillars of the Earth: 1001 (Hits)
Mrs. MarchVirginia Feito
Virginia Feito has achieved with her first novel what a consecrated Spanish author rarely achieves: to have repercussions in a literary market as competitive as the United States. However, this Madrilenian has not only harvested good reviews there, it has also already sold its rights for a film adaptation. The story has been compared to Rebeca, Daphne du Maurier’s novel made into a film in the 1940s by Hitchcock, and also with the queen of suspense Patricia Highsmith. Although Feito truly claims to have been inspired by another master of terror: Shirley Jackson. In its pages unfolds a hallucinated and hallucinatory trip that can reveal a murder and secrets buried for too long.
Mrs. March (Narrative)
Rome is me Santiago Posteguillo
There are characters that change the history of the world, but there are also moments that change the lives of those characters. Rome is me it is the story of the extraordinary events that marked the destiny of Caesar. Masterfully combining an exhaustive historical rigor and an extraordinary narrative capacity, Santiago Posteguillo manages to immerse the reader in the heat of the battles, make him walk through the most dangerous streets while the senators’ henchmen lurk around any corner, live the great love story of Julius Caesar with Cornelia, his first wife, and ultimately understand how the origins of man were behind the myth.
I am Rome: The true story of Julius Caesar (Historical)
VioletIsabel Allende
The epic and exciting story of a woman whose life encompasses the most relevant historical moments of the 20th century. From 1920 (with the so-called “Spanish flu”) to the 2020 pandemic, Violeta’s life is much more than the story of a century. Seen through the eyes of a woman possessing an unforgettable passion, determination and sense of humor that sustain her through a turbulent lifeIsabel Allende treats her readers, once again, to a furiously inspiring and deeply moving epic story.
cauteryLucia Litjmaer
It is the summer of 2014 and a young woman who has just been abandoned by her partner flees from Barcelona to Madrid with a secret and the conviction that the apocalypse is coming. Four centuries earlier, another woman, Deborah Moody (who went down in history as “the most dangerous woman in the world”), she is forced to emigrate to the colonies of North America carrying in her turn another, very different secret. Her voices reel two crossed stories about violence and hypocrisy, witches and healers. About Salem as the possibility of a new world in which something can bear fruit, far from those who judge and condemn. About Barcelona as a space hacked, heartless and broken by gentrification, on the verge of collapse, in which falling in love is a disease and nothing can be saved. Or if?
Cautery: 690 (Hispanic Narratives)
The map of desires Alice Kellen
Imagine that you are destined to save your sister, but in the end she dies and the reason for your existence vanishes. That is what happens to Grace Peterson, the girl who has always felt invisible, the one who has never left Nebraska, the one who collects words and sees the days go by sheltered in monotony. Until she gets her hands on her game The map of desires and, following the instructions, the first thing she must do is find someone named Will Tucker, whom she has never heard of and who is about to embark with her on a journey straight to the heart, full of vulnerabilities and forgotten dreams, longings and unexpected affection. But is it possible to move forward when the secrets start to weigh too much? Who is who in this story?
The beastCarmen Mola
The year is 1834 and Madrid, a small city trying to break through the walls that surround it, suffers a terrible cholera epidemic. But the plague is not the only thing that terrifies its inhabitants: in the suburbs dismembered corpses of girls appear that nobody claims. All the rumors point to the Beast, a being whom no one has seen but whom everyone fears..
The Beast: Planeta Award 2021 (Spanish and Ibero-American Authors)
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