No money, no future – a motive for murder?The economic crisis has hit Barcelona hard, and a personal crisis might be about to hit Deputy Inspector Norma Forrester’s family.When a body is found in the grounds of a former grand villa,now a student squat, Norma finds the case uncomfortably close to home. The downturn has turned the city into a breeding ground for crime, or is the motive more personal? Unable to stay away, although this case may represent a con...

"A scathing satire of Spanish society, hilarious dialogue, all beautifully dressed up as a crime novel."-- Krimi-Couch"A first novel that's spread like wildfire by word of mouth."-- El Avui"Teresa Solana is great proof of the vitality of the roman noir in Catalan. . . . A wonderfully ironic hymn to the city of Barcelona."-- Diari de BalearsAnother day in Barcelona, another slimy politician's wife is suspected of infidelity. Lluis Font disc...

Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. Second Conde mystery set in languid Havana.

A scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The third in the Havana Quartet series.

A young transvestite found strangled in a Havana park. The stifling death of a beloved Cuba.

Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The fourth of the Havana Quartet series.

A writer is murdered at the Ritz on the night she wins an important literary prize, battered to death with the trophy she has just won. A satire of the Catalan literary scene dressed up as a hilarious murder mystery.

In Exiled from Almost Everywhere, Juan Goytisolo's perverse mutant protagonist—the Parisian "Monster of Le Sentier"—is blown up by an extremist bomber and finds himself in the cyberspace of the Thereafter with an infinite collection of computer monitors. His curiosity piqued, he uses the screens at hand to explore the multiple ways war and terrorism are hyped in the Hereafter of his old life where he once happily cruised bathrooms and accosted children. Ricocheting from life to de...

Turn-of-the-Century Barcelona comes to life in this rediscovered classic from one of Catalan's most beloved female authors

Everything’s made to be broken in this wickedly funny story collection from Catalan’s greatest contemporary writer.

An impressive and very funny collection of stories by Teresa Solana but the fun is very dark indeed. The oddest things happen. Statues decompose and stink out galleries, two old grandmothers are vengeful killers, a prehistoric detective on the verge of becoming the first religious charlatan trails a triple murder that is threatening cave life as the early innocents knew it. The collection also includes a sparkling web of Barcelona stories--connected by two criminal acts--that allows Solana...

A bawdy romance from 1499 about 2 lovers and their go-between, Celestina