2023-08-18 18:30:10
A kidnapping on the Costa Brava in the early 1980s, a plot of corruption and crime inspired by the failed dream of the sculptor Eduardo Chillida in Fuerteventura or a media crime of the 1920s are some of the stories with a black background signed by Girona authors that invite you to take a literary dive to help beat the heat these last days of August. Below is a selection of works that have published during 2023 more than contrasting stars from Girona, such as Anna Carreras and Jordi Dausà, but also debutants such as Jordi Coll.
“vines en cercle”
After debuting with #Finsaquí, the wild writer Cesc Cornet has published vines in cerclea plot that includes three criminal cases separated by two decades and related to the same family, the Gasulls.
In 1983, someone kidnaps Sílvia Gasull during Monells’ fiesta major. Twenty years later, the girl’s parents appear brutally murdered in their home, in Begur. And, in the present day, Joan, the only living member of the Gasulls, dies when he is about to receive the entrepreneur of the year award. Published by Llibres del Delicte, it has the criticism of the destruction of the territory as a backdrop.
“Cabins in the woods”
It also digs into a fact from the past Joseph Viñas a Cabins in the woods, edited by Brau. The Saltenc builds a psychological thriller based on the kidnapping of a girl – or rather, the memory of the kidnapping, thirty-five years later – in a forest in an urbanization in l’Escala, in Cala Montgó, where the same Viñas has been spending the summers for decades.
“The Night of the Rooster”
And thriller with Orwellian airs is what he proposes Jordi Dausà in his sixth novel, published by La Campana.
After dedicating himself to noir novels that escape clichés, this year the Cassanencian has returned to bookstores with Rooster nighta story set some twenty years from now, in an inhospitable and unfriendly environment, marked by hostile and intrusive technology, but which does not fit under the umbrella of dystopias and which, with frenetic rhythm, black humor and a good dose of suspense, it narrates the forward escape of Matt, a man in his sixties who, returning home for Christmas, mistakenly takes a suitcase that is not his from the airport.
“The written stones”
The writer and scientist from Girona Cristina Malagelada he weaves a plot of corruption and crime around Eduardo Chillida’s frustrated dream in Fuerteventura in Les pedres escrites, his fourth novel.
The perversion of the failed project of the Basque sculptor to transform the mountain of Tindaya into a work of natural art is the starting point with which the author tries to devise a war of cross interests between corrupt politicians, environmentalists, hit men and surfers, because surfing is a very important source of resources on the island. Publish Crime Books.
“The price of blood”
Jordi Coll debuts on the publishing market with a thriller set in the Pyrenees, The price of blood. The author from Breda, a potter by profession, has been writing novels of mystery and intrigue for years, but following the self-publishing of The incredible case of the ninety-year-old archdeaconcaught the attention of a major label, Rosa dels Vents, which has published this suspenseful story that begins with the disappearance of a girl and the discovery of a corpse in a small town in Pallars Sobirà.
To investigate the two cases, Coll recovers the character of inspector Renée Colomer, the protagonist of his first work.
“Watch with me”
With Watch Me, Anna Carreras completes a black trilogy, started with The Beetle’s Eye and Halley 2042. Published under the Llibres del Delicte label, they are three works with completely independent universes but with one thing in common: very powerful female characters, with a clear goal and few qualms about achieving it.
This time the writer and translator resident in Girona narrates the story of Emma, a painter who dreams of a great exhibition and hates mediocrity, so when she detects it in someone she has to kill him.
“Five connections”
The palm tree Sebastian Bennasarwho has been living in Olot for some time, returns to his native Mallorca with Five connections (Crime books), his most hooligan novel: a story of violence in Son Banya, the town where drugs are sold on the island.
Narrated in two temporal plans, it is also a critique of the tourist pressure in the Balearic Islands and a sample of what journalism was like at the end of the 90s.
“The mysterious death of Dolors Bernabeu”
Already far from fiction, The mysterious death of Dolors Bernabeu del gironin Josep Sala and Cullell is an opportunity to recover one of the most media-covered criminal cases of the 20s. The book, edited by Pòrtic, reconstructs from the press and documents of the time and the mystery surrounding the death of a young woman in the passage of ‘Escudellers of the Catalan capital in 1925, a case that occupied newspaper pages and with two opposing sides: those who defended the theory of suicide and those who saw it as a murder.
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