Description
"One of the kings of noir novel in Spain." (Cadena SER)
"Expert in the alchemy of thriller." (Marina Sanmartín, ABC Cultural) It is a warm July evening in Madrid, when two men are gutted and thrown from a bridge by the M30 in what seems like a sinister score-settling between clans. Their insides land on top of a convertible that ends up sinking at the Manzanares river along with the car's occupants, three young girls on their way back from a party. One of them dies instantly; she was the sheriff's little girl, so he demands quick answers from his agents and very little noise on the media. It is an almost impossible order to follow for sub-inspector Jotadé Cortés, the only gypsy police officer at the station, and a hopeless irreverent that hates hierarchy and is used to breaking rules. But they all know he also has an out of the charts intuition and was inspector Indira Ramos' right-hand man in her last case. Loyal to his fellow cops and respected on the streets, Jotadé will find himself at a crossroads, forced to revisit an uncomfortable past and do the impossible to protect what matters most to him in life. Satiago Díaz opens a new high-octane series to mesmerize us again with its twists, confirming the author as "one of the kings of noir novel in Spain" (Jacobo Buceta, Hoy por Hoy, Cadena SER).
Author: Santiago Díaz
Publisher: Alfaguara
Published: 07/29/2025
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.40h x 5.70w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9788410299498
ISBN10: 8410299496
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Hispanic & Latino | Mystery & Detective
- Fiction | Thrillers | Crime
- Fiction | Noir
About the Author
Santiago Díaz Cortés (Madrid, 1971), guionista de cine y de televisión con veinticinco años de carrera y cerca de seiscientos guiones escritos, publicó en 2018 su primera novela, Talión, que ganó en 2019 el Premio Morella Negra y el Premio Benjamín de Tudela. En 2021 vio la luz El buen padre, novela con la que dio inicio a la serie protagonizada por la inspectora Indira Ramos y que ha sido traducida a varios idiomas. A esta le han seguido Las otras niñas (2022) e Indira (2023), por ahora la última entrega de la serie y ganadora del Premio Alicante Noir 2023. Asimismo, Santiago Díaz ha cultivado con éxito la literatura juvenil y obtenido en 2021 el Premio Jaén de Narrativa Juvenil por Taurus: Salvar la tierra. Los nueve reinos es su última novela y la primera de corte histórico.