Xavier ALIAGA CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2024, 280 p. FICTION, Crime Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grantsAfter The Neons of Sodom and Two square meters of young blood (crims.cat 12), Xavier Aliaga returns with a new installment of his peculiar policeman of Guinean origin. With the same load of irony and social criticism, but with a much more poignant and violent story, in what could be considered the...

Gilles DEL PAPPAS Editions d’Avallon (réédition),  2024, (Librio, 2000; CLC édition, 2004), 94 p. FICTION, Crime Novel, French One of the Best Sellers by Gilles del Pappas, Marseilles’ Crime and Adventure Novels Master. Gilles del Pappas. Massilia Dreams, New edition in French by Editions d'Avallon. Before a middle-aged woman claimed to have lost her jewels in Loule’s taxi, life was pretty quiet for him in Marseille,...

Andreu MARTIN CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2024, 332 p. FICTION, Black Novel, Catalan, Spanish (Alrevés) Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grantsThe new novel from Barcelona’s master of the Crime Novel. Tricky and revealing of the problems of Barcelona and Catalan society. Marc Olván is a lawyer in a bad situation, in love and an alcoholic, who is not exactly going through a great time. Lidia Pedralba is a mother...

Silvestre VILAPLANA CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2020, 250 p. FICTION, Thriller Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grantsThe novel that begins the trilogy featuring Inspector Araceli Lavila In a flush on the outskirts of Valencia appears the body of an unidentified young woman with the phalanges of her fingers cut off and obvious signs of rape. When Inspector Araceli Lavila begins the investigation, she...

Antoni ROCA CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2023, 214 p. FICTION, Crime Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants X Agustí Vehí-Vila de Tiana Memorial Prize 2023 In 1912, Vienna was a seemingly quiet city, the center of a continental empire that has survived the uprisings of the nineteenth century. It has more than two million inhabitants and the Universal Exposition has given it an unquestionable prestige,...

Silvestre VILAPLANA CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2023, 290 p. FICTION, Crime Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grantsAfter Women without Name and Suburbs of Paradise, Silvestre Vilaplana completes with Angels of Death the trilogy of detective Araceli Lavila, three crime novels with a strong social denunciation that have corruption and abuses of power as a background. Death seems to have taken over the...

Silvestre VILAPLANA CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2022, 268 p. FICTION, Crime’s novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grantsA novel denouncing the darkness of factual powers set against the backdrop of political crimes, the rise of fascism and abuses of power. After Women Without a Name, Inspector Araceli Laula returns. Removed from the body while battling health problems, her life is disturbed by the...

Jordi CERVERA CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2021, 380 p. FICTION, Thriller, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants A wood, a park and a courthouse. What can these three places have in common? Well, more than you think, especially if we also take a look at the protagonists who move there. Because it’s hard to imagine the things that might unite a media philosopher, a respected judge woman, a young woman...

Pere FIGUERAS CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2022, 180 p. FICTION, Crime’s Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grantsA dark book full of humour IX ex-aequo Memorial Agustí Vehí-Vila Award in Tiana Black Novel Festival 2022 The protagonist of this story is Avel·lí Baldoví, a psychopath convinced that the world works against him and who does not hesitate to eliminate anyone who offends his dignity. He...

Rabia AHMED FEROZSONS,  2022, 200 p. FICTION, Novel, English (Pakistan) A story of the ongoing struggle between power and poverty in Pakistan’s town. It’s an investigative novel because the author is a journalist, at times a social novel, but also an intimate novel, and always in a simple and elegant writing. Pakistan, with its social and urban problems, has so much to tell us. “Set within the framework of a family coming to...

Andreu MARTIN CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2023, 480 p. FICTION, Black Novel, Catalan, Spanish (Alrevés) Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants World War I. While the main European cities are bleeding into conflict, Barcelona is one of the great pearls of the Mediterranean. Despite its status as a neutral territory, no one ignores the fact that on the coast there are ports where they can illegally stock up on fuel...

Mariló ÀLVAREZ CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2022, 180 p. FICTION, Crime’s Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants X Memorial Agustí Vehí-Vila Award in Tiana Black Novel Festival 2022 Queralt, a psychologist by training, works at the Suicide Assistance Center (C.A.S.) number twelve, an agency attached to the Social Security that regulates suicide requests from her patients. Their task is to assess...

Lluís LLORT CRIMS.CAT (CLANDESTINA),  2016, 296 p. FICTION, Crime’s Novel, Catalan Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants Monday morning. The week begins for Mossos d’Esquadra sergeant Jaume Fuentes and his colleague, Santi Planes, with the case of the corpse of a young man snuggled up in a small office in the center of Barcelona. Over the next seven days, what initially seemed like a routine case...

En négociation avec une maison d’édition Gilles DEL PAPPAS FICTION /Polar, français Ainsi Gilles del Pappas introduit-il son roman : “En plein confinement, j’ai entendu une journaliste prouver que les agressions contre les femmes, au foyer conjugal, avaient été augmentées de 35%. J’en fus horrifié. Comment cela était-il possible. Que mes collègues, les hommes pouvaient être capable de telles ignominies me surprenait. Pourquoi ?...

Pepe Ribas Altamarea, 2022, 272 p., Novel, spanish Original Encuentro en Berlín, muerte en Ukrania English sample available Territory of representationFrench language More about the rights available for this book sophiesavary@sosavbooks.com

Gildas Girodeau Horsain, 2022, 246 p. FICTION, Detective Novel, french When Alfons Duru discovers a decapitated illegal immigrant in his vat of Banyuls wine, his world is swept away by a veritable tsunami. Paul Feder gets involved in the old man’s affairs, comes across mafiosi from La Jonquera, unscrupulous thugs from Collioure, and a not-so-gentleman who organises parties in a château in Saint Jean Lasseille; not forgetting the cliffs of...

Rafael Guerrero MAR editor, 2nd edition, 2023; CÍRCULO ROJO, 2013, 213 p. DETECTIVE NOVEL, spanish “Rafael Guerrero” serie, #2 Prefaced by Paco Camarasa A real-life Detective, Writer. The novels are based on cases experienced by the author/detective. Rafael Guerrero, a detective, is both author and protagonist of his novels. A case in the turbulent North Africa of 2011 almost cost private detective Rafael Guerrero his life. To forget what...

Rafael Guerrero MAR editor, 2021, 192 p. DETECTIVE NOVEL, spanish “Rafael Guerrero” serie, #5 10th Wilkie Collins Award for Crime Novels Franchesca plans to murder her husband and induces her lover to help her. But the man hires detective Rafael Guerrero so that this proposal is on record and he can denounce the ideologue with evidence or escape conviction if she acts on her own and implicates him. He is frightened, believing that if she...

Gilles DEL PAPPAS et Emmanuel PETIT RAMSAY, 2021, 243 p. CRIME FICTION, french Second opus of the Trilogy of football polars, with the Commissioner Clémentine Paccini Tignes, November 97, oxygenation course for the French national team, a local FIFA representative is found with his throat cut and his hands hanged. Casablanca, May 98, Hassan II competition, a young FIFA representative is found dead, with her throat cut. At the scene, in the...

Ara direu que estic boig Andreu MARTIN ALREVÉS editorial,  2021, 236 p. FICTION, Black Novel, Catalan, Spanish Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants “Now I fall asleep, now I wake up, now I fall asleep”. This is the life of Francesc Ascás, an extravagant young man who hears voices and says strange things, who draws comics and is hooked on the predictions of a television magician, and all of this...

Andreu MARTIN RBA, LA MAGRANA, 2013,  304 p. BLACK NOVEL, catalan, spanish Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants V Crims de Tinta Award in 2012 “Soong, Dona, Home i Nen, Señora, Caballero y Niño, Lady, Gentleman and Child Fashions, Wholesale Only”. This is how it appears on the business poster of some Chinese businessmen that camouflages the secret bank that is robbed before the macabre...

Andreu MARTIN RBA, LA MAGRANA, 2016,  448 p. BLACK NOVEL, catalan, spanish Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants The murder of two partners in a financial consulting firm triggers a major police operation involving Germán Rojo, a powerful man who believes he is untouchable and far above the other mortals, those annoying cockroaches he can crush whenever he wants. However, it has a weakness. Melba, a young woman, who...

Andreu MARTIN BROMERA, 2014, 336 p. BLACK NOVEL, catalan CIENTO CUARENTA EDITORIAL, 2014, 384 p., spanish Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants The murder of two partners in a financial consulting firm triggers a major police operation involving Germán Rojo, a powerful man who believes he is untouchable and far above the other mortals, those annoying cockroaches he can crush whenever he wants. However, it has a...

Andreu MARTIN ALREVÉS editorial,  2019, 290 p. FICTION, Black Novel, Catalan, spanish Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants Vila-Real town Novel Award 2018 A few months after the Jihadist attack on Barcelona’s Ramblas, and with days to go before controversial regional elections, the lifeless body of National Police inspector Santiago Ortuño appears in the port, between concrete blocks and a raging dark...

Andreu MARTIN ALREVÉS editorial,  2018, 355 p. FICTION, Black Novel, Catalan, spanish Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants Up there, on Tibidabo Avenue, where the old Blue Tramway runs, among the modernist and imposing villas is “El harem”, an exclusive brothel, which was already very popular during the Franco era. The most luxurious in the city: golden doors, coloured stained glass windows,...

Andreu MARTIN ALREVÉS editorial,  2020, 256 p. FICTION, Black Novel, Catalan, spanish The art of intrigue, of shaping spectacular characters, the truculent language in the dialogues, all the qualities found in Andreu Martín’s novels, are particularly remarkable in this novel. Author supported by the Ramón Llull Institute, translation grants The Tibidabo Harem is back, the most luxurious Modernist brothel in Barcelona, with its oak...

Rafael Guerrero CÍRCULO ROJO, 2015, 238 p. DETECTIVE NOVEL, spanish “Rafael Guerrero” serie, #3 Prefaced by Juan Madrid Sicily, Madrid and Syria at war are the places where Rafael Guerrero’s new investigations are taking place in 2014. Places that will lead the author and character to an ultimatum. Prostitutes, mobsters, spies and private detectives form the crowd of characters involved in the same story. A story that is rooted in...

Rafael Guerrero Republished by EOLAS, 2020, 260p. DETECTIVE NOVEL, spanish CÍRCULO ROJO, 2018. “Rafael Guerrero” serie, #4 A woman threatened with death by her ex-husband is forced to flee without a trace by adopting a new identity. She loses everything to try to save herself.A young man in love travels to India to meet his future in-law family and ends up disappearing, kidnapped, perhaps dead, perhaps reincarnated. Detective Guerrero will try...

Gildas Girodeau Au-delà du raisonnable, 2015, 250 p. To be republished, FICTION, Black Novel, french A brave woman like the Captain, like the Passionaria, like so many who found energy and strength to fight for ideas and for life. It makes us want to follow in her footsteps, it awakens our longing for political and ordinary heroism.Her name was Antonia. The press in the ’70s called it the Pistolera. Antonia, a young activist and her...

Gildas Girodeau Horsain, 2020, first publication, 2018, 292 p. FICTION, Black Novel, french On a beach near Perpignan, the body of a decapitated man is discovered. Around him, in the sand, there are signs calling out to a young PJ investigator recently posted in the South, a woman called Laurence Guéguen. “Miguel Cesplugas stopped chewing his meat and stared at it with astonishment. When he saw that she was not joking, the colossus burst...

Gilles DEL PAPPAS DE BOREE,  2018, 240 p. FICTION, polar adventure novel, french Serie of adventure polar books Constantine the Greek, 22 volumes already publishedLast published, Constantin n°22 Takes place in Marsella and HamburgoEach one is a part of Marsella’s chronicle, from the 90’s, and often an adventure in another place in the world. The Marseille’s Bob Morane. Two new Manuscripts, rights available in french and in foreign...

Gilles DEL PAPPAS et Emmanuel PETIT SEUIL, 2019, 256 p. POLAR FICTION, french First opus of the Trilogy of football polars Immersed in FIFA’s hot topic, Clémentine Paccini, a young commissioner at 36 quai des Orfèvres, with a strong head and a passion for gastronomy, was sent to Marseille as a matter of urgency. Astonishment throughout France: the charismatic OM coach was found murdered. Alongside the director of the investigation,...

Carlos BASSAS del REY ALREVÉS editorial,  2018, 240 p. FICTION, Black Novel, spanish DASHIEL HAMMETT Prize in Black Week Festival in Girón 2019 Justo must be cold, implacable, dispassionate. And to apply it, God decided that each generation should have thirty-six Righteous, the tzadik, anonymous men who maintain the balance between Good and Evil on the face of the Earth. Justo Ledesma is one of them. An irascible old man who runs through...

Carlos BASSAS del REY ALREVÉS,  2019, 181 p. FICTION, Black Novel, spanish The pain of a child’s death is unmentionable and manifests itself in very different ways. So do the loneliness, emptiness, fear, guilt, and anger that come with knowing that life has been taken away. Overnight, Soledad becomes the dead mother of a dead child. Inspector Romero, in charge of investigating the case, will live his own ordeal trying to discover the...