Teresa Solana

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 to explore the darker side of different parts of the city and their seedier inhabitants.

The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories

Only concerned about the possibility of political fallout, Lluis Font hires private detectives to investigate his wife's suspected infidelity, but the case gets ugly when she turns-up dead.

A Not So Perfect Crime

Fascinating short stories that include a rather bloody satire on installation art, including the Edgar Award-nominated story "Still Life No.41", a wonderful story of gruesome revenge involving a wayward son-in-law, a surprising and hilarious tale of a pre-historic serial killer who invents God and psychoanalysis, and, inevitably, a vampire story told with venom and humor. These stories remind one of the best short stories by Stephen King, such as those in the ‘Just after Sunset’ compilation. They can be horrific but are never without a devastating sense of humor. As in the adult short stories of Roald Dahl (the ‘Kiss Kiss’ collection in particular, with its tales of family and other violence) there is great ingenuity, surprising and satisfying endings, and, since it’s Solana, deep cutting satire of contemporary fads and mores.

Crazy Tales of Blood and Guts

A satirical romp and suspenseful mystery set in the literary world of Barcelona.

A Shortcut to Paradise

Jordi Sierra i Fabra

Andreu Martín

Cristina Fallarás

Valerie Miles

Santiago Roncagliolo

Francisco González Ledesma

Inma Monsó

Eric-Taylor Aragón

Su belleza solitaria, rodeada por montañas y con vistas al mar, sus alegres calles y sus elegantes monumentos convierten a Barcelona en una ciudad bonita y acogedora. Pero no nos equivoquemos: Barcelona, con todo su encanto y color, no ha podido siempre ocultar su lado oscuro. Represión, drogas o inmigración son sólo algunos de los temas que aparecen en catorce historias que nos transportan desde lo más típico, desde las Ramblas a Gaudí, a la parte más corrupta y deshonesta de la ciudad, a la Barcelona que nunca aparecerá en un recorrido turístico. En esta antología encontraremos, así, relatos históricos, como el de Andreu Martín; enloquecidos y disparatados, como el de David Barba; brevísimos, como el de Lolita Bosch; fantásticos, como el de Inma Monsó, o muy sexuales, como el de Valerie Miles. El resultado final: catorce nuevas y originales historias, cada una de ellas emplazada en uno de los barrios más característicos de Barcelona, con catorce puntos de vista completamente distintos, todas ellas escritas por los más destacados escritores españoles y catalanes del género negro.

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