Proyecto Anticristo

Mínima violencia y máximo refinamiento. Es la nota común que distingue a las envenenadoras, las que cometen sus crímenes de una forma premeditada, fría, insidiosa. Sin arrebatos ni improvisación. En este libro se relatan 40 crímenes reales cometidos por envenenadoras españolas.

The volcanic ash of Etna covers the city of Catania and the deputy commissioner of the Judicial Police, Giovanna Garrasi, known as Vanina, faces a new case: to discover what is hidden in the body of a woman who appeared in a villa in Sciara. The circumstances could not be more extraordinary: the house, with a stately air and practically abandoned since 1959, is in ruins and her body is mummified. Identifying the body and determining the cause of death will be like going through a time tunnel. Decades ago, the town was already the scene of a famous crime. In her efforts to solve her mystery,...

Mallorca. 1946. En un sanatorio de tuberculosos, un hombre solitario va a morir. Abrumado por la culpa, su memoria viaja obsesivamente al centro del dolor, la guerra, cuando este hombre, el padre Julián, se vio arrastrado a una danza de muerte siguiendo los pasos de un personaje siniestro. El conde Rossi. A raíz del golpe militar del 36, Mallorca quedó en manos de los nacionales. Aparentemente la isla estaba bajo control, pero a las pocas semanas el desembarco de los republicanos desencadenó la tragedia. Un fascista italiano, apoyado por aristócratas locales, reclutó un pequeño...

Clorinda Matto de Turner's second novel, Indole, was published in Lima in 1891, two years after her Aves sin nido shocked the Peruvian reading public with its forthright criticism of Church and state corruption. Like Aves, Indole dramatizes the liberal reformist anticlericalism of late nineteenth century political debates, and is also set in a small Andean town surrounded by outlying haciendas. But in Indole, the town is a stable and basically happy one, where indigenous people, mestizos and landowners of Spanish descent live harmoniously in a beautiful Andean valley. Matto's journalistic...