When a mysterious relic is stolen from a Madrid museum, people are dying to discover its secrets. Literally. U.S. Treasury agent Alexandra LaDuca returns from Conspiracy in Kiev to track down the stolen artwork, a small carving called The Pietà of Malta. It seems to be a simple assignment, but nothing about this job is simple, as the mysteries and legends surrounding the relic become increasingly complex with claims of supernatural power. As aggressive,...

Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his relationship to art. What is actual when our experiences are mediated by language, technology, medication, and the arts? Is poetry an essential art form, or merely a screen for the reader's projections? Instead of following the dictates of his fellowship, Adam's "research" becomes a meditation...

A fifteenth-century painting by a Flemish master is about to be auctioned when Julia, a young art restorer, discovers a peculiar inscription hidden in a corner: Who killed the knight? In the painting, the Duke of Flanders and his knight are locked in a game of chess, and a dark lady lurks mysteriously in the background. Julia is determined to solve the five-hundred-year-old murder, but as she begins to look for clues, several of her friends in the...

"A young girl flees seventeenth-century Madrid, in fear for her life. Three centuries later and a continent away, a woman comes across old papers long hidden away, and in them discovers the reason for the flight so long ago, and for her own mother’s enigmatic dying words"--

"On a sweltering August day in Madrid, Anna, Julia, and Marion return to their childhood home. The once grand mansion, furnished with exotic objects and art that reflected the cultures of their English father and Spanish mother, once bustled with visitors. But since their father's death, all three sisters have been reluctant to go back, still feeling the weight of his domineering influence. Julia believes that before the house can sell, it needs to...

"In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when...

En este deslumbrante debut, Jaiver Fuentes relata la tumutuosa y apasionada historie de amor entre do Jovesnes prodedentes de mundos muy distintos en el transurso de un verano extraordinario en España. Una historia que invita a reflexionar sobre la identidad, las diferencias de clase, el sentimiento de pertenencia y el deseo.

"Podczas Międzynarodowego Konkursu Kopistycznego w Muzeum Prado dochodzi do serii brutalnych zabójstw. Sprawcy odtwarzają w nich najsłynniejsze obrazy ze zbiorów galerii. Policja tkwi w martwym punkcie. Dwie osoby mogą pomóc rozwikłać tajemnicę makabrycznych zbrodni: kopistka amatorka i ekscentryczny specjalista od symboli. Mrożący krew w żyłach thriller o sekretach ukrytych w obrazach Velazqueza, Goi czy Boscha. Nawet sobie nie wyobrażasz,...

"Eduardo Quintana is a broken man. The tragedy that cost him the lives of his family is a wound he daily tears open afresh. The once-renowned painter wallows in grief, subsisting on alcohol and drugs, eking out a living with whatever painting commissions he can get. But when he is approached by a mysterious woman who wants him to paint a portrait of the man who killed her son, he soon becomes entangled in a web of deceit in which no one, and nothing,...

Serial Killers is the name of the blog of three young people who live in Madrid. They dream of creating their great international success, a series such as Lost. One day they receive a call from a television production company to interview them. In reality, it's a police sub-inspector, Hector Salaberri. "Asesinos de series es el nombre del blog de tres jovenes (Andres, Marta y Ruben) que viven juntos en Madrid. Adictos a las series, suenan con crear...