Etiqueta: Investigation
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Crime is Spelled with an A (Crimen se escribe con A)
Three dates, three alibis, one murderer. Rebeca Sanz is murdered in her home. Just before she takes her last breath, she manages to write her killer's name in her own blood, but when she is found, only the initial A remains. In the days prior, she had met three men through a dating service…
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Favaloro: The Great Operator (Favaloro: El gran operador)
The Argentine doctor who transformed and democratized surgery worldwide. René Favaloro is the most transcendental Argentinean doctor of the 20th century for his contribution to humanity and the lives that have been saved as a result of the surgical procedure he systematized in 1967; a procedure that would transform world medicine forever with his bypass technique. This is a journey through his life, from his origins, his training, his influences and his experiences that shows the process that delineated his way of thinking and understanding the country where he lived. It is a journey through the ups and downs that marked the life of the heart surgeon committed to guaranteeing access to highly complex medical procedures even for those who could not afford it. Since his arrival to his country of origin (Italy) to the tragic afternoon of his suicide. Along the way, he deals with his childhood; the fanaticism he inherited from his uncle for gymnastics; his time at the Rafael Hernández National School, where he received a humanistic education from teachers such as the essayist Ezequiel Martínez Estrada, the Dominican writer Pedro Henríquez Ureña or the art critic Jorge Romero Brest; or at the University of La Plata in Argentina. There was also his ideological distance from Peronism; his time as a rural doctor in the Argentiean town of Jacinto Arauz; his settlement in the United States, where he perfected his skills as a surgeon specializing in coronary diseases at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic and established the definitive procedure for the coronary bypass, which since 1968 has saved millions of lives around the world. And, of course, his return to Argentina, where he created the foundation that bears his name and from which he tried to provide high quality medicine for all. Like no other figure in the medical field in Argentina, the surgeon René Gerónimo Favaloro managed to exceed his academic prestige to become a public figure of the highest profile and an ethical reference for millions of people. RELEVANT DATA: Pablo Morosi, a researcher and author of Favaloro. The Great Operator, spent two years conducting an in-depth research and more than 140 interviews that immersed him in the world of one of the most important doctors in the history of Argentina. What the critics have said: “A complete, detailed…
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Mona Carmona and the Enigma of the Sagrada Familia Basilica (Mona Carmona y el enigma de la Sagrada Familia)
The great Basilica contains a great treasure that only a great detective will be able to discover. Mona, a precocious and brilliant thirteen-year-old Mexican teenager, is an avid reader of Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie, and any type of story that challenges her intellect and confronts her with a powerful enigma. She has always wanted to…
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Holly Hernandez and the Death of Disco
Two teenage investigators willing to do anything to find the culprit. Holly Hernandez can't wait to start classes at her new elite high school in New York City. However, everything changes when Mr. Friedman, her social studies teacher, is murdered and her mother must take over the case. Holly, an avid and passionate crime…
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The Sound of your Hair (El sonido de tu cabello)
“But I promise to lie as much as it takes.” Dawn breaks in Las Tres Mil Viviendas, Seville (Spain), one of the most dangerous suburbs in all of Europe: drug supermarkets, diseases that, although officially eradicated, persist, areas forgotten by the state services… The anti-riot police seal off the Calvinist Evangelical Church,…
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Prisons, Whores and Guns (De prisiones, putas y pistolas)
Divide and conquer: The great strategy to put an end to ETA. In the early morning of December 2nd, 1991, Cadena SER broadcasted an exclusive: for the first time in history, ETA prisoners criticized the leadership of the band for their latest terrorist actions and expressed their opposition to the attacks that had children…
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Death on a Playing Card (La muerte en un naipe)
Nine victims, a deck of cards, and a criminal who is just playing for fun. On January 24th, 2003, Alfredo Galán Sotillo leaves his house with the intention of going for a walk in Madrid and killing someone. Anyone. The first victim is a man who is feeding his young son. He asks him to…
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Shiva’s Tears Saga (Saga Las lágrimas de Shiva)
Shiva’s Tears | The Scarlet Circle Crossed revenge, forbidden love, mysterious presences, strange disappearances… Summer 1969. Javier is an intelligent 15-year-old who is passionate about science fiction. Unfortunately, his father is diagnosed with a highly contagious disease, so Javier is forced to move to Santander, in the North of Spain, with his mother’s side of the family. In Villa Candelaria, he is welcomed…
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Nobody´s Box (El cofre de nadie)
An exciting journey to her roots. Nadia is a cautious, introverted girl who is very content with her uneventful adolescence, and happy to have only one friend: Hugo. She was adopted in Kenya when she was a baby. Her father, a doctor who worked for the NGO Doctors Without Borders, told her…
