Subgénero: Mystery
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Gloria Damasco Saga
In her dreams hide the key to solving the case. The Gloria Damasco saga is a faithful tribute to the noir novel; it joins the political and human rights problems of the Chicano sector with the essence of the purest mystery genre. Most of Gloria’s cases happen in the San Francisco Bay Area. We find…
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The Master of Puppets (La maestra de títeres)
If there has ever been a woman destined to shine, that is Beatriz Calanda. Everybody knows Beatriz Calanda. Her family, her marriages and her misfortunes have been present in the tabloids for decades. However, she hides several secrets that people could not even imagine. Where does she come from? How did she get to where…
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Killing Socrates (El asesinato de Sócrates)
He was the wisest man on Earth, but his death would be violent and carried out by the man with the blue gaze. Perseus, a baby with the brightest blue eyes, is born in Sparta and his own father condemns him to death. His mother Deianira tries to end with her abusive husband, but Perseus…
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Crimson Moon
One of the most disturbing chapters of the American psyche. A woman's fall down the side of a cliff has left her struggling for every breath; a forgotten manuscript is found buried under rotting food in a garbage dump; and fake identities belonging to the Chicano civil rights movement are about to be revealed. Private…
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Lady Metralla (Lady Shrapnel)
A story on "buchonas". Carolina is a young girl from Sinaloa (Mexico) who owns such an intellect and a shocking physical appearance. Her life changes dramatically when she meets El Rojo, an attractive and dangerous man with whom she falls in love. As a consequence, she ends involved in a drug-trafficking atmosphere. On the other…
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The Secret Supper
In a time when opposing the Catholic Church means being a heretic, Da Vinci manoeuvres to express his free-thinking believes the best way he knows how. Italy, 1941. Friar Agustin Leyre is an insightful Dominican inquisitor and a member of a committee founded by the Supreme Pontiff, Alexander VI, focused on closely investigating the…
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Desert Blood (Sangre en el desierto)
There are dead girls who do not make any noise… Ivon Villa is a lesbian professor living in Los Angeles who returns home to El Paso to adopt a baby boy from Cecilia, a Mexican maquiladora living across the border in Juarez. Cecilia is found dead in the desert, with the baby disemboweled, a victim of…
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The Invisible Fire (El fuego invisible)
The most important secret of the humankind is about to be revealed. David Salas is a young linguistics teacher at Trinity College in Dublin. Urged by his mother's insistence, he travels to Madrid to spend his vacations with a dear family friend, writer, and teacher Victoria Goodman. He also meets her young assistant,…
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The Pythagoras Saga (Saga Pitágoras)
Crimes, mystery, a bleeding battle for succession for a powerful dynasty, and romance in a thrilling action story. Old philosopher Pythagoras, one of the most powerful people of his time, is about to choose his successor from among the great masters of the community, his closest disciples. The eventual successor will inherit such a huge…
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The Tree of the Target (El árbol de la diana)
Romantic passion, search for origins and suspense at a Mexican ranch. Elena Peralta is not tied to Spain anymore. She now wants to look for her mother in Mexico, with whom she never had contact before. When she arrives, she finds out her mother passed away in a mysterious incident. In the accident, she…
