New York en Tiempos del Crack

Estamos en 1947. Sherlock Holmes se retiró de su labor como investigador hace ya mucho tiempo y ahora es un anciano de noventa y tres años. Vive en una granja remota, en Sussex, con su ama de llaves y el joven hijo de esta. Cada día atiende a sus...

Based on the infamous novelist Eve Langley, Ava Langdon is an eccentric outcast solely preoccupied with her passion for words. Little does Ava know, she does not have long to live. Each day she wakes obsessed with finding the perfect sentence, the perfect description. She dons men's clothing and inspires confusion with her penchant for slipping snippets of French into conversation. From submitting a manuscript, to getting hit by a ute, to meeting with her estranged son, Ava's last days encapsulate the freedom of eccentricity and the sadness of isolation.

Con una escritura tensa y eléctrica que recuerda a Don Winslow, una ironía y humor negro que evocan al Pierre Lemaitre de Vestido de novia y un suspense que bebe de Hitchcock, La gabardina azul es una novela muy cinematográfica, y por sus páginas aparecen referencias a The Wire, Breaking Bad, El Padrino... La banda sonora la pone Leonard Cohen con su Famous Blue Raincoat. «Al cumplir los treinta tomé la decisión de dejarlo todo. Ni una cerveza más. Ni una raya más. No le di un mechón de pelo a Jane, como en la canción, porque Jane aún no existía.» Roberto se despierta aturdido,...

The charismatic Sira Quiroga--the unforgettable protagonist from the bestselling The Time in Between--is now back in a page-turning intrigue that moves from Jerusalem to London to Madrid to Tangiers during the tumultuous aftermath of World War Two. Four cities. Two missions. One woman. With the end of WWII, the former seamstress turned couturier turned spy Sira Quiroga is finally ready to embrace the serenity of a peaceful existence with her British diplomat husband Marcus and the upcoming prospect of motherhood. But fate has other plans in store for her, and tranquility proves elusive....