News, news and more news for May with this selection of titles of varied genres and recognized national names among whom Santiago DÃaz and Lorenzo Silva stand out. We also include a couple of books by international authors, in this case German, who present different proposals. We take a look.
May news
The hunger of the pelican — Blanca Cabañas
We begin this review of May news with this title, a thriller that takes us to Cadiz and which Blanca Cabañas signs after Dog.
The stars Luz, who although he wants to start from scratch in a new house in Chiclana, continues to suspect Rodrigo, who has been behaving strangely for some time, leading her to fear that he is being unfaithful again. She then decides to hire a young detective private, but everything gets complicated when the girl's body appears lifeless on the cliffs of Sancti Petri. It's only Alfredo, the waiter who last saw her, who seems interested in finding answers. So the discovery of a Phoenician statuette It will detonate the lives of those who play with its power and believe they have the right to keep it.
Death in Cairo — Erica Ruth Neubauer
With a title like this we can only find ourselves before a tribute, the umpteenth, to the great lady of the mystery novel Agatha Christie, but with the tone of cozy crime current. It is not in vain that the author was the winner of the 2021 Agatha Award.
We are in Egypt in 1926, and Jane Wunderly, a young widow, and her aunt Millie are staying at the luxurious Mena House hotel. There too, guests, mostly from high society, can forget about the aftermath of the First World War.
Then Jane soon succumbs to the charms of one of the guests, the mysterious banker Redvers, and the attractive young Anna Stainton quickly sees her as a rival. So, when the next day Jane finds Anna's body in her room, she becomes the main suspect in her death. So she will have to try to prove her innocence and find out which guest she is hiding more than just a dark secret.
The nine kingdoms - Santiago Diaz
Santiago DÃaz changes gears after his successful trilogy starring Inspector Indira Ramos and presents us with this historical novel about a little-known fact such as that of the rGuanche assistance to the Crown of Castile.
So we go to 1st century BC c., where after mutinying on the ship in which the Romans were transporting them, a group of African prisoners of war and their women They are carried by the currents to the island of Tenerife. There, and for fifteen hundred years, their descendants create a isolated civilization from the rest of the world, until the nine kingdoms that make up the Guanche territory become the objective of the Catholic Monarchs.
The Unspeakable — Lorenzo Silva and Noemà Trujillo
New installment that stars homicide inspector Manuela Mauri, who, close to taking the summer vacation, is not at his best. He has had several experiences in a very short time that he has not yet been able to digest or name. And he realizes when his offspring, Manuel and David, they tell him about the sudden death of his father (his ex husband) and she can't find a way to console them. Also when she sees Susana's parents, a young prostitute sixteen-year-old who died of an overdose, demanding justice for her daughter. Or when she faces Belén's gaze, that she has just lost her sister Rebeca at the hands of her ex-partner. And even when his own partner, Alberto, tells him proposition most important thing in their relationship and she doesn't know what to answer.
After the defeat — Paco Gomez Escribano
In this new novel Gómez Escribano continues to take us around neighborhood characters and townspeople of difficult stocks. So we have Zip, journalist who left the profession years ago due to problems with drugs and work discipline. Now runs a hostel, an inheritance from his uncles, who raised him like his real parents. But one morning everything goes wrong when, after burial of Chule, an ex-convict friend of his, approaches the bank to deposit cash and is witness first and hostage after a robbery. To make matters worse, the leader of the robbers is Chule's son, who along with two companions barricade themselves in the bank before the arrival of the Police. The boys are junkies and they're with the monkey, so it's Zip who has to negotiate with authority.
Women Icon Pack —Michelle Marly
We finish this review of new releases for May with this title in the form of a pack that includes two works by Michelle Marly, the pseudonym by a German writer who has published several bestsellers. She is the author of Mademoiselle Coco. Now it presents the stories of two other women who are also icons of the 20th century, Maria Callas and Peggy Guggenheim.
En The diva. Maria Callas, let's go to 1957, when Maria Callas has reached the peak of her operatic career as a soprano. Her success has begun to take its toll on her and that is when she meets Aristotle. Onassis in a party.
And in Miss Guggenheim We know the story of Peggy Guggenheim, the New York gallery owner who lived a great love and changed the art world. She is in the city of skyscrapers and in the decade of 1940 when Peggy Guggenheim tries to overcome obstacles to open her museum at the same time as her love relationship with the painter Max Ernst it's going down.