En el pa’s de las caracolas mudas

Definitiva consagración de la autora como la sucesora de Arthur Conan Doyle y Agatha Christie. Esta vez el detective Dalgleish aparece en escena para desentrañar la misteriosa muerte de las enfermeras en el apacible John Carpenter Hospital.

Según el Creador, los humanos ya no tienen remedio. Una tras otra han perdido las oportunidades que han tenido para cambiar y ser mejores. Harto de tantos desaciertos, ha decidido destruirlos para siempre. Pero la Madre Divina guarda aún esperanzas de que los humanos se rediman. Si por lo menos logra que unos cuantos cambien, ésa será la prueba de que toda la especie puede evolucionar y salvarse del desastre. Es así como el Creador y la Madre Divina llegan a un acuerdo: hacer que varios seres de luz se ocupen de un conjunto de humanos que, por una u otra razón, están al borde del...

Malina feels like all hope is lost. She knows life is full of hardships, and she has faithfully accepted one challenge after another--but when she’s accused of a crime she didn’t commit, her fighting spirit is finally broken. Terrified of what will happen next, Malina gives up-only to learn that she is not alone! Enter the world of South Lake Tahoe, 1977. Seven girls in their twenties meet and become close friends. Now, twenty-five years later, each girl is a woman in her fifties, with all the baggage that comes with growing up. Although they all live in different states they have stayed...

This story includes eleven short stories from one of the most heartbreaking French storytellers today. In one story, two girls risk everything by running away from home and their dead-end factory jobs in search of a more meaningful life. In others a man stands by helplessly as a place of great beauty and deep childhood memory is slowly consumed and destroyed by a quickly developing city, an illegal immigrant desperate for work finds himself the prisoner of a ring trafficking in human beings, and an adolescent girl encounters the violence of a gang of masked bikers in a hostile and desolate...