La consorte, el caballo del diablo, y cuentos varios

Soon to be a Netflix film directed by Charlie Kaufman. Jake and his girlfriend are on a drive to visit his parents at their remote farm. After dinner at the family home, things begin to get worryingly strange. And when he leaves her stranded in a snowstorm at an abandoned high school later that night, what follows is a chilling exploration of psychological frailty and the limitations of reality. Iain Reid’s intense, suspenseful debut novel will have readers’ nerves jangling. A series of tiny clues sprinkled through the relentlessly paced narrative culminate in a haunting twist on the...

Isabelle Catherine Hutting likes to spend time in the library before going to the dance hall in search of a husband. When she finds out that a space opened up in the house in town for single women, she decides to set aside her marriage plans. She will first have to speak to Marcus, the Duke of Hart, owner of the property, in order to move in. He turns out to be the most attractive man she has ever seen . He is immediately attracted to her, but he is not interested in relationships. An old curse weighs heavy on his mind that no duke in his family will live long enough to see an heir born....

Cuando Emilio Renzi cae en “cana” no sabe con quienes se encontrará en la misma celda. Tampoco, que su presencia incomoda a sus compañeros por razones “íntimas”. A pesar de que la narración se desarrolle en una cárcel, este cuento está lejos de tratarse del presidio. La invasión se lee con rapidez, haciéndonos parte de los submundos de Renzi y de la literatura de Piglia. Además, La invasión forma parte de la colección Patagonia Singles de Ebooks Patagonia.

Un monje de Poblet es asesinado cuando trabajaba en la restauración de una reliquia en un convento de clausura barcelonés. Tras el desconcierto inicial, Petra Delicado y su ayudante Fermín se documentan en el monasterio de Poblet. La investigación se encaminará hacia dos focos: los hechos de la Semana Trágica de 1909 y la oscura trayectoria de una poderosa familia benefactora del convento.