Nueve relatos y medio

En una ciudad de provincias durante la posguerra española, un camarero de pasado oscuro decide chantajear al jefe local de Falange. Lo que no imagina es lo que esa extorsión provocará en un lugar donde todos sospechan de todos y donde la traición y la venganza están a la orden del día. La violencia y la fatalidad se dan la mano en Los días de mercurio, en la que Alexis Ravelo vuelve a mostrarnos lo peor del ser humano en una novela dura, rápida e incómoda que homenajea a autores clásicos del género negro como James M. Cain y Jim Thompson.

From the bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette comes a dramatic novel and powerful love story about the last Russian imperial family. It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. What neighbors and even her children don't know, however, is that she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known as Tania to her parents, Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra.

Fifteen-year-old Hanka Kaudersov has ginger hair and clear, green eyes. When her family is deported to Auschwitz, her mother, father and younger brother are sent to the gas chamber. By a twist of fate, Hanka is faced with a simple alternative: follow her family, or work in an SS brothel behind the eastern front. She chooses to live, her Aryan looks allowing her to disguise the fact that she is Jewish. As the German army retreats from the Russian front, Hanka battles cold, hunger, fear, and shame, sustained by her hatred for the men she entertains, her friendship with the mysterious Estelle,...

En su viaje a Marsella, Jean Macrae, miembro de la estirpe escocesa de los Guardianes, es apresada por el atractivo y poderoso pirata Nikolai Gregorio. La joven pelirroja pronto descubrirá que no se trata de un rufián en busca de un rescate, sino que, tra