They touch on themes from love and friendship to the search for truth and freedom. Because they contain answers, readers have enjoyed these deep and emotionally rich stories, making them the best-selling books for the month of March. novels that, For many, they have been the best books they have read in a long time.. Perfect to disconnect at Easter.
The crystal cuckooJavier Castillo
New York, 2017. Cora Merlo, a first-year medical resident, suffers a sudden heart attack that forces her to have a heart transplant. Still convalescing, the young woman is visited by a strange woman with an enigmatic offer: to spend a few days in Steelville, a small inland town, to learn about the life of his son Charles, the donor of his heart. Cora thus enters a home full of secrets, a mystery that spans twenty years and a hermetic town where, just the day she arrived, a baby disappears in a public park.
The crystal cuckoo (SUMA)
children of the fableFernando Aramburu
Asier and Joseba, two excited young men, left in 2011 for the south of France with the intention of becoming ETA militants. They await instructions at a chicken farm, welcomed by a French couple with whom they hardly understand each other. There they find out that the gang has announced the cessation of armed activity. Left to their own devices, without money, without experience or weapons, they decide to continue the fight on their own, founding their own organization, in which one will assume the role of boss and disciplined ideologue, and the other the more relaxed subordinate. The contrast between the desire for feats and the most ridiculous adventures, under a persistent rain, is taking the story towards some kind of comedy drama. Until they meet a young woman who proposes a plan.
Children of the fable (Andanzas)
the beat of the seaJorge Molist
Blanca, a beautiful lady from the 13th century, loses everything after her family’s defeat in war, and in order to keep her son alive, she must suffer the worst abuses from the victors. The boy, fleeing from misery, embarks as a cabin boy on a galley, the toughest and most dangerous ship of the time. In the sea he will seek the freedom of his mother, her lost family, and revenge. This fast-paced novel based on real events takes us to the last years of the crusades in the Holy Land and the war for control of the Mediterranean between France and the Crown of Aragon.
The beat of the sea (Spanish and Ibero-American Authors)
The sectCamilla Läckberg
Investigator Mina Dabiri and her colleagues from the Stockholm Police Homicide department are being put to the test again: a child has disappeared from a playground and the case shares many similarities with a previous kidnapping that ended tragically. Two years after the dramatic events that brought her lives together, Mina will once again turn to mentalist Vincent Walder to solve an investigation that, this time, will involve her in a very personal way.
The sect (International Planet)
waiting for the delugeDolores Redondo
Between 1968 and 1969, the murderer the press would call Bible John killed three women in Glasgow. He has never been identified and the case is still ongoing. In this novel, set in the early 1980s, Scottish police investigator Noah Scott Sherrington manages to reach John Bible, but a failure in his heart at the last moment prevents him from arresting him. Despite his fragile state of health, and against medical advice and the refusal of his superiors to continue his pursuit of the serial killer, Noah follows a hunch that will lead him to Bilbao in 1983. Just a few days before he a veritable flood devastated the city.
Waiting for the Deluge: 1591 (Anchora & Dolphin)
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