Materia Oscura

Paulina 1880, published in 1925, strikingly prefigures the French "new wave" in fiction. In Pierre Jean Jouve's first novel, Paulina - said to be the most beautiful woman in Milan - enters a passionate affair with a married man. Her love for Count Michele Cantarini is all-consuming, yet Paulina is plagued by its impurity in the eyes of her family, of society, of God. The death of her father, and the subsequent death of the Count's wife, send Paulina into an abyss from which neither her love for Michele nor her faith in God can rescue her.

Yalaina Valdez is a young woman growing up in Mexico. She is popular and has a strong family. One day at school one of her classmates comes to her begging her to take money in exchange for the life of her father. Yalaina did not know what was happening. But she was soon forced to see her family for what they actually were and not what was being presented to her. After confronting her father she soon realizes that her family is in the midst of the Mexican drug cartel. She is faced with the choice of being a part of the family business or walking away from all of the people she has loved the...

En las siguientes páginas, se narra el periplo que sufre en sus propias carnes Papitu, un anciano octogenario que en los últimos años de su vida, -por un fatídico malentendido-, ve como su nieta La Niña Mary, tiene un percance en las escaleras de casa, que la llevará al coma más profundo durante casi un año. Pese al desazón y pesimismo que percibe de los médicos, el desamparo que vive La Mary de padre desconocido y una madre carente de sensibilidad materna relegada a un segundo plano en el seno familiar, el perseverante abuelito, coge la riendas de la situación y velará noches...

La serie de novela negra con trasfondo histórico más premiada. El reino de Sambalpur, de una riqueza fabulosa, alberga tigres, minas de diamantes y el precioso Palacio del Sol. Sin embargo, cuando asesinan al príncipe heredero Adhir en presencia del capitán Sam Wyndham y del sargento Banerjee en Calcuta, éstos deciden seguir la pista de las misteriosas misivas recibidas por el príncipe hasta Sambalpur, pequeño feudo del estado de Orissa, donde descubren un reino desgarrado por un conflicto latente. Mientras tratan de aclarar el misterio del asesinato, Wyndham y Banerjee se verán...