Miguel Mañara

When the tortured body of a young woman is found in a dumpster, her eyes swollen shut and her clothes soaked with blood, Detective Erika Foster is one of the first at the crime scene. The trouble is, this time, it's not her case.

Antonio Puente Mayor (Sevilla, 1978). Licenciado en Filología Hispánica, es guía de tour operador en circuitos por todo el país. Autor de varias obras divulgativas, su libro infantil Nazarenos de caramelo fue finalista del Premio Nacional de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil en 2012. En 2013 vio la luz su primera novela, La sombra de Bécquer. En Algaida ha publicado El testamento de Santa Teresa.

"A few years after its liberation from the brutality of French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of even greater brutality under the reign of King Henri-Christophe, who was born a slave in Grenada but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In prose of often dreamlike coloration and intensity, Alejo Carpentier records the destruction of the black regime--built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down the French while embodying the same hollow grandeur of false elegance, attained only through slave labor--in an orgy of voodoo, race ...

A young woman is left for dead and her lover is murdered. She vows to bring the killer to justice, but her investigation leads her to realize her lover had been hiding a secret that now has his enemies after her.