Razones para Cris

Premio Memorial Silverio Cañada de la Semana Negra de Gijón «Es muy buena, buenísima, una joya. Mallo nos promete que habrá más novelas con el comisario Lascano. Que no tarde.» Ernesto Ayala-Dip, El Correo «En la más rigurosa y perfecta tradición de la novela negra, Mallo nos regala este libro para leer sin parar y sin aliento.» Ana María Shua «Una lectura vertiginosa, intensa, que provoca al pensamiento.» The Guardian «Si quiere leer una buena policiaca que, superando el marco del género, ofrezca la visión de una ciudad o un país, esta novela es para usted.» Le Monde...

Un caluroso domingo del verano de 2010, el comisario Jaritos asiste a la boda de su hija Katerina, esta vez por la Iglesia y con fanfarria musical. Al día siguiente, poco después de llegar a Jefatura, le informan del asesinato de Nikitas Zisimópulos, antiguo director de banco, degollado con un arma cortante. El macabro homicidio coincide con una campaña que alguien, amparándose en el anonimato, ha emprendido contra los bancos, animando a los ciudadanos a que boicoteen a las entidades financieras y no paguen sus deudas e hipotecas. Lo cierto es que Grecia, al borde de la bancarrota, pasa...

What happens when you love too much? Ileana is in the second year of high school when she meets a boy whom the rest of the students marginalize because of his limp. Her sister Manuela has left the flat, where she lived with her and her mother, to get away from an atmosphere that oppresses her and from a secret that nobody in that house wants to talk about but that weighs heavily on the atmosphere. Ileana discovers that the boy with whom her sister has gone to live abuses her and, therefore she begins to press for her "permission", as she has already done on other occasions, to act against her ...

Renée Ballard works the night shift in Hollywood. She starts many investigations, but never finishes any because she hands her cases over to the detectives who work the day shift. Once a rising star in the police department, she received this assignment after accusing a superior of sexual harassment. One evening, she is given two cases she doesn't want to let go of: a brutal beating of a prostitute who is left for dead and the murder of a waiter during a shootout at a night club. Against orders and the her partner's wishes, she continues to investigate after her shift ends. As she delves...