¿Existen las casualidades? ¿Quién controla nuestros destinos? Explorando estos interrogantes, Carmen Posadas nos sumerge de manera magistral en un mundo de secretos y coincidencias que conducirán a desenlaces deliciosos e inesperados.
En la casa de veraneo de un acaudalado coleccionista de arte se reúne un variopinto grupo de personas. Juntas pasan unas cuantas horas y, a pesar de las frases agradables y los comentarios corteses, la relación acabará envenenada por lo que no se dicen. Cada una de ellas esconde un secreto; cada una de ellas esconde una infamia. La realidad adquiere de pronto el carácter de un rompecabezas cuyas piezas se acercan y amenazan con acoplarse. El destino es caprichoso y se divierte creando extrañas coincidencias.
Pequeñas infamias es una novela sobre las casualidades de la vida. Sobre las que se descubren con sorpresa, sobre las que no llegan a descubrirse y, sin embargo, marcan nuestro destino, y sobre las que se descubren pero se manifiestan en secreto, porque hay verdades que no deberían saberse nunca. Puede leerse, también, como una sátira de sociedad, como el retrato psicológico de una galería de personajes o como un apasionante relato de intriga, cuyo misterio no se resuelve hasta las últimas páginas.

Pequenas infamias (Esenciales)

Literature & Fiction

POSADAS, CARMEN

Contemporary

Rayo

The internationally bestselling author pens a haunting psychological thriller involving cruelty, secrets, and murder at an exclusive private school .
Luisa, a renowned mystery writer, is beginning her new novel, a story of psychological suspense that centers on the suspicious death of a child at an elite private day school. The author has a close familiarity with her setting: her thirteen-year-old daughter, Elba, is about to begin her academic year at the same school that Luisa once attended, a school much like the one in the novel.
But as her work progresses, the line between art and life begins to blur. Deeply repressed anxieties bubble to the surface, and she worries not only for her daughter's well-being but also for her own. As her new novel unfolds, events on the page ring with a disturbing familiarity—a troubling symmetry that is compounded when Luisa runs into two former classmates whose children also attend the school. The unexpected meeting brings to light a gruesome event the three shared.
When Elba is implicated in the accidental death of a classmate, past and present, real life and fiction, become one. Convinced that her novel has set in motion an unspeakable horror, Luisa must find a way to stop it—before everything she loves is lost.

Child's Play: A Novel

Genre Fiction

Harper

Little Indiscretions: A Delectable Mystery

A runaway international bestseller and winner of Spain’s top literary prize, Little Indiscretions is part ingeniously entertaining whodunit and part sparkling social satire. Business is slow for Nestor Chaffino, pastry chef to the rich and famous, until he’s invited to cater a party in a villa on the Costa del Sol. When Nestor is found frozen to death in a walk-in freezer with a notebook in his hand, the party guests gathered that evening are the natural suspects. But who could have it in for a harmless cook? The answer, it turns out, is just about everyone who happens to be staying in the house. Nestor, while quietly stirring his sauces and whisking his egg whites, had decided to publish a compendium of gastronomic secrets that revealed, along with the culinary tricks of his trade, more than a few damning details of the hosts’ and houseguests’ private lives. To what lengths would they go to ensure that Nestor maintained a more permanent sense of discretion? Not since Nick and Nora Charles’s last cocktail party has such a merry band of mischief makers convened in one place. Little Indiscretions marks the discovery of a phenomenal writer with tremendous flair. It’s a gourmet treat readers will pounce on.

Random House]

Rafael Molinet Rojas, an inconspicuous Spaniard living in London, regrettably finds that there is nothing worth living for when his closest companion–his mother–dies. Hoping to make a dignified–and, although he won’t admit it, dramatic–exit from this world, Molinet plots his escape, picking an elegant setting for his suicide via sleeping pills: Morocco’s L’Hirondelle d’Or, one of the most luxurious resorts in the world. There, he will be able to forget his cares, drape himself in a white caftan, and try to make a little money playing backgammon before he does himself in. The day before his trip, Molinet has a lunch date with his vivacious niece–who enthralls him with the story of a scandalous and deeply suspicious death. Jaime Valdés, high society lothario, has seemingly choked to death in the presence of both his mistress and his wife, but all of Spain is atwitter with the possibility of murder. Coincidentally, when he arrives at the spa, Molinet realizes that the stylish woman sitting by the pool is none other than Valdés’s widow. And when a throng of gossipy Europeans arrive on the scene, it quickly becomes clear that despite its air of tranquility, many sinister things are happening at L’Hirondelle. Before he knows it, Molinet’s eavesdropping leads to a startling turn of events. Internationally bestselling author Carmen Posadas has created a corrosive and witty high society whodunit in the vein of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. The Last Resort mixes poolside cocktails and acid-laced gossip with privilege and murder to marvelous effect.

The Last Resort: A Mystery

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

The Last Resort

Thorndike Pr

Rafael Molinet Rojas, an inconspicuous Spaniard living in London, regrettably finds that there is nothing worth living for when his closest companion–his mother–dies. Hoping to make a dignified–and, although he won’t admit it, dramatic–exit from this world, Molinet plots his escape, picking an elegant setting for his suicide via sleeping pills: Morocco’s L’Hirondelle d’Or, one of the most luxurious resorts in the world. There, he will be able to forget his cares, drape himself in a white caftan, and try to make a little money playing backgammon before he does himself in. The day before his trip, Molinet has a lunch date with his vivacious niece–who enthralls him with the story of a scandalous and deeply suspicious death. Jaime Valdés, high society lothario, has seemingly choked to death in the presence of both his mistress and his wife, but all of Spain is atwitter with the possibility of murder. Coincidentally, when he arrives at the spa, Molinet realizes that the stylish woman sitting by the pool is none other than Valdés’s widow. And when a throng of gossipy Europeans arrive on the scene, it quickly becomes clear that despite its air of tranquility, many sinister things are happening at L’Hirondelle. Before he knows it, Molinet’s eavesdropping leads to a startling turn of events. Internationally bestselling author Carmen Posadas has created a corrosive and witty high society whodunit in the vein of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. The Last Resort mixes poolside cocktails and acid-laced gossip with privilege and murder to marvelous effect. From the Hardcover edition.

Random House Trade Paperbacks

Child's Play

Alma Books Ltd.

249pages. in8. Broché jaquette. Bien sûr, bien sûr que Nestor Chaffino, traiteur madrilène de talent, avait imaginé sa fin dans ces jeux morbides auxquels les hommes s'adonnent parfois. Mais son imagination avait sans doute mis moins d'ironie que le fit le sort en le guidant à la mort, derrière la porte close de la chambre froide d'une villa de la Costa del Sol. La question classique tombe alors, comme le couperet sur un quartier de viande : cette mort est-elle accidentelle et si ce n'est pas le cas, qui est le coupable ? Interrogation d'autant plus passionnante que Nestor collectionne aussi bien les secrets culinaires que les secrets inavouables de tous les occupants de la maison qui fut son tombeau. Carmen Posadas est une Agatha Christie qui nous vient d'Espagne et qui a hérité de sa grande soeur britannique la capacité de nous mener par le bout du nez. Donnant la parole à tous ses personnages et les révélant au travers d'une toile de sentiments complexes, son écriture se déploie avec un appétit qui rend son roman succulent. Alors, pas de faute de goût. lisez-le toutes babines dehors !Petites Infamies a remporté le prix Planeta 1998. -Hector Chavez

Petites Infamies

SEUIL

Petites infamies

POINTS

374pages. 18,4x10,6x2,4cm. Broché. Dans un restaurant londonien très chic, Rafael Molinet, un Espagnol, écoute sa nièce égrener les derniers potins mondains de Madrid. Parmi ceux-ci, l'histoire rocambolesque d'un homme d'affaires, Jaime Valdès, mort étouffé par une amande, à moins qu'il n'ait été assassiné par sa maîtresse ou par sa femme. Molinet n'écoute qu'à moitié: son esprit est occupé par son départ en vacances au Maroc, dans un hôtel de luxe isolé où il n'aura rien à faire, sauf observer ce qui l'entoure. Mais là-bas les clients de l'hôtel parlent beaucoup eux aussi de la mort de Jaune Valdès, histoire qui n'est pas sans rappeler à Molinet des événements enfouis dans son passé à Montevideo. A travers le regard de Rafael Molinet, Carmen Posadas se livre à l'autopsie sans anesthésie d'une classe sociale riche, insupportable et parfaitement inutile. Son humour est corrosif, son sens de l'observation rédempteur et son art du suspense d'un raffinement

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Pequenas infamias (Esenciales)

Child's Play: A Novel

Little Indiscretions: A Delectable Mystery

The Last Resort: A Mystery

The Last Resort

The Last Resort: A Mystery

Child's Play

Petites Infamies

Petites infamies

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