„Hammerhart“ ist dieser Fall, „wie die Inszenierung eines kleinen, wenn auch makabren Kunstwerks.“ Ein prominenter Politiker entdeckt ein außergewöhnliches Gemälde, das seine Frau zeigt und wittert sogleich eine Affäre. Prompt beauftragt er zwei Detektive und damit beginnt ein Kriminalfall, desse...
She and her partners had set about tidying their Alternative Centre in readiness to welcome Mariona, who’d said she’d be appearing at midday that same morning. Although my wife was shattered, she was so excited she couldn’t sleep. “Put the alarm on for seven,” she said after tossing and turning i...
He called us to his office on the Diagonal, which he described as his private retreat. It had been a very quiet weekend at the Fonts’ house because they’d decided to spend it in the family chalet in Cadaqués and my brother and I had taken advantage of their absence to rest and forget each other a...
It wasn’t geographical distance by itself which had helped put things into perspective, and not balloon recent events out of proportion. It was the fact that he was now living in the micro-cosmos of the Translators’ House and its peculiar micro-universe of the picturesque city of Tarazona that ma...