Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled / Hispanophone literature

The Barcelona Brothers

by Carlos Zanòn & John Cullen

A gritty noir set in Barcelona's savage underbelly.

Epi Dalmau is a desperate man. Early one morning, he carries a duffle bag into a dingy bar in a rough neighborhood of Barcelona. Four other people are in the...

Off Side

by Manuel Vazquez Montalban & Ed Emery

Barcelona’s new soccer star is receiving death threats and Pepe Carvalho, gourmet gumshoe and former political prisoner under Franco, is hired to find out who’s behind it.

Pepe Carvalho is set to retire....

Southern Seas

by Manuel Vazquez Montalban & Patrick Camiller

Barcelona detective Pepe Carvalho’s radical past catches up with him when a powerful businessman—a patron of artists and activists—is found dead after going missing for a year.

In search of the spirit...

The Buenos Aires Quintet

by Manuel Vazquez Montalban & Nick Caistor

Assignment: Finding one of Argentina's 30,000 "Disappeared" ... likely outcome: Becoming one yourself.

The Argentine army's "Dirty War" disappeared 30,000 people, and the last thing Pepe Carvalho wants is to...

The Angst-Ridden Executive

by Manuel Vazquez Montalban & Ed Emery

Introducing one of crime fiction’s most legendary detectives, and greatest writers, to America

When Antonio Jauma, a director of the multinational conglomerate Petnay, is murdered, his widow seeks out private...

Murder in the Central Committee

by Manuel Vazquez Montalban & Patrick Camiller

At a meeting of the central committee of Spain's Communist Party, in a room both locked and guarded, general secretary Fernando Garrido is stabbed to death. But the Party refuses to believe it was an inside...