La novia gitana / The Gypsy Bride: 1 (INSPECTORA ELENA BLANCO)

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This is why the Head of Operations, inspector Rentero decides to take the case from young Zárate and give it to the experienced Elena Blanco. Specializing in Spanish commercial and up-market commercial adult fiction: women's fiction, historical novel, crime, thriller, noir, romance, family saga.

Lara’s killer is serving a sentence in prison, so there are only two possibilities: it is either a copycat murder or an innocent person has been imprisoned. El cadaver es encontrado dos dias despues en la Quinta de Vista Alegre del madrileno barrio de Carabanchel. Carmen Mola es el seudónimo con el que tres autores --Antonio Mercero, Agustín Martínez y Jorge Díaz-- decidieron firmar su primera novela escrita a seis manos, sin darse a conocer públicamente, La novia gitana (Alfaguara Negra, 2018), que inauguró la serie protagonizada por la inspectora Elena Blanco, convertida en un fenómeno de ventas y de crítica y por la que Carmen Mola fue llamada «la Elena Ferrante española» ( El País ).It has been translated in seven countries and will be adapted for a television series by Viacom/CBC and DiagonalTV. Investigating someone implies getting to know them, discovering their secrets and contradictions, their history. Los individuos que cometen los hechos luctuosos descritos en esta novela son peores que los animales en muchos aspectos.

Por eso el comisario Rentero ha decidido apartar a Zárate del caso y encargárselo a la veterana Blanco, una mujer peculiar y solitaria, amante de la grappa , el karaoke, los coches de coleccionista y las relaciones sexuales en todoterrenos. In Madrid, people don't kill each other very much," young Deputy Inspector Ángel Zárate's mentor on the police force told him; "but when they do, they are just as bad as any other city on earth," added Inspector Elena Blanco, head of the Case Analysis Brigade, a department created to solve the most complicated and heinous crimes.

It could be just one more murder, if it werent for the fact that the victim was tortured following an unusual, atrocious ritual, and that her sister Lara suffered an identical fate seven years ago, also just before her wedding. A vulnerable policewoman, who stays on the force to remind herself that in her life there is one unsolved case that she has been unable to close. Therefore, Commissioner Rentero has decided to move Zarate off the case and hand it over to Blanco, the veteran: a peculiar, solitary woman, lover of grappa, karaoke, classic cars, and all-terrain sexual relations.

To investigate implies getting to know people, revealing their secrets, their lack of consistency, their life.She is a peculiar character, a loner, a fan of grappa, of karaoke, of old Soviet cars and of romantic encounters in underground parking bays. The plot is great and full of twists but what makes it get to the next level are the characters (You deeply care for them) and the directing style (The camera is always on the move and it makes you feel like you´re part of the investigation).