Las islas negras : Una trilogía canaria

For the first time in a single volume, The Blindness of the Crab, A Guy with a Bag on His Head, and Borrowed Names—three great works that established Alexis Ravelo as an essential figure in Spanish crime fiction. Ángel Fuentes has just lost his partner in an accident in Lanzarote. Convinced that the truth behind her death must be something else, he soon suspects that the woman he loved must have discovered something for which many are willing to kill. Gabriel Sánchez Santana is the corrupt mayor of the equally corrupt municipality of San Expósito. Two strangers have just left him tied up with his head in a garbage bag. As he gasps for breath, he will dedicate his last moments to trying to find out who his assailants are, thus becoming the investigator of his own murder. Tomás Laguna could be a retired insurance broker, and Marta Ferrer could easily pass for a translator. But the truth is that both arrive in Nidocuervo in the mid-eighties pretending to be someone else. But the ghosts of the past will soon return, bringing back into their lives a violence they hoped to have left behind forever. Ambivalent characters, made of flesh rather than ink, populate the novels of this Canary Islands trilogy. Three books, as different as they are versatile, that reflect the major themes Alexis Ravelo explored throughout his literary career: forgiveness, violence, and corruption. A lucid, dark memoir of Spanish social, political, and economic life in recent decades.