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FictionMay 2018La novia gitana / 1
by Carmen Mola
THE GIPSY BRIDE / Inspector Elena Blanco has to raise every fold of the Gypsy Bride’s veil to get to the truth: who hated Susana so much, who hated her sister and her father? While working on the case she will have to deal with a dangerous murderer, a vengeance, the age-old religion and the revelation of some terrible facts about herself. “In Madrid there are not many murders committed”, deputy inspector Ángel Zárate’s old mentor in the police force used to say, “but when they happen, there is nothing the other cities can be envious of”, would add inspector Elena Blanco, the Head of the Case Analysis Brigade, a police department created for resolving the most complicated and most heinous crimes. Susana Macaya, a Gypsy girl, educated in a non-gypsy environment, disappears after her hen party. Nothing is known about her until two days later when her body turns up in the run-down Quinta de Vista Alegre park with its abandoned gardens in the district of Carabanchel. It might have been just another routine investigation, were it not for the fact that the victim was brutally tortured and that her sister Lara, also about to be married, also a young and beautiful Gypsy girl had been murdered in the same manner seven years before. 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. 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. 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. A very special police officer who keeps working in the force because she must not forget that there is a case in her life she cannot close. To investigate implies getting to know people, revealing their secrets, their lack of consistency, their life. In the case of Lara and Susana it will be necessary to delve into the life of the Gypsies who have renounced their customs in order to integrate into the society as well as into the life of those who condemn such attitudes and do not forgive. It will also require acknowledging petty displays of racism they face every day…
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FictionMay 2019La red purpura / 2
by Carmen Mola
THE PURPLE NET/ The fight to finish off The Purple Net will push the Case Analysis Brigade to the limit and, in a way, it may even destroy the Brigade itself. A race during which Ángel Zárate will see Elena Blanco slowly breaking down because her son can be part of that horror. But what would not a mother do to save her child? A small townhouse in a residential neighborhood on the outskirts of Madrid. The last days of a hot summer. Alberto Robles has to force his daughter to get out of the pool while his wife, Soledad, is trying to get her teenage son, Daniel, to come down from his room and help her set the table for dinner. It could have been a night like so many others. But tonight, everything will fall into pieces. Inspector Elena Blanco, in charge of the Case Analysis Brigade (BAC), bursts into the house of Los Robles. Convinced of what she does, she goes straight to Daniel's room, followed by the rest of the agents. On the computer screen of the teenager there is the confirmation of what they feared: the boy is watching a live snuff show in which a girl is tortured by two hooded men. The efforts of the agents to try to locate the place from which it comes are unsuccessful. Helpless, they can only witness how the torture continues until the death of the girl whose name, in that moment, they are not even able to know. But she was not the first victim. How many have died at the hands of the Purple Web in similar shows? That is the conclusion reached by the Brigade agents after investigating the sinister organization with which they came into contact for the first time in the case of The Gypsy Bride. For months they have been collecting information about this group that traffics in videos of extreme violence on Deep Web, the hidden side of the Net. And during all this time, Elena Blanco has not told anybody what she has discovered: her son, Lucas, who disappeared when he was only a child, is perhaps a part of the Web. Perhaps he has become a monster. Could her son be one of the hooded men torturing that girl? Elena does not know if she will have the courage to face what she will discover. But, inevitably, the truth will be getting closer and closer. The video that they managed to intercept on Daniel's computer will serve the agents to gradually surround The Purple Web. However, the new findings will make them realize that this torture was only the tip of the iceberg. That the perversion of the human being can reacg the extremes never imagined.
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FictionMay 2020La Nena / 3
by Carmen Mola
THE GIRL / It is the end of the Chinese year and the Year of the Pig begins. Chesca has a date with Zarate but , in the very last moment, he stands her up. In spite of that she goes out to have a good time. She meets a man and spends the night with him. In the morning, she can see three men standing around the bed and waiting to get a share in the feast. And she can smell a disgusting odour of pigs. Not having heard from her for the whole day, her colleagues from BAC begin to look for Chesca. They will get invaluable help from Elena Blanco, who, although not a member of the police force any longer, will not turn her back on her friend.
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FictionI WON’T BE LIKE YOU
by Paolo Cammilli
In Lido di Magra, a village of few souls and a handful of houses a few kilometers from Versilia, the sea there, but only in summer. Because life around here lasts the time ofa season. Fabio Arricò, son of a quarrymen just fired fromthe drifts of the crisis, is a normal boy. But at seventeen, being normal means doing what others do, adjusting to the choices of the group even if you realize they’re wrong. The group, however, has a weakness and is called Caterina Valenti. She is tormented, fierce and irreverent. Too beautiful and disrespectful not to trigger an ambiguous short circuit. Deaf to the feeling that Fabio refuses to confess, but that he cannot even hide. More. There is something in his gaze that reveals a strange pleasure in humiliating him and making him suffer. As if he had something to make him pay. Adults, a sample of comic and inconclusive human figures, always arrive late. In this small world in which common lives doze, you suffer, you love, you fight but always in the wrong way. First I hurt, then I hid my face. And the result, a clockwork device that loads with frustration, is the most uncontrolled hatred, the one that drags down. What forces you to devise a night of unprecedented violence against those who cannot defend themselves.
