Archidona, España, 1956

Rafael Ábalos holds a degree in law from the University of Granada and currently lives in Fuengirola, where he works as a lawyer and as a professor at the University of Málaga. He has gained a wide following among young readers for his fantasy and adventure writing. He is best known for the novel Grimpow, a phenomenal success with readers and critics alike on its publication in 2005. Grimpow has sold more than 150,000 copies in Spanish and been published in more than 30 countries.

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In Leipzig, Germany, the bodies of five naked girls have been found in the middle of the night at the foot of the Battle of Nations monument, under the colossal stone statues known as the Totenwächter, or Guardians of the Dead. Everything points to a ritual murder, the strangest crime veteran State Police Inspector Klaus Bauman has encountered in his career. Meanwhile, Susana Olmos, an Erasmus student from Spain who’s new in town, meets Bruno, a fascinating young professor at the Music Conservatory. Susana is unexpectedly submerged in the most mysterious, unknown circles in Leipzig and Berlin, relating to erotic art and the resurgence of Nazism in Europe.

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“We’re all keeping the same secret, but it’s forbidden to talk about it.”

In Leipzig, Germany, the bodies of five naked girls have been found in the middle of the night at the foot of the Battle of Nations monument, under the colossal stone statues known as the Totenwächter, or Guardians of the Dead. Everything points to a ritual murder, the strangest crime veteran State Police Inspector Klaus Bauman has encountered in his career. Meanwhile, Susana Olmos, an Erasmus student from Spain who’s new in town, meets Bruno, a fascinating young professor at the Music Conservatory. Susana is unexpectedly submerged in the most mysterious, unknown circles in Leipzig and Berlin, relating to erotic art and the resurgence of Nazism in Europe.

Inspector Bauman’s investigation and Susana’s entry into a world of sex, drugs, fanaticism and death will converge surprisingly in an ending that leaves none of the protagonists unscathed.

A chilling police thriller with shades of history, full of intrigue and action, reflecting a macabre descent into the darkest corners of the soul.

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A man’s body is found hanging in the restrooms at United Nations Headquarters the same day that Barack Obama is soundly defeated in the congressional elections. Next to the body is a strange note predicting the advent of a new world order. Donovan Sheldom, the United Nations Press Secretary, and Loanne Harvey, an unemployed journalist, try to decipher the crime before it is made public. However, they end up uncovering a conspiracy of far greater proportions than they had imagined. El Péndulo is the first incursion of the author of the very successful Y.A. title Grimpow into the adult fiction. A disturbing thriller, constructed with clockwork precision, that reflects on the conspiracy hysteria in our society and the excessive control of democratic governments over the population.

Un email que invita a un juego infinito, un hombre en una edad media que nunca existió, un crimen que anuncia un futuro inquietante. Tres historias aparentemente inconexas unidas por un tenebroso secreto que solo dos adolescentes podrán desvelar. Y detrás de todo esto, siempre la misma palabra: KOT.

Un joven príncipe, hijo del honorable rey Winder Wilmut Winfred, se pierde en el bosque que rodea el lago de Fergonol tras haber salido a pasear por sus orillas. El joven llega a una cabaña donde descubre con sorpresa que un extraño personaje le está esperando; se trata de Gorgoñán, duende del Lago de Fergonol, quien le comunica que ha atravesado sin percatarse las invisibles puertas del Laberinto, al igual que años atrás lo había hecho su padre el rey. Un libro que contiene todos los elementos de las leyendas y relatos de aventuras.

Aventura de sentimientos, novela de enorme fantasía y poder de seducción. Un joven emprende una difícil misión: salvar del Universo del Pensamiento de la temida e inminente Gran Depresión Estelar. De hacerse realidad, esta traerá pesadillas y dará plenos poderes a la Reina Melancolía y a su aliado el Ogro del Miedo. Esta sencilla y arrebatadora historia se nutre de la gran tradición de novelas de aventuras, con peripecias increíbles y personajes mágicos, como La historia interminable.

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Tras encontrar la pizarra digital de Layonel Savage, los chicos del Club de la Trastienda y su nueva amiga Beil se preparan en el núcleo Cosmo para cumplir la misión que los Másters les han encargado. Pero ninguno estará a salvo de una inquietante y enigmática amenaza. Como predijo el vagabundo...entre ellos hay un traidor. Una vez dentro de Poliedrum, Nathan, Matheus, Melissa y Timothy, descubrirán una insólita dimensión de doce planos, donde viven extrañas criaturas y donde acechan numerosos peligros que no sólo pondrán a prueba la fortaleza de su amistad sino que también harán peligrar sus vidas, en un continuo juego de intrigas y misterios tan sorprendente como apasionante.

En un Edimburgo marcado por un oscuro pasado, una extraña criatura de rostro diabólico asesina a Layonel Savage, genial artista capaz de escribir el mejor cómic del mundo. Aunque profundamente desolados por la muerte de su más admirado escritor, Timothy, Melissa, y Nathan, los amigos del Club de la Trastienda, pronto descubren que Savage les legó algo muy especial: Poliedrum, una extraordinaria obra en la que lo imposible se hace realidad. Sin embargo, Poliedrum guarda insólitos peligros, pero sólo adentrándose en su mundo el Club de la Trastienda podrán descubrir quién mató a Layonel Savage...y vivir una gran aventura que cambiará para siempre sus vidas.

Grimpow ya tiene la piedra de la inmortalidad. Ahora es más poderoso que nunca. El inquisidor y el rey de Francia la quieren y harán lo que este en sus manos para conseguirla. Mientras tanto, Grimpow descubrirá que dicha piedra pertenece a una estirpe de brujas que se caracterizan por llevar tatuada una estrella en su hombro. La última bruja está a punto de traicionar a nuestro protagonista.

Grimpow had no idea who the dead man was, but hidden in his leather bag was a treasure that would change his life forever. Clutched in the man’s firm grip was a stone. A stone that will shape Grimpow’s destiny. For when he holds it in his hand odd things begin to happen. Visions of places he’s never been fill his mind and he’s able to read the strange language in a message meant for someone else.

So begins his journey with the stone. A centuries-long journey that has driven sane men crazy, turned peaceful men to violence, and made strong men powerless. No man has ever unlocked its secrets. But no boy has ever tried.

A story of pleasing complexity.Kirkus Reviews

Ábalos . . . proves himself adept at moving the multiple story lines of the labyrinthine plot at a fast pace. His elaborate novel should win over not only teenage fantasy fans but adults as well.”—Publishers Weekly

Prizes

  • 2009 - I Premio de As de Picas for his novel Poliedrum
  • 2005 - Premio de Narrativa El Público for Grimpow. El camino invisible