Las sombras de la ciudad / The Shadows of the City
Novel , 2023
Ediciones B
Pages: 512
A superb noir thriller set in the Barcelona of the 1930s.
1938. Lola, the recent widow of a policeman killed in one of the aerial bombings that unleash chaos and destruction in Barcelona, decides to investigate the mysterious disappearance of an acquaintance, kidnapped at gunpoint by two thugs. The trail of the missing man leads Lola to Mika, a Polish woman who is being forced to prostitute herself in the brothels of the city's underworld. Mika arrived in Barcelona on the arm of a splendid new husband, unaware that he is a pimp who ensnares foreign women and turns them into sex slaves.
The fate of these two very different women from such diverse backgrounds brings them together in a common cause, in a search against time in which their lives, their dreams and their freedom are endangered.