Pedro Martí presents today, at 7 pm, in popular books, his latest novel The bad daughter, of which he will sign copies. The author will talk with Lola P. Nieva.
Pedro Martí was born in Albacete in 1988 and grew up in Almansa, although he has been living in Murcia for more than a decade, where he works as an English teacher. He is the author of the bilogy of novels starring Inspector Giralt: the invisible piece and where demons cry (Dokusou editions). The latter was a finalist of the third prize Cartagena Negra and winner of the Prize for Best Spanish Black Novel of 2018, delivered by the Búho blog between books. Now he presents his new thriller, the bad daughter.
At 16, Belén Villalba is a perfect girl: sweet, intelligent and, of course, good daughter. That is why all the neighbors of the quiet town of Almansa overwhelm when a winter night engulfed without a trace. His father, a wealthy entrepreneur of the footwear industry, prays to sound the phone and demand a large reward. But the days happen and the call does not occur. Alma Ortega, captain of the UCO, is forced to leave Madrid and return to what was her home to try to find the teenager before she is too late. In Almansa he will have to work side by side with the lieutenant in charge of the case: his older sister, with whom he keeps a rivalry relationship, full of wounds without healing …