The president of Alicia Giménez Bartlett

The president
by Alicia Gimenez Bartlett

THE FIRST CASE OF BERTA AND MARTA MIRALLES, TWO INSPECTORS WHO MAKE HISTORY
A great, bold and shocking crime novel by an award-winning author with more than 3 million readers worldwide.

By the winner of the Planeta Awards, Nadal, Pepe Carvalho, José Luis Sampedro, Femenino Lumen, Fregene International, Women Matera Fiction Festival Award, Grinzane Cavour y Raymond Chandler

«A pioneer in crime fiction by giving prominence to women and one of the most translated authors in this genre. She broke the stereotype of (male) policemen devastated by life and paved the way for other women writers.»
RTVE

The president of the Generalitat Valenciana, Vita Castellá, is found dead in a luxury hotel room in Madrid. The compromised situation requires that a possible murder be officially ruled out and that the investigation stalls, so the party in power, to which the victim belongs, has activated all resources and has rung all the phones of the highest echelons that can help it gain time. For his part, the head of the police of the Comunitat Valenciana decides to help the Minister of the Interior and the director of the National Police, Juan Quesada Montilla, in their mission: to mislead the authorities. To do so, they put the case in the hands of two rookie and peculiar inspectors: the sisters Berta and Marta Miralles. Radically opposed to each other, they must together face a murky world of interests.

Alfaguara Negra is proud to host in its catalogue “the great lady of Spanish crime fiction” (The confidential ) with this first exciting case.

Alicia Gimenez Bartlett (Almansa, Albacete, 1951) lived and studied in Valencia until 1975, when he moved to Barcelona, ​​the city where he still resides. He has published, among others, the novels Exit, Love life of a truck driver, A strange room (Lumen Women’s Award 1997), Secret Penelope, Where no one can find you (Nadal Novel Prize 2011) and Naked men (Planeta Prize 2015). He has also cultivated the essay with works such as The mystery of the sexes y Eva’s debt. Con Death rites He started the series starring Inspector Petra Delicado, which was followed by ten more titles and whose success has earned him awards such as the Grinzane Cavour in Italy, the Raymond Chandler in Switzerland and the Pepe Carvalho Novela Negra in Barcelona.