Mujeres Felices Son Una Quimera, Las - by Alonso Guerrero Perez (Paperback)

About the Book

A 38-year-old man appears hanging from a tree, but the forensic surgeon reveals that he was hanged after having been killed: an incision in the parietal bone with a twenty-centimeter nail. Enrique Lahoz, a steppe wolf nicknamed by his colleagues "the ghost", who has been a policeman for twenty years, fifteen of which not wearing the uniform and ten not appearing at the Madrid Police Station to which he is assigned, works alone and in the strangest cases. A main character who is a victim of his own way of life, to which he has been led by his daily reality as a judicial investigator. Lahoz has to unravel a complex case in which a series of murders follow one another whose modus operandi outlines the criminal as a true serial killer. Set mainly in Madrid, sects, sordid environments, vile and sinister characters come to life, grouped in strange clubs of the Deep Web, that dark area of ​​the Internet, to weave an absorbing plot, full of twists, in which the judicial police, the criminal instruction and the world of the legal profession emerge with their most determining features. With well-drawn characters and sharp social criticism, Happy Women Are a Chimera provides the reader with a very well-crafted criminal story, with a completely surprising ending.

About the Author

Alonso Guerrero es escritor y docente, nacido en 1962. En 1982 gana el premio Felipe Trigo de narraciones cortas con Tricotomía, y en 1987 el Navarra de novela con Los años imaginarios. Muestras de sus incursiones en el cuento son El hombre abreviado (1998), Fin del milenio en Madrid (1999) y De la indigencia a la literatura (2004). La novela también le llevó a experimentos como Los ladrones de libros (1991), El durmiente (1998), El edén de los autómatas (2004), Doce semanas del siglo XX (2007), o la narración futurista Un palco sobre la nada (2012). Además de una reflexión sobre el oficio de escribir ha resultado la guía La muerte y su antídoto (2004). Sus últimos libros han sido una novela sobre los atentados del 11-M en Madrid, Un día sin comienzo, y la narración El mundo sumergido. También ha ejercido la crítica literaria y el periodismo de opinión. Es profesor de Lengua y Literatura en un instituto de Madrid.