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Author:
Gutiérrez, Xabier, author.
Title:
El refugio de las mariposas / Xabier Gutiérrez.
Edition:
Primera edición.
Publisher:
Ediciones Destino,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
509 pages ; 23 cm
Subject:
Spanish literature--21st century.
Murder--Investigation--Fiction.
Murder--Investigation.
Noir fiction.
Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Novels.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Noir fiction.
Novels.
Novelas.
Novelas negras.
Summary:
En el hotel Baños de Panticosa, en el valle de Tena aragonés, Valeria, una cantante ruandesa, se arroja al vacío desde su habitación. Era una clienta habitual, una mujer con una historia escondida cuyos motivos para suicidarse nadie podría sospechar. Vanessa, una botánica que trabajaba para una farmacéutica que busca la flor de Edelweiss, es asesinada en un solitario enclave cercano y enterrada bajo la nieve. Este es el inicio de una serie de misterios que se desencadenan durante una de las peores tormentas de nieve que recuerda la región. Todo se desata cuando un detective privado llega para investigar la desaparición de Vanessa, y todos los empleados del hotel parecen ocultar algún secreto. El genocidio de Ruanda, los rituales mágicos africanos y las leyendas del valle de Tena se entrelazan en esta atmosférica novela negra que bucea en los misterios de un hotel de montaña del Pirineo aragonés. -- back cover
At the Baños de Panticosa hotel, in the Aragonese Tena Valley, Valeria, a Rwandan singer, throws herself into the void from her room. She was a regular customer, a woman with a hidden story whose motives for committing suicide no one could suspect. Vanessa, a botanist working for a pharmaceutical company searching for the Edelweiss flower, is murdered in a nearby lonely enclave and buried under snow. This is the beginning of a series of mysteries that are unleashed during one of the worst snow storms in memory of the region. Everything breaks loose when a private detective arrives to investigate Vanessa's disappearance, and all the hotel employees seem to be hiding some secret. The Rwandan genocide, African magical rituals and the legends of the Tena Valley are intertwined in this atmospheric black novel that delves into the mysteries of a mountain hotel in the Aragonese Pyrenees. -- English translation of back cover
Series:
Colección Ancora y Delfin ; v. 1587
ISBN:
8423362213
9788423362219
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1351939248
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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