La noche de Damballah

Early morning, Barcelona Free Zone. On the radio of Lluís Artigas' patrol car, a 10-50 sounds: "Someone has hit it." The victim turns out to be a brutally murderous young Nigerian woman following what appears to be a voodoo ritual. Artigas, a burnt-out agent suspected of being corrupt, will undertake an unexpected search for those responsible for this crime. His only ally will be Mónica Vidal, a journalist who needs a story like the air she breathes and who is also plagued by her own demons. In La noche de Damballah, a masterfully written novel, with a devilish rhythm, with the narrative pulse of the classics of the genre, with the ironic tone and the hard, sometimes cynical, always incisive look of the best narrators of the most black novels. disbelieving, more streetwise, Jordi Solé shows us a cornered and greasy Barcelona in which characters we don't always notice abound, led by a policeman, Lluís Artigas, called to become a mythical anti-hero, and confirms its author as one of the most outstanding voices of our narrative panorama.