Under his imperial name (perhaps more conducive to determining the designs of the Roman Empire than to writing novels), we end up finding a narrator who sweeps away like a centurion. One of those hardened in a thousand literary battles to surprise in a hybrid genre between current noir, balanced with a laudable taste for the most powerful storyteller cop.
With his inspector Monfort as the fetish protagonist, this writer Castellonense works authentic novels. There is a point in using current scenography but seeking an almost romantic point of criminality in its foundation, its consistency and its liturgy. Because if he has to die, it never hurts that the matter entails an investigation as God commands.
That is what happens in the novels of Julio César Cano, that the cases have their substance and the murderers do not act for free, but out of devotion or conviction. Because having reached the abysses of evil, it is understood that in death one seeks a sinister work, a threatening disturbance hanging over the investigator on duty and therefore over the reader who empathizes to the hilt.
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Even death lies
Childhood and youth always leave unfinished business, from impossible loves to mishaps and accidents, with their consequences of that life undertaken without quarter. Of course, those days also harbor secrets locked in Pandora's box, waiting for the right moment to be unleashed like a pandemonium that contracts past and present to rethink the script of everything.
The reunion in Castellón of three friends who went to school together will lead to ghosts that they believed buried forever and secrets that should never be revealed. Ana is a thanato-esthetician, a "make-up artist for the dead," as she prefers to call her profession; Rubén lives on income, but has ruined his existence because of his vices; and Álex has returned from Santiago de Compostela to, supposedly, start a theatrical project.
When they find the body of a man in a nightclub in the center of the city, which they have set on fire to erase the traces of the crime, all the police alarms go off. On the other hand, everyone in Commissioner Romerales' team is very concerned about the strange absence of Inspector Monfort, who has not shown any signs of life for too long.
dead flowers
Elvis's sleepy melancholy. The lost legends of rock & roll. The curse of the 27 and even the ashes of Keith Richards father along with the renewed blood of Mick Jagger. Being a rock star has its price. But behind the scenes things don't have to be as obvious as they seem. Because if you have to murder a singer, the best option is to recompose the scene towards an overdose ...
In May 2008 the indie group Bella & Lugosi made a successful tour that ended at the new Auditorium of Castellón. Before singing the last song, a version of the Rolling Stones, the vocalist, Joan Boira, retires for a moment to the dressing room, from which he will no longer leave alive.
Inspector Bartolomé Monfort has barely had time to assimilate the death of his mother, when he must join the investigation of the death of Boira, whose cause seems to be an overdose of heroin, something strange because he did not consume drugs or drink alcohol. Monfort goes to the crime scene with Silvia Redó, who has been promoted to deputy inspector. In collaboration with the new scientist agent, Robert Calleja, Monfort and Redó will investigate a case full of intrigue and unexpected twists and turns.
Wish you were here
How I wish you were here David Gilmour, the voice of Pink Floyd, implores in one of the most emotional songs ever written. With that same hint of melancholy, in this novel the violence of death is mixed with another type of violence marked by uprooting and the impossible recomposition of what has been lived. A suggestive story with disparate plots but that converge with an initially unsuspected skill.
A man appears with his throat slit next to the room where the cleaning equipment of the emblematic market is kept. It is about a businessman, Pedro Casas, who used to buy trinkets in China and then sell them in low-cost stores. Once again, Commissioner Romerales requests the services of the charismatic Inspector Monfort, who is experiencing a difficult time, as his mother is torn between life and death at the Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona. In a parallel plot that happens in the past, a young couple with a complicated life decide to abandon everything and flee to a place where no one knows them.
