El amo (Jotadé 2)

THE MOST BRUTAL EXPERIENCE IN CRIME FICTION RETURNS. A PHENOMENON WITH OVER 300,000 READERS. He has been abducting them for more than twenty years. None of them has ever come back. Until now. «One of the kings of crime fiction in Spain» Cadena SER «A high-impact series» Esquire. On a cold winter morning, the body of a teenage girl is found at a bus stop on the outskirts of Madrid. The team of Inspector Iván Moreno and Sub-inspector Jotadé Cortés, the only Roma police officer at his station, discovers that she is a young woman who mysteriously disappeared years earlier and was murdered after giving birth. She is the latest in a long list of abducted women killed immediately after becoming mothers. Jotadé must face this new case while going through a crisis with his partner Lola, and at the same time tries to help Lucía, who is dealing with a new and murky incident at the youth detention centre where she now lives. When another girl disappears, Jotadé will have to trust his extraordinary intuition and look within his closest circle, where a terrible truth has been hiding for years. Critics have said: «A new novel that will leave you wanting more of Jotadé. [...] Throughout its pages, we not only follow the new police case. We delve into the lives of the characters and witness the problems they face and their concerns. A new investigation that will keep you in suspense on every single page». Marta Ruiz Espinel, El Generacional. «Santiago Díaz has spent years proving he knows how to keep a reader glued to the page. [...] With El amo he once again ventures into the most uncomfortable territories of the thriller: evil, violence and the moral dilemmas that arise when people are pushed to their limits». Carolina Isasi Vicondoa, Telva. On Jotadé: «One of the kings of crime fiction in Spain». Cadena SER. «An expert in the alchemy of the thriller». Marina Sanmartín, ABC Cultural. «One of the most dynamic voices in Spanish thriller writing. [His work] embodies the essence of noir literature and we find echoes of great masters of the genre, such as Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett». Rubén Martínez Reche, Diario de Almería. «A fiendishly gripping thriller. And the inclusion of the most sordid reality, without sensationalism, makes this book — titled after its protagonist — essential reading». Aitor Pilán, El Español. «Hilarious dialogue, a fast pace and interwoven storylines that leave no room to breathe. A read that leaves its mark. A treat for thriller lovers. A work on a par with one of the masters of the genre in Spain». Alberto Lardiés, Crónica Vasca. «A master of the thriller who, with Jotadé, not only commands the crime genre to perfection, but also masters the art of controlling narrative pacing in order to keep tension at its absolute limit». Begoña Vidal Ferreres, Todo Literatura. «A novel that is not merely read: it is experienced. It is one of those stories that force you to look where you do not want to, that plunge you into the mud of wavering morality and challenge you to find answers in the midst of chaos. Santiago Díaz handles tension with a surgeon's steady hand and an entomologist's gaze, dissecting his characters with an almost cruel precision». Carmen Gómez Moreno, El Generacional.