Barcelona Noir

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

PART I: FOLLOW ME IF YOU CAN"The Law of Escape" ANDREU MARTIN

(Villa Olimpica)"Brawner's Shadows" ANTONIA CORTIJOS (El Born)"The

Predator" SANTIAGO RONCAGLIOLO (Barri Gotic)"The Enigma of Her Voice" ISABEL

FRANC (Poble Nou)"In This World, and at the Time Mercedes Died" LOLITA BOSCH

(Sant Gervasi)

PART II: SHELTERED LIVES, SECRET CRIMES"Sweet Croquette" DAVID

BARBA (La Mina)"The Offering" TERESA SOLANA (Sant Antoni)"A High-End

Neighborhood" JORDI SIERRA I FABRA (Turo Parc)"The Customer is Always Right"

IMMA MONSO (Eixample)

PART III: DAYS OF WINE (WHITE LINES) AND ROSES"Minor Details" ERIC

TAYLOR-ARAGON (Barceloneta)"The Story of a Scar" CRISTINA FALLARAS (Nou

Barris)"Bringing Down the Moon" VALERIE MILES (Gracia)"The Slender Charm

of Chinese Women" RAUL ARGEMI (Montjuic)"The Police Officer Who Loved Books"

FRANCISCO GONZALEZ LEDESMA (El Raval)

About the Author

Adriana V. López: Adriana V. López is the founding editor of Críticas Magazine and edited the story collection Fifteen Candles. López's journalism has appeared in the New York Times and the Washington Post and her essays and fiction have been published in anthologies such as Border-Line Personalities, Colonize This! and Juicy Mangoes. Currently, she is translating Susana Forte's novel Waiting for Robert Capa and divides her time between New York and Madrid.

Carmen Ospina: Carmen Ospina directs the digital program at Random House Mondadori in Barcelona, Spain. Born and raised in Colombia, she lived in New York for eight years where she coedited Críticas magazine and worked as an editor at Umbrage Editions and a freelance journalist for World Press Review and NY1 Noticias. She has lived in Barcelona since 2006 and rides her bike every day.