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The presentation of the pocket edition of the novel The map of a crime, molinense writer Paco Lopez Mengual, takes place on Thursday, February 11, at 20.00 pm in the Library Salvador García Aguilar Molina de Segura (in Chorrico Avenue, No. 44).
The map of a crime, second novel Paco Lopez Mengual, now published in pocket, and has been published by the Madrid publishing Maeva hardcover format.
The novel is supported by its translation into Portuguese, having become the most successful publishing estrofes Lisbon and Verses.
At a Congress of Teachers American universities held in Pennsylvania, Professor Thomas Deveny of McDaniel College in Westminster (Maryland), produced the paper map of a crime: thriller, black history, which was published in the book Rounds Literary Pittsburgh where extolled as an example of postmodern novel.
Paco Lopez Mengual was born in Molina de Segura (Murcia) in 1962 into a family of merchants.
After studying Teaching at the University of Murcia, he joined the family business.
At present, he runs a haberdashery in his hometown, activity that arranges with his literary work.
To date, he has published four novels: The memory of the mud, the map of a crime, the last ship to America and Cursed Chinese.
He is also the author of two collections of short stories, The House That mutants and the gun Hilarito, and a travel book, Memories of Lisbon.
He collaborates as a columnist in the daily La Opinión de Murcia, FM Radio Thader and the Editanet magazine.
In 2014, with publishers Fernando Fernández Villa and Francisco Marín García, founded Ediciones La Fea Bourgeoisie.
It belongs to the association La Molineta Literary and is a member of the Most Noble and Loyal Order of Molina de Segura meteorite.
The map of a crime
The narrator of this story obsessed with a crime that had him as a child: in a village of the Spanish east, thirteen years after the end of the Civil War, the pharmaceutical Maqueda, a mature, wealthy and a Republican last man, will marry a much younger woman.
But a boy, assistant barber, lives secretly in love with this woman.
One Sunday afternoon, when the wedding date approaches, the young man goes out with the razor in his pocket and finds his love rival buying snuff in a kiosk.
The addresses in the back and severed his jugular.
The pharmacist dies without knowing who or what killed him.
Fifty years later, the narrator of the story delves into the event, interviewing witnesses to the crime, reveals hidden matters ...;
all this will lead you to discover that the story you had as a child is very different to that known at the end of the novel.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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