Categoría: Reseñas

This elegant mystery, which won the 1998 Planeta Prize in Barcelona, has as many secrets as one of the murder victim’s chocolate fondants. Nestor, a pastry chef with a penchant for other people’s hidden...

A secret-hoarding caterer is frozen to death inside a wealthy client’s walk-in freezer: an English-translation debut that sounds like, but emphatically isn’t, a case for Hercule Poirot. Nor for any other fictional detective either,...

Famous pastry chef Nestor Chaffino would still be alive if he’d stuck to writing recipes and cooking hints in his pristine little notebook. But he didn’t, so someone locked him in cold storage with...

The death of a manipulative, mischievous pastry chef sets the stage for this insouciant whodunit, with its humorous and philosophical narrative voice, from Spanish author Carmen Posadas. When the frozen body of Nestor Chaffino,...

Once in a while, a book comes along that is sheer delight. Such is Little Indiscretions, by Carmen Posadas, translated from the Spanish by Christopher Andrews (Random House, $23.95). Winner of Spain’s Planeta Prize,...

The fluffy tone of Little Indiscretions (Random House, $23.95), which won Spain’s Planeta Prize for Carmen Posadas in 1998, is just the melt-in-your-mouth frosting on an otherwise tart — and surprisingly substantial — comic...