The story of when we fall into darkness in “City Animals Don’t Cry”, by Graziella Moreno

The most recent work of the Spanish writer Graziella Moreno It’s a thriller that promises to give no reader rest, a novel set in the courts, a space she herself knows well, having been a judge most of her life.

His literary debut was in 2015 with “Devilish Games”nominated for the best noir novel in Spanish at the Cubelles Noir festival in Catalonia, and continues to gain audiences with her second novel, “The Forest of the Innocents”which came out a year later.

Since then, Moreno has published nearly one novel a year. In 2017, it was the turn of “dried flower”then they came “Dear Elsa” (2018), “Invisible” (2019), y “The Jumping Spider” (2020).

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The story of “City Animals Don’t Cry” deals with issues such as truth and lies, justice and legality. It’s a thriller with all the ingredients, like John Grisham, located in Barcelona, ​​an idyllic “City of Justice”. There, Nadia Linde, a helpless young girl, denounces her lover for assaulting and threatening her with a knife. Víctor Bedia, the man’s lawyer, will try to portray him as a victim, but he does not count on Olivia Marimón, who represents Nadia, to do everything to prove the truth.

Olivia and Víctor were classmates in college and time took care of taking them. Now, Enrique and Nadia’s case has brought them together again, but what they think is just a domestic violence dispute is actually a more sordid affair that will lead them down a path from which they will not emerge unscathed. .

328 pages make up this novel about power, love, ambition and the weaknesses of human beings. An intrigue that drinks from day to day in the courts, where, sometimes, justice is personal.

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“Her first job was as a cleaning lady at the gymnasium of which she is now a member. Gritting her teeth, she mopped the nooks of the locker rooms, picked up the hair, the cut nails, the dead skin of these women who devoted themselves to spending the money of their husbands in unnecessary beauty treatments to stop time, to hide their flabby flesh, to preserve at all costs the youth that evaporates day by day. Oh baby, open the locker for me. And by the way, bring me my coat Baby, a lady peed in the jacuzzi, come and clean it. Until he can’t take it anymore and decides to use his head. Study, get ready, don’t depend on anything or anyone. Now when he arrives at the gym he sees the same women, less young, more morbid Some look at her and hesitate, she reminds them of someone they haven’t quite identified and they treat her like an equal , like one of his own. Sometimes he wants to spit in their face who he is . Deep down I should be thanking them; All this time helped him to understand that his destiny was not there, that he deserved better. Of course” (p. 14 – “City Animals Don’t Cry”).

The plot of the novel focuses on the daily life of the courts. Graziella Moreno In this book, I plan to explore cases where there is no objective evidence to confirm what a victim is denouncing. It’s just your word against your attacker’s. In most cases, there are no witnesses or evidence. In the end, it’s a balance that tips either way.

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Moreno wanted to study journalism, but due to a miscalculation he started law and ended up loving it. She knows the bowels of the administration of Justice since 1991, when she started working as a civil servant, and already in 2002, as a judge.

She was assigned to the courts of Amposta, Gavá, Martorell and Barcelona and specialized in criminal law. Write stories and articles in digital magazines and newspapers. Her previous novel, “The Jumping Spider” received the 2020 Mediterranean Literary Prize.

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