Fernando S. Llobera was born in 1965 in

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and studied

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in New York. His first novel ''El Noveno Círculo'' (''The Ninth Circle'') was well-received and was translated into Italian (''Il circolo di Cambridge'', Translation by Leopoldo Carra), German (''Der neunte Höllenkreis'', Translation by Matthias D. Borgmann) and Russian. The plot of the book concerns the misfortunes of a university professor who is immersed in a series of macabre murders in contemporary Madrid. In Llobera's second novel, ''El Precio de un Secreto'' or ''The Price of a Secret'', he narrates the adventures of an ex-mafioso who encounters the Russian mafia in

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Bibliography

*''El Noveno Círculo'', Planeta (2005) *''El Precio de un Secreto'', Planeta (2006) *''El Detective de la Mafia'', Ediciones B (2011)

External links

Yahoo News (Spanish)
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