This is [[Francisco José Jurado]]'s first book. It is located in Cordoba and contains three criminal cases that Inspector Benegas and his team have to solve.
As a dedication, this is to be read in each case:

For Montalbano, for Carvalho, for Kurt Wallander.
For Camilleri, Henning Mankell and Manolo Vázques Montalbán.
If they are not the same. If they are not really the same.

Lost stories
In addition to the fact that in this case Inspector Benegas and his team are presented, it is about finding a dead man in the river. At first it seemed that this case can be solved very quickly, but there are enough mafia-like activities in Cordoba that could be connected with the dead. Soon, however, Benegas, with the help of an old historian and his wife, notes that this dead man has something to do with the dark Spanish chapter of the Civil War when children were taken away, taken to orphanages, and given a new identity.

Hell's throat
In this story, a professor is hanged in his office. Benegas doubts that it was suicide. When the phone rings in the bag of the dead man and the caller sends death threats, Benegas and his team begin the investigation. Soon they will lead the team to the luxury sex industry, internet pornography and money laundering. It takes a while, however, until all the loose ends give an overall picture.

black-and-white
In this short chapter the author writes how he is engaged as a ghostwriter and the stories of the inspector Benegas emerged. The son of a banker wants to succeed as a writer, but can not write himself. So the father decides that a ghostwriter writes the books for his son. For each story the author receives 9000 euros. He knows that he has sold his soul to the devil and wants to turn the story in the last book so that everyone knows that the son of the banker did not write the stories himself.

WHO KILLED FRANKIE JURADO?
In this case the revenge of the Ghostwiters will be described. The investigation and writing run parallel, so also Inspector Benegas and his team sometimes do not know what is reality and what is not. It is very exciting and subtly written and keeps you tied to the end.
Here is a small excerpt from the preface of the ghostwriter:

The only way to raise my voice against the powerful was to mix life and literature. So all the facts here are absolutely true. Perhaps only a part is true, and the others have taken place in my performance. It is, therefore, obvious that any resemblance to reality is pure coincidence. And any resemblance to fiction pure wickedness.

I must give the author, Francisco José Jurado, a great deal of praise for bringing all these cases, which are very amusing to read, to a whole. ( )