Jotadé / JayDi

Jotadé / JayDi

Title: Jotadé / JayDi
Genre: Police procedural
Publisher: Alfaguara Negra
Date of publication: March 2025
Pages: 392

After the success of Indira trilogy comes the new series by Santiago Díaz, the award-winning breakout writer of Spanish crime novels, praised by peers and critics alike, with more than 250,000 readers addicted to his «tachycardia thrillers» (El País).

JayDi (Jotadé): A COP WHO WILL MAKE HISTORY.

 

‘One of the kings of crime novels in Spain’. Cadena SER

 

‘An expert in the alchemy of the thriller’. Marina Sanmartín, ABC Cultural

 

It is a hot July night in Madrid when two men are disembowelled and thrown off a bridge on the M30 in what looks like a sinister settling of scores between clans. Their viscera land on a convertible that ends up sinking into the Manzanares with its occupants, three girls who were returning from a party. One of them dies on the spot: it is the youngest daughter of the commissioner, who demands quick responses from his agents and little noise in the media. This is an almost impossible order for sub-inspector Jotadé Cortés, the only gypsy policeman in his station and a hopelessly irreverent man who abhors hierarchies and is in the habit of breaking the rules. But everyone knows that he also possesses above-average intuition and that he was Inspector Indira Ramos’ right-hand man in her last case. Loyal to his colleagues and respected in the street, Jotadé will find himself at the crossroads that will force him to return to an uncomfortable past and to do the impossible to protect the most important thing in his life.


Santiago Díaz begins a new high-impact series that once again hypnotises us with its twists and turns and confirms its author as ‘one of the kings of crime novels in Spain

Jacobo Buceta, Hoy por Hoy, Cadena SER