:00:00. > :00:10.for United the pain is plain to see. It's time now for me the author.
:00:11. > :00:13.Marc Pastor is a Barcelona police detective and a novelist. He's
:00:14. > :00:18.written four books, and one of them has just been published in Britain
:00:19. > :00:22.under the title Barcelona Shadows, translated from the Catalan. It is a
:00:23. > :00:26.wonderfully black story, a combination of crime thriller and
:00:27. > :00:27.Gothic horror. It tells the tale of a notorious Barcelona serial killer
:00:28. > :00:42.of a century ago, a woman. Marc Pastor, this is a very black
:00:43. > :00:49.tale indeed will stop Phil is in briefly on the plot and to your
:00:50. > :00:56.central character is. It is pretty dark. It is based on the life of the
:00:57. > :01:01.woman. She was a madam or stop she was a kidnapper of children. She
:01:02. > :01:10.kidnapped children and sold them to rich people. Sometimes she killed
:01:11. > :01:24.those children and made arrangements and potions of the flesh and blood.
:01:25. > :01:32.It was a real case, she really existed. You have a notebook of
:01:33. > :01:49.cuttings and notes which you compiled when you were researching
:01:50. > :02:00.that. Yes, this is one of the oldest newspapers in Catalonia. It had a
:02:01. > :02:06.lot of information about the case. And from another magazine we have
:02:07. > :02:15.the pictures. It is really wonderful because you can see those years in
:02:16. > :02:27.those pictures. You can see the husband, the victims. The last two
:02:28. > :02:31.victims were found in her apartment. You can see the fake wall in the
:02:32. > :02:38.kitchen where she hid the bodies of her victims. Where she left the dead
:02:39. > :02:43.bodies at the moment she was arrested. For people chasing the car
:02:44. > :02:49.when she was arrested. It is like recovering a piece of dead
:02:50. > :02:55.Barcelona. You are yourself a police officer, a crime scene officer. How
:02:56. > :03:03.does that help you in constructing a story like this? I would like to say
:03:04. > :03:11.it doesn't influence me. Of course, my job really influences sometimes
:03:12. > :03:19.in the words of a character. The way of talking, or the glances of the
:03:20. > :03:24.murderer or what ever. In that case, I couldn't get inside the mind
:03:25. > :03:33.of her. I couldn't imagine how a female serial killer could behave as
:03:34. > :03:48.she did. We had a case in 2006 where a female serial killer was trying to
:03:49. > :03:58.kill a woman in Barcelona. I investigated the case. The day we
:03:59. > :04:06.found her and arrested her, I could look her in the eyes. You know the
:04:07. > :04:22.silence of the lime - lands where Hannibal Lecter stands there. That
:04:23. > :04:32.was the same. A sense of pride, so cold, like an iceberg. I thought,
:04:33. > :04:36.wow! 100 years after the story of Enriqueta Martii, we have another
:04:37. > :05:02.serial killer in Barcelona who acts more or less the same. What does
:05:03. > :05:14.that say about Barcelona? It's a character. I wanted to have
:05:15. > :05:20.Enriqueta Marti in Barcelona in a parallel way. Enriqueta Marti by
:05:21. > :05:30.night is splendiferous, shiny, she moved among the rich people in the
:05:31. > :05:38.casinos and mansions. She is like a duchess. And by day she is like a
:05:39. > :05:42.beggar. She wears a black cape, she kidnaps children and she needs their
:05:43. > :05:47.flesh and drinks their blood. It is kind of schizophrenic. And Barcelona
:05:48. > :05:51.at that time was the same. By the night, Barcelona wanted to be one of
:05:52. > :05:55.the most modern cities in Europe, with the most huge casino in Europe,
:05:56. > :06:02.with a roller-coaster in the casino, in 1911. It had a lot of
:06:03. > :06:08.people coming from all over Europe. We had dowdy's buildings, modernism,
:06:09. > :06:13.we wanted to be the shiniest city in Europe. But by the day a lot of
:06:14. > :06:20.people were dying on the streets. A lot of disease. You write in
:06:21. > :06:26.Catalan, you are Catalan. You couldn't reach a much bigger
:06:27. > :06:30.audience if you wrote in Spanish. I don't need to because it is
:06:31. > :06:35.translated in Spanish. It's a tradition to write in Catalan
:06:36. > :06:42.because there is not so much tradition of literature in Catalan.
:06:43. > :06:47.There's not so much sci-fi or horror. There's a lot of crime
:06:48. > :06:55.fiction but not this kind of freaky genre. I want to fill the blank. I
:06:56. > :06:59.want to be there. I want that my language has a big tradition of
:07:00. > :07:07.sci-fi and horror and all that stuff. If I have to begin, I will do
:07:08. > :07:12.it. What do you call this book, what kind of book is this? A sort of
:07:13. > :07:17.Gothic, horror, crime thriller. What Tsonga does it belong to? The first
:07:18. > :07:23.time I thought about the book it was a kind of Western, horror, Gothic,
:07:24. > :07:30.crime fiction book. The main character, the inspector, behaved
:07:31. > :07:39.like a cowboy, with the weight of the gun, he walks, like, give me a
:07:40. > :07:41.shot of whiskey, man. But it is sometimes horror, sometimes crime
:07:42. > :07:44.fiction, sometimes Western.