The new volume, titled Relats de crims al Bages. Segles XIX i XX, is a continuation of the author's experience, Jaume Grandia (born in 1942), after publishing a first book focused exclusively on cases in Sant Fruitós de Bages. The book recounts ten tragic events in various localities of Bages, combining research in newspaper archives with elements of fiction to complete the narratives.
What happened a hundred or a hundred and fifty years ago continues to happen today.
Among the most notable cases is the murder of Josefina Vilaseca in Horta d’Avinyó on Christmas Day in 1952, one of the most remembered pages of the regional true crime history. Grandia also references the work of criminologist Mercedes Cruz, who investigated a possible ecclesiastical plot to cover up prior assaults on the girl before her death.
The book also includes older events, such as the Rajadell crime of 1876, where a man killed a couple and two of their children at the mas de les Tines, and a case in Navarcles from 1879. Furthermore, it addresses the execution of the Jesuit Manuel Peypoch in Manresa on July 18, 1936.
“"I enjoyed the first one more; with this one, I have suffered."
