Long live the work of genius. Even if it is through reissues that recover that great reference of the black genre that was Henning Mankell. Because what we find on this occasion is that disruptive or rather exploratory debut for being the first, a true jewel ...
Halfway between the mystery narrative of Javier Sierra and the miscegenation of the black and mystery genres that Juan Gómez-Jurado cultivates, we find this Riojan writer capable of leading us through disturbing plots that also tend to advance among the darkness of the black genre but on many occasions ...
Nothing better for an interesting crime novel than to start from the mystery about its authorship. Waiting to know more details about the writer or writer behind the pseudonym Carmen Mola. And with doubts about the intention or possible commercial drifts of this buried authorship, it is fair ...
The bitter awakening of the Second World War was a transit between the echoes of the nightmare. Because, logically, in addition to the war itself, the macabre aroma of an annihilating ideology persisted that had been able to bring out the worst in millions of people, as in a massive abduction. ...
Gog has always been there, waiting for his moment. The apocalypse is his party, and we are all invited to it. If there is a surprising and surprising writer in terms of the books he is putting out, that is always JJ Benítez. Since I got to know his work, back in the early days of Caballo ...
Can a sentimental story be built from a sexual counterpart that is as sordid as it is unexpected? That is the question that sprinkles since you start reading this novel and that finally serves perfectly the cause of the fundamental story that weaves together the plot, and that ends up leading us through the fragility, the ...
Literature is something like magic when the concise is capable of addressing everything, when language, a fundamental intellectual tool, manages to decipher the symbolic and approach metalanguage as a single voice in the tower of Babel of the world. A perfect balance between substance and form, full control ...
Writing with four hands should be an interesting experience to say the least. Recurring is a sign that the matter, in addition to going well on a technical level, was carried out wonderfully by the owners of the two pairs of hands. I am referring, of course, to Jordi Basté and Marc Artigau. Each …
It is curious how the great diversification in the most current literary genres can end up leading to very specific subgenres. We recently talked about John Grisham and his own genre of judicial suspense and now it is Robin Cook's turn with his dedication to scientific mystery, medical suspense… And…
When Ken Follet himself, with that modesty that magnifies the myth, is able to say that John Grisham is the best living thriller author, it is necessarily because good John Grisham always offers plots that border on excellence in their construction, in its tempo, and in ...
The paths between reason and madness, between truth and delirium make up a fertile landscape for narrative recreation. Before Susi Fox and her new novel, there were already those who complemented this idea of the most intense psychological thriller with the no less extremely emotional sensation of the ...
Nothing worse than being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Although thinking about it coldly, it could be that fate leads us through those twists and turns of inopportunity to put our bravery and tenacity on the table. Things were already pointing badly when Darby Thorne discovered himself ...