Olegaroy, by David Toscana

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Many have been those who compare the protagonist of this story, Olegaroy, with an Ignatius Really of our days who faces a world once again conjured to undo his dreams and his great ideas, that individual perspective between the ingenious and the delusional that sounds to wisdom or ...

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The Adult by Gillian Flynn

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In her still emerging career, Gillian Flynn has grown based on a particular contribution to the suspense genre. In his previous novels he has been composing a chain of emotional thrillers, from love or even eroticism. These are not domestic thrillers in which terror ...

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When The End Is Near, by Kathryn Mannix

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Death is the source of all those contradictions that lead us through our existence. How to give consistency or find coherence to the foundation of life if our conclusion is to perish like the bad ending of a movie? That's where faith, beliefs and whatnot come in, but still the ...

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The Footprint of the Night, by Guillaume Musso

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Everything bad happens at night. Fatality finds its best combination of time and space for the sinister among the chiaroscuro of the moon. If we add a strong blizzard that isolates a French boarding school, we end up composing the perfect setting for a modern thriller genius like ...

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The Watchmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton

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The nineteenth century always has a complementary aftertaste of melancholy and mystery. At a time when it was still lived in the chiaroscuro of modernity, between beliefs, legends, hoax and the advancement of science at the dawn of technology, everything related ends up acquiring a stranger ...

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Seat 7A, by Sebastian Fitzek

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German writer Sebastian Fitzek is one of the thriller's most profound storytellers. His narratives address a frenzied suspense that never decays into a series of novels that attract more and more readers. As a reference, his previous novel El Sentido, one of the best recent novels ...

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The taster, by Rosella Postorino

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When a book by an Italian author, not yet well known beyond its borders, ends up jumping to the rest of the world with the virulence of what this novel does, it is really because it brings something new. And yes, that is the case of Rosella Postorino and her work «La catadora». ...

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The Spring Epidemic, by Empar Fernández

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"The revolution will be feminist or it will not be" a phrase inspired by Ché Guevara that I bring up and that should be understood in the case of this novel as a necessary historical reconsideration of the figure of women. History is what it is, but I almost always know ...

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Gwendy's button box from Stephen King

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What would Maine be without Stephen King? Or maybe it really is that Stephen King owes much of its inspiration to Maine. Be that as it may, the telluric acquires a special dimension in this literary tandem that widely exceeds the reality of one of the most recommended states for ...

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An Education, by Tara Westover

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It all depends on the concerns of each one. The wealth of knowledge and education blesses everyone who discovers that need to know where they are and what surrounds them beyond their closest habitat, even if they always start from subjective bias ...

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Under the hoop, by Pau Gasol

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There was a time when I swallowed all the NBA games that Ramón Trecet broadcast on Saturday nights for TVE. Maybe there were not even private chains yet ... And then to think that some Spaniard would get to wear the champion ring sounded like a joke ...

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The Mystery of the Red House, by AA Milne

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In the shadow of Connan Doyle, pioneer of the detective genre, and under the influence of the past Edgar Allan Poe, who also outlined those dawn of the noir genre from its most Gothic perspective, the early twentieth century were years in which mystery books in around challenges ...

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