Karen Cleveland's Big Lie

The great lie

After her breakthrough with the debut film "The Whole Truth", Karen Cleveland returns with a thriller drawn along the same lines as the first time. If the formula works, and if it is capable of abounding in a psychological tension around a domestic thriller that at the ...

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Apolo 11, by Eduardo García Llama

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When Neil Armstrong first stepped on our satellite, the world received the news amidst disparate sensations of cosmic conquest and suspicions of crude staging in the midst of the Cold War and its space race, which have reached the conspiracies of flat-earth conspiracies until today. However, the final feeling ...

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The tears of Isis, by Antonio Cabanas

Isis's tears

The undeniable transcendence of ancient Egypt (the first of the great civilizations that serves as the cultural and scientific cradle of the West), makes its consideration as a historical narrative in the hands of so many good novelists become a powerful genre of its own that transits in parallel to an Egyptology always engulfed between ...

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The painter of souls, by Ildefonso Falcones

The painter of souls, by Ildefonso Falcones

Barcelona is always in good news when Ildefonso Falcones announces a new book. The city of Barcelona is a kind of recurring scene at different times. A place where this author locates on many occasions his always fascinating plots in which the most vivid intrahistories move between different periods ...

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The conquest of America told to skeptics

The conquest of America told to skeptics

There are those who question even the term of the "Discovery" of America, claiming that nothing was discovered because there were already those who lived there. In principle, it is an entry opposition to the semantic that gives rise to the black legend hovering over those who arrived at the New ...

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The Invisible Emperor, by Mark Braude

The invisible emperor

We return to historical fiction for a fresh take on Napoleon and his last days of power struggle. The retired emperor, practically ignored and forgotten on a small island, disconnected from a world plotted against him. But the most recognized strategist who knew how to govern with instinct ...

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Echoes of the Swamp, by Elly Griffiths

The echoes of the swamp

The arrival of this first novel in an overwhelming saga such as the series around the protagonist Ruth Galloway is great news if it ends up bearing fruit in its natural chain of sequels that have finally arrived in Spain. Because Elly Griffiths is a particular writer who has come to the genre ...

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