The Dead Don't Lie, by Stephen Spotswood

The dead don't lie

It is even necessary to return to the origin of everything. Despite the maxim that you should never go back to the places where you were happy, the noir genre and even current thrillers need a reset from time to time. More than anything for the average reader crammed with twists ...

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The 3 best books by Adam Zagajewski

Books by Adam Zagajewski

The prose aspect of the essentially poet Zagajewski also arises from that intention to provide an embellished vision of the world. Whether even in the tragic notion that only poets are able to sublimate towards ethereal guilt and pain. And of course, one that is more prose than verse…

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Year One, by Nora Roberts

Nora Roberts Year One

It was 2019, the last year of the old era. Nora Roberts had just reoriented herself to the more dystopian narrative since the romances she had us used to. Of course, I could not even remotely imagine the real scenario with pre-apocalyptic overtones that, thanks to the current pandemic, flies over with ...

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Independencia, by Javier Cercas

Independencia, by Javier Cercas

With properly cultivated emotions decanted over many years, the next thing is to sing and sing for any "leader" who is set to lead the herd. Others before had the patience and care to graft hatred and feelings of differentiation towards repellency with which they could ...

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The game of the soul, of Javier Castillo

The game of the soul, of Javier Castillo

In times of pandemic, any approach devised by a writer of crime fiction or science fiction takes on new appearances of verisimilitude. In parallel, the sensation of claim of the darkest arguments may magnetize us with greater intensity when the sinister looms over us shortly after ...

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Best Kevin Kwan books

Kevin Kwan Books

The phenomenon Kevin Kwan is explained from the discovery of an Asian writer with enough sense of humor to satirize aspects of his culture. Because in the farthest east, social references, their imaginary and idiosyncrasies, are only assaulted from always more critical aspects. As it happens in ...

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The Road Murders, by James Patterson and JD Barker

The crimes of the highway

The usual thing is that literary tandems are made up of authors in tune with the plot, making a clear staging of the genre that touches either mystery, police or even romantic. It is already more atypical that two writers as disparate as JD Barker and James Patterson join forces in a novel. On …

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Six Four, by Hideo Yokoyama

Six four, novel

Everything in Japan takes place at a different pace, under different formal, moral and consequently social parameters. The black genre was not going to be an exception. What Hideo Yokoyama offers us in this novel originally published in 2016 (and cooked to success over the slow fire of the virtuosos of ...

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The father's son, by Víctor del Arbol

Father's son

In Víctor del Arbol the term suspense acquires a transcendental, even spiritual dimension. Because its disturbing proposals are born from guilt, remorse, melancholy, all souls that slide like hurtful ghosts ... The epicenter of all violent movement always has a deep place where the shock is generated, the friction of plates ...

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My Sweet Girl, by Romy Hausmann

Novel my sweet girl

Nothing better than a contrast to the paradox of the worst fear. Well i knew Stephen King with his friendly (and ultimately sinister and creepy) clown Pennywise at first. Appealing to the sweetness of a girl is Romy Hausmann's starting trick in his debut film, because ...

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