The 3 best books by Ángel Gil Cheza

In the same way that presenting soccer referees with two surnames gives an I don't know what of authority, the Spanish black gender seems to recover ancient customs and uses. Because just as before they were Manuel Vázquez Montalbán o Francisco Gonzalez Ledesma, we now come across new great references with double surnames such as John Gomez Jurado, Cesar Perez Gellida y Angel Gil Cheza.

Perhaps it is an act of reverence with those others who first explore the darker police genre, with its incipient Iberian criminal scenarios; or with its powerful and intricate mysteries rescued from the abysses of the soul. Or without further ado, it may be that the commonality of the first surname requires a differentiating reinforcement in the second.

Of course, many other great current authors of the hybrid that is already the police thriller such as Javier Castillo, Dolores Redondo do not pull this resource.

The point is that today we are here to enter the imaginary, the scenography and the plot of an Ángel Gil Cheza that does not stop growing and gaining followers with his novels that evoke the sinister rather than pose it, with chilling elegance, navigating the oceans of evil with the appearance of a current odyssey.

Top 3 recommended books by Ángel Gil Cheza

Autumn away from the nest

There was a point of greater darkness in the initial novels of the noir genre. It comes to my hair having mentioned Vázquez Montalbán or González Ledesma before to recover that aroma of crude defeat of classic heroes or good policemen in a world always dotted with corruption and interests.

On this occasion, for this novel, it is not about the same thing but about an evolution for the worse, as happens with everything bad. Maybe it's about that, that the more we devolve as a society, the more we insist on disguising ourselves as philanthropists loaded with good intentions and ad hoc rules from which in the end only the usual ones take advantage. Under crime as the worst consequence of any selfish, interested or psychopathic drift of the human being, it is always magnetic to discover the causes that unite us in what is essentially human, given over to fears, guilt and other offerings to the macabre.

Fate unites Ivet, a police officer who finds herself involved in several homicides connected from the casual-temporal to perhaps the essential, with Edgar, a journalist committed to the dignity of his profession when inertia and vertigo push towards the complete opposite. On the other side of both, a crude criminal determined to appear as delicate as a great murderer. Everything can be in this case, from blood debts to adversity turned madness. The contingency places Ivet and Edgar in the middle of the eye of the hurricane, where everything is observed with the tranquility and silence prior to the most complete fatality.

Autumn away from the nest

The man who fixed the bicycles

A title reminiscent of a story. A great success for the delicious combination that is presented to us in this plot. Because Gil Cheza has managed to make a perfect mix towards the bittersweet, with the tragicomic in its most precise sense of ambivalence.

It is clear that the protagonist of this plot is the absent one, the deceased. And in his posthumous composition, in his legacy, the author has been able to tune in to a strange longing for immortality in each of us. What we love in every moment of our lives, the overdue scenarios that we sometimes visit between dreams or ramblings. The people who once may still remember us...

It was beautiful while it lasted, as can be guessed at different times in the novel, but it is not a question of considering that what is beautiful must always be beautiful because the important thing is that it was so in its transience so that it never ceases to be so. The point is that there are the three women in the protagonist's life. They are the three great loves. With one he became eternal in the second, his daughter. And with the other he simply enjoyed that beauty of the fleeting. Perhaps it is that he thought he could see the scene of the reunion.

The thing is, without a legacy attractive enough for all of them, the coincidence would never have happened. So the plan is well outlined so that there is no failure. From that moment all the love of a man who is no longer living together in the same house overlooking the sea, where the man with the most patience in the world fixed the bicycles so that they would never stop the cadence of their pedaling.

The man who fixed the bicycles

Fish in the grass

Delve into the black genre and dare to recompose or restructure as he did Joel dicker in its global takeoff as a bestseller.

That is a bit of what is discovered in this novel that combines diverse focuses towards the psychedelia of a reader caught between flashes. Because the past is also a hook in this plot, without a doubt. But the important thing is how that unsolved evil from a remote time leads us through a fascinating present-day Vila-Real, mysteriously erected over its deep caves in which souls, guilt and sorrow for old crimes seem to be parked, echoed by the galleries among other myths and legends of that black underworld that contrasts with the warm light of the Mediterranean.

Miquel Ortells and Ainara Arza, united by those coincidences that end up being inescapable threads of destiny. From the investigation of the death of young women that almost no one wants to remember, to the writing of a pending novel through the vicissitudes of a women's football. All those disparate focuses that the author handles and moves deceiving the reader, presenting them with disparate ramifications that, however, are rooted in the same ideas, in elementary notions about life, death and love.

Fish in the grass
5/5 - (12 votes)

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