Fiona Barton's Top 3 Books

That the literary vocation can be something latent, satisfied at the right moment after long years, is something manifest in authors who arrived after 40 or 50. I remember illustrious cases such as those of Chandler o Defoe. The first published his first novel at 44 and the second at 59.

Fiona barton gets closer to Defoe and launched his first novel at age 60. And all that he had yet to tell broke out in one novel after another. Because the discovery of this author for the genre of suspense undoubtedly enriches plots with a lot of depth around those circles that we all consider to be close: family, friends ...

The commitment of Fiona Barton for discovering that hidden side of things (and especially people) leads us into the disturbing labyrinths that finally lead to the light of truth. Labyrinths in which anyone can lose themselves and go crazy, or become who they would never imagine they could be.

With her undeniable chronic component of the great journalist practicing in the front line for years, Fiona contextualizes her plots around those cosmos full of captivating, authentic, dramatic characters, exposed to life at its most pointed edges.

Top 3 Recommended Novels by Fiona Barton

The suspicion

The third installment of the journalist Kate Waters looked into the abyss of the ominous, of the danger, of the dark mysteries of our nearest world that appear in complementary chronicles of the headline news.

Disappearances, crimes of passion or cold murders for power..., Fiona Barton's narrative universe addresses those intrastories of our days that make us wander through the sinister and wild side of our reality. On this occasion we learn about the disappearance of two English girls on vacation around the world. His last known destination: Thailand. Kate Waters begins to pull her strings to get the story, to develop it once again and in the process try to clarify the details.

But as we advance in that search made chronic for the journalist's follower, we delve into her most particular side. Because Kate also maintains her absences as dark omens. And it is then that we look at paternal ties, at the idea of ​​the balance between the necessary freedom of the children and the need for knowledge of the parents. A novel with two aspects that dazzles in both parallel plots.

The suspicion

The widow

The shadow of doubt about a character is a disturbing factor in any thriller or crime novel worth its salt. Sometimes, the reader himself participates in a certain complicity with the writer, which allows him to glimpse beyond what the characters know about evil.

In other novels we participate in the same ignorance or blindness as any of the characters. Both systems are equally valid to build a mystery novel, thriller or whatever, in order to capture the reader's complete attention and tension. But there are extreme situations in which you really end up suffering from the character and you are glad that you are not him. The world of fiction offers many approaches, some of them extremely wicked and, why not say it, also captivating to read...

If he had done something horrible, she would know. Or not? We all know who he is: the man we saw on the front page of every newspaper accused of a terrible crime. But what do we really know about her, about the person holding her arm on the courthouse steps, about the wife who is next to her? Jean Taylor's husband was accused and acquitted of a terrible crime years ago.

When he dies suddenly, Jean, the perfect wife who has always supported him and believed in his innocence, becomes the only person who knows the truth. But what implications would it have for her to accept that truth? How far is she willing to go so that her life continues to have meaning? Now that Jean can be herself, there is a decision to make: keep quiet, lie or act?

The widow

Mother

Fiona Barton's long career as a crime story writer was paving the way for her recent appearance as a thriller writer.

And there is nothing better to start than to take refuge in an alter ego such as Kate Waters to address her first novel "The Widow" and this second one that once again takes the path of journalism as a link with that dark side of the chronicles, which cannot be It has the truth beyond the character limitations imposed by the editorial of any newspaper.

Precisely for this reason, by the brief review of an ominous event in which the appearance of the remains of a newborn is related, the author takes her particular revenge of so many years limited by space and introduces us into the intrahistory, in an investigation frantic in search of a truth barely outlined by the reduced black chronicle, lost among so many other events that obscure the day-to-day life of a big city like London.

Precisely London, with its hazy evocation of Sherlock Holmes or Jack the Ripper. The setting also counts when it comes to outlining a scenario that is more consistent with the plot… And there, in London, the reality of the events is fragmented into a sum of perspectives that point to a disheartening and dangerous reality.

The three women who have to do with that disastrous discovery that reveals the worst of human beings relive with greater intensity if possible their old debt with the past. Only Kate Waters, our third focus on the facts, will provide that aseptic introduction into the past towards a truth that pushes from the abysses of the being of so many souls that harbor unspeakable secrets.

Only that Kate Waters will once again take her risks in that effort to do justice when justice has already stopped looking for answers. The great secret, the certainty that someone surrounds the facts around those abandoned child bones, will push an all-out defense to keep everything underground, even having to lead the willful Kate to the same premature burial.

Mother

Other recommended books by Fiona Barton

Goodfellas

somehow evoking Scorsese, Fiona Barton ends up making a title her own with that claim to the mafia to transform it and make it very much hers. But the matter has its trick... because deep down the closed circles of the mafia are close to the idea of ​​what we can all be in a space as concrete as an apparently idyllic town. In a microcosm that is becoming more and more suffocating, Elise is taking us into the darkest singularities...

Elise is an ambitious detective; Or she was before the cancer from which she is recovering made her foundation shake. Now she has just moved to Ebbing, an idyllic town where she knows no one. During her convalescence, she watches the tensions between the weekend tourists and the locals from her window. Elise can only guess what goes on behind the doors of her neighbors; however, Dee, the young woman who helps her clean up, is an invisible presence who sees and hears everything.

Everything is shattered when two teenagers are hospitalized and a man goes missing. Elise will find herself back on the road in search of answers, but the small community closes ranks to keep her secrets safe.

Goodfellas
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