El black gender it has in the crime essence and nemesis, leitmotif and central point. Murder is, since the dawn of time, the representation of the worst. Killing is also applying that meditation, looking for that modus operandi, avenging if necessary with treachery and premeditation. How could a literary genre of such commercial strength not exist in the light of these conditions?
nacho abbot is one of those knowledgeable writers, the same as Vicente Garrido as far as crime is concerned. Which always supposes an addition in terms of reality capable of so habitually exceeding all fiction. They are in charge after channeling from their knowledge and experience to make the plots more plausible than our unsuspected reality.
Because in the end everything fits, even the ominous. At least in the mind capable of perpetrating the crime of crimes and even delighting in that light that is fading at the dictation of his hands or the edge of his knife ...
Top 3 recommended novels by Nacho Abad
The candidate
With a mix between Daniel Silva y John Grisham, Nacho Abad places us in the scenario of the already famous post-truth, where reality barely moves between neo-language and fake news. In the disturbing scenario of over-information and the power that control over it gives to reconvert our world, the protagonist of this novel leads us through a modern Dantesque plot.
Lázaro, one of the most respected businessmen in Spain, decides to stand in the general elections as a candidate for a party that is committed to ecology, transparency and a new way of doing politics. Surprisingly, the polls give you a winner. However, two days before the elections, the press uncovered a complaint for a sexual assault that occurred ten years ago.
Lázaro defends his innocence claiming that the great powers that pull the strings in the shadows want to push him out of the electoral race. The battle for its credibility in the public eye has only just begun.
Nacho Abad has novelized in The candidate a magnificent intrigue in which he reveals how the news is manipulated and the electorate is emotionally managed through political marketing. A plot that takes your breath away until it reaches a surprising ending.
I know you are alive
Second parts can be good when you find the right thread to continue pulling to unravel a new plot. The problem is to find it the first time so that it can be guided by new budgets without ending up getting tangled. Without a doubt Nacho Abad found the thread thoroughly in this second part.
If there is something that can characterize Abad, beyond the intensity of his plots, typical of the genre, it is the meticulous and true profiling of the characters, in that escalation that confronts a kind soul with the worst of spirits possessed by evil. And this case is no exception.
What happened to Guadalupe surpasses sentences and jail. Everything that happened in that "wrong truth" now finds its necessary channel to close a matter with the repose in its reading of the real court cases ...
The truth is wrong
Appearances are to crime what vinegar is to wounds. We all know how to keep up appearances, from Caesar's wife to the York Ripper. Going for being something other than what we essentially are is part of social or moral conventions. Only a simple line of whips and masks that animosity led to the extreme of crime is not the same ...
Guadalupe and Valentín have everything to be happy: settled in their luxurious farm, they await the birth of their first baby. But what looks like a fairy tale is about to turn into a nightmare. When she disappears without a trace, all suspicions turn to Valentin. A frantic investigation will then begin in which the chances of locating Guadalupe alive, diabetic and eight months pregnant, are reduced by the minute.
The pressure of public opinion - he is the son of a great bullfighter and she, a famous writer - will determine everything that happens next. While the media portray Valentin as a murderer from the outset, the police will struggle to find (or even fabricate) evidence incriminating the alleged culprit.
