In its most technical aspect, Vicente Garrido Genovés offers an extensive bibliography, a whole library to consult for those who immerse themselves in criminology as a science of our undeniable Cainite side as a species.
Works like «The criminal mind»They come to divulge Vicente Garrido's approach to crime and criminal psychology as a science. Psychopathy capable of orienting itself towards serial murder, building that parallel world in which the psychopath's mind is able to find the reasons for such an abominable modus operandi ...
But in this informative will, Vicente Garrido's books cover many more spaces in which psychology is a necessary tool and even a field of sociological study.
But I am particularly more interested in the fiction part of this author, that dumping of knowledge to build crime novels with the undoubted foundation of certainty, with the disturbing sensation that fiction comes from the wild side of our world, disguised among the everyday.
Something similar to what happens with authors like Victor of the Tree o Louis Stephen, coming to the noir genre from police practice, ending up addressing crime from the crime of its most direct contact.
In the case of Vicente Garrido, his tandem with Nieves Abarca is already a benchmark of the black-police genre, with its series of the inspector Valentina as a universe shared by both authors.
Top 3 recommended novels by Vicente Garrido
exquisite crimes
Tastes are relative even in the most atrocious of affiliations. Exquisiteness in a disturbed mind can distance a universe from the mediocrity of the psyches. If the taste of the serial killer is often the most twisted artistic recreation, what better reference than the man himself? Shakespeare and his Ophelia immortalized on canvas by Millais centuries later? This is how Lidia Naveira appears in a pond near La Coruña
What relationship does this crime have with the macabre murder that occurred months earlier at Whitby Abbey? Inspector Valentina Negro, with the help of the famous criminologist Javier Sanjuán, will lead an investigation that will lead her to collaborate with Scotland Yard, in a dark plot halfway between A Coruña and London. What no one can suspect is that in the dizzying account back to catch the murderer, they must face the most unspeakable obsessions of today's society.
The man in the mirrored mask
The third installment of the saga about Valentina Negro and Javier Sanjuán. With the point already taken with these two protagonists, familiar with their magnetic parallel investigation mode, we enjoy one of the most exciting installments.
Two expert criminologists portray the mind of the psychopath in an addictive crime novel. The long-awaited continuation of the series starring Valentina Negro and Javier Sanjuán. Inspector Valentina Negro struggles to overcome the traumatic memories of her last case, when she came close to losing her life at the hands of a serial killer. But her evil gives no respite: she soon finds herself involved in a new and chilling chain of deaths.
The help of criminologist Javier Sanjuán will be key to unraveling a complex plot related to the disappearance of several girls and the filming of some terrifying films snuff strangely reminiscent of the expressionist cinema of Fritz Lang. Pain, beauty and madness go hand in hand in the pages of this addictive crime novel, which is at the same time an excellent portrait of the psychopath's mind signed by two expert criminologists. The pages of The man in the mask mirrors they are an invitation to peer into the abyss through a fast-paced story that hooks and shakes from the first page.
martyrium
The immediate continuation of the saga. A long-awaited second part that convinced readers already hooked since the appearance of the series. When the magistrate Rebeca de Palacios receives a strange email sent by a stranger, her whole world is reeling: her daughter Marta, a young student of Dramatic Art, has been kidnapped in Rome, and Rebeca has to declare innocent the man who within little will he judge, or Marta will die.
The inspector of the National Police Valentina Negro, a childhood friend of the magistrate, is forced to go to the Eternal City on a personal mission to free Marta. But in Rome there is not only a kidnapper, there is also a murderer nicknamed
"Il Mostro", which has shocked the city during the frozen carnivals. While Valentina is in Rome, criminologist Javier Sanjuán also comes to the city invited by Alessandro Marforio, the millionaire brother of one of the alleged victims of "Il Mostro" to help him capture the murderer unofficially. Sanjuán and Valentina will find themselves involved in a devilish intrigue in which the Vatican, the world of politics and unscrupulous men and women come together.
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