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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The Kingfisher Hill Murders by Sophie Hannah

The Kingfisher Hill Murders

Daring with Hercule Poirot shows first of all daring, impudence, courage. Because good old Hercules lived and immortalized himself from his more than thirty novels in the handwriting of Agatha Christie. And that can arouse the suspicion of passionate staunch readers, capable of taking you home and ...

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The Perfect Woman, by JP Delaney

The perfect woman, Delaney

The double life is a recurring argument, just as it happens in life itself, on many occasions, when gruesome aspects of whom we least expect are manifested. In the literary we find illustrious hyperbolic examples with Dr. Jekyll or Dorian Gray, characters who end up living together with one or ...

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The Last Gift, by Sebastian Fitzek

The last gift, Fitzek

The Berliner Sebastian Fitzek offers us a gift of the most disturbing suspense, that variant that borders on the exceptional, almost the paranormal. An idea in which Fitzek usually abounds from mental and psychiatric aspects, with its labyrinths and its unpredictable turns in the depths of the human soul on which the ...

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Tomás Nevinson, by Javier Marías

Tomás Nevisón, by Javier Marías

A novel is made up of as many intra-stories and therefore potential ramifications as characters inhabit it. Javier Marías knows this well, determined to recover a Tomás Nevinson from that nebula of potential protagonists at the mercy of the narrator's imagination. And so that of Berta Isla points to ...

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The Queen Alone, by Jorge Molist

The Queen Alone Book

Jorge Molist's historical fictions always have that epic aftertaste that goes beyond merely referring to battles or conquests towards the essentially human. Because beyond the current profile of the king or queen of yore, what readers of historical novels long for is recreation more ...

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Ashley Audrain's instinct

Instinct, by Audrain

The alternation of best-selling authors in the noir genre is something truly dizzying. When we have almost forgotten names like Paula Hawkins who blew it four days ago, now Ashley Audrain appears with a new novel that explodes as that new great world success, a sales leader whose ...

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The True Life, by Adeline Dieudonné

True life

The sordid, the most tacky part of the world, that swamp under all the good intentions of the world, wakes up its stench as we get older. Still saved by innocence waiting in that of awakening to cynicism, the last drops of hope lift the refuge. It's about that ...

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The dwarf's luck, by César Pérez Gellida

The luck of the dwarf

Thank God, for the word dwarf there is no euphemism or neoterm that could seem opportune for "neo" to censor the title of this novel. Sounds great to me, if the dwarf is lucky, let it be known. Jokes aside, in this novel by a Pérez Gellida who mutates from Jo Nesbo to Juan ...

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Chuck Palahniuk's Adjustment Day

Adjustment day

In recent American literature, many authors have visited the American dream as an argument to also offer its shadows and deformities. The result is that more complete notion of any society through reality in raw, dirty or raw ... And Chuck Palahniuk ...

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The Nature of the Beast, by Louise Penny

The nature of the beast

When the writer prepares to tell a plot of a dark or criminal nature, the setting is presented as the best accompaniment to transmit added sensations, almost telluric around a violence that can be born from strange roots of the place of turn. The question is to decide on real spaces ...

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