The Green Haze, by Gonzalo Giner

The green haze

In Gonzalo Giner's bibliography we enjoy one of the most fascinating historical fictions on the national scene. Because the search for suggestive narrative arguments always prevails over the setting, already perfectly documented. On this occasion, as often happens in the narrative evolution of Gonzalo Giner, the ...

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The Black Angel, by John Verdon

The Black Angel, by John Verdon

Again we find John Verdon, one of the last bastions of the pure police genre, from where so many subgenres have been born that they ended up devouring their father. Black novels or thrillers that are currently top-selling publishers. All this is indebted to a literature a ...

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The Dark You Know, by Amy Engel

The darkness you know

We are already quite used to stellar thriller releases that end up discovering us new narrators of the criminal as Amy Engel's turn today. Thus, the genre noir seems to become an overexploited fishing ground where more and more subgenres appear. From the domestic thriller to the gore, each…

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The great yellow catastrophe, by JJ Benítez

The great yellow catastrophe

Few authors in the world do the job of writing a magical space as JJ Benítez does. A place inhabited by writer and readers where reality and fiction share accessible rooms with the keys to each new book. Between the magic and the marketing, between the disconcerting and ...

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Extremadura spring, by Julio Llamazares

Extremadura spring

There are writers for whom what happens in the world has a different cadence, a very different wavelength from whose frequency complementary impressions and perceptions end up reaching us. Julio Llamazares is from that court of narrators who tangentially run through a lyrical realism as soon as they splash us ...

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On the Run, by Harlan Coben

On the Run, by Harlan Coben

The American writer Harlan Coben is one of those who best summarize police with black, suspense with that kind of deduction that involves the reader in the resolution of the plot. So any of his novels always ensures that mix that can convince all types of readers in the ...

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Memories and Misinformation, by Jim Carrey

Memories and Misinformation, by Jim Carrey

What seems like a title between the essayistic and the sociological is a novel in which Jim Carrey seems to put himself back in the shoes of his Truman character in that memorable show in which everyone observed his life from birth in a life made stage . ...

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Night Fire, by Michael Connelly

Night fire

The more abundant a serial character such as Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch is, the more the author must complement it with new characters that disperse the focus a bit. New relationships that provide a kind of literary added value and that expose our protagonist to new vicissitudes ...

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You will not die, by Blas Ruiz Grau

You will not die

The saga of Nicolás Valdés, of the mighty Blas Ruiz Grau have that I don't know what of classic noir. Without renouncing, yes, the current trend for the recreation of crime as the most blatant animosity, capable of offering death as a macabre theatricalization. The question as always is the balance, ...

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The Children's Train, by Viola Ardone

The children's train

Naples, 1946. The Italian Communist Party manages to transfer seventy thousand children in order to temporarily stay with northern families and experience a different life away from the misery that surrounds them. Little Amerigo is forced to leave his neighborhood and climbs into a ...

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Sin Muertos, by Alicia Gimenez Bartlett

No dead

We come to the twelfth installment of an inspector Petra Delicado who brings that necessarily avant-garde vision of the feminine while keeping alive a tradition of Spanish crime novels of our great classics of this genre. Hopefully Alicia Giménez Bartlett continues to find new cases in which ...

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