The naked life, by Mónica Carrillo

Naked life

The journalist Mónica Carrillo presents her most ambitious work, launching as a hook one of her lapidary phrases, suggestive micro-stories, daily haikus with the limitation of twitter characters: «Because we were all once someone's secret« A phone call changed it everything. When Gala sets out on the journey ...

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Untimely love, by Rafael Reig

Untimely love

Curiously, I became interested in Rafael Reig's books with a copy of Blood in Spurts that came to me from the publishing house "Lengua de Rapo" with the pages printed in a disorderly way. As my claim was never answered, I ended up reserving it at the library. Since that old ...

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Another turn of the key, by Ruth Ware

Another turn of the key

Arriving in Spanish bookstores in 2017, Ruth Ware is already one of the fixtures on all the bestselling shelves of the black genre. Continuing with the most current thriller but pulling reminiscences of the beginnings of the detective genre in its deductive aspect that involves the reader, Ware also ...

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The Eyes of Darkness, by Dean Koontz

The eyes of the dark

And the moment came when reality, rather than surpassing fiction, plunged fully into it. One bad day, when the covid-19 began to emerge as the pandemic that would become, the name of Dean Koontz began to spread through social networks. I thought …

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Find me, by André Aciman

Find me, by André Aciman

It is always interesting to find love stories far above the pink genre that shoots one after another habitually ñoñas plots, with easy sensibileness and passions that are not so much from its predictable notion. So André Aciman was necessary to reconcile love as a theme, to link ...

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The liar, by Mikel Santiago

The liar

Excuse, defense, deception, pathology in the worst case. The lie is a strange space of coexistence of the human being, assuming our contradictory nature. And the lie can also be conformed as the most premeditated concealment. Bad issue when it becomes imperative to hide reality for the survival of the construct ...

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Blood in the Snow, by Jo Nesbo

Blood in the Snow, by Jo Nesbo

From the versatile Jo Nesbo you can always expect that change of register between his sagas and his independent novels, a kind of alternation with which the Norwegian writer manages to change focus and disconcert with his variety of plots and characters. This time we left Harry Hole and ...

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The Enigma of Room 622, by Joel Dicker

The riddle of room 622

Many of us were waiting for the return of Joel Dicker from the Baltimore or even Harry Quebert. Because certainly, the bar was lowered quite a bit in his novel about the disappearance of Stephanie Mailer. There was that aftertaste of an impossible attempt to overcome, of improvement in the tension on the turns and ...

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The evil of Corcira, of Lorenzo Silva

The evil of Corcira

The tenth case of Bevilacqua and Chamorro leads them to solve a crime that transports the second lieutenant to his past in the fight against terrorism in the Basque Country. A new installment of this great series of Lorenzo Silva. A middle-aged man appears naked and brutally murdered in a ...

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The Puppet Show, by MW Craven

The puppet show

The search for the perfect tandem in the criminal genre is a recurring aspect in the most current crime novels. It will be a matter of trying to reconcile the most classic aspects of deduction and intuition of the investigator on duty with a darker, almost esoteric part that brings this type of plot closer to ...

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The Cyclops Cave, by Arturo Pérez Reverte

Cyclops cave

The new aphorisms grow like mushrooms on Twitter, in the humid heat of the fiery haters; or from the studied notes of the most enlightened of the place. On the other side of this social network we find honorable digital visitors like Arturo Pérez Reverte. Perhaps at times out of place, ...

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A murderer in your shadow, by Ana Lena Rivera

A murderer in your shadow

When a second part can be read independently, we are faced with an open series, with great projection and infinite possibilities for an author of a crime novel like Ana Lena Rivera. In these cases of sagas that aim to extend during much of the literary evolution of ...

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