The map of affections, by Ana Merino

The map of affections

Who has not lived a forbidden love story? Even if only because all love always ends up meeting some kind of disapproval even from mere envy. It is true that less and less happens that what is prohibited is limited to sexual freedom, naturally. But there are always taboos ...

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With the water around the neck, by Donna Leon

With the water up to the neck

It never hurts to immerse yourself in a new story by the American Donna Leon and her indefatigable curator Guido Brunetti, someone in whom the writer turns her passion for the Italy of her youth. And I say that it never hurts because that way we can recover the old shine of ...

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How much I loved you, by Eduardo Sacheri

How much i loved you

There is no bad love triangle but misunderstood polyamory. What happens is that if the coexistence between two can be a litmus test, after the initial phase of gawking; The one kept in his snuff box of three hearts that beat in love can end up sounding like a booming volcano ...

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The Long Way Home, by Louise Penny

The long way home

Canadian writer Louise Penny focuses her literary career on that mirror between reality and fiction where she meets her quintessential protagonist Armand Gamache. Few authors so faithful to a character in a bibliography delivered to the designs of a single and great protagonist during the ...

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The sky of your days, by Greta Alonso

The sky of your days

If we did not have enough with the intriguing writer Carmen Mola, we now know a Greta Alonso who also pulls anonymity as a strange virtue in collusion with the black genre in which the work plunges. Logically an unknown feather that traces only the features of a name ...

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And Julia challenged the gods, by Santiago Posteguillo

And Julia challenged the gods

Historically, Julia Domna lived through her glorious time as a Roman empress for eighteen years. In the literary field, it is Santiago Posteguillo who has recovered it to green those laurels (never better brought the laurel as a Roman symbol of victory par excellence), and incidentally make a feminine ...

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Some days in November, by Jordi Sierra i Fabra

Some days in November

Eleventh installment of a series that points to a large bibliography of fiction as a chronicle and intrahistory of the gray historical period from the post-civil war to the extensive Franco dictatorship. A time that allows for many intrahistories in which Jordi Sierra i Fabra finds the perfect setting to spread his ...

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Silvia Blanch's Last Summer, by Lorena Franco

Silvia Blanch's Last Summer

There is always a story, a plot that marks that before and after. At least in an emblematic case of a writer with quality and determination like Lorena Franco. And many are those who consider that "Silvia Blanch's Last Summer" is that inflection that blatantly marks upwards, pointing to the ...

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Two Sisters, by David Foenkinos

Two Sisters, by Foenkinos

With that band of authenticity so laudable today and that differentiates the writers who serve the chronicle of our days with the intention of transcending from the avant-garde, David Foenkinos looks out onto the balcony of novelties with this novel of heartbreak turned into abysses existential, ...

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The Psychologist, by Helene Flood

The Psychologist, by Helene Flood

That psychology goes a long way in thrillers or crime novels is obvious in emblematic cases like Thomas Harris and his Hannibal or John Katzenbach with his psychoanalyst revisited. So for the first-time Helene Flood to start with a first crime novel about the ...

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Don't Cry For A Kiss, by Mary Higgins Clark

Don't cry for a kiss, Mary Higgins Clark

Sometimes "politically correct" sprinkles with its appearance of "censorship." And one no longer knows if it will not end up being the first rather the second. Because if the title of the latest Mary Higgins Clark novel is called "Kiss the girls and make them cry," when it comes to ...

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Tierra, by Eloy Moreno

Tierra, by Eloy Moreno

With his surprising, unclassifiable and always magnetic narrative vitola in his narrative proposals, Eloy Moreno invites us in his novel Tierra to a kind of dystopia that ends up connecting with television reality shows. Because ignoring the pink drift of this type of program, the life in ...

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