The disgusting, by Santiago Lorenzo

The disgusting

I do not know what Daniel Defoe would think of this Iberian Robinson Crusoe with evident parody overtones that in the end ends up being oriented more to a current humorous criticism in which it is shown that survival beyond the era of connectivity is possible, at best from …

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Secrets, by Jerónimo Tristante

Secrets, by Jerónimo Tristante

The great suspense or mystery stories gradually unmask a reality initially presented as something very different from what it finally is. It is about scratching on the tinsel to reach new layers where darker approaches settle. Jerónimo Tristante gives himself to the cause of ...

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The Wolves Who Came to Dinner by Steve Smallman

The wolves that I came to dinner

It is true that, when you sit down with the little ones to read a story to them, you can end up enjoying yourself like a dwarf. It has to be the right situation for them to stick to your side looking with that charming gesture of attention. If the story has enough appeal ...

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Before the terrible years, by Víctor del Arbol

Before the terrible years

I will not tire of repeating that Víctor del Arbol is something else. It is no longer a question of approaching the black genre with that mastery shared with other great Spanish authors such as Dolores Redondo, Javier Castillo or even a classic like Vázquez Montalbán. What this author has been showing ...

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The German House, by Annette Hess

The german house

Between 1945 and 1946 the famous hearings of the Nuremberg trials were held. The recent atrocity of Nazism required that immediate action that lasted for many months and that served as a kind of universal jurisprudence for the harshest consideration of war crimes; ...

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Everything else was silence, by Manuel de Lorenzo

Everything else was silence

A feature debut like this one by Manuel de Lorenzo always has something of a singular emptiness in the full satisfaction of its creator. Because at the launch of that novel that has emerged as a first approach to that unfathomable job of the writer, the reasons for writing appear at ...

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The double secret of the lessage family, by Sandrine Destombes

The Lessage family's double secret

The plethora of great French narrators of the noir genre (combined with suspense), led by Minier or Thilliez, is now joined, by overwhelming popular fondness, by Sandrine Destombes. A new writer to take into account in that irrepressible effervescence of the Gallic noir. And to show this button. The novel about ...

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The silhouette of oblivion, by Joaquín Camps

The silhouette of oblivion

The discovery of Víctor del Árbol represented, in my opinion, a new variant in the crime novel. Stories, cases that connect with the deepest feelings about the tragic of living from the notion of crime, of the transience of life, in the hands of the murderer on duty, also converted ...

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This senseless mist, by Enrique Vila-Matas

This insane haze

The figure of the writer is the paradigm of everything, of everything narrated, of all the protagonists in front of the mirror in which they find the writer, undoing his existence in front of that God once endowed with a pen, then with his unnerving noise of keys and later just by sliding your ...

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A Cage of Gold, by Camilla Lackberg

A golden cage

I do not know when Tarantino and Camilla Lackberg agreed for the writer to consider this sequel to the movie "Kill Bill" by the always surprising American director. Or at least, qualifying the previous exaggeration, that can come off the idea of ​​the fiercest protagonist in search of revenge ...

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Your steps on the stairs, by Antonio Muñoz Molina

Your steps on the ladder

There is perhaps no better setting for a psychological thriller than melancholic Lisbon. And the academic of the language Antonio Muñoz Molina already knew it since he wrote that other story "Winter in Lisbon." And it is that in that city overlooking the immensity of the Atlantic, between ...

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