Paradox 13 by Keigo Higashino

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P-13. The phenomenon of cosmic chance had to be based on that number. The Earth approaches antimatter, or the antimatter reaches the earth with that firm phagocytic will of the Universe withdrawing towards itself. The possible arrival or creation of a black hole in the vicinity of the ...

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An Almost True Story, by Mattias Edvardsson

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The idea, the synopsis, the first pages…, everything evokes Joël Dicker and his Harry Quebert case. It is fair to admit it that way. But immediately the story takes a very different rhythm and an approach that, although it partly uses the flashback resource as a trick and effect with which to go ...

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Black as the Sea, by Mary Higgins Clark

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Mary Higgins Clark is in great shape. At 90 years old, he still firmly maintains his pen to present novels like this Negro como el mar. The main idea of ​​the novel, its starting proposal has a lot of the usual plot in suspense themes, a closed space, a ...

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Free by Patrick Ness

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Facing certain social issues from a youth narrative is imperative in the face of that awareness and naturalization of the different about the mediocrity of the people. And I say "imperative" because it is in youthful ages where the patterns of what we will be in adulthood are set. Youth is exposed ...

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Area 51 by Annie Jacobsen

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Investigative journalist Annie Jacobsen dived into classified information about a particular US military work zone where unknown technology was available and weapons projects never imagined were being developed. Inside this was area 51. Testimonials from people who worked in the ...

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The office of ponds and gardens, by Didier Decoin

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A woman's odyssey in XNUMXth century Japan. The strict summary of this novel is condensed in this simple phrase. The rest comes later…. Didier Decoin took the writing of this novel very seriously (as it should, of course) More than a decade dedicated ...

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Ice Dawn, by Laura Falcó

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For the average Spanish reader, and probably that of half the world, Nordic literature is covered by the noir genre. The Nordic quarry is prolific and its scenography and setting benefit from that icy, bluish space, with very marked periods of light and shadow, so the stereotype ...

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Manhattan exciting love, by Cristina Prada

Who does not remember with a certain nostalgia that first love? Undoubtedly a magnetic proposal from the Manhattan Love series. Between the naivety of childhood, the outburst of youth and the variable destiny that usually takes us away from those vital scenes ... The point is that unfinished love is lavished ...

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The dreams of my father, Barack Obama

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As you could imagine, Barack Obama, the first black president of the United States, had a lot to tell. Normally retired politicians, former presidents, the great men of high places end up writing the book of their future in those spaces of power. A kind of justification for their ...

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The day that love was lost, of Javier Castillo

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After the stellar appearance of the novel The day that sanity was lost, Javier Castillo offers us this second and equally disturbing work: The day that love was lost. Again the title participates in that suggestive touch, between apocalyptic and evocative, between lyrical and sinister. A …

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Eight, by Rebeca Stones

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In order to write the perfect novel, we would have to find the magical balance that the round work could create. It would then be appropriate to compensate the insolence, vehemence and emotionality of the youth of the writer or writer, with the grounds, the profession and the intellectuality of the adult writer. AND …

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The Mark of the Inquisitor, by Marcello Simoni

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Historical novels focused on such suggestive periods as the seventeenth century, with Western civilization subject to dangerous ups and downs, have always had a special aftertaste for me. If we also focus the plot on Rome, the eternal city and the beginning of all western culture, it can already be predicted that I will end ...

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