And when it seemed that the current noir narrative could have found the relief of the Nordic preponderance towards new authors and emerging authors in France, Italy or Spain, the Swedish Viveca Sten Appears to Claim Creative Patent for European Black Thriller. Although the case of Viveca Sten is unique, since her literary dedication already comes from afar in her country, having been recovered for the cause of the reconquest of the European throne like a bullet in the chamber.
And again in the theme of this author we resort to the idea of the autochthonous of this northern peninsula to justify, through the particular and light light of the north, the idiosyncrasy of the inhabitants of the north or the wide and breathtaking landscapes spaces, that unique setting capacity that each new voice manages to awaken that conjunction between environmental darkness and the secrecy of a lifestyle more prone to introspection than that of other more southern areas of the old continent.
With the latest novel presented in Spain by this author, Not guilty, (although already published by another label previously) we guessed that intention of complete mimicry between the disturbing black plot that freezes the blood and the long periods of submission to cold and isolation, all as a latent prelude to the sinister, of the cases that remain pending the thaw to transform any spring into a strange play of light and shadow in the awakening of the inhabitants of the place from a hibernation of necessary unconsciousness to the harsh reality.
In this new case, published back in 2009 in Sweden, we meet again with Nora Linde, a lawyer by profession but with true magnetism for the dark. Or maybe it's that I'm really looking for it ... The point is that the death of a colleague named Oscar Juliandre, during a maritime sporting event, leads us from the Stromma archipelago to the south, to the island of Gotland (Between islands and cold North seas are the affairs of this author).
On the island of Gotland we find a particular universe of colorful characters capable of anything to preserve their status and appearances. And that's where the inspector Thomas Andreasson and Nora will have to display all their deductive capacity, punctuated by a dark claustrophobic feeling that everyone on the island is in cahoots so that the truth is never known.
You can now buy the novel Circulos Cerrado, another new novel by Viveca Sten, here: