The caress of the beast, by Cristina C. Pombo

The previous references is how bad they have. From the outset, you already think that the plot of a new novel is in tune with a similar one that you recently read. The first echo that came to my memory when I saw this book was The Invisible Guardian de Dolores Redondo. For that of the forest, the sinister character who attacks young victims ...

But definitely the story takes a very different face from the aforementioned novel. As we meet the protagonists who will lead us through the action, Laura Tébar, Inspector, and Deputy Inspector Merino, we embark on a journey to the most genuine thriller, the one that leads us towards the fear of death and everything that the popular imagination built and constructs. around her.

All those ill-dead characters represented in a thousand and one ways, and always considered as part of the fantasy by the most skeptical, are manifested in this novel with that counterweight of some protagonists very little given to fantasy or any fantastic speculations about the victims that they have been meeting throughout their careers.

On the one hand Tébar and on the other Merino, we participate in an interesting balance between the criminalistic scientific method and the intuition and improvisation of those who have the sixth sense that can lead them to the origin of evil. In the same way, we delve into the balance between evil as something palpable, tangible and recognizable and that other unknown evil on which legends and tricks are built.

The most interesting thing in the story is that double balance between the poles. The opposite methods of two investigators and the substantiation of the murder as something more from here or from there.

It is more than likely that fate has brought Tébar and Merino together so that they can extract the synthesis of the macabre murders that await them, that final theory that can explain the inexplicable ...

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