The discovery of Victor of the Tree supposed, to my understanding, 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 in many cases into a derivative of the fears and doubts of the researchers themselves, as existential nemesis materialized in their victims as well as in their persecutors, faced with sinister reflections of their own life looming over the abyss. And the truth is that in that sense Joaquin Camps it seems to gather an imaginary resemblance.
In this way, a general suspense is achieved that runs through each work from a complete anxiety. And this award-winning novel Azorín award 2019 for me it tunes with that more or less new idea of a noir genre focused on the thriller of living when the waves of all the characters reverberate towards a melancholic composition, guided by a psychological tension that reaches all shores.
Claudia Carreras has been rocking in those waters for some time. The loss marks their daily lives with that weight that only time can end up releasing, but that meanwhile comes to crush the conscience. Even so, without her beloved Tomás with whom she shared cases and a bed, the forward flight leads her to Valencia from Madrid, hoping that the Mediterranean will divert its bad waves to other distant coasts.
Shortly after arriving, her first case assails her with the uncertainties of her particular situation. The disappearance of Lara Valls, more than an aseptic case, is taking on a very particular character in which each step taken towards her rescue or the discovery of her body introduces her into a spiral, into a fatal inertia.
Nothing worse than drastically empathizing with the victim of a case. But Claudia little by little finds in the mimicry with Lara a strange haven of comfortable melancholy as she shares the paths of perdition with Lara.
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