It's never too late, by Jerónimo Tristante

It's never too late, by Jerónimo Tristante
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Crime novels set in bucolic mountain scenery seem to have taken root as their own subgenre. The appearance of Dolores Redondo with its Baztán trilogy led to a takeoff of this type of novels.

In my case, being Aragonese, the new proposal of Jerónimo Tristante, centered on the Aragonese Pyrenees, as it touches me more from the start. But of course, with the exposed antecedents, you can always fall into the temptation to associate and compare ...

But the magic often lies in revisiting scenarios to end up transforming them under the style of each author. And that's what happens with this book is never too late, Ateneo de Sevilla 2017 award.

The title, knowing that we are dealing with a crime novel, seems to anticipate a pending case that can still be solved, or a drastic decision that ends up transforming reality towards the sinister ... It all begins with a girl who appears murdered in a costume of corpse, like macabre sarcasm.

The official investigation unfolds throughout the environment, but in parallel, Isabel Amat, more aware of the reality of the town and the surroundings, begins to link the case with a dark past that still survives as a distant echo in the consciousness of the locals.

In 1973 that same peaceful place between mountains suffered a brutal shake of sinister reality. Forty years later, the researchers are unable to put together both events, they do not possess the popular imagination, the myths and half-truths about that event that has been badly buried with the passage of time.

The mountains of the Pyrenees with their majestic appearance, the surrounding forests where visa overflows, all this has a double reading. In the interiors of every dark forest, the most unknown beasts of the past can survive, even the worst of beasts, the human predator capable of everything to appease their madness ...

You can now buy the novel Never is late, the new book by Jerónimo Tristante, here:

It's never too late, by Jerónimo Tristante
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