The British criminal novel finds in Belinda Bauer a very interesting rare bird. On the one hand, the author cannot separate herself from those circumstances that mark anyone in her work. And so a certain aroma of an English crime novel soon emerges from her works.
However, in his criminal plots we find a different pulse, as if outside the normal parameters that usually accompany a more British setting and idiosyncrasy. Arguments that seem inspired by Camilleri o Vazquez Montalban. Something that undoubtedly squeaks in the face of a more purist noir, hovering over murders and motives without ending up unraveling towards complementary ramifications.
And without a doubt the thing is enriched as a good menu. Because the matter has its point of suspense, that intrigue that invites deduction as it enters the flour of the plot, at the same time that the author shows us that life behind the scenes, loaded with a multitude of details that ultimately return to the heart of the case to give more substance to everything that can lead to murder as human drift.
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Stereotypes out to address the existence of a character devoured by the painful circumstances from the erroneous decisions or interventions to which a golde of will, bad luck or anger can lead us, depending on how it is seen. Pensioner Felix Pink is about to discover that it's never too late... for life to become extremely complicated.
Felix, a seventy-five-year-old retired accountant, is a timid widower who is part of a community called Exiteers, whose members accompany people who have decided to end their lives in their last moments.
So, when Felix enters number 3 Black Lane one day, he does it for charity, to accompany a dying man in his last breath... But just fifteen minutes later Felix flees from the police after having made the biggest mistake of his life. .
Now, with his world turned upside down, he must find out if it's really his fault or if something much more sinister is going on, all while the authorities are hot on his heels.
dying is not so easy
These are times of scientific research on marks on bodies, organs that testify to the reasons for death, DNA as irrefutable proof of who caused it. Criminology and forensic medicine to explain it all. Until something escapes and everything depends on the instinct of an investigator outside all standards so that only he is capable of discovering the perfect murder.
The body that Patrick Fort is examining in anatomy class tries to tell him that he has been the victim of a murder. Life is strange enough for obsessive Patrick, who suffers from Asperger's Syndrome, even before he tries to solve a possible homicide. However, he will be forced to join the subtle pieces of a puzzle through silent clues that scream to exist, in a sophisticated investigation that will make him feel alive while death is very close.
Awarded the 2014 Theakstons Old Peculier Novel Prize for being, according to the members of the jury, "a totally absorbing and brilliantly written work", Dying is not so easy is also an original and unique novel, which inaugurates a new way of understanding the psychological thriller, and that will take the reader to new territories: that of perplexity, the strange smile, black humor, astonishment and fear, with an ending as brilliant as it is surprising.
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The worst things happen by abandonment. For thinking that there is no inertia of normality capable of being overcome by misfortune. But as with the sheep in the fold, there are always foxes and wolves lurking stealthily waiting for the clue or relaxation.
"Jack is left in charge," his mother said before disappearing up the road for help. "I'm not at all late". Eleven-year-old Jack and his two little sisters are left inside a choking, broken-down car, fighting, whimpering and playing 'I see, I see' while they wait for his mother. But, although they go out to look for her, she does not return.
And after that long, hot summer day, nothing will ever be the same. Three years later, across town, a woman named Catherine While wakes up to find a razor next to her bed with a note that reads "I could have killed you." Although the police are looking for a mysterious thief they call Goldilocks for his habit of sleeping in the beds of the houses he robs, Catherine sees no point in warning her or worrying her husband.
Meanwhile, at fifteen, Jack is still in charge of his sisters. His father has disappeared, and he takes care of feeding them and making sure no one knows they are home alone. And when he accidentally discovers the mysterious knife, he may be on the verge of finding out who killed his mother. But the truth can be dangerous...
