The 3 best books by Eugenio Fuentes

If the black genre is transformed according to the imaginations and idosyncrasies of each country, without a doubt Eugene Fuentes He is currently in charge of keeping that traditional noir at the height of the Iberian circumstances and becoming. To the point that the very Vazquez Montalban He would be delighted to take his Carvalho for a walk through Extremadura diagonally with his homeland, a Catalan girl. Thus drawing a straight line that crosses everything that Spain houses for better or for worse.

Between quixotic and Almodovarian, the detective cupid Born in the early nineties, he carries the weight of a scale universe on his shoulders where he has remained for decades like Dorian Gray, darkening his soul but remaining undaunted by the passing of our years. Thus he continues to learn about the most bizarre crimes armed by brothers of Cainite inspiration or by philanthropists attacked with gambling. Because between paradoxes, follies and ambitions, reality ends up being a crude imitation that nevertheless can even overcome the most sinister scenarios.

That is what the black genre was about when it began in the mid-twentieth century, with shallow reflections of social harshness. And so our friend maintains it detective cupid. Because noir was a genre replicated from gangsters or hitmen and that was continued by any neighbor's son who sees revenge, blood and death as the most treacherous plan with which to satisfy dark desires or collect all kinds of debts.

Top 3 recommended novels by Eugenio Fuentes

mistralia

Power, money, interest ... There can be no impediment to the cyclone of those three factors conspiring to make room for ambition. It is not just a matter of raising the amoral from the large multinationals that run the world, governments and countries. It is also about appreciating what we are capable of doing as individuals when we smell a slight aroma of easy money.

The renewable energy boom posed and poses a singular paradox. Green energy with which to improve our ecosystem and also green money for the lucky ones with optimal land for facilities of this type.

But there is more to Mistralia than all this. The late Esther Duarte, hanged in a new windmill seems to have succumbed to some kind of corporate dirty work…. But what detective Ricardo Cupido (a fundamental character in this author's general work) can discover will not end up pointing precisely to the most typical causes that appear between power, money and interests ...

An interesting plot where almost nothing is what it seems. Characters cleverly outlined to present the whims, the dark sides and the passions that not infrequently assail us in our current world.

In one of the modern wind power mills to be installed in Breda, a woman is found hanged. This is Esther Duarte González, an engineer from Mistralia, the company that will operate that plant. Murder or suicide?
When the detective Ricardo Cupido receives the task of investigating what happened from the company, he does not imagine the many ins and outs that his investigations are going to lead him through.

The wind farm has been and continues to be a source of conflict between neighbors: everyone takes the opportunity to sell their land, and it irritates them greatly that an environmentalist couple from Madrid, Vidal and Sonia, refuse to sell and ruin the business. Even among company executives, things are not clear. Cupido will learn of Esther's hectic love life and internal tensions at work through Senda Burillo, a young engineer destined to replace her and to whom he cannot help but feel attracted.

Black stones

Family secrets are sometimes presented to us as fantastic plots to develop about our own lives. Because what happened to a father, mother or brother who may be buried for whatever reason, ends up taking root like a root from which to access substrates never imagined.

Marta Medina dies of Alzheimer's in Toulouse. In his will, he instructs his granddaughter Marthe to look for a son that she had to give up for adoption during the civil war. The granddaughter travels to Spain and entrusts the investigation to Ricardo Cupido. The detective discovers that Marta's son is called Alejandro Garcilaso and he is a very rich man and the father of an illegitimate daughter.

When Cupid and Marthe reveal who he really is, he refuses to accept it and Marthe returns disappointed to Toulouse. Days later, Garcilaso's daughter appears murdered. The crime is somewhat gothic and gruesome, and Garcilaso, who wants to investigate it outside of the police, asks Cupido to discover what or who is behind this murder.

Black stones it is situated at the epicenter of the real estate bubble, with greedy characters at a time when wealth seemed to be within everyone's reach, and it paints a meticulous portrait of that time; its fashions, the generalization of new technologies, a taste for ostentation ... And a controversial issue that is very present in the media, the children stolen during the dictatorship.

Trial

With certain alternations like chicha calm, the Tour ends up surprising us with murky doping issues that you laugh at the plots about mafias and others. The appearance of that ominous doctor, the certain Eufemiano Fuentes, in a prime time interview struck me as that triumph of the mean, of the black genre that surrounds us from the institutional to the moral. Thanks to that shallow shadow of eternal suspicion about the sport of two wheels, this plot gains in intrigue until a fascinating unraveling.

In the fourth stage of the Tour de France, Tobias Gros, the favorite and unbeatable winner of the last four editions of this race, is assassinated while resting in the hotel. The commotion is enormous, and rumors soon spread. One of the first suspects is Santi Mieses, runner of the rival team. To stop the gossip, Luis Carrión, the director of the team where Mieses rides, hires the detective Ricardo Cupido, a mere spectator of one of the queen stages: the ascent of the Tourmalet.

In his research, Cupido delves into the world of cyclists and knows first-hand the handling between teams, the roles that riders share in each stage, the disputes and feuds between cyclists or the elusive medical teams that provide doping in exact doses. But also the silent role, but no less crucial, of the "gregarious."

Other recommended books by Eugenio Fuentes

The underbelly of the heart

If there is a literary genre capable of engrossing us and giving us hours of pleasant reading, absorbed in the resolution of some engima, in the pursuit of a murderer or in the clarification of a more or less bloody crime, this is without a doubt the noir genre, the detective novel, also known as noir.

With the intention of dismantling the great topics that surround this literature, Eugenio Fuentes investigates the historical, social and literary origins of a genre that plays with truth and lies, with the psychological problems of its protagonists or their difficulties in relating to the world and its peers.

An exemplary cultivator of this genre himself, and creator of the unforgettable character Ricardo Cupido, Fuentes approaches in this work the great authors of crime novels - from Poe or Conan Doyle to Stieg Larsson - and explores characters, plots, emotions and the entire mythology. typical of a genre that explores our moral miseries and that slides along the fine line that separates good from evil.