We are still at the start, in that kind of take-off that, in the case of Ines Plana points to a great literary mission. The point is that after a debut feature rescued from ostracism the first time by a large publisher, this writer from Huesca has managed to turn her patient love of writing into her life (her first novel took her five years, as usually happens when one begins to tell a story without the time of the professional author), a more professional dedication, with its reading cabinets and its marketing with which to reach more and more readers.
The Spanish black genre is dotted with other already established authors such as Dolores Redondo o Eva Garcia Saenz as the most advantageous authors. Inés Plana arrives to go little by little, earning that space that the rest of the authors may not cover. It is not about noir with telluric, ancestral ramifications, plots that link with legends and others ...
Plana's is the most urban noir, where survival, power and corruption, psychopathies and animosity, philias and phobias..., all of this composes in a good police plot scenarios where the reflections of reality assault us with disturbing certainty. The wild side of the world is not always in remote forests, but can occur anywhere, among the appearances of a civilized society.
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Dying is not what hurts the most
Suicide is always a violent way out of an untenable situation. Hanging has a tragic farewell to this world, the weight of gravity as a macabre metaphor for the unbearable weight of living. But a hanged man with his eyes taken out of their sockets acquires a greater sinister meaning, that of an execution with a message to be deciphered ...
The case of the hanged man will lead Lieutenant Julián Tresser and finally Coira on a journey towards the essence of evil, or summary justice, a perspective on a world adrift, the lack of all morals, the most tragic sense of life. .
Summary: A man appears hanged in a pine forest on the outskirts of Madrid, with his eyes gouged out. In one of his pockets is a mysterious piece of paper with the name and address of a woman: Sara Azcárraga, who lives a few kilometers from the crime scene. Frail, lonely, a lonely vodka drinker, Sara shuns any contact with humans and works from home.
The Civil Guard Lieutenant Julián Tresser takes charge of the case, assisted by the young Corporal Coira, who is facing a criminal investigation for the first time, a difficult investigation, with hardly any clues, with too many enigmas. As Lieutenant Tresser progresses in his investigations, he will discover facts that will turn his existence tragic and lead him on a journey to hell that will mark his life forever. Extraordinary thriller in line with the novels that are currently selling. A hypnotic plot, elaborated and perfectly fitted like a puzzle, some very accomplished characters, with soul and flesh and blood, and a rhythm that makes it impossible to stop reading.
Before those who do not love die
At Christmas 2009, with a country crushed by the crisis, a Social Security official dies when she is violently pushed against a window. Who does it is a young woman who flees the place without leaving a trace. This is the case investigated by Julián Tresser, lieutenant of the Civil Guard Judicial Police, when the first reliable clue emerged about the whereabouts of Luba, a twelve-year-old girl who mysteriously disappeared two years ago.
Since then, Tresser has desperately searched for that girl who is not his daughter but who should be. He does not imagine that the little girl has escaped the sordid world of prostitution in which she had been confined. Chance leads her to hide in a house in a lost town where two women seem to hide an unspeakable secret that could ruin their lives. Luba should ask for their help, since she arrives there injured, but the abuse she has suffered prevents her from trusting anyone. These capricious and cruel circumstances are not going to make it easy for the lieutenant, because, while looking for the girl, he must choose between the responsibility that his job entails and the strength of blood ties.
Following the success of Dying is not what hurts the most, Inés Plana plunges the reader into a dizzying plot through which tormented and complex characters pass through and where Lieutenant Tresser will be subjected to a moral dilemma that will put his convictions to the test.
