The 3 best books by Ana Lena Rivera

In the line of those who are already great ladies of the native noir like Dolores Redondo o Maria Oruña, but also drinking from recent great successes more tending to the mystery such as those raised by Eva Garcia Saenz, writer Ana Lena Rivera It points to similar levels of best-selling repercussion in this hybrid between genres that results in narrative tension on all sides.

And everything remains between writers, narrators freed from old constraints to address genres that once seemed to require a masculine pseudonym. Thank God those were other days that, on the other hand, today seem to unleash dizzying feminine feathers delighted to take that walk on the wild side of life that is the black plots.

The recent emergence of Ana Lena presents her with that potential yet to be explored. If after a good and quite successful novel comes another no less intense one that recovers characters, without a doubt the author's will to come and stay is discovered, contributing new protagonists to an imaginary of the genre always eager for new faces, new heroes or heroines. and new villains who sometimes end up being the same protagonists exposed to their starkest contradictions.

Top recommended novels by Ana Lena Rivera

The dead can't swim

The great trilogies are those that go from less to more. And in this case everything started at a very good level from which to locate a base camp to ascend each new installment to this top. The perfect ending to a memorable Gracia San Sebastián ...

In the middle of December, on the beach of San Lorenzo de Gijón, a boy finds the amputated arm of a man in the hole in the wall where he keeps his treasures. The arm belongs to Alfredo Santamaría, who was being investigated at the Oviedo central police station for an alleged pyramid scheme. The Chief of Police of the Principality assigns the case to Commissioner Rafael Miralles.

Gracia San Sebastián, a fraud investigator hired by the police to investigate the victim's finances, has to unravel a complex network of money laundering in which a powerful group of unscrupulous Romanian gangsters intervenes. In her personal life, her relationship with Rodrigo continues from strength to strength, much to the chagrin of her ex-husband, Jorge, who is visiting from the United States to manage an ambitious business project.

What the dead are silent

From Vitoria (Eva García Sáenz) to Baztán (Dolores Redondo). Each Spanish suspense writer seems to submit to the dictates of telluric forces to write chilling plots where the stage ends up being the protagonist in its particular obscured representation of the corresponding writer.

In the case of Ana Lena, her destiny to be transformed is a city in Oviedo subjected to the vagaries of the mysteries buried by the passage of time and the need to be forgotten. But like all secrets, there is always something that links it to reality. It is just a matter of wanting, or not, to know what it is about. Gracia San Sebastián has given up a successful career in New York and has returned with her husband Jorge to their native Oviedo to work as a Social Security fraud investigator.

His new case is related to the collection of the pension of a Francoist soldier who is over one hundred and twelve years old, a clearly suspicious figure. While her personal life takes unforeseen paths, Gracia will encounter ramifications of the case that will lead her to investigate the suicide of a neighbor of her mother. From time to time she asks for advice from a good friend of the family, the Dominican nun Sister Florencia.

What the dead are silent

A murderer in your shadow

When a second part can be read independently, we are faced with an open series, with great projection and infinite possibilities for an author of a crime novel like Ana Lena Rivera. In these cases of sagas that aim to extend throughout a large part of a writer's literary career, a main protagonist usually stands out over the cases presented. Either because of his personal magnetism, because of his chiaroscuros, or because of some pending matter that never ends up being closed between the deliveries that accumulate.

It would be something like the shocking Amaia Salazar from Dolores Redondo, since we are around another writer of black genre. In this case the main character is also a woman like Grace Saint Sebastian that already in the first part "What the dead are silent"He contributed so much novelty to the profile of a character who investigates away from the police stations, with greater risks due to the special look that their cases are taking ...

On this new occasion, Gracia San Sebastián, a financial fraud investigator, is involved in the disappearance of Imelda, a young psychologist who is found dead a few days later on the train tracks. suspicious, asks for your help to discover the murderer of his wife.

Together with her friend Rafa Miralles, the Oviedo police commissioner, Gracia begins an investigation that will lead her to hunt down a murderer in various European capitals. At the same time, Gracia's life falls apart. The relationship with Jorge, her husband, is going through a bad time, and her reputation as a researcher is in question after accusing an official with multiple sclerosis of faking his illness to compete in the most extreme form of triathlon, the Ironman.

A murderer in your shadow

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The Singer Heirs

Change of third to bring us closer to a fascinating intrastory with a touch of period intimacy, but also knows how to maintain the suspense of this author's predecessor. A narrative that brings us closer to a time that is still recent in the imagination of those of us who went through the 20th century, to a greater or lesser extent, and who, therefore, know, rather from hearsay, how those years went. Among the misty shadows of the yesterday of our parents and grandparents, the lives of the protagonists of this story lead us through the labyrinths created between the silences of a family.

The Singer Heirs tells the moving story of the women of a family tied to a sewing machine that guarded a secret for four generations. The day young Aurora was forced to work in the mine after her father's accident, she vowed to do whatever it took to get out of hell.

A loveless marriage and the second-hand Singer sewing machine she receives as a wedding gift will provide her with a new way of moving forward, until a terrible event turns the Singer into the only proof of the threat that will haunt her for a lifetime. Many years later, the complicity that he weaves with his great-granddaughter Alba will reveal the secret he has planned about the women in his family.

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