The 3 best books by Carmen Mola

Below you can see the trilogy that raised the inscrutable figure of Carmen Mola to stardom. They were days of uncertainty about a writer capable of disturbing us with a plot of roots sunk to the depths of the earth and entrails. Then came the conversion of La Mola into a trio of authors and there each one with their way of seeing the subject...

Revealed the secret around Carmen Mola through the Planet 2021 award, there will always be the romantic vision of what anonymity could hide ... This is how we saw it on this blog before everything was known:

Un new case Elena Ferrante Spanish version. And immediately suspicions are aroused around that name that has already transcended the literary world as an enigmatic hook: Carmen Molla. An unknown author (or author) of a series of crime novels that are making their way without anyone dedicated to the promo behind a face on the lapel and a bio on the benefits of his narrative.

The publishing house on duty and the literary agency in charge of representing a paradoxical bibliography both nascent and orphan they are the ones who accompany this diffusion between doubts of the formula for success or the disturbing anonymity of someone capable of writing atrocious stories only freed from the burden of having to justify anything.

The noir genre has that noséqué that invites us to associate the creation with the author, imputing the strange philias or phobias narrated to the personality of the person who tells them. Carmen Mola gets rid of this stigma and can continue leading her normal life while her readers grow and her checking account does the same.

Fame for the writer is almost never complete in an aspect of social recognition. Unless you are Stephen King o Almudena Grandes, almost no one will recognize you beyond the presentations and the signatures by libraries on duty (because the truth is that the big media is not that they grant much time to literature per se, beyond tangential collaborations of the writers).

so yes Carmen Mola is certainly a writer by vocation who has decided to break into the market without making himself known (let's not rule out the marketing product), his commitment to anonymity does not imply many differences with the modus vivendi of any other author, except for the tranquility of being able to continue with your life as if nothing had happened. in your own environment. Continuing with that lonely work in front of the computer that every writer faces as a necessary process of creation.

Be that as it may, what is clear is that every fan of the crime novel has already heard about Carmen Mola and her stories that take root with a black genre without contemplations. Perhaps a reflection of black Spain, perhaps a compilation of the best of noir that travels Europe from side to side. The important thing is to sit down and enjoy, waiting for new stories that will surely arrive and be incorporated into this space.

Top 3 recommended novels by Carmen Mola

The beast

The thriller is looking back. New historical fictions that focus this suspense of maximum tension in past locations that fill the most idle reading with attractions with that aftertaste for learning new things from our past. From Niklas Natt och Dag but also Stefano de Bellis o louis clog they sign up for this new mix with a greater or lesser component of suspense or history depending on the tendency of the author of the day. «Carmen Mola» could not be less ...

It is the year 1834 and Madrid, a small city that tries to break through the walls that surround it, suffers a terrible cholera epidemic. But the plague is not the only thing that terrifies its inhabitants: in the suburbs there are dismembered corpses of girls that no one claims. All rumors point to the Beast, a being whom no one has seen but whom everyone fears.

When little Clara disappears, her sister Lucía, along with Donoso, a one-eyed policeman, and Diego, a hustler journalist, start a frantic countdown to find the girl alive. On their way they stumble upon Fray Braulio, a guerrilla monk, and with a mysterious gold ring with two crossed maces that everyone covets and for which some are willing to kill.

The gypsy bride

What Carmen Mola presents us with is a black novel with an ethnic setting, to put it in some way. Because the victim who soon breaks into the plot is a girl with gypsy roots. Poor Susana Macaya is murdered in the early morning of her bachelorette party. The disturbing initial disappearance ends up waking up to a harsh reality that at times appears in scenarios of our own world in which evil appears with those unpredictable lashes of cruelty.

It is then that the novel acquires that black point that connects with the police, with the police professionals who submerge themselves in the true sewers of society, where the most macabre instincts are fed at the service of the most disturbed reason. The case undoubtedly points to what already happened in the case of Susana's sister. Just a few years ago, Susana said goodbye to her sister Lara, in the same circumstances as hers, as a sinister juncture of fate. And about that, about the fatal fate of the Macaya sisters, Inspector Blanco, a police officer with her own wounds that from the outset faces a murderer who repeats the formula of his imprisoned predecessor.

Unless the one who remains in jail for the first death is not really the one who caused it. And in such a case, Inspector Blanco must consider that the vengeful being, in addition to being cruel, is intelligent enough to blame others for his macabre deeds. it serves the cause of the narrative to pose possible scenarios of revenge, hatred and rejection.

Because the Macaya family wanted to unburden their Roma roots. And such a decision could end up leading to doom. Inspector Blanco will find new clues in her investigation, but also profound threats from the most unexpected places.

The purple net

The black genre, beyond drifts that sometimes point to gore, must maintain a tension, a suspense, an intrigue built from those events, that crime or that investigation that produces the desired magnetic effect. In this second part we add the hook of a character like Elena Blanco, the investigator in whose brilliance and stony determination we can always expect a tireless search for the origin of that evil slipped into fiction from well-known real scenarios.

If the plot is also directly related to "The Gypsy Bride", we look at a second installment with the scent of the second part. The sinister purple web manages to establish itself on the web as a place to awaken the most evil instincts. And yet the most interesting part of Elena's own environment.

In the first installment we could always suspect that something else, that secret kept by the protagonist with the zeal of a conscience raised like a wall. But little by little all that pernicious universe of the deep Internet as a place where the macabre and death appear, like a hell under the comfort and efficiency of the online universe, begins to be linked to Elena's worst moments.

Because her mother's day was darkened to the point of despair when her son Lucas abandoned her life forever. And now, what time was able to heal with its false placebo effects, can start to hurt again as you could never have imagined.

The babe

Perhaps it is a matter of a creative and plot freedom marked to a greater extent by anonymity. Or maybe it's just a question of a commercial editorial bet by a black or a team of blacks set to racking their brains in a new plot of the enigmatic carmen mola… The point is that in this third part of the series of the inspector Elena Blanco We enjoy that open grave noir of an authorship that only creatively accounts for the dark motivations of crime.

With a precise cadence of annual publication, Carmen Mola makes her Elena Blanco a character who assiduously accompanies us as a bedside reading. And so his affairs and his personality are already set to set us immediately in each new installment.

On this occasion, Elena Blanco takes a back seat to concentrate the weight of the plot, how could it be otherwise… It is the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the year of the pig begins. Chesca, in command of the Case Analysis Brigade For a year, she has been with Ángel Zárate, but at the last moment he gives her a stand. Still, she goes out to have fun, meets a man, and spends the night with him. The next morning, three men surround her bed, waiting to join in the feast. And a repulsive smell of pig permeates the room.

After a whole day without giving any signals, the BAC colleagues start looking for their partner. They have invaluable help: Elena Blanco, who, although she left the police after the debacle of the Purple Network case, cannot turn her back on a friend. They will soon realize that unspeakable secrets are hidden behind Chesca's disappearance.

Other recommended books by Carmen Mola

Hell

Firmly entering the thriller, the owners of the now brand Carmen Mola invite us to a bloody suspense already set in a historical moment of instabilities and dark political royal maneuvers between constitutionalists, monarchists and other yearners for power... Instabilities that They had their reverberation in all social spheres. And it is that when you breathe a warlike atmosphere, evil begins to roam freely. A plot from the bottom up to go up the social ladders following the trail of that ominous current that only seeks blood and revenge.

A horrifying uprising by the army against Queen Elizabeth II stains the streets of Madrid with blood and the dead. The people call him the sergeant and horror spreads throughout the city. Amid the cannon fire and shots, a dancer named Leonor and a young medical student named Mauro find themselves involved in an involuntary homicide that will mark their lives.

Fleeing from prison or death, Leonor is forced to accept the marriage proposal of a millionaire Cuban landowner with whom she flees to Havana, but when she arrives there, this wonderful Caribbean enclave is not what she expects. The sugar plantations and sugar mills hide the tragedy of a slavery that is still very much alive. And, among the slaves, the figure of Mauro surprises the girl. In a desperate attempt to escape from that hell, both will discover that the mill where they are hiding a terrible plot to assassinate a group of landowners following a brutally ferocious ancestral rite.