Charlotte Link's Top 3 Books

Versatile author where they exist, capable of the most disturbing plot or the most passionate intimate story. Because until recently Charlotte Link he was one of the most authoritative voices in German and European crime fiction. And he continues to be a reference for that capacity for new plot twists in his bibliography. And it is that, after more than thirty years dedicated to the world of literature, Link masterfully handles all kinds of keys necessary to reach the level of bestseller in all kinds of works.

So much so that once that best-selling author's band was achieved in a genre as demanding as noir, Charlotte Link has joined a more period narrative aspect, with that intimacy that also captivates readers from half the world through authors such as Maria Dueñas, in the Spanish market, or Anne jacobs worldwide.

So you certainly never know where the next novel from an ingenious and variable narrator like Link will break. Dizzying pen at times and loaded with depth at others, with a scrupulous characterization of characters for the role they must play in the set. German reliability until the final twist or surprise. In particular, you will see that here we are left with his darker proposals, but without detracting from his great chameleon capacity.

Top 3 Recommended Charlotte Link Novels

Blameless

After some forays into the pink genre, Charlotte Link takes new energy in her teaching of the German noir genre. A novel with a drumbeat that targets the serial criminal in search of the perfect execution. Based on the plot in the absence of mobiles that exceptionally presented us Patricia Highsmith in "Strangers on a Train", this proposal goes further and worries us with criminal possibilities that exceed all limits...

Just before joining the North Yorkshire Police, detective Kate Linville decides to take advantage of her last weekend off to go to the spa that her colleagues from Scotland Yard have given her as a farewell gift. Kate is sitting on the train, on her way to her destination, when a girl appears, chased by a man with a gun.

The quick intervention of the detective diverts the trajectory of the bullet, but the stranger flees. Days later, a teacher has an accident with her mountain bike because of a wire placed on the road. The young woman falls to the ground and, later, a shot is heard.

An examination of the cartridges seized in both events shows that the weapon used is the same. The police are convinced that the two incidents are related and could even be the work of the same person, but these two women did not know each other, there is no apparent link between them. Or if?

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A novel that immediately points to that tension focused on Scarborough, a small city completely open to the North Sea from central England, lying under the North York nature reserve and that has already been the scene of intense Charlotte Link plots on other occasions.

And again this time the ghosts seem to have returned to that space to resume misdeeds with the assurance that, once again, evil will go unpunished.

We know Hannah in more or less detail, and we will see her disappear back in 2013. And through the detective Kate Linville, a descendant of Scarborough we will also learn about the case of Amelia, another young woman of only 14 years old who seems to have taken the same path to that misty place where people cease to exist, something almost worse than the lack of physical evidence that reveals the worst ...

Since Hannah's case, Kate will try to piece together the two disappearances. Until events spill over from that impenetrable swamp I mentioned earlier. The dark waters will flood everything, certainties and fears, past and future.

With this German writer’s knack for constricting plots to the point of suffocation, we long for the twist that offers a positive new look at the two-girl affair. But Charlotte herself is in charge of making us understand that no. The paradox that involves youth and death is always food for the beast, in need of the most cruel things to appease its animosity driven to madness.

I have to kill you again

Behind the typical title that already offers a point of magnetism due to the paradox it represents, there is an impeccable thriller in which you feel led to those moments of tension that only good crime literature can offer you, and that you need to decipher with real morbid satisfaction.

A series of murders ravage the city of London. The victims, killed in a vengeful and sadistic way, are women who live alone and do not seem to have any relationship with each other. The police are looking for a psychopath, a man who hates women, but there are almost no leads and the case does not advance.

At the center of the investigation are Gillian Ward, the mother of a distant teenager, and John Burton, a former cop who will soon find himself drawn to the epicenter of a turbulent history of abuse, loneliness and revenge, not suspecting that the next victim is right at hand. her side and what little he can do to save her ...

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the silence of the night

The cyclical evolution of the sinister. The strange ties that hold past and present with that hint of a fatality led by the criminal who was never found. Back on the hunt, years later, with God knows what quest for revenge...

Scarborough, 2010. An obese teenager, Alvin Malory, is the victim of a terrible assault that leaves him in a vegetative coma. A cold case in Caleb Hale's career.

Nearly ten years later, Anna Carter watches as a stranger pulls up a woman's vehicle and gets into it. Anna finds the scene strange and tries unsuccessfully to get the driver's attention. Anna is tired and it's cold, so she finally decides to leave. The next day, the car is found parked in a small driveway with the girl's body riddled with stab wounds inside. When she Anna discovers the fatal outcome of the scene she witnessed the day before, she does not dare to tell what she saw for fear of being involved in a criminal case.

The police find fingerprints in the car that match others found at the place where the brutal attack on Alvin Malory took place, but there does not seem to be any link between him and the deceased.

The rose grower

Behind an apparently naive title, there is a story of mysteries, grudges and fears in the nucleus of a singular family. A story that you seem to contemplate through the keyhole, an exercise in literary voyeurism to surprise us with the black history that looms over the characters.

Young Franca Palmer is having a bad time. Her marriage is in crisis and she does not feel up to the demands of her husband. Right off the bat, he leaves his comfortable home in Berlin and goes to Guernsey, the beautiful island in the English Channel, where he hopes to find the necessary peace to reorder his life.

Shortly after settling into a simple room in Le Variouf's old rose greenhouse, a curious friendship was born between her and her hostess, Beatrice Shaye, an elderly woman who has long shared a splendid estate with another elderly woman. Helene Feldmann, wife of an officer in the German troops who occupied the Channel Islands in 1940.

Back then, Helene and her husband found Beatrice abandoned in their home and adopted her as their own daughter. From the beginning, however, the Feldmanns competed for the girl's favor, since Erich had nothing but contempt for his wife.

For this reason, when the military man died on May 1945, XNUMX, the two women believed they had left behind a tormented period of their lives. But now, on another May XNUMXst, a shadow looms over the rose greenhouse.

Deception

The father figure is usually that anchor where we hold our moral values ​​and our references from which we learn to see the world. That's what happens to Kate Linville.

When her father appears murdered, Kate leaves everything to uncover the truth ... Kate leaves London to return home in order to closely follow the case. The inspector in charge of the investigation, Caleb Hale, does not inspire him much confidence. He seems more interested in looking for easy answers than in finding out the truth.

And Kate senses that her father's case is much more complex than the police believe. Kate's parallel investigation to solve her father's murder shows that she is anything but a mediocre cop as she believed: she is instinctive , intelligent and persistent. Instead, she will discover the darkest secrets of Richard Linville, a man who had nothing to do with the one she thought she knew and loved.

Season of storms

Welcome to the transformation of this German bestselling author of the black genre into Anne jacobs the great feminist narrator in a historical key. The barbaric comparison comes in handy to delve into the newness of a Charlotte Link capable, in the light of his new success in the genre of historical fiction, of fighting with the most recognized international historical novelists ...

Quite an act of bravery towards the dislocation or interest in recovering old lands already surveyed by this author but which has now borne fruit in a miraculous conversion of readers of the Teutonic author. Or perhaps it has led to the discovery of new adherents to his agile and fast-paced narrative, suitable as we see for all kinds of genres.

Prussia 1914. Felicia has grown up very sheltered in Lulinn, the Degnellys' family estate in East Prussia. She loves riding, living surrounded by nature and spending as much time as possible with Maksim, her childhood playmate with whom she is in love. But new and troubled times come to his private paradise and Maksim, impressed by the revolutionary ideas coming from Russia, decides to go to that country.

Shortly after the First World War broke out, the first soldiers of the Russian army appear in Lulinn. Felicia is alone with her grandparents and manages to prevent them from entering the house, but when the old man dies, grandmother and granddaughter are forced to flee. In Berlin she meets Alex Lombard, a young man from a good family who can provide her well-being that she is not willing to give up and marries him, although her heart belongs to Maksim ...

From the French trenches to revolutionary Russia, from the decaying interwar Berlin to the financial crash of Wall Street and the rise of Nazism, Season of storms is the first installment in a gripping trilogy about an exceptional woman and her family. A vivid reflection of the events that shook the world during the XNUMXth century. Season of storms is the first installment of a historical saga bestseller international that has more than 1.500.000 copies sold.

The ties of the earth

Felicia Lavergne continues to run her thriving business but knows her time is running out and she will have to leave the leadership to the young. His daughters are not ready to take on his legacy. Belle has lived in the United States since the end of World War II but has never adapted to that country. She is always depressed and drowns her sorrows in alcohol. Susanne, for her part, lives estranged from her daughters with whom she has been unable to cope with the trauma of a Nazi war criminal husband and father.

Finally, it will be Alexandra who follows in her grandmother's footsteps. It seems that Felicia has made the right decision and has put her inheritance in good hands, until an unexpected tragedy changes everything ... The ties of the earth it is the last stage of an emotional journey through the history of a family, during a terrible and exciting century.