In the section of this blog dedicated to the best books by countless authors, we usually select those who already have these three works on which to raise the podium of their best novels.
But in the case of Joaquin Camps we make an exception similar to the one we considered doing with Javier Castillo before it came to those three novels to position our most subjective criteria.
And now it's up to JoaquĆn Camps and his dedication to works of fiction. An irruption that also points to that great level of the bestseller won hard with great novels and official recognition of great prizes such as the AzorĆn de novela.
This professor at the University of Valencia also aims to establish a chair in Spanish novels within a genre of suspense in which the author outlines his characters with great psychological depth.
If he also manages, as it happens, to round out plots with approaches of great intrigue and is capable of providing that rhythm by compensating between tension, affection and action, we find a writer who always convinces with his stories.
Recommended novels by JoaquĆn Camps
The silhouette of oblivion
The discovery of Victor of the Tree It was, in my opinion, a new variant in the crime novel. Stories, cases that connect with the deepest feelings about the tragic of living from the notion of crime, of the transience of life, in the hands of the murderer on duty, also converted in many cases into a derivative of the fears and doubts of the researchers themselves, as existential nemesis materialized in their victims as well as in their persecutors, faced with sinister reflections of their own life looming over the abyss.
And the truth is that in that sense JoaquĆn Camps seems to gather an imaginary resemblance, thus achieving a general suspense that runs through each work from a complete anxiety. And this award-winning novel AzorĆn award 2019 for me it tunes with that more or less new idea of āāa noir genre focused on the thriller of living when the waves of all the characters reverberate towards a melancholic composition, guided by a psychological tension that reaches all shores.
Claudia Carreras has been rocking in those waters for some time. The loss marks their daily lives with that weight that only time can end up releasing, but that meanwhile comes to crush the conscience. Even so, without her beloved TomƔs with whom she shared cases and a bed, the forward flight leads her to Valencia from Madrid, hoping that the Mediterranean will divert its bad waves to other distant coasts.
Shortly after arriving, her first case assails her with the uncertainties of her particular situation. The disappearance of Lara Valls, more than an aseptic case, is taking on a very particular character in which each step taken towards her rescue or the discovery of her body introduces her into a spiral, into a fatal inertia.
Nothing worse than drastically empathizing with the victim of a case. But Claudia little by little finds in the mimicry with Lara a strange haven of comfortable melancholy as she shares the paths of perdition with Lara.
The last confidence of the writer Hugo Mendoza
The author's first novel. A debut film highly valued by readers. And it is that, as we pointed out before, when a writer like Camps puts that effort into the full verisimiliud of characters and offers a well thought out, fresh and surprising plot, the debut thing is not so noticeable.
And so the final work happens to be, in a genre as massive as suspense-mystery, a great take off of the author already perfectly differentiated with that imprint and that way of narrating that wins readers everywhere.
The story narrates the particular journey of VĆctor Vega, immersed in an investigation on the mythical and now deceased writer Hugo Mendoza. His death arouses his wife's suspicions and he considers that Victor can help her in determining the ultimate truth.
Delving into the mystery raised is a spoiler. But it is that far beyond the investigations of a subject such as the one presented, the novel uses the author's great capacity to create psychological profiles so deep to draw parallel lines that are intertwined with the mystery.
Because what greater enigma than life itself, assailed with the energy of new horizons? Victor Vega, Paloma and many other characters will flood us with their lives while we sweat trying to unravel the great final mystery.
