La irruption of Pablo Rivero (The blond of the Alcántara if we pull clichés) in the literary world had a great impact. With this new novel he ends up confirming that the thing was not a flower of a day, that this warning about not being afraid of his debut again also served for his birth as a writer.
And so we arrive, three years later, at this second novel steeped in that growing profession. Giving yourself a time that always ensures the best completion of a novel, beyond editorial pressures or even requirements from readers already hooked on the author on duty.
Jon has been playing a murderer for twenty years in the longest-running series on Spanish television and, despite the fact that fame and money accompany him, he lives so tormented by the character he represents that he decides to abandon everything and retire to a lost house in a forest adjacent to a small town.
You just have to make sure that no one finds out that you live there and avoid at all costs that the press and the paparazzi ruin everything. He does not suspect that getting rid of his alter ego it will not be so easy.
However, shortly after settling in, a series of rugged events will alter his long-awaited tranquility and he will have to fight so that the secrets hidden in those forests do not bring back the character he fears so much. Although it may never have left.
Pablo Rivero is confirmed as a young talent in the current literary scene with this disturbing domestic noir that, as he did with I will never be afraid again, immerses us in a disturbing and magnetic atmosphere that hooks us from the first page.
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