If the writer hidden behind carmen mola invites us to immerse ourselves in the new novel by Susana Martin Gijon, Progeny, that can only mean that the suspense genre circle is concentrated around this haunting plot.
And yes, the issue is about marked descent, as we already intuited in the title, it is about sinister phobias that point to the very origin of life as a sick animosity. A hatred of everything human concentrated in a single mind that focuses its power of destruction around a work of blinding lucidity and bright blood, in the middle of a city as alive as Seville.
Because of course, light and heat do not always translate into happiness, optimism and vitamin D. Excess heat robs sleep and disrupts behaviors. Camino Vargas knows this well when he faces an outrage that points to voluntary homicide and finally premeditated murder.
As the sinister chain of death of the woman run over points to more perverse considerations, the researcher Camino Vargas will glimpse what may come his way. The latent idea that death can bring a criminal message ...
As this is becoming clear. Because, in addition, the victim was pregnant, which further twists the arrest of the murderer who placed the pacifier in the woman's mouth.
No one takes the trouble of such strident ceremoniousness in his crime if he is not willing to give more direction to his work. Camino knows that the disturbance of the serial murderer is like this, he wakes up a bad day and develops towards unapproachable potential projections and future aspects as the irrepressible mechanism of a faulty work of God.
I wish everything had simply pointed to the victim's ex-partner. But the anger unleashed and the chain of death started will shift the focus to something much worse.
The heat of Seville as hell truer than ever, beyond climatic metaphors. With that haunting aroma of nearby events in a close and realistic scenography, Progeny ends up assaulting us like one of the most powerful thrillers of 2020.
You can now buy the novel Progeny, Susana Martín Gijón's book, here: