The greatest virtue of the suspense genre is the writer's ability to maintain a balance between the mystery itself and that psychological tension that points to fear between the unknown or the unexpected.
In Spain, one of those who best manages to keep his narratives in that harmony between complementary aspects is Juan Gomez-Jurado.
Let's say Javier Sierra is the master of mystery and Dolores Redondo o Javier Castillo they could be their equivalents in a purely thriller version (to name a consolidated one and another in blazing emergency). And there, in the middle, we find this author who makes the most homogeneous mixture his greatest ability.
In the new novel by Juan Gómez-Jurado we find the perfect doses of "intrigue" that perhaps is the exact word to define his way of telling stories, with that magnetic nuance due to the morbid or the esoteric.
The union of the two protagonists of this novel, Antonia Scott and Jon Gutierrez, becomes, precisely, a new fusion with hints of a crime novel and a disturbing thriller about extrasensory faculties at the service of great enigmas.
Jon represents the paradigm of police chased by the shadow of suspicion, despite the fact that his intention was always to solve the cases that were put before him. Tired by what he considers a conspiracy of his circumstances, he ends up agreeing to contact Antonia Scott, a woman with extraordinary powers but who seems to deny that ability, hiding from the world.
In Jon's interested relationship with Antonia, we end up finding a tandem at times histrionic in the sparks that arise between them, but that ultimately manifests as a perfect team to unravel any mystery, as well as the gloomy shadows that hang over Jon, his police performance and his own life.
You can now buy the novel Reina roja, the new book by Juan Gómez-Jurado, here: