Reviews of crime novels
If anyone could dare to think about rewriting Shakespeare's Macbeth (with the perennial controversies about the complete original authorship of the English genius), it could not be other than Jo Nesbo. Only a prolific, multidisciplinary creator who has become the greatest current reference of crime novels (the comparable evolved reference ...
The return of Agent Gabriel Allon lives up to his long-established reputation as a great spy, half James Bond, half Jason Bourne. And is that good Gabriel maintains that demeanor between elegant and mysterious Bond at the same time that his cases delve into the underworld ...
Economic prosperity tends to hide, under the warm cloak of its natural cycle, the worst of the human condition: ambition. And it is that in that frenzy of money that circulates wildly when they paint glasses, that ambition that in the abstract could be considered as a legal economic drive, ends up awakening monsters, ...
Nick Mason buys his freedom in a real deal with the devil. Prison can be a good place to get cheap mercenaries. Those who can dispose of the good of justice as a whim to conquer based on money and good lawyers, have a real ...
The human being can end up being a more ruthless beast than any of the worst real or imagined beasts. Martin Servaz approaches his new case with that perspective of the macabre of the murderer capable of beheading a horse in a rugged area of the French Pyrenees. The cruel way ...
Manuel Bianquetti is not going through his best moment. His times as a renowned police inspector are engulfed in a persistent fog of memories locked between feelings of guilt and remorse. Dedicating himself to research in a private capacity becomes the only way out for a guy like him, with few ...
Germany also has its burgeoning crime novel authors. Among them, Nele Neuhaus stands out, with an always gloomy proposal from deceptive environments that can be seen as peaceful places where life passes at the slow pace of the Taunus mountain range, oblivious to the noise of the great city of Frankfurt. ...
The Colombian writer Laura Restrepo establishes as the starting point of her latest novel a tragic event that shocked all of Colombia a short time ago. The appearance of the body of a girl floating in the waters of a river is a fact macabre enough to think of authentic ...
The tandem Donna Leon - Brunetti returns to roll in perfect harmony to offer us a new and impeccable plot of crime novel where the foundation of the crime is hidden between personal aspects that sprinkle on Brunetti with ruthless realism. Although Brunetti is used to directing his investigations between ...
The Aragonese crime novel finds new props in which to sustain a growing trend. Luis Esteban recently offered us his proposal The river was silent. This time it is up to María Frisa, an author who takes off the lambskin of youth literature to ...
Sometimes you have to turn to the most lost of agents to solve the most dangerous of cases. Since the market generated the black market as a misguided brother, it took care of moving among the highest levels to earn a space and a consideration from the ...
Probably few initial murders in a crime novel acquire the level of animosity that is achieved in this proposal by Daniel Cole Ragdoll (ragdoll). The rag doll is hand-sewn by a demon capable of weaving together parts of up to six victims. Undoubtedly a method that involves ...