Reviews of crime novels
The issue of social networks and their abysses fictionalized from a fresh perspective. Because not everything can be abysses around social networks. In fact, I would like to have seen this current world of ours confined without a bad whatsapp with which to chat in a group or a …
In Poland with evocations of a noir heir to hot wars or as a cold dish in the prelude to and coming out of the Second World War, a voice like that of Katarzyna Bonda (comparable to our Dolores Redondo), breaks out intense. A disconcerting intensity of those who dare to link…
Sometimes the black genre takes on a meaning that borders on the existential. Cases like that of Víctor del Arbol, capable of the most abysmal depth from the introspection of his characters. Something similar happens with this author, a Chris Whitacker who arrives with another point of undoubted connection with…
The noir genre is today one of the strongest bastions of modern literature. Criminal or underworld stories, approaches to dark offices that govern the famous sewers, policemen or investigators who leave their skin to solve the most disturbing cases. And Pierre Lemaitre is one of those ...
Since Ricardo Cupido was born as a character in the early 90s, his journey through criminal misdeeds has made our hero one of the essentials in the most traditional Iberian police profession. The Spanish black genre, like Italian or also French, is flavored by a ...
After a few years with more shadows than lights between Colombia, Mexico and Iraq, Max returned to Madrid in 2004. In a bar, the city and the memory of Elsa will fall on him, when he discovers among his bottles the sculpture of Bastet that adorned El Blue cat. There you will find him ...
Michael Connelly is not an author who beats around the bush when it comes to presenting a plot. In its inexhaustible wellspring of resources and imagination, precision ties it all together with that hook-and-loop efficiency from the first page. This time we go back with ...
Writing a crime novel like Alexis Ravelo is doing something more sophisticated or profound. It is not about discovering the murderer or enjoying the strange morbidity of crime. Not at least as a single essence. It is about a narrative capacity comparable to that Victor of the Tree always committed ...
For the layman it seems as if we see the seaports of so many places as a duty free for large drug shipments. Much of legend and some reality. That is, the equivalent to the percentage of seizures over the total arrivals that finally circulate. Because yes, the ...
In the Bergman 7 series there is a happy concert by a Hjorth and a Rosenfeldt delighted to have found each other as well as eager to build their independent literary careers. A full-blown creative paradox that underpins the success of criminal psychiatrist Sebastian Bergman. We talk about …
A central nucleus on which the plots are woven as in a sinuous evolution between the predestined and the most absolute chance capable of changing everything. An interesting idea to compose a novel between noir and suspense that awakens that feeling that coincidences, ...
Sweden prolongs its idyll with the black genre thanks to authors such as Camilla Lackberg, Asa Larsson or Viveca Sten herself. A female triumvirate of international scope. The first is already one of the greatest noir writers and one of the most anticipated for each of her ...