Reviews of crime novels
November is a month for few things, a time of transition. The typical month in which even the big platforms need to invent a black day to be able to sell a broom. But there was a time when even November was a good month for anything. I mean …
The good old Donato Carrisi always delights us with hybrids between enigmas and crimes, a kind of mystery genre that ends up breaking like a full-blown noir. The miscegenation is always a success when it is possible to combine the best of each part. And of course, as one leaves ...
A black novel as strange as it is suggestive. A recent crime that little by little is introducing us into the psyche of the police and of a suspect as a disconcerting network that unites the existence of both. The death of Adèle, the woman of unattainable promises appears like that withered horizon ...
The American writer Donna Leon owes her narrative glory to her fascination with Venice. Twenty-some years after starting to pull the thread of his first plot by Commissioner Brunetti through the city of canals, the indicated thread has made Venice a huge tapestry of cases. A coexistence ...
A title made hyperbaton because if we say "old blood" in Spanish, the thing is more a matter of hygiene than of any other idea. The question is why look for such an elaborate translation when the original work is called "A Book of bones." Anyway, business decisions aside, in this ...
The great writers are those capable of presenting their new plots making us forget at a stroke books or even previous series from which we expected new deliveries. This is the basis for the position of Jo Nesbo at the top of the black genre along with 3 or 4 other authors. Harry ...
From the Ave Fenix to Ulises or to the very Lazarus that gives this novel its name. These are great myths to represent the human being erecting himself from his defeat, rising from the ground enlarging his shadow. Deep down, the greatest stories in literature have that point of ...
The black literature dream team, the incombustibles Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, return in the trope-hundredth installment of an Inspector Pendergast who will walk on the brink of collapse after so many cases on the tightrope. But it is what special agents have, they are nobody without tension, ...
With two novels to her credit, the Italian Ilaria Tuti is one of those authors in crescendo but pending absolute confirmation. Because then there are cases like Paula Hawkins' that end up stagnating with no signs of a solution after having known the most famous successes. Become a ...
In his line of puzzling titles with which to fill his Kostas Jaritos series, The Good Man of Petros Markaris presents us with this kind of manual for stock market consciences. A tutorial that is already printed in full color in the best Universities for assassins ... The thing is to awaken those own contrasts ...
It is even necessary to return to the origin of everything. Despite the maxim that you should never go back to the places where you were happy, the noir genre and even current thrillers need a reset from time to time. More than anything for the average reader crammed with twists ...
With properly cultivated emotions decanted over many years, the next thing is to sing and sing for any "leader" who is set to lead the herd. Others before had the patience and care to graft hatred and feelings of differentiation towards repellency with which they could ...