Reviews of crime novels
From the versatile Jo Nesbo you can always expect that change of register between his sagas and his independent novels, a kind of alternation with which the Norwegian writer manages to change focus and disconcert with his variety of plots and characters. This time we left Harry Hole and ...
Many of us were waiting for the return of Joel Dicker from the Baltimore or even Harry Quebert. Because certainly, the bar was lowered quite a bit in his novel about the disappearance of Stephanie Mailer. There was that aftertaste of an impossible attempt to overcome, of improvement in the tension on the turns and ...
When a second part can be read independently, we are faced with an open series, with great projection and infinite possibilities for an author of a crime novel like Ana Lena Rivera. In these cases of sagas that aim to extend during much of the literary evolution of ...
There is a Mediterranean crime novel that runs like a current between Greece, Italy and Spain. In Hellenic lands we have Petros Markaris, in Italy Andrea Camilleri replicates and on its western side, the immeasurable Váquez Montalban was waiting for them until recently. So each novel by one of ...
If we did not have enough with the intriguing writer Carmen Mola, we now know a Greta Alonso who also pulls anonymity as a strange virtue in collusion with the black genre in which the work plunges. Logically an unknown feather that traces only the features of a name ...
A new novel by Andrea Camilleri can never be labeled with the typical commercial device like "the return of ..." because the truth is that Camilleri never finishes leaving. Not even after the 90s does this iconic Italian author of the black genre slow down the rhythm of his creativity more ...
The Swedish writer Henning Mankell himself, largely maker of the great vitola of Nordic noir, would be surprised by the proliferation of new literary children that assail the noir genre in waves. With special prominence for narrators such as Camilla Lackberg or Mari Jungstedt. In the case of Lina Bengtsdotter,…
With her already considerable bibliography of black genre, the Catalan writer Rosa Ribas is exploring new and interesting options. In this case, to end up telling about those most recognizable patches of darkness in which the designs of evil are being composed, with its lines, already irreparably twisted. Any …
Once again Jo Nesbo complies with the paradigm of the crime novel, the one in which the own storms and the dark clouds of some case intertwine that seem to enter like a virus until the last cell of the social. But it is also that Joy projects everything ...
The best representative of the Nordic black genre, insular version, returns with one of his plots of maximum psychological tension towards that total thriller that connects with fears that are born from the telluric, taking advantage of the vast solitude of Iceland made home not only of the author himself but also also of his ...
In César Pérez Gellida everything acquires that cinematographic point, that frenetic action that turns his thrillers into irrepressible gusty waves of reading tension. So each new plot ends up being devoured by readers with the same dizzying pace of its narrative proposals. Even more so in this obvious sequel to ...
The best Claudel is back with one of his typical crime novels with that unexpected mixing component that only the creative capacity of this French author can make it work. The taste for the black genre is partly explained by its connection with that atavistic and dark part ...