Reviews of crime novels
The current Norwegian crime novel is written between scores of two rock musicians who as soon as they shout in front of a microphone or contort themselves with their guitar as if they feel away from any noise and prepare to exploit that other creative vein between stories of the genre ...
In the noir genre, spontaneous bestsellers are multiplying everywhere. In Spain we have the case of the dazzling and insulting young man Javier Castillo, to name one of the most prominent. In the UK they have a Robert Bryndza who aims at the same level from a ...
One of the most anticipated returns of the Spanish fictional narrative has been that of a Juan Manuel de Prada who, from his youthful beginnings, always manifested himself as an immeasurable creative genius. Beyond its media condition, its articles and its manifest love for an ideology of ...
The Nordic crime novel has in its Danish side an intense Jussi Adler-Olsen around his particular police scene of the Department Q and a promising Soren Sveistrup who has just joined the northernmost noir from the scripts for television series. And this novel has a lot ...
At first, the translation of gangster literature to anywhere other than Chicago or New York sounds pretentious. But in the end I always tend to pay attention to the daring, to that creative insolence that in this case leads us to import a distinctly American imaginary to adapt it ...
It is well born to be grateful. And paying tribute to one of the greatest of the classic Spanish black genre like Vázquez Montalbán is to be very grateful. Carlos Zanón has started to do it with this new novel that recovers the ghosts of Carvalho and those of a society ...
The usual unfolding of John Banville and his pseudonym Benjamin Black comes with this novel to a kind of synthesis with a work that, under the signature of his alias, offers a double reading of historical fiction or noir. Thus, the Irish writer summarizes this double plot line ...
Camillleri's legacy is safe. Several and innovative current Italian narrators insist on breaking into the noir genre with the unexpected virulence of the new voices. It happened last year with Luca D´Andrea and «The substance of evil» and he found his reply as soon as he started ...
There are novels whose title and even their cover remind me of what those of us who visited the video stores of the 80s found in search of an action movie. At times it seemed that the covers and titles had to synthesize everything in an image and a simple title but ...
Revenge is as powerful an argument as love. Literature has at its peak both great love stories and the most extensive works built around the coldest revenge, the one that focuses all human intelligence and will, the one that sublimates the feelings of defeat, despondency ...
Back in 2005, Detective Bobby Dodge came into our lives. And this time Lisa Gardner returns to him to pass the witness to the detective Warren. The brushstrokes that link this new novel with Bobby's origins in the previous novel "Sola" are duly ...
When Antonio Mercero presented his debut feature, as far as crime novel is concerned, entitled "The End of Man", we discovered an author who seemed to be glancing at a detective genre to which he brought a groundbreaking perspective. His was a novel that balanced its weight between crime ...