Eliseo's diary, by JJ Benitez

Eliseo's diary, by JJ Benitez

Eleventh installment of a dazzling saga that fascinates lovers of the esoteric, worries fervent believers and, above all, entertains in this hybrid between novel and report with hints of fascinating historical chronicle. When JJ Benitez started with Trojan Horse, back in 1984, I was a ...

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The Dog Archipelago, by Philippe Claudel

The Dog Archipelago, by Philippe Claudel

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 ...

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The chain, by Adrian Mckinty

The chain, by Adrian Mckinty

The day is coming. Your mobile phone rings and you verify that you have been added to a group of school parents. The nightmare has begun ... Jokes aside, the idea of ​​this novel is very suggestive based on that feeling of particular connection between today's parents. A …

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The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides

The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides

Justice almost always seeks compensation. In case it cannot, or even if it can be compensated in some way but some damage prevails, it also has punishment as a tool. In any case, Justice always needs the objective truth from which to qualify some facts. But …

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Black wolf, by Juan Gómez Jurado

Black wolf, by Juan Gómez Jurado

One of the few regrets that I discovered in some readers of Juan Gómez Jurado's previous novel, Reina Roja was that open ending, with its pending questions in terms of various ramifications ... But that's how it had to be to get to this Black She-wolf and maybe even there are still fringes ...

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Black leopard, red wolf

Black leopard, red wolf

Since the Jamaican Marlon James won the prestigious Booker Prize, his literary career has been launched to levels of success commensurate with its quality. Thus, after his "Brief history of seven murders" arrived in Spain, now the publication of the first begins as well ...

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The Wills, by Margaret Atwood

The Wills, by Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood has undoubtedly become a mass icon of the most demanding feminism. Mainly because of his dystopia from The Handmaid's Tale. And it is that several decades after the novel was written, its introduction to television achieved that unexpected effect of the delayed echo. Of course ...

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The abolition of the laws

Arbitration has been institutionalized in half the world. Arbitration awards are that solution so as not to reach litigation loaded with procedures, deadlines and costs. And also in this particular field, literature can be made as a reflection of disturbing realities, just like other narrators of legal fictions like John ...

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The Crimes of the Arctic, by Mads Peder Nordbo

The crimes of the arctic

If it seemed sinister, or at least obscene or rude, the fact that Donald Trump tried to buy a territory like Greenland in the middle of the XNUMXst century, this novel located in that same inhospitable territory will really end up freezing your blood with a disturbing scenery and a plot maximum voltage ...

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Moroloco, by Luis Esteban

Moroloco, by Luis Esteban

In the particular acronym of Moroloco we find the perfect alias for the nuclear character of this novel. A leader of the underworld in a Campo de Gibraltar where one of the great black markets of hashish in the world proliferates. And the author of this novel, a Luis, knows about it well ...

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The heartbeat of the earth, by Luz Gabás

The heartbeat of the earth

It is clear that Luz Gabás's novels arise as great stories cultivated with that great force of telluric, attachment and roots. And this time you can already guess in the title "The heartbeat of the earth" that construction with the aroma of sagas, secrets and memories ...

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