Reviews of crime novels
The noir genre, with its various ramifications already accepted as variants that range from the police to the thriller, spreads throughout the world as the literary trend that to a greater extent preserves the reading pull among all those who retain a taste for reading. Europe is perhaps ...
The incombustible César Pérez Gellida reinvents himself once again to give birth to one of his most complete works. After abounding in the current noir genre, through trilogies that are already emblematic of the genre in our country, this time he offers us a retrospective setting for a black narrative ...
The Italian crime novel has always had a special tune with the most classic genre cultivated in Spain, the one that Muñoz Molina, González Ledesma or Andrea Camilleri exalted. But the new writers of this genre, on both sides of the western Mediterranean, do not always stick to the patterns ...
Nothing better for an interesting crime novel than to start from the mystery about its authorship. Waiting to know more details about the writer or writer behind the pseudonym Carmen Mola. And with doubts about the intention or possible commercial drifts of this buried authorship, it is fair ...
Start from 0. That eternal purpose that is difficult to fulfill in light of the circumstances, decisions and events that have made us who we are. And yet there are cases of vital resetting on some occasions, which end up being known for their uniqueness thanks to the press ...
The time has come, the long-awaited closure, the end of the White City trilogy ... Eva García Sáenz has shown that usual tenacity when it comes to sagas and with The Time Lords concludes her trilogy, an exciting set that has run like the ...
On many occasions the past can end up shaping a crime novel. Guilt or remorse can lead to the suffering of the unresolved case, that of each one's own destiny. Hence, Florencia Etcheves' proposal contains that literary surplus of the past lurking in memory or in ...
Certain places have a beauty and charm whose scenery can become extremely sinister in the hands of a good editor. That's the case for Northtumberland and Ann Cleeves. Because this northern English area, bordering Scotland and watered by the North Sea offers landscapes of authentic ...
On many occasions we have been raised that of the murderous psychopath as a guy who also becomes entangled in some kind of sinister evil gambling. In other words, it is about killing with a specific liturgy while leaving clues to an insane game. The murderer ...
A two-time thriller that awakens that magnetism on the telluric, on those typical places where sinister mysteries lurk as a condemnation for its locals. An approach that at times recalls another novel by the young Swedish author, Cecilia Ekbac, The Dark Light of the Sun of ...
He was about to get it. Sue Grafton set herself the challenge of concluding an alphabet of crime. And he only had the Z to get it. For more than 30 years, this author remained faithful to her commitment until reaching this penultimate theoretical installment, although we do not have ...
The greatest glory of the treacherous murderer is the significance of his work. However, the darkest minds are able to savor his macabre works like the rumination of a beast from the underworld. Until he decides to present a thread to pull ... Noah Wallace badly survives himself ...