Reviews of crime novels
Aaron Falk hates his origins. But there is always a reason for that animosity that can make you look back in absolute rejection. After all, what you are is to a great extent what you were with the precise drops of what you learned to be. The …
The idea, the synopsis, the first pages…, everything evokes Joël Dicker and his Harry Quebert case. It is fair to admit it that way. But immediately the story takes a very different rhythm and an approach that, although it partly uses the flashback resource as a trick and effect with which to go ...
Kike Ferrari has emerged lately as a surprising crime novel writer between Spain and Argentina. The cases that are presented to us in their plots are truly true black chronicles, without ambiguity or great concessions to rhetoric, raw as life itself. In the case of …
Crime novels set in bucolic mountain scenery seem to have taken root as their own subgenre. The appearance of Dolores Redondo With his Baztán trilogy, he led to the launch of this type of novels. In my case, being Aragonese, the new proposal by Jerónimo Tristante, focused on the Aragonese Pyrenees, as ...
Sometimes leaving your own land hides, disguises or in some way transforms your desire to be someone other than who you were. The labels turned into indelible tattoos, the past recovered in each step through the streets where you were that me of yesteryear. If at some point you ...
Those of us who wish to embark on the journey on Route 66 on some occasion usually share that hardened ideology through road movies. Various characters around implausible, sinister, fantastic stories, always with the static setting of that vast terrain of the North American west. And really what is special about it ...
I recently reviewed the novel God does not live in Havana, by Yasmina Khadra. Today I bring to this space a book that bears certain analogies with the one already referenced, at least in terms of the subjective prism of the scene. Leonardo Padura also offers us a different vision of the capital ...
Nobody gets rid of corruption. Not even the Church. It is already known that the Vatican, with its clear power structure, its bank and its ability to intervene with authority against states can become a target of the underworld. You just have to find the corruptible person. Yes …
In many cases the figure transcends and surpasses the real person. There are cases, even in which the person is able to rewrite their own history (I am not talking about inventing a degree, something too common, it is more about knowing how to erase tracks, replacing them with new ones). ...
Power, money, interest ... There can be no impediment to the cyclone of these three factors conspiring to make room for ambition. It is not just a matter of raising the amoral from the large multinationals that run the world, governments and countries. It is also about appreciating what we are capable of ...
We already know Michael Hjorth and his ability to make film novels, fictionalized scripts where we move through scenes imported from films. It is something like the reverse process of all creation that usually goes from matte paper to celluloid. The fact is that penetrating these fictionalized scripts ...
There is something as suggestive or more than discovering an author who captivates you with each of his new proposals. I mean what happens now with John le Carré and his wonderful George Smiley. Enjoy a new story of good old George, so many years later ... it can be ...