Reviews of crime novels
Novelting your life seems like a good way to write about yourself with a certain sieving of depersonalization, a perspective outside of yourself to be able to find the common thread of your own life. John Douglas is a guy devoted to psychology, an FBI expert for the characterization of ...
The shadow of doubt about a character is a disturbing factor in any thriller or crime novel worth its salt. Sometimes, the reader himself participates in a certain complicity with the writer, which allows him to glimpse beyond what the characters know about evil. In others …
Have you thought about voodooing that staunch enemy? Have you felt the target of someone capable of inflicting pain through a voodoo doll? There was a time when the theme of voodoo and the little doll to which a hair or any minimum was attached ...
The image of an investigator facing one of those unsolved cases provides a first notion of complexity, of entanglement, of some kind of enigma that prevents the truth from emerging. And as you always think of the unpunished, those people protected by their social, political or gender status who ...
The previous references is how bad they have. From the outset, you already think that the plot of a new novel is in tune with a similar one that you recently read. The first echo that came to my memory when I saw this book was The Invisible Guardian of Dolores Redondo. For that of the forest, ...
César Pérez Gellida has managed to create his own universe based on a fully identifiable aesthetic and thematic style. The Spanish crime novel finds in this author a very new reference to consider and with an incontestable creative capacity. Olek is again the protagonist of this installment. ...
The past can be so cruel as to be infatuated with returning when one begins to be happy. That is what happens to the Lascan Dog. Just when his retirement from the police practice favors the calm of a love always badly healed and therefore pending with Eva, the past ...
It is curious how a thriller, turned towards a judicial theme, can offer a more intense reading insofar as it offers us a perspective on Justice as something vulnerable and less blind than it appears to be. It is not that we are so naive as to continue assuming the ...
If recently I was talking about the book Nordic Myths, by Neil Gaiman, with its intermingling point of mythology and literature, this time it is the turn of the book The Wolf's Smile, a work entirely of fiction about one of the most unique historical periods in Europe. from the extreme north. Run …
There is no better hook for a mystery novel than to present a double mystery. I do not know who was the brilliant author who found in this guideline the secret for every self-respecting bestseller. It is about posing an enigma (be it murder in the case of a crime novel or a ...
The counterweight of this era of connection and technological benefits is lack of control and new channels to enhance the worst of the human being. The networks become an uncontrollable channel for violence and abuse, more marked in our young people, who, devoid of filters and ...
Mystery or straight black novels that address the issue of people's identity have a unique niche of passionate readers in search of those enigmas that stem from double lives, from the concealment of truths or the discovery of secrets. Very recent antecedents show it. ...