Reviews of crime novels
Jar senses that he must continue searching for his girlfriend, who has officially died under the waters of the pier. He was so connected to her that it is impossible for him to understand why Sara decided to get out of the way. After his disappearance, and with the verdict of justice already decanted towards suicide, Jar ...
An essential volume for lovers of today's fruitful black genre. Hammett was the pioneer in what began as a subgenre back in the nascent 30s. This compilation is a wise success for all declared lovers of this best-selling genre to know that origin ...
Quirke was a character who went from John Banville's novels to television across the UK. An overwhelming triumph whose secret is respect for the unique setting that this author, under the pseudonym Benjamin Black, has been offering his readers for years. All …
When a shocking enigma becomes the beginning of what is advertised as a crime novel, a reader like me, passionate about this type of genre and also in love with the mystery genre, knows that he has found that gem with which he is going to enjoy During the lecture. ...
The heavy thought that you have failed someone can be chilling in light of the fateful subsequent events. You may not be entirely guilty that everything went so fucking wrong, but your omission proved fatal. That is the perspective that haunts the reader of this ...
To be able to surprise the reader, and more so in a noir novel, where so many authors have been trying lately to demonstrate their mastery, is not an easy task. In the book The Angel, Sandrone Dazieri achieves that final effect, an exquisite trick to unveil a mystery that holds the reader's heart ...
Intruder is an awkward word. Feeling an intruder is even more so. Antoinette Conway joins the Dublin homicide squad as a detective. But where he expected camaraderie and professional indoctrination, he finds occultism, harassment, and estrangement. She is a woman, perhaps it is only because of that, she has entered a male preserve ...
Policeman Harry Bosch is charged with a case between the grotesque and the ridiculous. At least that's how it seems to him from the outset. That a guy dies from a bullet ten years after receiving it seems more typical of a later natural death, unrelated to a murderous bullet with a function ...
I present to you Alain Delambre, former director of Human Resources and now unemployed. The paradox of the current labor system represented in this character. In this book Inhuman Resources, we dress in the skin of Alain at the age of fifty-seven and participate in his discovery of the other side of the process ...
Leipzig is a city with clear reminiscences of the East Germany to which it belonged. Today it is risky to say that the inhabitants of a big city like this are more hermetic and reserved, but it is true that an evening walk at sunset ...
There is an I don't know what fatal premonition in every calm and peaceful scene, away from the madding crowd. In a kind of desert, among cacti and crickets, Elmer and Rose survive with their five daughters. Life beats at a leisurely pace, reality passes with the cadence ...
When at the time I read the book The Eve of Almost Everything, by Víctor del Árbol, I considered the undoubted literary contribution that a profession such as police can give. Work in the street, in direct search of the scenarios where the crudest aspects of our ...