Reviews of crime novels
There is more than one analogy between this book The Substance of Evil and the bestseller The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair. I do not mean by this that the books replicate their plots. I don't mean that at all. It's just curious, to begin with, that the title of this novel ...
The most curious thing about this novel is how the author presents us with the most atrocious as a natural consequence, a chain of circumstances and events capable of synthesizing madness to extirpate the love that leads to pain. Well, I don't explain myself well or anything when I want to, right? 😛 ...
Pablo Rivero's debut feature plunges into the crime novel genre with absolute depth. In the book I will not be afraid again, the well-known actor goes back to 1994 to make us live a «domestic thriller», as I usually call these cases in which the nuclei ...
The neighbors invite you to dinner. The typical fellowship dinner for newcomers to the neighborhood. You and your partner hesitate to go. You have run out of the usual babysitter and you have no one to turn to. It occurs to you that being a dinner in the house next door ... well ...
Hiding a terrifying secret underground becomes the only alternative. From now on, the characters in this novel flee forward, with the vague memory that it had to be that way. There was no other solution ... Years later, when Teresa Wyatt appears mercilessly murdered in her bathtub, ...
The history of literature is full of great little works. From The Little Prince to Chronicle of a Death Foretold. What happens is that these types of works are not usually found in the literature of the XXI century, more tended by editorial imposition or by readers' tastes, to large ...
The past always ends up coming back to collect outstanding bills. Carlos hides a secret, sheltered in his new life in Paris, where he became an Angel. It is never easy to let go of the ballast of a previous life. Even less if in that other life a traumatic and violent episode was the ...
I have always liked stories in which everyday heroes appear. It may be a little corny. But the truth is that finding a story in which you can put yourself in the shoes of that truly exceptional person, who faces cruelty, cynicism, abuse, ...
Every living being is subjected to circadian rhythms, established by the hours of light and the darkness of the night. However, the animals that live in the areas closest to the poles, where the effect of the midnight sun occurs, have known how to adapt to this particular ...
The world passes to the rhythm of a giant crime novel. Hand in hand with globalization, the dark scenarios that not so long ago the authors of crime novels were in charge of transferring to fiction, have taken a qualitative leap. The world is the market to be corrupted by the mafias. The …
There is a kind of worldwide literary conspiracy to bring out the role of women as the new emblem of the main character in crime novels. Police inspectors have given way to them, to show that they can be wiser, finer and more methodical to ...
The long-awaited second part of "The Silence of the White City" has just been released and the truth is that it does not disappoint. The mysterious serial killer in this installment follows the guidelines of the Triple Death, a Celtic initiatory rite imbued in the shadows of all practice ...