No one on this earth, by Victor del Arbol

No one on this earth, by Victor del Arbol

The Víctor del Árbol stamp takes on its own entity thanks to a narrative that crosses the noir genre to achieve greater relevance towards the most unexpected extremes. Because the tortured souls that inhabit the plots of this author bring us closer to life events as if devastated by circumstances. Characters …

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Val McDermid's Top 3 Books

writer Val McDermid

A reader recently pointed me to this writer as one of her favorites in the noir genre. So I got closer to her works through trusted readers who nourish this blog. Scottish and from the same breed as Ian Rankin, Val McDermid professes within that narrative…

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The 3 best books of Manuel Vázquez Montalban

Books by Manuel Vázquez Montalban

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán was more than a writer. His life and work come together to establish the writer and character as a hallmark of modern Spain after the dark years of the dictatorship, although using the intense social and political embers of a very prolific post-Franco era...

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Waiting for the flood Dolores Redondo

Waiting for the flood Dolores Redondo

From the humid mists of Baztán to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Small or large storms that seem to bring, among their black clouds, another type of electrical magnetism of evil. The rain is sensed in its dead calm, the great storms are rising like winds that first whisper...

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Decent People, by Leonardo Padura

Decent people, Leonardo Padura

More than 20 years have passed since the first disillusioned Mario Conde in the world that was presented to us in «Past Perfect». This is the good thing about paper heroes, they can always rise from their ashes to the delight of those of us who let ourselves be carried away by their paths more or less...

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The mothers, by Carmen Mola

The mothers, by Carmen Mola

The moment of the final verdict arrives for Carmen Mola. Will she follow the path of success or will her followers abandon her once her three-headedness is already discovered? Or…, on the contrary, will all the noise created by the origin or not of the three authors behind the pseudonym in…

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All Summers End, by Beñat Miranda

all summers end

Ireland entrusts its summer to a Gulf Stream capable of reaching those British latitudes, like a strange marine spectrum, with much more pleasant temperatures than any other region in the area. But make no mistake, that Irish summer also has its dark side among the inexhaustible greenery of …

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The flame of Phocaea, of Lorenzo Silva

The flame of Phocaea, of Lorenzo Silva

There comes a time when the writer's creativity is unleashed. to the good of Lorenzo Silva gives him the opportunity to present novelties of historical fiction, essays, crime novels and other memorable collaborative works such as his latest four-handed novels with Noemi Trujillo. But he never hurts to recover...

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Everything burns, by Juan Gómez-Jurado

novel Everything burns Gómez Jurado

Bringing us closer to spontaneous combustion with a heat made heat wave before time, this "Everything burns" by Juan Gómez-Jurado comes to suffocate our brains even more with one of its multi-sided plots. Because what this author does is to confer shared protagonism to his plots. Nothing better for this...

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The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz

The Plot by Korelitz

A robbery within a robbery. In other words, I do not want to say that Jean Hanff Korelitz has stolen from Joel Dicker part of his narrative essence from that Harry Quebert who precisely also stole our hearts. But the thematic coincidence has that nice point of coincidence between reality...

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The Alaska Sanders Affair by Joel Dicker

The Alaska Sanders Affair by Joel Dicker

In the Harry Quebert series, closed with this case of Alaska Sanders, there is a diabolical balance, a dilemma (I understand that especially for the author himself). Because in the three books the plots of the cases to be investigated coexist in parallel with that vision of the writer, Marcus Goldman, who…

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Panic by James Ellroy

Panic by James Ellroy

Posts to tackle a biography or at least a semblance of the passage through the world of the character in turn, better to entrust the matter to a novelist than to a renowned biographer. And no one better than James Ellroy to transcribe those snippets of life between some lights and many shadows… About…

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