Reviews of crime novels
Almost four hundred pages to develop one of those plots that come with its originality band. In an area of the black genre in which new voices are always expected capable of filling with imagination that space in which crime becomes something lurking, morbid. Even more …
The arrival of this first novel in an overwhelming saga such as the series around the protagonist Ruth Galloway is great news if it ends up bearing fruit in its natural chain of sequels that have finally arrived in Spain. Because Elly Griffiths is a particular writer who has come to the genre ...
With his well-known virtuosity in locating black genre plots in the most unsuspected epoch in history, Craig Russell returns to a few days of sinister chicha calm in Europe. The interwar period looms over the precipice of the second time that weapons and ...
Let's start from the background of this novel. And it is that the tormented characters always tune in with that part of the reader that links them to their own past; with the errors or traumas that to a greater or lesser extent seem to intensely mark the fate of existence. Above …
The noir genre finds in money, as an abstraction, one of the most abundant leitmotifs in the darkness of the soul, where human ambition is born. A soul capable of everything because of that unbridled madness of pretending more and more. And this is one of those stories about ...
The ocean of desktop publishing is a good place to dive in search of some interesting plot treasure to enjoy in the most unexpected way. It is clear that indie rules in the literary world. No critic better than the readers who are ...
From the film script to the novel there are few steps. Another good example, in the thematic antipodes (as far as the novel is concerned) of Manuel Ríos, is David Trueba. Because beyond their generational coincidence, each of these two authors have turned very disparate concerns into the narrative. AND …
In a kind of hybrid narrative between other great references of the Italian black genre such as Camilleri or Luca D´Andrea, to name generational poles of success, Donato Carrisi manages to combine the most brutal noir with the most disturbing enigmas around the minds convinced of that the gift of ...
Primo Levi himself would be proud of the title of this novel that evokes the beginning of his trilogy on Auschwitz. Because, apart from exceptions on contexts, the cruelty of the exposure of the human being in the last instance, to the most evil of the human being himself, as I already wrote in a similar sense ...
Sometimes the comparisons are shocking. That the good of Markaris considers the university environment as the germ of evil for a crime novel shows us the recent murky cases around a certain Spanish university ... With its sinister side even when the ties of teaching and ...
There were days when love was lost, and sanity, and every other hint of humanity in the plots of a one-time novel. Javier Castillo already a publishing phenomenon par excellence in Spain. A phenomenon that also already knocks on the doors of many other countries ...
Like a black market multinational, the Sinaloa cartel drinks much of the traffic in a market that feeds on drugs, weapons and wills. This novel by Don Winslow, which closes a trilogy that spans more than a decade, outlines the particular business environment very well from a ...