Reviews of detective novels
When a new author like Virginia Feito is compared to Patricia Highsmith, responsibility hangs like a sword of Damocles waiting for the general criticism of the readers to end up sentencing the matter. Ratifying the correct comparison, as the idea is pointing out as this work spreads, supposes …
The most unexpected hero of a detective genre who looks in the mirror of Vázquez Montalbán. Because Melchor Marín is a reincarnation, with its due space-time-plot variations, of that Pepe Carvalho who led us through gloomy offices or among the darkest nights in Barcelona. Javier Cercas extends ...
Franck Thilliez is one of those young authors who are in charge of revitalizing a very particular genre. The neopolar, a subgenre of French crime novels, was born back in the 70s. For me it is an unfortunate label, like so many others. But humans are like that, to rationalize and classify it ...
The American writer Donna Leon owes her narrative glory to her fascination with Venice. Twenty-some years after starting to pull the thread of his first plot by Commissioner Brunetti through the city of canals, the indicated thread has made Venice a huge tapestry of cases. A coexistence ...
Everything seems to be duly studied by Jörg Bong. From the pseudonym to be used, Jean-Luc Bannalec, to the figure of Commissioner Dupin transcending the literary and becoming a recurring element that assaults the summer imagination with a fascinating cadence. Because from a French Brittany assaulted by all its coast ...
The profession of translator seems to serve in many cases for an interesting and detailed approach to the work of the great translated authors. A maximum approach that can reveal all kinds of resources and tricks in the arduous task of checking the literality, the set phrase or the translation of ...
That is what even the best families are all about. Appearances rule. And that is precisely why this is where the estrangement and alienation from what should be a brand, because in the past everything was very different. There was a time when family was synonymous with trust, with sincerity. Everything flew ...
The black literature dream team, the incombustibles Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, return in the trope-hundredth installment of an Inspector Pendergast who will walk on the brink of collapse after so many cases on the tightrope. But it is what special agents have, they are nobody without tension, ...
When Benjamin Black let John Banville know that the next installment of Quirke would take place in the already illustrious film Donosti, he could not imagine how successful the matter would be. Because nothing better than the tune of the development of a plot full of contrasts like San Sebastián itself, so ...
Good suspense stories become excellent when their ending knows how to combine the closure of every turn and unfinished business, but with a parallel invitation to elucubration. You can sentence a plot at the same time that you can point to what could have been or what ...
Again we find John Verdon, one of the last bastions of the pure police genre, from where so many subgenres have been born that they ended up devouring their father. Black novels or thrillers that are currently top-selling publishers. All this is indebted to a literature a ...
Watch out for the emergence of a John McMahon erected in the United States as an alternative to the more untimely and eccentric Harry Bosch but always accurate. An inexhaustible protagonist like Bosch, born from the pen of Michael Connelly, who may need this relief in PT Marsh, the new protagonist of ...