Reviews of detective novels
First of all, I have to say that this great book that I am citing here today, makes a wonderful couple with Falling stars falling, with a similar setting in XNUMXth century Madrid, only in the second case with a point of greater fantasy around the mystery . And focusing now ...
I recently reviewed this author's novel The Burning Room. And the truth is that it was quite a discovery for me. This time it was an act of contrition towards the most genuine detective story. The assault of the police by the black genre seems not to ...
There is something as suggestive or more than discovering an author who captivates you with each of his new proposals. I mean what happens now with John le Carré and his wonderful George Smiley. Enjoy a new story of good old George, so many years later ... it can be ...
Novelting your life seems like a good way to write about yourself with a certain sieving of depersonalization, a perspective outside of yourself to be able to find the common thread of your own life. John Douglas is a guy devoted to psychology, an FBI expert for the characterization of ...
Any incorporation into the literary world deserves to be welcomed. Even more so if it is a new investigator willing to offer us new cases with which to enjoy the police genre. The researcher in question is called Albert Martínez, and in his characterization he adopts the role of a James Bond at the ...
The counterweight of this era of connection and technological benefits is lack of control and new channels to enhance the worst of the human being. The networks become an uncontrollable channel for violence and abuse, more marked in our young people, who, devoid of filters and ...
From time to time I like to watch one of those typical road movies. It is suggestive to empathize with those characters from lost directions who simply go through their lives aboard a car. Singular experiences and a point of disconnection with the real world to unravel the reasons for those ...
In any country where the death penalty exists, the usual moral dilemmas arise about the ethical fit of this type of finalist justice. But if to the controversy is added the idea that a righteous person can pay with his life for what he has not done, ...
From time to time it is not bad at all to delve into a classic detective novel, the kind that make you think of the case as a labyrinth, and where the light of the investigator on duty shines on you as if it were an illusionist. The great detective novels ...
When crime novels plunge directly into the quagmire of power and its unfortunately frequent corruption, the resulting stories are shocking in their hurtful reflection with reality, a stinking reality clothed in makeshift moral appearances. The cases that are usually presented to the private investigator Dolores Morales ...
There are authors who take their time to retake a series. This is the case of Anne Holt, who let almost a decade pass to return with renewed strength. Probably her different social and political assignments, plus some ailment, were sufficient reasons to keep her away from the literary world. For the rest, ...
Undoubtedly, Tessa Leoni is one of the most emblematic researchers of the powerful incorporation of women to the protagonism of crime novels. And the case that is presented to us in this new installment: Sin Compromiso brings a new interpretation of the genre as an explosive combination of thriller, policeman and black. ...