Reviews of detective novels
Noir novels, thrillers, have a kind of common line, an unspoken pattern for the story to unfold with its greater or lesser degree of intrigue until a twist near the end leaves the reader speechless. In the case of this book Unspeakable Silences, Michael Hjorth allows himself ...
This is not the first novel to present the idea of the end of the male sex in humanity. The idea seems to be taking on a sinister literary appeal in recent literature. Naomi Alderman's latest novel pointed to this end of man, materialized by evolution itself. Although …
The detective novel appears today dispersed between black novels and thrillers, that is, with a component of a certain gore, which is recreated in darkening nuances of the plot. Karin Fossum herself has leaned into this trend, in a shameless way, in this fourth installment for her ...
How much does a father know a son? How much can you trust that he hasn't done something heinous? In this legal fiction, at the height of the best Grisham, we delve into the unique relationship of a lawyer father with his son, a budding sports star. Young William has been ...
Who watches the watchers? An old doubt that this novel comes to develop. Don Winslow is well versed in the sordid aspects of the American police force, in their most blatant corruption cases. In this book Police Corruption, the author fictionalizes what happens when that possible hole through ...
Detectives, policemen, inspectors and other protagonists of crime novels often suffer from a kind of Stockholm syndrome with their trade. The more evil the cases appear, the darker the human soul is guessed, the more attracted these characters feel with whom we enjoy so much in the ...
That kind of macabre epithet that serves as the title of this book already gives you a chill before you sit down to read. Beneath the unusual cold that plagues Edinburgh in the winter in which the plot takes place, we find sordid aspects of a true crime novel. Because John Rebus, the ...
Camille Thibaut. Policewoman. The paradigm of the current detective novel. It will be because of that of the sixth sense of women, or because of their greater capacity for analysis and study of evidence ... Whatever it is, welcome is the change of scenery that literature has already been ventilating ...
Intruder is an awkward word. Feeling an intruder is even more so. Antoinette Conway joins the Dublin homicide squad as a detective. But where he expected camaraderie and professional indoctrination, he finds occultism, harassment, and estrangement. She is a woman, perhaps it is only because of that, she has entered a male preserve ...
Policeman Harry Bosch is charged with a case between the grotesque and the ridiculous. At least that's how it seems to him from the outset. That a guy dies from a bullet ten years after receiving it seems more typical of a later natural death, unrelated to a murderous bullet with a function ...
Leipzig is a city with clear reminiscences of the East Germany to which it belonged. Today it is risky to say that the inhabitants of a big city like this are more hermetic and reserved, but it is true that an evening walk at sunset ...
Faced with a battle tank, the reincarnation of David tried to put his life before the advance of the "Goliath" tanks towards what he should consider the inalienable space of freedom of the Chinese people: Tiananmen Square. We all keep that image alive as one of the most representative ...