Thriller
The nineteenth century always has a complementary aftertaste of melancholy and mystery. At a time when it was still lived in the chiaroscuro of modernity, between beliefs, legends, hoax and the advancement of science at the dawn of technology, everything related ends up acquiring a stranger ...
German writer Sebastian Fitzek is one of the thriller's most profound storytellers. His narratives address a frenzied suspense that never decays into a series of novels that attract more and more readers. As a reference, his previous novel El Sentido, one of the best recent novels ...
The noir genre, with its various ramifications already accepted as variants that range from the police to the thriller, spreads throughout the world as the literary trend that to a greater extent preserves the reading pull among all those who retain a taste for reading. Europe is perhaps ...
Halfway between the mystery narrative of Javier Sierra and the miscegenation of the black and mystery genres that Juan Gómez-Jurado cultivates, we find this Riojan writer capable of leading us through disturbing plots that also tend to advance among the darkness of the black genre but on many occasions ...
It is curious how the great diversification in the most current literary genres can end up leading to very specific subgenres. We recently talked about John Grisham and his own genre of judicial suspense and now it is Robin Cook's turn with his dedication to scientific mystery, medical suspense… And…
When Ken Follet himself, with that modesty that magnifies the myth, is able to say that John Grisham is the best living thriller author, it is necessarily because good John Grisham always offers plots that border on excellence in their construction, in its tempo, and in ...
The paths between reason and madness, between truth and delirium make up a fertile landscape for narrative recreation. Before Susi Fox and her new novel, there were already those who complemented this idea of the most intense psychological thriller with the no less extremely emotional sensation of the ...
Not everything is Franck Thilliez or Bernard Minier in the French noir genre. Of course, in a space in which many other French writers are encouraged by a winning current, the genre branches out in diversity of plots between the polar subgenre, the noir and the thriller more ...
Lately I have been discovering in the Spanish literary scene a kind of new genre within the more general thriller. It is about an intimate suspense that is more closely related to the internal jurisdiction of the characters, with the most personal baggage of some protagonists who survive their past in a present ...
The writer Mikel Santiago is taking the frenetic pace of publication of the great creators of crime novels or thrillers that take the top positions of any bookstore, from Joël Dicker to Dolores Redondo, to cite two prominent examples. Another thing is the style under which Mikel Santiago ...
The most advanced offshoot in the literary world of Stephen King, which is none other than Joe Hill, says on the cover of this book that we are faced with one of those novels capable of summarizing the idea of evil as a human aspect as abominable as it is suggestive for that side ...
Certain stories about madness are a direct invitation to dark worlds where the mind can become lost. The adventure of this dementia is directed towards that recognition of the delirium of a plot that does not stop awakening the magnetism of a strange case ...