Thriller
For the average Spanish reader, and probably that of half the world, Nordic literature is covered by the noir genre. The Nordic quarry is prolific and its scenography and setting benefit from that icy, bluish space, with very marked periods of light and shadow, so the stereotype ...
After the stellar appearance of the novel The day that sanity was lost, Javier Castillo offers us this second and equally disturbing work: The day that love was lost. Again the title participates in that suggestive touch, between apocalyptic and evocative, between lyrical and sinister. A …
The figure of a psychatra in a thriller has always given much of himself. It is about exposing those who work and impose their science on minds to their own deepest fears. The morbid, the pleasure to see who is supposed to know all the ...
Some of the most recognized series worldwide have passed through the imagination of Matthew Weiner. Now he is taking over the literary market with a novel at the height of his creations in the world of the small television format (Mad Men, The Sopranos ...). A debut feature always has something special. ...
After La dama number thirteen that I already reviewed here, José Carlos Somoza is back. And it does so with a half-fiction, half-reality thriller, which turns the narrative proposal into a chilling fictionalized story of a very close reality. The avatars of a Spanish spy focus that point ...
There are stories that catch up with their most basic approach. But there is a danger in this, and that is that the possibility of disenchantment is greater than in others that you begin to read out of inertia, without that great first impression. Fortunately, this book Fire, maintains and elevates the great sensations that presage ...
From this book it can be said that it is built as a thriller at all levels. The tension of fear is something that floods everything, from the perspective of the character of Elia, who tells us the fragments of her life in her hard sixteen years, to the perspective of ...
Kay Scarpetta. Few characters have given as much of themselves as this doctor faced with so many cases of homicides of all kinds. The case of this Inhuman book is already sensed as something atrocious, something that can compromise even the hardened Dr. Scarpetta. The person in charge of materializing the character, ...
Suicide is always a violent way out of an untenable situation. Hanging has a tragic farewell to this world, the weight of gravity as a macabre metaphor for the unbearable weight of living. But a hanged man with his eyes taken out of their sockets acquires a greater ...
On many occasions I have rescued good novels from Glenn Cooper, an author capable of combining the genres of thriller and historical novel with absolute mastery and solvency. A kind of experiment that is catching on with readers of both genders. On this occasion we link his previous novel La ...
Sometimes the thriller borders us with undeniable overtones of verisimilitude. Especially when issues around politics, power, the economy, bribery, corruption ... The family is the cell of modern society, as they say. And in that metaphor it can also appear ...
Ingrid Desjours is a young author already recognized in France with several works published and recognized by critics and the public as great novels, mostly with a clear thriller component. With their personal stamp stories in which we are presented with magnetic frames that enclose ...