The thaw, by Lize Spit

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Adolescence is a fascinating and complex period, especially in its most psychological aspect. The proximity to maturity and the awakening of sexuality is palpable from that long frontier in which you still do not know if it is appropriate to play or if what you have to do is discover the ...

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Don't Look Back, by Karin Fossum

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To read Karin Fossum is to succumb to unexpected thrillers. Coincidences as a starting point to turn anyone not only into a victim but also into a sinister murderer. It is not that the reader does not know who may be "the bad guy" in the story. Talked …

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No Compromise, by Lisa Gardner

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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. ...

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In the Devil's House, by Romano de Marco

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When a mystery novel with overtones of a thriller is presented to us from an everyday aspect, we immerse ourselves even more in the specific plot that is presented to us. That is what happens in the book In the Devil's House. Giulio Terenzi is a routine guy with an ordinary life, ...

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Purgatory: lost souls, by Javier Beristain Labaca

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The ultimate cause of all fear is death. The fact of knowing that we are mortal, expendable, out of date leads us through reason and consciousness to all the fears that we may harbor or develop. And with that Javier Beristain plays in a metaphor of the death of all, ...

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The Last Cop, by Ben H. Winters

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There are few who see the apocalypse as the arrival of a huge asteroid that raises eternal dust over the Earth's atmosphere. And that's exactly what this Ben H. Winters novel is announcing. There are barely a few months for everything to end. Our civilization ...

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The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

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From the first moment, when you start reading this novel, you discover that intention of the author to fully introduce you into the skin of Laura Blacklock. This female character is open from the beginning to produce that chameleon effect, giving room to any reader who is willing to live the ...

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Unspeakable Silences, by Michael Hjorth

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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 ...

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Pandemic, by Franck Thilliez

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French author Frank Thilliez seems immersed in a prolific stage of creation. He recently spoke of his novel Heartbeats, and now he presents this book to us, Pandemic. Two very different stories, with disparate plots but conducted with similar tension. As for the knot of the plot, the main guideline is that ...

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Who are you hiding from? Charlotte Link

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A suggestive title, a question thrown at Nathalie, a girl who wandered lost on the beach, like coming out of the dark sea. Simon cared for her and welcomed her, hoping that the girl could take charge of her life, whatever it may be, once she regains the necessary clarity after the traumatic event ...

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The patients of Dr. García, from Almudena Grandes

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A novel by Almudena Grandes which focuses on the historical period after the end of the Spanish Civil War. With the Franco dictatorship already established and consolidated in the XNUMXs, many dissident Spaniards continue with their lives, escaping as best they can from the tight control of the Regime. William …

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Origin by Dan Brown

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If Ken Follett or Dan Brown announce a new novel, the literary world trembles. Beyond the most purist critics or the most erudite readers, fiction finds authors like these, adding some other as Stephen King, to those best sellers that revive the literary market. If all readers ...

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