Las curanderas, by Emanuela Valentini

Las curanderas, by Emanuela Valentini

The noir genre connected with certain telluric aspects already forms a great wealth of novelistic plots in which they sail from compatriots of Emanuela Valentini such as Luca d'Andrea to the very same Dolores Redondo. And it is that the call of Mother Earth is still capable, in these strange days, of ...

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The Explorer, by Tana French

The Explorer, by Tana French

The bucolic transformed into something infernal. Tana French is carried away in this novel by that tendency of narrative counterpoints. A play of light and shadow that fits perfectly in a genre of suspense bordering on noir where precisely what of the appearances and their sinister truths always ...

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In the middle of the night, by Mikel Santiago

In the middle of the night, by Mikel Santiago

A large cast of Spanish-language suspense authors seem to have conspired to give us no rest in readings that frantically lead us from one high-tension plot to another. Among Javier Castillo, Mikel Santiago, Víctor del Arbol o Dolores Redondo among others, they get the story options ...

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After Stephen King

After Stephen King

One of those novels in which Stephen King he once again confirms the differential fact that separates him from any other author, a kind of verisimilitude of the extraordinary. Getting to blend in with the exceptional, with the extrasensory, is like once again convincing ourselves of a world as we saw it of ...

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Hunger, by Asa Ericsdotter

Hunger, by Asa Ericsdotter

The thrillers par excellence are dystopias of what can become. Because a dystopian approach always has a large sociological component. All exposed to the new order with its attempts of rebellion and its submission of fear. From George Orwell to Margaret Atwood a multitude of great writers ...

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The Disappearance, by Julia Phillips

Novel The Disappearance, by Julia Phillips

A young writer always daring with the most unexpected cocktails without fear of a hangover. Because starting to write or go about taking a job is what he has, that from time to time, if the wickers are good, he ends up growing a great work without hardly realizing it. ...

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The Path of Forgiveness, by David Baldacci

The path of forgiveness, Baldacci

We have well learned how the survivors of the worst life scenarios end up taking police positions or similar in fiction. Baldacci pulls a resource on this occasion so that his protagonist Atlee Pine leads us through the zigzagging universe of current investigations. Only those other plots ...

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Girl One by Abigail Dean

Girl One by Abigail Dean

It has been a long time since the thriller ban was opened as a deepening of atavistic fears, in the psychological aspect that brings us closer to the demons of the protagonists. The already grown up Lisbeth Salander was a clear example of the take off of this type of noirs. The English writer Abigail ...

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His Last Day, by Shari Lapena

His last day

The speed with which Shari Lapena builds her domestic thrillers does not detract from the quality of her plots. More than anything because she is the queen of this subgenre where personal relationships from the family cradle the worst nightmares, that suspense that makes us look around in search of ...

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The Sanitarium, by Sarah Pearse

Sarah Pearse's Sanitarium

Since Dennis Lehane took us to Shutter Island to discover what was going on in his sanitarium, any novel that poses a similar scenario has to confront Di Caprio himself and his delusional case of the missing woman. But let's not get prejudiced by a novel that has ...

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Silver Wings, by Camilla Lackberg

Silver Wings, Camilla Läckberg

Camilla Läckberg or irrepressible literature. A whole typewriter if the simile does not take us back to one of those ancient Meccans that stopped being typed in the XNUMXth century. Camilla will then be more of an AI capable of developing black frames with disturbing precision. Because not only ...

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Bones in the Valley, by Tom Bouman

Novel Bones in the Valley

The American dream has deep America as its counterpart. Something like black Spain. And it is that each country has its dirty laundry, its spaces shaded by the most unsuspected circumstances that bring out the most gloomy version of the human. For Tom Bouman this kind of thriller has ...

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