The Cure, by Glenn Cooper

The Cure, by Glenn Cooper

Unfortunately, the apocalypse as an attack by the invisible viral enemy is no longer a matter to be dealt with only from fiction. Snuggling up on the sofa to watch or read how our civilization is ending can be a matter of watching the mid-afternoon movie or peeking out ...

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Everyone is looking for Nora Roy, by Lorena Franco

They're all looking for Nora Roy

With the typical cadence of the best sellers and drawing an overwhelming inspiration, Lorena Franco goes from Silvia Blanch to Nora Roy. Two enigmatic women who serve title and sustain magnetic suspense in these last two novels by the author. But the matter is very different for a Nora ...

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The game of the soul, of Javier Castillo

The game of the soul, of Javier Castillo

In times of pandemic, any approach devised by a writer of crime fiction or science fiction takes on new appearances of verisimilitude. In parallel, the sensation of claim of the darkest arguments may magnetize us with greater intensity when the sinister looms over us shortly after ...

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The Road Murders, by James Patterson and JD Barker

The crimes of the highway

The usual thing is that literary tandems are made up of authors in tune with the plot, making a clear staging of the genre that touches either mystery, police or even romantic. It is already more atypical that two writers as disparate as JD Barker and James Patterson join forces in a novel. On …

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The father's son, by Víctor del Arbol

Father's son

In Víctor del Arbol the term suspense acquires a transcendental, even spiritual dimension. Because its disturbing proposals are born from guilt, remorse, melancholy, all souls that slide like hurtful ghosts ... The epicenter of all violent movement always has a deep place where the shock is generated, the friction of plates ...

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My Sweet Girl, by Romy Hausmann

Novel my sweet girl

Nothing better than a contrast to the paradox of the worst fear. Well i knew Stephen King with his friendly (and ultimately sinister and creepy) clown Pennywise at first. Appealing to the sweetness of a girl is Romy Hausmann's starting trick in his debut film, because ...

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The Perfect Woman, by JP Delaney

The perfect woman, Delaney

The double life is a recurring argument, just as it happens in life itself, on many occasions, when gruesome aspects of whom we least expect are manifested. In the literary we find illustrious hyperbolic examples with Dr. Jekyll or Dorian Gray, characters who end up living together with one or ...

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The Last Gift, by Sebastian Fitzek

The last gift, Fitzek

The Berliner Sebastian Fitzek offers us a gift of the most disturbing suspense, that variant that borders on the exceptional, almost the paranormal. An idea in which Fitzek usually abounds from mental and psychiatric aspects, with its labyrinths and its unpredictable turns in the depths of the human soul on which the ...

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Ashley Audrain's instinct

Instinct, by Audrain

The alternation of best-selling authors in the noir genre is something truly dizzying. When we have almost forgotten names like Paula Hawkins who blew it four days ago, now Ashley Audrain appears with a new novel that explodes as that new great world success, a sales leader whose ...

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The Nature of the Beast, by Louise Penny

The nature of the beast

When the writer prepares to tell a plot of a dark or criminal nature, the setting is presented as the best accompaniment to transmit added sensations, almost telluric around a violence that can be born from strange roots of the place of turn. The question is to decide on real spaces ...

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The hour of the seagulls, by Ibón Martín

The hour of the seagulls

We are fortunate to enjoy a great host of suspense writers who alternate their stories to fill our nightstands with new and great novels. Could be from Dolores Redondo even Victor del Arbol and of course an Ibón Martín already settled in that narrative maturity that ...

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I'm thinking of quitting, by Iain Reid

I'm thinking of quitting

When Charlie Kaufman discovered the cinematographic possibilities of this novel, its author Iain Reid would not know without being flattered or trembling. Because an already unstructured work of suspense like his could reach incalculable levels of incomprehension and catapult him into the Olympus of "different" authors Chuck roll ...

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