Aquitania, great novel by Eva García Sáenz

Aquitania, by Eva García Sáenz

The ladies of the Spanish thriller move alternately in search of the best seller that always convinces the most impatient readers. For more tracks, both ladies are awarded with two recent Planeta Awards (let's not be naive either, with their undeniable concession to the commercial for greater security in ...

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Hidden Secrets of Michael Robotham

Hidden Secrets, from Robotham

Without being one of the most recognized in a genre of thriller assaulted by a variety of authors, Michael Robotham does ensure a kind of fidelity to what the term thriller itself corresponds, psychological suspense from the first to the last page ... A shocking novel of suspense about ...

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The door, by Manel Loureiro

The door, by Manel Loureiro

There is always a door when you start reading Manel Loureiro. And crossing its threshold you seem to hear the most famous of Bram Stoker's characters: “Once again, welcome to my home. Come freely, come out safely; leave some of the happiness you bring ... »This time I wasn't going ...

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The Guardians, by John Grisham

The Guardians, by Grisham

Good old John Grisham was born with a judicial thriller under his arm, no doubt. In the imaginary of the possible events that can take place in a courtroom, from the court in the most remote town to the most honorable court, John has already imagined everything beforehand. ...

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White King, by Juan Gómez Jurado

White King, by Juan Gómez Jurado

Good suspense stories become excellent when their ending knows how to combine the closure of every turn and unfinished business, but with a parallel invitation to elucubration. You can sentence a plot at the same time that you can point to what could have been or what ...

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The Dark You Know, by Amy Engel

The darkness you know

We are already quite used to stellar thriller releases that end up discovering us new narrators of the criminal as Amy Engel's turn today. Thus, the genre noir seems to become an overexploited fishing ground where more and more subgenres appear. From the domestic thriller to the gore, each…

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On the Run, by Harlan Coben

On the Run, by Harlan Coben

The American writer Harlan Coben is one of those who best summarize police with black, suspense with that kind of deduction that involves the reader in the resolution of the plot. So any of his novels always ensures that mix that can convince all types of readers in the ...

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The hidden language of books, by Alfonso del Río

The hidden language of books

I remember Ruiz Zafón. It happens to me whenever I discover a novel that points to the esoteric aspect of books, to hidden languages, to that aroma of wisdom gathered on endless shelves, perhaps in new cemeteries of books ... And it is good that it be so. The vast imagination of the Catalan writer ...

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The murder of Plato, by Marcos Chicot

The murder of Plato

In the wide space of historical fiction, Marcos Chicot is one of the most experienced narrators with his particular plots of maximum tension. The question for Chicot is to achieve narrative alchemy. Thus, on the one hand strictly respecting scenarios but also using them to further enhance that ...

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Seven Lies, by Elisabeth Kay

Seven lies

The anguished sensation that the world is falling apart from the closest reality of family or friends. We are not talking about a tragic vision, or a dramatic approach. It is rather the essence of those domestic thrillers exploited by authors like Shari Lapena in which Elisabeth ...

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Dark Matter, by Philip Kerr

Dark matter

The appearances of novels recovered from the handwriting of the late Philip Kerr always have that unpredictable point of suspense that the Scottish author always maintained. With its component of historical fiction at times; with its doses of espionage in the midst of Nazism or the cold war; until …

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The New Girl, by Daniel Silva

The New Girl, by Daniel Silva

The personal sphere of every spy, powerful leader or even policeman is always his Achilles tendon. Because having a private life being someone with enough power or knowledge to be hated can have an unaffordable price. Daniel Silva addresses on this occasion that space of the most ...

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