The snow girl, from Javier Castillo

The snow girl

Like the most sinister of fate's tricks, a disappearance sows life with disturbing uncertainties and disturbing shadows. Even more so if it happens to a 3-year-old daughter. Because there is added the heavy guilt capable of devouring you. In the new novel by Javier Castillo we ...

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1793, by Niklas Nat Och Dag

1793

Remember well the date made as the title of this novel, because giving the name of the author you may be stuck for life. Nothing to see 1984, by the now more easily pronounceable George Orwell. Jokes aside, we are faced with one of those explosive discoveries of the crime novel. Cast …

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Someone You Know, by Shari Lapena

Someone you know

Knowing what it is to know, you never know anyone at all. And precisely the always disturbing in her plots Shari Lapena knows a lot about that, the confusion between friends, family and other surroundings of each of her characters. The domestic thriller is Shari Lapena's natural ecosystem ...

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And the darkness will come

And the darkness will come

The new pick for the cyclical explosive effect of the suspense genre is Katy Rose Pool. Because there is no doubt that thriller readers, even with clear fantastic evocations in line with current trends, are always eager for new voices. Writers who contribute their mark, that new ...

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Terra Alta, by Javier Cercas

Terra Alta, by Javier Cercas

It is a change of register for a Javier Cercas who had us more accustomed to fiction made chronic and to the chronicle adorned with that suggestive literary setting of the intrahistories that make up the mosaic of the most transcendent realities. Undoubtedly this novel Terra Alta, awarded with the award ...

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The Garden of Enigmas, by Antonio Garrido

The garden of enigmas

Free association of ideas is what you have. As soon as I learned about Antonio Garrido's new novel: "The Garden of Enigmas," I remembered the famous oil painting by Bosco. Yes, the one that exchanges riddles for delights. It will be a matter of the parallel exuberance between the famous painting ...

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Never Again, by Sara Larsson

Never Again, by Sara Larsson

Sharing generation and country with Camilla Lackberg marks for a new writer who bursts onto the scene of the European black genre. But in the case of Sara Larsson there is much of that novel imprint, of the differentiating stamp that, beyond coincidences in the highly cultivated genre of suspense, the ...

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The Search, by Charlotte Link

The Search, by Charlotte Link

I do not know if the "queen of the genre" is already very worn out or it will be something too recurrent. But in any case it is certain that today it can be said that Charlotte Link forms part of a peak of the European black genre that always welcomes this German author with the ...

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All the worst, by César Pérez Gellida

All the worst, by César Pérez Gelida

In César Pérez Gellida everything acquires that cinematographic point, that frenetic action that turns his thrillers into irrepressible gusty waves of reading tension. So each new plot ends up being devoured by readers with the same dizzying pace of its narrative proposals. Even more so in this obvious sequel to ...

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Reckoning, by John Grisham

The Grisham seal is already much more than its judicial plots. Those legal thrillers in which this American author deals with navigating the deepest legal loopholes, where rights are submerged in favor of evil interests. Because in novels like this, Adjust ...

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Cari Mora, by Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris is back. He has returned with the necessary rest so that the ghosts of Hannibal Lecter fade in the memory of other days. Because this total thriller began with the new millennium and there was no one who resisted reading or watching the movies too ...

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The Last Widow, by Karin Slaughter

The Last Widow, by Karin Slaughter

With her mastery of diverse focuses, on the same plot that progresses in parallel in superimposed scenarios, Karin Slaughter presents us with one of those time trial novels loaded with psychological suspense and maximum tension action. When the term "more ambitious work" is abused, the idea ends up wearing out. But …

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