The eternal dilemma of noir as a dichotomous genre... Address suspense from the blackest genre to absolute thriller and even horror or stick to more detective patterns and therefore more prone to the deductive. Of the first we already have many cases presented by authors from Javier Castillo a J. D. Barker with quarter and half of offal. And these and many other authors are read with the focus on the murderer and his philias and phobias for the most monstrous evil...
Then there are authors like Fred Vargas or the previously disappeared Sunday Villar. Both more committed to investigation, to deduction, to encountering evil from that righteous good. A good loaded with contradictions and paradoxes but in the end good even with its dubious means, its underground channels and its swords of Damocles lurking over blind justice. Without ruling out for all this that the criminal on duty may be a guy capable of enjoying himself with the trembling flesh of his victim to unsuspected limits...
Be that as it may, among the latter is where Jordi Llobregat currently finds himself most in his narrative future. And so we can enjoy recognizable profiles, of police officers with their peculiarities in search of justice at any price, since it is already known that the official channels are not always the straight line towards the most immediate end... An author always recommended for to make a reading friend enjoy juicy, ingenious plots loaded with a tension that goes beyond the criminal to seek double sociological readings.
Top 3 recommended novels by Jordi Llobregat
Where the shadows do not reach
The most disturbing of the Jordi Llobregat proposals. The idea of the disturbed person approaching boys or girls in order to give vent to their most twisted fantasies. Add to that Alex Serra's deepest and darkest reasons for becoming a police officer years ago... Everything points to the same horizon of shocking lucidity.
After leaving school, Martina disappears without a trace. After a few days they find her body floating in a pool in the middle of the forest, three hundred kilometers from the place where she was last seen. Forensics cannot determine the cause of her death. It seems like an isolated incident until, weeks later, another girl disappears and is found dead shortly after in the same conditions.
Former police officer Alex Serra remains obsessed with the disappearance of her sister twenty years ago. The cases have disturbing similarities that only she understands; However, after so much time, is it possible that the person responsible is the same person?
When a third girl goes missing, the investigation becomes a race against time to find her safe and sound. Serra, pursued by her past and a murderer who seems to know her very well, will have to face the darkest side of the human being to discover the place where the shadows do not reach.
There is no light under the snow
More than an investigator or police officer, Alex Serra is an everyday heroine, with that cape of the homicide police officer who had better dress up as a superhero with superpowers so that the most ominous things slip away as if nothing had happened through his suit that is inaccessible to any pain. Monsters in human form always lurking like villains that are too real sometimes...
A naked and bound man, with his eyelids sewn with a wire, has been found submerged in the icy waters of a swimming pool, during the works of the Vall de Beau ski resort in the Pyrenees: the most emblematic infrastructure of the Hispanic candidacy. French for the next Winter Olympic Games.
Homicide Deputy Inspector Álex Serra and French Police Lieutenant Jean Cassel will be in charge of the investigation. After a time away from her body due to a serious incident in which Serra shot one of her colleagues, her superiors send her to the mountains to investigate the case. Serra grew up in a small town in the area, on the other side of the valley. Nobody knows that place like her.
With his return, he is reunited with everything he thought he had left behind: a merciless mountain, an oppressive environment dominated by secrets and memories of a past that he has not yet overcome. Now, in addition, an intelligent and ruthless killer will put her to the test.
This will be only the first in a series of crimes that have to do with a history hidden for decades. Only those who know her will be able to solve the case and find the mysterious criminal. Meanwhile, the most devastating snowstorm in twenty years is about to hit.
The secret of Vesalius
When we readers of Jordi Llobregat did not yet know Alex Serra, this other, very different story took us to past moments in which the lights and shadows also awakened disturbing plots under that backlight typical of Llobregat. Nineteenth-century scenarios with that point between modernity and superstition that fostered the most sinister spaces...
Barcelona, May 1888. A few days after the opening of the country's first Universal Exhibition, the horribly mutilated bodies of several girls appear. His wounds are reminiscent of a long-forgotten ancient curse of the city.
Daniel Amat, a young professor living at Oxford, receives the news that his father has died, forcing him to return to Barcelona after years of absence. From that moment on, he will be dragged into the pursuit of a ruthless killer while he faces the consequences of his own past.
Bernat Fleixa, a reporter for the Barcelona Post Office, whose only interest is to get news that will make him famous, and Pau Gilbert, an enigmatic medical student who hides a secret, will join Amat in search of an ancient anatomical manuscript that can change the history of knowledge and which turns out to be the main objective of the murderer.
Secrets, betrayals and forbidden passions in the turbulent and fascinating Barcelona of the late XNUMXth century, where nothing is what it seems, and no one is safe from the past.
