A matter too familiar, by Rosa Ribas

An all too familiar affair
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With its already considerable bibliography of black gender, the Catalan writer rose ribas he is probing new and interesting options. In this case, to end up telling about those most recognizable patches of darkness in which the designs of evil are being composed, with its lines, already irreparably twisted.

Nothing better than an inward-facing adventure to the core of the familiar to delve into the darkest lagoons of the nearest miseries. An elegant and enigmatic deepening in that curiosity to know how they wash the dirty laundry that each neighbor ventilates once they have recovered their apparent splendor. And nothing better than a detective agency for such purposes.

It seems to me as a necessary counterpoint to compensate for such interesting genre trends with new mythological aspects along the way. Dolores Redondo. Because on occasions like this novel we remember that the origins of the successful genre lie in more prosaic aspects, at least in the Hispanic noir tradition.

Mateo Hernández manages a detective agency in which his entire family participates to a greater or lesser extent and a peculiar salaried collaborator who takes care of the field work as the best hunting dog.

But as it usually happens, at the blacksmith's house, a wooden knife. Because the disappearance of Nora, probably the most gifted daughter for the union, marks the dead hours of all the components of this company that are overcome on many occasions by their inability to locate the missing daughter.

Curiously, one of the last cases to enter the agency is that of another disappearance. The thriving businessman, not always immaculate, Carlos Guzmán requires urgent investigation services to locate his son because he fears the worst, surely from the dirty conscience of someone who ends up prospering among black money.

The plot is weaved like a mirror between one case and another, with its coincidences and its neighborhood staging in the Sant Andreu area of ​​Barcelona, ​​through whose streets and introducing us into their homes, that chiaroscuro that is born of lives is being composed common and extends in a black magic trick until the moment when everything can go wrong.

The unseen consequences outlined from such a recognizable setting ties us to the plot with a morbid aftertaste from the disturbing sensation of proximity to our closest worlds.

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