The 3 best books by José Sanclemente

Without the noise of some other editorial phenomena of national suspense, José Sanclemente's work evolves into a considerable bibliography of great magnitude thrillers. Narratives that slide between journalistic spaces (you know, the fourth power about which José Sanclemente has extensive knowledge) when they do not jump directly to a noir that also connects with scenarios of political or economic power, precisely where events arouse more concern. that from time to time surprise us.

So we can say that José Sanclemente handles himself in that black gender with a visus of certainty from the perfect characterizations and the knowledge of all sorts of nooks and crannies. Journalism and politics as a marriage of convenience with their dead under the rug...

Fiction issue, yes. But also the ability to locate everything within mirrors of disconcerting symmetries with reality. Exciting stories for lovers of the police with a multitude of investigative ramifications.

Top 3 recommended novels by José Sanclemente

This is your Life

The best installment of an Ortega-Castelló series that always offers juicy plots. With the incentive of reality shows as a television formula capable of everything, we enter a story that ends up being a step forward towards the resolution of some disturbing serial murders.

The small town on the Barcelona coast of Alella is in shock: the body of a brutally murdered woman has appeared in the bell tower, on the day of the inauguration ceremony for the new bells.

The woman – Lucía, a contestant on Esta es tu vida, a top-rated reality show – has three fatal wounds on her side and empty eye sockets. When police inspector Julián Ortega takes charge of the investigation, he discovers that the murderer seems to have used an ancient ritual of Christian martyrdom, the same one that killed Saint Lucia of Syracuse...

For her part, Leire Castelló, a journalist who works for the information services of the television network that broadcasts This is your life, will be forced by her bosses to participate in a special sensationalist program that deals with the case, which gives her direct access to the history. However, the murders have only just begun and Julián and Leire find themselves in a situation from which there is no escape...

This is your Life

Illusionarium

One of the most common tricks, of the magician who has already reached a certain level and large doses of prestige, is disappearance. Whatever the trick, the best magicians achieve this fading effect in the eyes of the marveling public. And then the murmur arises, the general brooding, where can the trick be? The magician has focused all your attention, you have not blinked and, despite this, he has disappeared right under your nose.

In this book Ilusionarium the trick goes beyond mere spectacle. Angela's disappearance is a fait accompli. It is assumed that after an accident on the road, his body caged inside his car ended up in the Seine for good.

Christian Bennet is the surprised spectator who does not quite believe what happened. You have to think of it like this in order to take on the job of Martha Sullivan, businesswoman and manager of a prestigious newspaper. Martha herself lets him know about her daughter's fondness for illusionism that ended up elevating her as the magician Daisy.

Given the antecedents, the accident, the disappearance, the waters of the Seine…, everything can be part of the necessary set for Angela's trick. But why and why disappear? While Christian throws himself on the official clues of the case (as inconsistent as they are incredible) he relives scenarios from his past, the evocations of a lost love, that of the young Lorraine unexpectedly appear to him as an uncomfortable Deja Vu.

When Christian tries to fit official versions, testimonies and other references about the case, he ends up verifying that Angela is still alive. The magician Daisy has fooled everyone and has retired from the stage through the hidden trapdoor.

And it is then when the magician's facilities become more evident in front of a public eager to be deceived. Those who attend a magic trick watch closely, intending to discover the deception in the same proportion that they wish to be deceived.

This approach of the public as a participant interested in the trick is extrapolated in the story to the press, what we want to hear and what they end up telling us. Thus, the final effect is both the merit of the magician and the will of the observer. Maybe Angela disappeared because her world agreed to the deception, a kind of price for admission to the show.

Undoubtedly a different intrigue, a setting as close and recognizable as it is fascinating in its unpredictable fantastic drifts.

Illusionarium

Regeneration

Politics and its strange magnetism to poison everything. Wills that end up succumbing and good intentions tempted by the devil on duty. Too many interests to bring out the worst in each one to unsuspected limits...

Leire Castelló is hired by the newspaper Liberación de Madrid, a newspaper in decline that aims to influence politics and the economy of the capital. Leire has left Barcelona to position herself at the forefront of political information where IBEX companies, institutions and political parties are concerned about the outcome of upcoming elections that could put an end to bipartisanship, and in which the sewers of the State They will act to stop it.

Leire, estranged from her sentimental partner, Inspector Julián Ortega of the Barcelona Criminal Brigade, will work as an investigative reporter, with the promise of her director that she will enjoy independence and freedom.

He will soon realize that nothing is as he imagined, when a murder case in Barcelona, ​​which Inspector Ortega is investigating, will be linked to another that occurs in Madrid a few hours later, that of the president of Sareb (the bank bad that he kept the real estate assets of the good banks to come to their rescue). Both dead were the object of escraches, organized by members of the Partido Adelante, a new progressive party that emerged after 15 M.

The government's accusations against the leader of Adelante will be brutal: "Violence begets violence" and "from those escraches come these deaths." However, it could all be a smokescreen to cover up a case of corruption by the Conservative Party for having awarded official protection flats in the hands of the bad bank to strange vulture funds. Inspector Ortega and journalist Castelló will collaborate to unravel it and old misunderstandings and passions will rekindle between them.

Regeneration
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