Lucy Foley's Top 3 Books

Little by little the black genre is adjusting to new readers with the natural generational change of authors. It is the sign of the times and even literature succumbs to that need for adaptation and adjustment. In Spain we could cite Javier Castillo of absolute generational coincidence with the British author Lucy foley. Both come from the late 80s and both coexist with that generation as capable of analog and digital.

At the head of these two and any others of the eighties, a Joel dicker also circumscribed to the noir with doses of suspense. The point is that, they all like the plot miscegenation, the crime of the moment on which to extend an investigation as well as a tension that can come from the most unsuspected channel. An inexhaustible resource in which each one exploits their narrative capacities.

For Lucy Foley the criminal narrative seems to have come under that magnetism of the opposite poles. Because it aimed more at Kate morton for the mystery plus a romantic touch and it has been uncovered as Dolores Redondo when the blood began to roll through their wefts. And it is that the designs of the muses are inscrutable. Foley is currently recreating himself in detective settings along Agatha Christie appropriate to a current scenography. And so it goes, growing steadily ...

Top 3 Recommended Lucy Foley Novels

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Every thriller writer would want (if he hasn't tried unsuccessfully) to write his plot in the style of Agatha Christie with his ten blacks. Because the idea of ​​locking up a group of characters with a crime involved is as sweet for the reader as it is suggestive for the writer. a challenge on both sides of literary creation, where inspiration must have as its horizon a transformative turn that, if it is not powerful enough, can destroy the entire novel. In this story we find classic recipes, a claustrophobic setting and as many motives for murder as there are characters that come into play ...

On an island off the windy coast of Ireland, the wedding guests of the year gather, the link between Jules Keegan and Will Slater. Old friends. Past resentments. Happy families. Hidden envies. Thirteen guests. A corpse. At the time of cutting the cake, one of the guests appears dead. In turn, a storm unleashes all its fury on the island. Everybody is trapped. They all have a secret. They all have a reason. One of the guests will not make it out of this wedding aliveÂ…

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Death in the snow

The weather adversity is what it has ... if the cold is capable of reaching our bones, the tension of a good plot can also freeze the soul ...

They were a united, happy, fun group. It has been several years since they left college, but they like to get together every now and then. This year they have chosen an idyllic hunting lodge in the middle of the Scottish mountains to spend the last days of the year. The journey begins innocently: admiring the landscape, drinking and remembering anecdotes from the past.

However, resentment and the weight of secrets have been growing. They believe that they remain the same, each one in their role, that of the beautiful one, or that of the silent one, or the perfect couple, or the outsider, but time has changed them. When a tremendous snowstorm breaks out the day before New Year's Eve, the group is completely cut off from the world. Two days later, on the first day of the year, one of them had the role of victim. Among them, there is another who has become a murderer.

Death in the snow

Everything lost and found

When Lucy presented this novel, little could her most enthusiastic readers imagine the thematic feel good plus historical fiction ... But come on, that on that side of the romantic plot with its side of mysteries to unravel, not so bad ...

It's the eighties and Kate, a young London photographer, is having a hard time coping with the death of her mother, a famous dancer of uncertain origins. When she receives from her adoptive grandmother the mysterious portrait of a woman who bears a striking resemblance to her mother, Kate embarks on a journey to unravel her family history that will take her from Corsica, where is the home of the famous painter Thomas Stafford, until the Paris of the thirties.

In this unforgettable journey, with which he tries to make peace with his past, he will discover a love story cut short by war and a great mystery: what relationship does the author of the painting have with his mother? And with Kate herself?

Everything lost and found

Other recommended books by Lucy Foley

An apartment in Paris

There are genre common places that every author should visit. The search for the murderer among multiple characters is inescapable for any deductive plot that any black genre writer must assume. Lucy gets the A with this proposal.

Welcome to 12 Rue des Amants, a beautiful old block of flats, far from the bright lights of the Eiffel Tower and the bustling banks of the Seine. Where nothing goes unnoticed and everyone has a story to discover.

the goalkeeper The scorned lover. The nosy journalist. The naive student. The unwanted guest. There was a murder here last night. A mystery hides behind the door of apartment number three. Who has the key?

Jess needs a fresh start. She's broke and alone, and she just left her job under the least ideal of circumstances. Her stepbrother Ben didn't seem too thrilled when she asked him if she could stay with him for a little while, but she didn't say no, and she Jess thinks things will look a lot better from Paris. Only when she arrives she (to a very nice apartment… can Ben really afford it?) he's not there.

The longer Ben is missing, the more Jess begins to dig into her brother's situation and the more questions she has. Ben's neighbors are an eclectic bunch and not particularly friendly. Jess may have come to Paris to escape her past, but it's starting to look like it's Ben's future that's in question. They are all neighbors. Everyone suspects. And everyone knows something they're not telling.

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