The year 2018 marked a turning point in a narrative evolution of MarÃa Frisa that surprises for its versatility. It was in that year when her preponderant juvenile narrative (not exempt from some other controversy with parents of readers erected as beacons of the strictest, exquisite and ultimately stale morality), was redirected towards a darker novelistic aspect.
Frisa masterfully cultivates, since that 2018, a suspense with hints of noir moved under a dazzling rhythm and surprising frameworks. Undoubtedly little to do with those stories made anthological survival manuals for boys and girls. Getting out of the box is as simple as posing new scenarios in a fully convincing and engaging way. MarÃa manages to trace several narrative channels in an already very rich bibliography.
In the part that most catches our attention in this blog, her facet as a black novel writer, we go with those electrifying works. Make yourself comfortable, pick up any of MarÃa's stories about crime and feel the shiver of danger lurking from the most wicked minds in search of giving way to all sorts of animosities.
Top 3 recommended novels by MarÃa Frisa
Who is Olympia Wimberly?
Crossing the pond is already something very common for Spanish crime novel writers. To cite a few cases, we move from north to south from the New Orleans of Dolores Redondo to New York Javier Castillo, the same one that Maria now visits in search of the identity of her Olimpia. Dark plots set in a United States transformed by a virtuous imaginary made in Spain.
Trying to stop Olimpia Wimberly is as absurd as trying to stop a freight train with your head. She has been in charge of a clandestine team in charge of solving crises for years that neither the police nor the FBI can solve. But for the first time, after a mission, he ends up in the hospital.
It is there that an old man on the verge of death recognizes her. He is an undocumented man without fingerprints who has just escaped from the cabin where he has been held hostage for the last thirty years. Who is he? How does she know her? Does he mistake her for someone else? Olimpia decides to investigate the stranger and discover what he is hiding. However, neither she nor she imagines that, for this, she will have to delve into the wounds of the past that she even hides from herself.
The spider's nest
No domestic thriller more intense than the one that connects with the familiar. And if precisely that context of home does not appear to us precisely as something very consistent, the feeling of anxiety invites us to think that anything can happen...
How far would a mother go to protect her daughter? Why would she be able to sacrifice everything? Whatever you think, by the time you finish reading this novel you will have changed your mind.
Katy lives with her daughter in a luxury apartment that, after months without work, Katy can no longer support. Thus, both are forced to move to a small apartment in an almost empty building in Madrid. Shortly after, Katy receives a mysterious call offering her the job of her dreams. Sounds like the lucky break she needed. What she doesn't imagine is that a complex web woven with the mistakes of the past hangs over her and that her worst nightmare is about to begin.
Take care of me
The start of the new black novels of Maria. A story that caught me even more, if possible, due to the addition of a set design in the morning capital that fully immersed me in the story. A great plot with a strong social component...
Sub-Inspector Berta Guallar and Inspector Lara Samper work at the Zaragoza Women's Assistance Service, a division of the National Police that is in charge of investigating cases of sexual crimes and gender-based violence. Berta, tenacious and empathetic, married with children, has difficulties reconciling her work life with her family life, but she loves her work and puts all her effort and tenacity into helping women who suffer gender-based violence. Lara, an insightful and independent psychologist, has had to face many obstacles and macho attitudes to rise in her profession due to her impressive beauty, but she has made it to inspector thanks to her intelligence and commitment.
When their boss, Commissioner Millán, shows them a video showing the body of a burned young man, they both know that they are facing the most difficult case of their careers. The victim, Manuel Velasco, was tried for having raped Noelia Abad, a teenager who was returning to her house after attending a party with her friends. Velasco was acquitted, so it is highly likely that someone took the law into his own hands.
Berta and Lara face a crime in which they will have to put all their expertise and professionalism to the test, not only to find the murderer but also to prevent their contradictory feelings regarding the nature of the crime from interfering in the investigation. All while Berta suffers a campaign against her on the internet for a poorly resolved pederasty case and Lara faces a terrible secret from her past that, if it comes to light, could ruin her police career.
