It is what it has to live surrounded by books. Laura Falco boasts a great curriculum within the publishing world. Stamps like Planeta, Martínez Roca and Minotauro They had in her a marketing specialist who was making a place for herself in various complementary facets of the world of books in its most commercial aspect.
Collaborator in various media of a cultural nature and in charge of publications and marketing departments of Grupo Planeta, she ended up breaking in with force also from the other side, that of the writers ...
2012 was the year in which his first novel landed on the literary market. She then aimed at the thriller genre, if not directly at the horror genre. Since then, she has been launching new literary proposals that move in darker narrative fields: mysteries, horror, noir suspense... A new author to be taken into account and well received by critics and readers.
3 recommended novels by Laura Falcó
Ice dawn
I am that I am more of the thrillers than of the direct terror. So among the different novels that Laura has published, I take this as the most unique, the one that in my opinion shows the greatest skill and the one that captivated me from the first page.
Synopsis: For the average Spanish reader, and probably that of half the world, Nordic literature is covered by the noir genre. The Nordic quarry is prolific and its scenography and setting benefit from that icy, bluish space, with very marked periods of light and shadow, so the stereotype has its foundation.
Current authors like asa larsson, Karin Fossum or the most outstanding Camila Lackberg they fully realize the enormous possibilities of these countries with the midnight sun.
Laura Falcó proposes a foray into this scenario conducive to the most intense thrillers from a perspective that immerses us to a greater degree in the plot. Sandra travels from Spain to Norway to visit Eduardo, another Spaniard whom she only knows through social media. The idea already sounds like a risk. The thing about the networks is what it has, that they are not yet a space of trust.
But Sandra needs to take a new breath, discover new people like Eduardo, charming in that communication from IP to IP. And, for once, Eduardo really convinces us. He is a good boy who welcomes Sandra with open arms and invites her to discover the wonders of the charming city of Alesund.
But..., when Sandra began to develop a certain affection for Eduardo, at that moment in which her trip seemed 100% justified, she ends up finding him dead. As if the traumatic shock itself were not enough, the manner of his death is also revealed as a brutal execution or as a macabre display of death. The worst has only just begun.
Sandra's only hope is the police officers Erika and Lars. They will be in charge of facing this case, reminiscent of the actions of distant mafias. For them Sandra will only be a shadow then. Because she is gone, she does not appear at the crime scene, she has disappeared from there.
They quickly find out that Eduardo was with her, but linking the young Spanish woman to the case is a fact that doesn't quite add up... You will feel sorry for Sandra and you will want to know what really happened to Eduardo. You'll want to guide Erika and Lars in their investigation. You will immerse yourself in the story from the first moment. You will enjoy and be surprised by the final twist…
Death knows your name
I am one of those who feels that morbid attraction to fear, come on, like almost everyone. But it is also true that in smaller doses it is more suggestive. It already happened to me with Poe, and it happened to me again with this book that presents a wonderful selection of dark stories ...
Synopsis: Dare to undertake a one-way trip to the darkest side of reality: a place where logic and reason break apart, where anything is possible. On your way you will find buildings populated by nameless specters, mysterious calls that predict fate, malevolent children ... and, always, the shadow of the lady with the scythe flying over the living.
Screams before dying
On many occasions the first book has all the punch in the world. As a writer, you want to tell something and the story practically comes out on its own. It only remains to be aware of the necessary polish and you can have an imposing novel. I think this is one of those cases.
Synopsis: What if you knew your destiny? What would you do if a call announced when you were going to die? Sinister buildings besieged by nameless specters, evil criminal children and defenseless creatures, beings from the underworld, anticipatory visions and flying over everything, the lady with the scythe as a continuous threat; Laura Falcó Lara revives in her narrative debut a tradition, that of supernatural terror, which she handles with the ease of an expert, and in which she is inscribed with a direct and energetic style.
Straddling the surprising disturbing tales of Stephen King and the Hitchcocian suspense of the works of Dean koontzScreams before dying immerses us in a universe where the paranormal, panic and mystery create a mosaic of amazing stories that break logic and reason.
Twenty-seven narratives full of chills and adrenaline, which come together in a suffocating book, full of unexpected twists but, above all, terrifying.
