Noir literature with that brand of Argentine idiosyncrasy. Tension and depth in the outlining of the characters. Florence Etcheves is a new voice from journalism that makes his crime novels authentic chronicles of despair, injustice and cruelty.
In the same way as his compatriot and contemporary Eduardo Sacheri, Etcheves' plots address, in their usual essentially black plot, other moral implications and various aspects of greater depth.
Novels that connect with real aspects that, as a good journalist, Florencia insists on making us reach with her full credibility and her ultimate commitment to our current world. its series the crimes of the south so it testifies.
To such an extent it is so, that in many of the reviews and criticisms that can be found on the internet, many are those who highlight that transcendence, that dotted from the pages to the news that from time to time surprise us with its drama.
So read any novel by Florencia Etcheves ensures the agility of a frenetic pace, that reading taste for fictions that steal our time, transporting us to very lively plots. But in the end there is always that bitter taste that not everything has to be fiction.
Top 3 recommended novels of Florence Etcheves
Cornelia
On many occasions the past can end up shaping a crime novel. Guilt or remorse can lead to the suffering of the unresolved case, that of each one's own destiny.
Hence, Florencia Etcheves' proposal contains that literary surplus of the past lurking in memory or dreams, like a morbid event that invites us to look back while reason wanted to escape forward.
In a way, the approach of this novel reminds me of the book Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra, or the movie of the same name. The past, a group of friends and a dark event that breaks with everything ... years later one of those friends is a policeman and has to face a crude reunion with everything he wants to forget.
This time it is a policewoman: Manuela Pelari, a recurring character in this writer. And through it we live the moments before and after the past disappearance of Cornelia.
That was a decade ago but the debt is still valid for Manuela. So when the protagonist discovers a slightest hint from which to relaunch the investigation, she sets about it knowing that the matter will end up stirring her from the depths of her being.
In addition, the rescue of the matter will lead to new shocks on that distant group of friends who accompanied Cornelia on a playful trip to Patagonia.
From the outset he only has a reminder, an anonymously paid obituary in a newspaper. From that simple and sinister fact, the friends will have to recover old impressions, ready to overcome their fears once and for all.
The chain found by a young man in the snow, the frenzied hours that followed ... The past suddenly returns to shake the foundations of existence, in the manner of the tunik volcano, always threatening to splash lava in the inhospitable Patagonia.
Champion's daughter
Old ghosts of a cruel childhood. The fear between the traumatic and the ghostly. The evil that moves in the shadows, haunting the unfortunate Angela Larrabe.
She keeps in that part of her memory that is hardly erased, as much as she wanted to, the day that the great boxing champion her father was, focused his fiercest anger against her mother.
The outcome of that fatal night slightly minimized the brutal damage thanks to the police officer Francisco Juánez. But over time, it seems like he's that guardian angel to her. Although for him everything stems from that debt burned with her.
Evil moves like a whirlwind, with its strange centripetal force, its dark eye fixed firmly on its targets. Now a young woman, Angela discovers herself again in the midst of everything.
A murderer haunts her in a space as paradisiacal as it is suffocating as Key West. Angela and Francisco. United again by tragedy towards a stark struggle for survival.
The virgin in your eyes
The novel with the greatest thriller point of this author. Again at the controls of the investigation our already known Francisco Juánez. Although certainly, this novel is prior to "The Champion's Daughter."
The journalistic origin of the author serves here to give the plot a special black chronicle look that is very true to us. Because that of the bad guys not paying their faults sounds too much to us, unfortunately.
The image of Gloriana Márquez, possibly murdered by her partner Minerva, guides Francisco with determination to resolve the case. But he could never imagine that his will to clarify the truth would lead him to face unimaginable powers that make it completely impossible to prosecute Minerva, if that girl with a disconcerting attitude is the real culprit.
The matter is cooling and even from the police leadership it seems that they want to shelve the issue. But Francisco will keep every detail and clue to himself and will only hope to live long enough to find the culprit.
Other recommended books by Florencia Etcheves
Frida's cook
The great characters are others seen from the most unexpected lights. And admirers, fans and other followers are always delighted to discover interior details. Because in a case like that of Frida, or any other singular creator, the discovery goes more towards the sustenance of her art, of art...
Nayeli, a young Tehuana woman who has fled her home, arrives in Mexico City helpless. Thanks to her wonderful skills in the kitchen she finds a place in the Blue House, where Frida Kahlo lives practically isolated since the fatal accident that left her paralyzed. Between flavors, aromas and colors, the painter and her new cook begin a friendship that deeply marks the destiny of both.
Many years later in Buenos Aires, where Nayeli settled and started a family after Frida's death, her granddaughter discovers a secret that could change her life: the existence of a mysterious painting in which her grandmother is the protagonist, but whose author it is unknown.
Florencia Etcheves has managed to recreate the most human side of Frida Kahlo, at the same time that she draws a powerful novel where intrigues, loves and envies weave an endearing story of friendship and loyalty between two women united by destiny.
