Perhaps it was the case of the Cordovan writer Mercedes warrior one of those in which you are not a prophet in your own land to triumph beyond our borders. Because his first most famous hits were curiously produced in France. Although in the end the replicas of the Mercedes narrative ended up also arriving in Spain in the form of best sellers.
Without a doubt, Guerrero's narrative proposal ends up having a good reception because it is backed by a suggestive cocktail between the mystery genres with a romantic touch to the point. When both aspects are combined, the result gives off that aroma of the most captivating literature, driven more if possible by a very lively pulse of someone who knows how to build passionate plots.
We add historical settings with a nineteenth-century or modernist aftertaste. Dull flashes of that still recent time between the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries with its melancholic overtones... Everything comes together so that Guerrero's novels wake up to us as inalienable echoes.
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The puppet dance
Nothing better to build a good mystery than to make up one of those two-time plots. From the game of mirrors between past and present, mystery novels lead us through their particular wormholes. Temporal jumps that do not stop sprinkling with magical coincidences the spaces inhabited then and now, the souls of the people who inhabited those places, the buried secrets ...
Afghanistan, 2004. Dr. Edith Lombard, from Doctors Without Borders, stands guard at a hospital in Kabul. When attending to a young woman in the operating room, she notices something on her neck that attracts her attention: a necklace from which an amber pearl hangs. A pearl that Edith immediately recognizes, as it was stolen from her home in Quebec eighteen years earlier, in a robbery in which her mother was shot dead. A pearl that her father, Édouard Lombard, had said belonged to the famous Amber Chamber in Saint Petersburg, which disappeared during World War II.
Bilbao, 1937. From the port of Santurce the Habana, which will take more than four thousand children to the Soviet Union, fleeing the civil war that was drowning the country. There, his story, the story of some exiles used as puppets by the Stalin government, will be intertwined with that of the amber pearl on a seventy-year journey that will dust off memories that no one wanted to see the light of day.
Without looking back
There are destinies inevitably entangled with fragility. In fact, we can all tune into protagonists like the ones in this story, exposed to tragic horizons. But precisely the wise decisions to flee from danger without looking back end up giving greater strength to those who know how to let go of the past ...
Laura and Sofía long ago came to Europe fleeing from Carlos, the father of one and the ex-husband of the other, and they live in fear of what would happen if he found them. For this reason, they decided to change their life, their world, their identity. They eventually settled in Salzburg, where Sofia is a jewelry designer and Laura works in a flower shop. It seems that they have finally found a home and can begin to rebuild their lives, but their troubled past could be waiting around the corner ...
When the remains of Lukas Tillman, who disappeared almost twenty-five years ago, appear in the nearby snow-capped mountains, Laura and Sofia will see how their hard-earned security can fade like white snow in the blazing sun.
The shadows of memory
The world of art and its shadows. Chiaroscuros that go far beyond the pictorial technique to enter precisely into spaces where shadows lurk ...
After the death of her aunt Lina, Maribel Ordóñez feels more lost than ever. This young woman from Cordoba had felt lonely for a long time, since her father, to whom she was very close, died. At least she has inherited the family home, a place that comforts her and where there are sweet memories that embrace her. Its walls seem to have witnessed a hundred lives ... Houses like these often hide secrets from the past.
Peering into her new home, Maribel finds several works by great artists of the stature of Matisse and Picasso, as well as paintings that her grandfather, Tomás Ordóñez, painted when he lived in Paris in the XNUMXs, that she would never have imagined were original. Maribel has just opened Pandora's box and events are rushing. When the expert she turns to is murdered, she becomes the prime suspect. With the police on your heels, you must uncover the truth about the works before it's too late.
