Reviews of crime novels
It had been 8 years since I published my previous book. One spring night in 2024, I started writing again. I had one of those thriving ideas that was demanding to be released, more intensely than ever. Since then, I have been discovering that the nights still have muses. While everyone else was sleeping, this writer …
Telling a story in installments builds reader loyalty. At the same time, it allows the author to delve deeper into settings and characters. A perfect symbiosis for the most popular literature to flourish in a perfect breeding ground. And the crime genre could not be less. Because since Sherlock Holmes, …
Presumably, when John Grisham began practicing law, the last thing he thought of was translating into fiction so many cases in which he would have to struggle to make a name for himself among the robes of the United States. However, today the legal profession ...
The Italian teacher Andrea Camilleri was one of those authors who filled thousands of pages thanks to the support of his readers around the world. It began to emerge in the 90s, a fact that demonstrates perseverance and vocational writing as the foundation for its vital longevity extended to ...
One of the most popular writers lately on the Spanish literary scene is Lorenzo Silva. In recent years, this author has been publishing books of a very different nature, from historical novels such as They will remember your name to documentaries such as Blood sweat and peace. Not forgetting its regular ...
The noir genre has gone from being considered a subgenre of the more traditional detective novel to evolving as a wayward student hell-bent on mixing everything up to stand out more. The resulting bastard genre currently ends up combining suspense, black, police, mystery or even gore (at least in ...
What better title than this? Something light, light, sibilantly pretentious. Before dying, yes, better the fewer hours beforehand to listen to it. That's when you will take your list of essential books and cross out Belén Esteban's best-seller, the one that closes the reading circle of your life... (it was a joke, a macabre one...
Sometimes the abysses of the soul, where the light does not reach, find a time and a way to enjoy themselves in their own way. A placid island like Tenerife becomes that point where all the evil is concentrated in the form of vices, perdition and unspeakable afflictions with a certain aspect of temptation...
Nothing like relativizing things... take a deep breath and create comfortable islands of time where you can soothe your conscience. No one can be as determined to disrupt your world as yourself. That is what a Björn Diemel is learning along the way, managed until the beginning of the novel by that…
The alienating has a root of the strange, of the alien to this planet. But the term ends up pointing more to the loss of reason. In this novel by Antti Tuomainen both extremes are summarized. Because from the cosmos comes a remote mineral vestige that everyone craves for different…
The black genre suffers a continuous approach by new authors capable of assaulting reader consciences in search of new booty. Partly because, in today's crime narrative, when you get the hang of the author on duty, you go looking for new references. Davide Longo currently offers (he has already done some…
The war intrastories make up the most noir scenario possible, the one that awakens aromas of survival, cruelty, alienation and a remote hope. Claudel composes this mosaic of stories with a diversity of focuses depending on the proximity or distance with which each narration is sighted. The short narrative has that great…