Mystery novel reviews
Notice for visitors via Netflix for "The innocent." No, I have not selected that Harlan Coben novel. Which is perhaps good news because there are things even better ... The host of American writers with Jewish roots is completed by great geniuses ranging from Philip Roth to Isaac Asimov, ...
The life of Jesus Christ was that first great disruptive story from the idea of a human being conceived "magic" through. Only that there are characters in even more anomalous situations. Worse than being stateless is being stateless. Beings arrived in the world marked by a destiny of uprooting, from the…
Don Juan José Benítez knows how to throw the pisto like nobody else. His Trojan Horse series is worthy of superior intelligence in substance, form, and marketing. Fact and fiction make up an inseparable chain that moves with each installment like the DNA dance marking the fate of the turn. Y …
There are privileged minds capable of posing a thousand and one plots with their corresponding mystery without disheveled or worn out. It is indisputable to point to Agatha Christie as the queen of the detective genre, the one that later branched out into crime novels, thrillers and more. She alone, and without the great help of all ...
In the Harry Quebert series, closed with this case of Alaska Sanders, there is a diabolical balance, a dilemma (I understand that especially for the author himself). Because in the three books the plots of the cases to be investigated coexist in parallel with that vision of the writer, Marcus Goldman, who…
In its inexhaustible debt with the XNUMXth century. A time increasingly loaded with great stories as we move away in time, Modiano leads us through a plot that recreates that nostalgic notion of the ephemeral. In the idea of the possible trace that we can, or…
The mystery genre is the most intrinsic to literature that we can imagine. Since the novel is a novel, the enigmatic as a plot base is prolonged in almost every narrative. Even more so considering that one of the most illustrious first novels is the brilliant story in the code of ...
The best-selling author par excellence in Spain is Matilde Asensi. New and powerful voices like that of Dolores Redondo They are approaching this honorary space of the Alicante author, but they still have a long way to go to reach. In his long career, his trade and his number of readers ...
There are authors who transcend the genre to which they are delivered in each of their new novels. This is the case of Oates and it happens with this pack of gloomy inspiration but that supposes a whole approach to the ultimate scope of death, to the attempts of spiritual communication with those who ...
It had been a long time since I came across a story about Christian stigmata that always point to the supernatural as an atavistic memory of those who were chosen by God. So it is worth pointing out this plot that today locates a new case of improvised holiness, of choice ...
Being able to discover what goes on under the sticks in a basketball game requires the concentration and skill necessary to discover that hand that hits the opponent's arm instead of the ball. Or that plug in the downward trajectory of the ball that invalidates the ...
Back in 2020, one of the greatest writers in substance and form left us. An author who convinced critics and who earned parallel popular recognition translated into best sellers for all of his novels. He is probably the most widely read Spanish writer after Cervantes, perhaps with the permission of…