Reviews of detective novels
When at the time I read the book The Eve of Almost Everything, by Víctor del Árbol, I considered the undoubted literary contribution that a profession such as police can give. Work in the street, in direct search of the scenarios where the crudest aspects of our ...
Getting out of the box is never easy. The labeling of a writer, musician, actor or any other artist serves for a popular cataloging, a standardization in the manner of a consumer product. Stephenie Meyer has manifested herself as a brave writer who seeks more her own evolution as a writer than simple contentment ...
The most curious thing about this novel is how the author presents us with the most atrocious as a natural consequence, a chain of circumstances and events capable of synthesizing madness to extirpate the love that leads to pain. Well, I don't explain myself well or anything when I want to, right? 😛 ...
The neighbors invite you to dinner. The typical fellowship dinner for newcomers to the neighborhood. You and your partner hesitate to go. You have run out of the usual babysitter and you have no one to turn to. It occurs to you that being a dinner in the house next door ... well ...
Hiding a terrifying secret underground becomes the only alternative. From now on, the characters in this novel flee forward, with the vague memory that it had to be that way. There was no other solution ... Years later, when Teresa Wyatt appears mercilessly murdered in her bathtub, ...
The history of literature is full of great little works. From The Little Prince to Chronicle of a Death Foretold. What happens is that these types of works are not usually found in the literature of the XXI century, more tended by editorial imposition or by readers' tastes, to large ...
There is no possible rest for a policeman. Whether in fiction or in reality, you can always find out about a new case that disturbs your days off. In the case of Mortal Remains, Donna Leon places us in a fiction that transcends reality. By medical prescription, ...