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As every year, the black harvest reaches the end of the editorial course with a tide of novelties ranging from the most distressing thriller to the classic detective novels, even through a catalog of all kinds of criminals. La Lectura proposes a selection of titles for lovers of the genre to enjoy this last weekend of the Book Fair.

Spike

Lorenzo Silva

Destiny. 464 pages. 21,90 € Ebook: 9,99 €
You can buy it here.

"Barb, it's me. I have little left. I need you." This is how a retired secret agent realizes that he cannot escape his past. Only Púa, the protagonist, is able to carry out a mission that directly affects the daughter of his best friend Mazo. His friendship and his eagerness to fight terrorism will compel him to accept. Lorenzo Silva, who has publications such as La flaqueza del bolchevique (finalist of the 1997 Nadal Prize), Carte blanche (Spring Prize 2004) or the travel book Del Rif al Yebal (Algaba Essay Prize), among others, is one of the great references of contemporary black literature. . Recognized for his detective novels, from this new thriller he faces the heart of the executioner. It achieves something never seen before: that the reader reflects on the double standards that some human decisions entail. Finally, it will raise new questions about guilt.

You will reap storms

Donna Leon

Translation by Maia Figueroa Evans. Six. Barral. 352 pages. 19 € Ebook: 9,99 €
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The trajectory of Donna Leon, which passes through New Jersey, Perugia, Siena, Rome, London, Iran, China and Saudi Arabia, endorses her as one of the great writers of contemporary crime and mystery. You will reap storms is Commissioner Brunetti's latest feat. From a call from his colleague, Inspector Vianello, he learns that he has been assigned to discover who is the murderer of the canals of Venice. This criminal acts in a very peculiar way: the limbs of his victims gradually appear before the rest of the body is discovered. As the investigation progresses, Brunetti, Vianello, Commissioner Griffoni and Signorina Elettra put together the pieces of a puzzle that seems to make no sense, until Brunetti stumbles upon something that connects to his teenage past. Leon causes his star character to feel compelled to reflect on Italian history and how the ideals of youth fade over the years.

Lucia

Bernard Minier

Translation by Dolors Gallart. Salamander. 416 pages. 21 € Ebook: 10,99 €
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The Salamanca of 2009 is the setting chosen by Bernard Minier for this crime novel in which three young criminology students discover that a murderer has been operating for three decades without being uncovered. His modus operandi consists of staging Renaissance compositions by gluing the bodies of his victims. The newly released lieutenant of the Civil Guard Lucía Guerrero has just discovered that her companion has been crucified and glued on a hill on the outskirts of Madrid. From there, she travels to Salamanca determined to find her friend's murderer and, thus, be able to do justice. A plot full of mystery that will solve, not only the crime, but will subject the characters to a disturbing tension. Bernard Minier, master of the genre that has sold more than two million copies worldwide, will delve into the psychology of his characters with the intention of taking the reader's mind to the limit.

Thugs

Patrick Radden Keefe

Translation by Pablo José Hermida. Reservoir Books. 448 pages. 22,90 € Ebook: 9,99 €
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Maleantes continues the line that characterizes New Yorker journalist Patrick Radden Keefe. Through the description of different antagonistic characters, the author will demonstrate that each of them shares a common pattern: "The dark side of the human being". Here he portrays, among other criminals, the arms dealer Monzer al-Kassar, nicknamed "the prince of Marbella", tirelessly pursued by a DEA agent, the controversial "devil's advocate" who fights against the death penalty representing the worst criminals, Chapo Guzmán and his life after fleeing from a high security prison, or the notorious Dutch criminal William Holleeder and his own sister's efforts to secure his imprisonment. After the enormous success of Say Nothing, the writer demonstrates his mastery of the essay in this miscellany that received a wave of criticism and praise in the main American media.

Happy Days

Benito Olmo

DNA. 296 pages. 19,95 € Ebook: 9,99 €
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Ayala has everything against him: he is an immigrant, a minor and a boxer. Now he meets again with detective Mascarrel, with whom he will be involved in the most shady business of the Frankfurt underworld. Little by little, their relationship will grow closer and they will help each other in impossible and quite strange missions. The long-awaited literary return of Benito Olmo comes under what he calls "Hopscotch style" and which is characterized by "letting the reader continue daydreaming". Olmo has more than twenty books of experience within the genre, such as The Turtle Maneuver (adapted by Netflix) or The Tragedy of the Sunflower. A tanned feather under the lights that the bullets of the revolver give off. Here the writer invites the reader to a journey towards the plot epicenter of his new style of crime novel. Undoubtedly, one of the most reliable bets of the genre.

The girl who lives at the end of the road

Laird Koening

Translation by Jon Bilbao. Impedes. 272 pages €
22.50You can buy it here.

Laird Koeningseamlessly intermingles his studies in literature and psychology at Washington State University in this novel. A disturbing masterpiece starring Rynn, a young outcast who is only interested in the poetry of Emily Dickinson. For that reason she establishes a relationship with a lame boy, her only friend. This novel – which inspired the film The little girl who lives down the lane, starring a very young Jodie Foster and Martin Sheen – was a breath of fresh air for a genre that has sometimes sinned of excessive homogenization. A novel, therefore, referential that has inspired generations. Millions of American teenagers felt identified with Rynn, a special and intelligent girl who enjoys her solitude. It will be the others who insist on being part of their small circle of friends.

The logic of light

Cristina Cassar Scalia

Translation by Montse Triviño. Duomo. 352 pages 19,80 € Ebook: 9,99 €
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The successful Cristina Cassar Scalia once again gives life to the great researcher and deputy curator Vanina Garrasi. For this new volume, Garrasi will have to order and place the pieces of a puzzle that, although at first incongruous, ends up narrowing the fence on several interrelated stories. In the middle of the night, Dr. Manfredi and his wife surprise a man by throwing a bulging suitcase between the rocks. An hour later, Vanina receives an anonymous call alerting the inspector that she has witnessed the murder of a girl in her beachfront chalet at the hands of a man wearing a hat. Cassar Scalia manages with this novel to keep the reader in suspense until the last page, where he solves the mystery with great mastery. The Sicilian writer is already a literary star in her country and a benchmark in the mystery genre. Italian television, a follower of his success, has decided to bring Garrasi's adventures to the "small-big" screen.

The saint of Villalobos

Pascual Martinez

Siruela. 206 pages. 19,95 € Ebook: 9,99 €
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Ghosts always appear at night. And they come covered with white sheets for one reason: to distinguish them in the dark. Ernesto Pitana had become accustomed to their presence: for three years they had been arranged around his bed of troops." With this novel, the Riojan Pascual Martínez demonstrates once again his mastery when it comes to making crime novels. The protagonist, Civil Guard Sergeant Ernesto Pitana, will not have time to get used to his new destination. During the early morning of Reyes appears on the beach of Valdearenas the lifeless body of Martín Urquijo, a healer better known as the "saint of Villalobos" who is, in turn, the heir to a large fortune of an aristocratic family of the nineteenth century. Pitana and his team will haveto ensure that their relationship does not hinder an investigation already tainted by betrayal, distrust and religious submission that characterizes the new destiny of the protagonist.

Loves that kill

Elia Barcelo

Rock. 368 pages. 22,90€E Ebook: 7,99 €
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"Santa Rita is my declaration of love to the Mediterranean, and also to or not of theliterary genres that I enjoy the most, that of crime and classic mystery, those wonderful novels that I remember from my adolescence, that are read very quickly, that take you to another place, present you with a puzzle that you have to solve and close with a smile. If I've achieved that, I'll be more than paid." This is how Elia Barceló talks about a novel with which he intends to pay homage to Agatha Christe and in which several characters of Santa Rita have to solve two crimes of the past: that of a baby whose skeleton has just been found among the remains of a demolished wall and that of a well-known specialist in Art History. The inspector Lola Galindo with the help of her faithful Robles will have to investigate an unusual case full of unknowns related to the world of art, both last century and this one.

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