More editorial novelties for January, this time from Novelty. With a diverse selection of international names such as those of William McIlvanney, Paolo Roversi or Abir Mukherjee; and nationals like Santiago Diaz y Carlos Bassa. We take a look.
Tony Veitch's papers —william mclvanney
Second title of the famous glasgow trilogy that Scotsman William McIlvanney started in the late XNUMXs. It has as protagonist the inspector jack laylaw, a tormented policeman who, after his apparent hardness, hide a great humanity and a lot of intelligence and irony.
Here we have Eck adamson, an alcoholic homeless man, who calls Laidlaw on his deathbed to give him a message something cryptic. In it the inspector wants to see the key to solve the murder of an underworld ruffian and clarify the disappearance of Toni Veitch, a very idealistic student.
The good father — Santiago Diaz
Santiago Díaz is behind the scripts of television series as successful as Companions, An adelante pass o There is no one living here. Now he bursts into the crime novel with this title. And with a female protagonist, so fashionable lately.
In it he tells us that after receiving a alarm call, the police find in a chalet in a Madrid urbanization a bloodstained man and knife with his prints next to the corpse of his wife.
One year later, an old man surrenders to the police claiming to be the kidnapper of three missing persons: his son's defense attorney, the judge who convicted him, and a student who testified against him at trial. Convinced that all three were bribed, the man assures that one will die every week until the real murderer of his daughter-in-law is arrested and his son is freed.
This is when the Inspector Indira RamosEthical as strong as his phobia of microbes. Ramos will only have three weeks to solve the case before that "good father" carries out his plan.
Leaden skies - Carlos Bassas
To Carlos Bassas del Rey i interviewed him the last December. Author of titles like The wandering samurai o The man with no name, now presents this novel set in Barcelona, riding a 1843.
Its protagonist is Miquel Exposito, a criminal from the underworld. When the body of Victor, his best friend, appears abandoned in an alley, Miquel, with the help of Andreu Vila, a gazetteer, and by Mata and Monlau, decides to investigate what happened. You will then discover a strange chain of murders that seem to be the same author and with a dangerous relationship with several of the most powerful industrialists in the city as well as with the slave trade to Cuba.
The man from Calcutta - Abir Mukherjee
Mukherjee is Londoner and one of the most recent bestseller with this series that stars captain sam wyndham, a veteran of the First World War with experience in Scotland Yard.
This is the first title posted here. Tell us Wyndham's arrival in Calcutta after the end of the Great War, where he discovers that the city meets all the requirements to end him: unbearable humidity, unhealthy water, poisonous insects and, much worse, a progressive hatred of its inhabitants towards the British colonists.
Wyndham wonders if all this could be the cause of the murder of a high official in an alley of the underworld. And before you have been able to acclimate or dispel the obsessive ghosts of the past, you will find yourself plunged into a research full of difficulties.
Addicts - Paolo Roversi
Featured as one of the best mystery writers by the critics of his country, Roversi joins the great collection that already exists of Italian authors of the genre.
In this novel set in the nineties and present, begins on Christmas Eve 1994, when, following the signal of a sparkler fired in a forest in Offenburg, Germany, he is found the body of a man in the snow. His throat has been slit and his hands have been amputated.
At present we have Rebecca starka brilliant London psychiatrist who has developed an innovative system to treat patients of their obsessions. This method is so effective that one of his patients, the Russian magnate Grigory Ivanov, decides to entrust the Management Sunrise, the first in a series of clinics scattered around the world that help cure any addiction.
Among the many applications that arrive to enter Sunrise, are selected seven candidates from different countries and with different problems. At first everything seems to be going well, but soon some patients mysteriously disappear. So they begin to separate them and monitor them so that they do not escape and also to avoid any contact with the outside. All this leads to a game that will have a surprising outcome.
Thank you very much for the recommendations!! Let's hope that these new works are at the level of great similarities of the genre such as 'Loba Negra' and 'Reina Roja'. Today's writers tend to take advantage of the suspense factor effectively, but it does not generate the same intrigue as the aforementioned works.
Excellent list, I am going to add The Papers of Tony Veitch and The Good Father to my list of books to read. Thank you for the recommendations.
-Gustavo Woltmann.