Begins may, the fifth month of the year, and among the new releases I highlight these 5 titles. They are by Spanish authors such as Toni Hill, Carmen Mola and Lorenzo Silva, the American Peter swanson and Italian Antonio Manzini. New titles of dark tone for a cold start month. Let's see what new stories they tell us lovers of the genre.
The gypsy bride - Carmen Mola
It is published on May 17.
The detective novel more revulsive of current Spanish literature. Carmen Mola, whose identity is still unknown, wants to surprise with this very black story that takes place in the neighborhood of Carabanchel in Madrid about the disappearance and death of a woman.
Susana macaya She's daughter of gypsy father but she has been educated as paya and then her bachelorette party disappears. They find his corpse two days later in Carabanchel, who has tortured through a cruel and unusual ritual. The point is that his sister Lara suffered the same fate seven years earlier and she was also about to get married. But Lara's killer has been in prison serving a sentence ever since, so there are only two possibilities: or someone has imitated their methods or there is an innocent in jail.
The young deputy inspector will handle the case Angel Zarate and the inspector Elena Blanco, the head of the Case Analysis Brigade, a department created exclusively to solve the most complicated and heinous crimes.
But the superior of both, the commissioner Landlord, has decided to remove Zárate from the case and entrust it to Blanco, a somewhat peculiar and lonely woman, lover of grappa, and fond of karaoke, collector's cars, and off-road sex. So Inspector Blanco will have to get into the lives of some gypsies who abandoned their customs to integrate to discover who could kill so viciously to the two gypsy girlfriends.
Crystal Tigers - Toni Hill
It is published on May 24.
Toni Hill brings out this new novel from psychological suspense and full of secrets that moves in two stages. We are going to a mythical neighborhood of Barcelona Red Belt during seizures seventies and today. In the late seventies Víctor Yagüe and Juanpe Zamora they were more than classmates. They shared confidences and games, joys and fears, and their friendship spread over time and through the troubled streets of the neighborhood. Until the day a tragic event forces them to choose between loyalty and salvation.
They will meet again thirty-seven years later in that same scenario. Their lives have taken opposite paths because Juanpe is a man adrift and Víctor, on the other hand, a winner. Perhaps that is why he feels indebted to his friend and decides to face the shadows of a closed case that continues with unanswered questions and that can get complicated.
7-7-2007 - Antonio Manzini
It is published on May 10.
The Italian Antonio Manzini returns with a new story of his most beloved and famous character, the ironic and sour underboss Rocco schiavone. This time we are in July 2007 and in Rome, which suffers the scourge of tropical storms. Marina, Schiavone's wife, has left home because she has discovered the shady deals of Rocco and his friends of a lifetime and petty criminals, Sebastiano, Brizio and Furio.
Far from the heart - Lorenzo Silva
It is published on May 24.
We are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the series of the most famous civil guards in national literature, Bevilacqua and Chamorro. And in this new title they take us to the Strait.
A young man has disappeared twenty-five years old, with a history of computer crimes, in the area of the Gibraltar Field. There are witnesses who claim to have seen how a group of men accosted him in the middle of the street and forced him into a car. Shortly after his disappearance, a request is made for him huge rescue in cash that theirs do not hesitate to pay. But since then he has not been heard from again, leading to the belief that he has been killed.
Second Lieutenant Bevilacqua and Sergeant Chamorro are commissioned to clarify what happened three days after the disappearance. So they travel to the Strait, where they find a panorama in which the laws are relative, black money is a common currency and its laundering, a daily necessity. In short, a panorama where anything is possible.
A deserved death - Peter Swanson
Released May 8.
The new novel by the American writer has been compared to that of the masters of suspense Patricia Highsmith and Alfred Hitchcock.
The premise is that killing is easy and anyone can do it for the most diverse reasons, such as, for example, a fit of rage where the husband kills the wife or vice versa. But the point is that killing without being discovered is the really difficult thing. We have a protagonist, Lily, who thinks he has found the solution. And it is that without a body there is no murder, a dead person becomes a disappeared person.
Lily neither finds pleasure in killing nor feels remorse because there are people who deserve to die and there are murderers who deserve to get their way. Simple as that. This is what Ted, the husband, Miranda, the wife, and Brad, the lover, do not know. Peter Swanson leads us to wonder if we think we can understand a murderer. And to convince us is Lily.