6 novels with black and horror touches chosen for July

July again. A summer that we have ahead perhaps more gray or black and, in any case, different. What does not change is reading, the books that accompany us whatever the season of the year or their color. Today I bring these 6 chosen novels of a darker tone and with classic names like Arthur Conan Doyle mixed with contemporaries like Jussi Adler-Olsen, in his last case of Department Q that is set in Barcelona. We take a look.

A golden cage - Camilla Läckberg

Following in the wake of these times with female main characters, the Swedish author parks her hit series The Crimes of Fjällbacka with this title. Psychological thriller with a protagonist described as fascinating and ambiguous.

With a dark past, Faye has achieved everything she has always wanted: an attractive husband, a daughter and, above all, a good social position and a life full of luxury. But overnight that perfect life changes Completely and Faye becomes a new woman ready to retaliate and revenge and full of resources.

Blood rules -Stephen King

What's a summer without a few scary stories? For the master of terror gathers here four short novels. A set of touch paranormal noir starring detective Holly Gibney, one of the most beloved characters by King fans.

En Blood rules Holly Gibney will deal with the Albert Macready High School massacre, her first major solo case. The other three are Mr. Harrigan's phone, about a friendship between two people of very different ages and that endures in a very disturbing way; Chuck's life, with a reflection on the existence of each one of us. Y The rat, where a desperate writer has to face the darker side of ambition.

Assassination of Concarneau - Jean-Luc Bannalec

Recall that Jean Luc Bannalec is the pseudonym of the German publisher and translator Jörg Bong. And the quirky, sullen and gourmet Commissioner Dupin is his best known creation. This is his the case number eight where you will have to investigate the death of a doctor in the town of Concarneau.

The daughter of time - Josephine Tey

To the Scottish writer Josephine Tey, whose works belong to the so-called Golden Age of Mystery Novels, has compared with mythical crime names like Dorothy L. Sayers or Agatha Christie.

This title published in 1951 stars andScotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant. Convalescing in the hospital, Grant finds a way to kill his boredom when someone asks him to think of an interesting topic: that of guess someone's character just from their looks. And Grant will choose a portrait of the King Richard III, perhaps the most ruthless in the history of the United Kingdom, who, according to him, could have been innocent of all his crimes.

The other canon of Sherlock Holmes - A. Conan Doyle and others

Some of the thousands of fans of the eternal Baker Street detective may not know this fact. And is that Arthur Conan Doyle wrote some Holmes stories that have not been included in canon what about them. Also included are some apocryphal stories Holmesian women who are themselves part of a different canon.

Here we also find the famous detective rubbing shoulders with others mythical characters like RafflesAleister Crowley, Lord Greystoke (better known as Tarzan), The Shadow or Arsene Lupine.

Victim 2117 - Jussi Adler-Olsen

And finally we have the new case from Department Q, from the series that remains international phenomenon by the Danish Jussi Adler-Olsen. Available from July 8, is also the eighth title starring the almost always grumpy inspector Carl Morck and his much kinder and more enigmatic assistant Assad. With a totally topical theme, this novel also earned the writer the denmark readers award. And the series has been published in more than forty-two countries and has more than fifteen million readers.

This time we go from Cyprus to Copenhagen passing through Barcelona. And it is that on the coast of Cyprus rescue the corpse of a woman from the Middle East, while in Barcelona, journalist Joan Aiguader He thinks he sees his great career opportunity when, in a report on the count of the number of refugees drowned at sea, Cyprus woman as victim 2117.

While in Copenhagen, several coincidences also occur. The first, that the young Alexander decides get revenge for so many unjust deaths at sea. And to play in his game preferred until 2117 level, begins to kill indiscriminately. And in the Department Q es Assad the one who, after seeing the image of that dead woman, faints because he knew her very well.


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