October, full autumn. New arrivals editorials in historical and crime novels of names like those of Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Philip Kerr, Sebastián Roa, I. Biggi or Michael Connelly. There is a review of this selection of new titles that present with stories from Antiquity, the Civil War, the XNUMXth century, World War II and the present in the return of detective Harry Bosch.
Fire line —Arturo Perez-Reverte
October 6
It took Pérez-Reverte a long time to get involved with the Civil War in the form of a novel, although there are countless tweeting diatribes that set the networks on fire every day every time the subject has come up. So here he brings us his vision of one of the most decisive, hard and bloody episodes of the contest: the battle of the Ebro, occurred in July 1938.
On the night of July 24 to 25, 2.890 men and 14 women of the XI Mixed Brigade of the Army of the Republic cross the river to establish the bridgehead of Castles of the Segre, where they will fight for ten days. They are the characters, places and situations invented by the author to recreate this moment, but the facts or the real names behind and from which they are inspired are not.
He is sure to disappoint neither his staunch supporters nor his furious detractors.
Dark matter — Philip kerr
October 8
Kerr left us two years ago, but the creator of the detective Bernie gunther I still had a lot to write and publish. We have now received two titles, The art of crime, which came out in the middle of last month, and now this title historical set in late XNUMXth century London.
We are in 1696 and we meet Christopher ellis, who is a young man who is fond of letters and women who is sent to the Tower of London, but not as a prisoner. Fate wants Ellis to become the Sir Isaac Newton's new assistant, which apart from being a scientist, is also in charge of going after counterfeiters who threaten to bring down the English economy.
So the two will form a particular detective couple whose inquiries lead them to a mysterious message in code that appears over a corpse hidden in the Tower of the Lions.
Nemesis — Sebastian Roa
October 8
Sebastián Roa is one of the great names in the historical novel homeland. In this new novel he takes us to the medical wars with the incentive that a woman stars in it, Artemisia of Caria. And in the form of a dialogue with a young man Herodotus, he will tell us about his exciting life.
In the V century a. C. Artemisia rules Halicarnassus, city loyal to the Persian empire. Captain your own warship, the Nemesis, with which it will go in search of an Athenian sailor Cause of the fall from grace of his family and all the misfortunes that occurred before coming to power. And all with the shadow of the war that looms between Persians and Greeks.
Moses Project — I.Biggie
October 9
To I. Biggi, apart from reading his Valkyries, I had the pleasure of interview him a few months ago after winning the Cerros de Úbeda Prize for historical novels. Now pull out this new story where we go at the end of the Second World War.
In the early summer of 1945, an exiled Spanish professor warns that the Germans have a terrifying new weapon whose creator, a Jewish scientist, assures that he can destroy all the troops waiting in the south of England with a single explosion.
But the Allied High Command is skeptical. Even so, Winston Churchill organize a mission of commands who will lead an atypical North American colonel with some hopeless men. Thus, they will enter the Nazi Germany to find and end the threat of that bomb.
Night fire — Michael connelly
October 22
I end up with a classic of the North American crime novel contemporary. Michael Connelly returns with his LAPD detective best known and followed, the fireproof Harry Bosch, so your fans we are in luck. Well, to pass the monkey between novel and novel, there is the magnificent TV series, it deserves its own article.
Nth title that brings us to Bosch again joining forces with the Detective Renée Ballard in a case that takes Bosch back to his youth when he was a rookie Homicide detective. Your mentor from then it was John jack thompson. Now he's dead, and after his funeral, his widow gives Bosch the report of a murder that Thompson took when he left the police. Its about open case of the murder of a young man. Bosch enlists Ballard for help in finding out Thompson's interest in him all those years ago. The question arises when they wonder if Thompson kept the report to work on the case in his retirement or to make sure that never resolved.