The readers of Novelty we can not complain. Every month we have releases to celebrate. April was not going to be less. We already have in bookstores these three relevant titles of powerful names in the current panorama such as those of carmen mola o Dean koontz. And the last of the Nordic phenomena of the genre debuts, the Swedish Stina jackson. It is interesting to see that two of them are starring female characters. Let's take a look.
The dark web - Dean Koontz
Veteran Dean Koontz (Pennsylvania, 1945) is one of the writers most popular in the United States. But the success of both his thrillers as of his horror stories It has been massive worldwide. Has published more than a hundred books which have been translated into 38 languages. You have now started this latest series of novels, starring the FBI Agent Jane Hawk. This is the first title, which is already on its way to an editorial phenomenon.
A kind of unexplained suicide epidemic. One of the victims is the husband of FBI agent Jane Hawk, who decides to investigate why there are so many cases and if there may be something behind it. Most of those victims they had no reasons to end their lives and all deaths have been in foreign circumstances. The worst part is that in addition to the mystery, Hawk will soon discover that there is people interested in stopping your research either way.
The purple net - Carmen Mola
The identity behind the name of Carmen Mola is still a unknown. Compared to the case of Elena Ferrante in Italy, the spectacular debut of Mola with his novel The gypsy bride it continues to take effect and has not stopped. They have also compared her, by tone, with Pierre Lemaitre, and his success has spread internationally. We were still digesting it when it comes back with this second title.
It stars again the singular inspector Elena Blanco, from the Madrid Case Analysis Brigade. And also even assimilating how the first one ended, surely it will once again achieve the status of an editorial phenomenon.
A suffocating summer day Inspector Elena Blanco, at the head of her police squad, breaks into the home of a middle class family. In the teenage son's room they find what they are looking for. Their computer screen confirms what they feared: the boy is watching a session snuff live in which two hooded men are torturing a girl.
Without being able to do anything, they witness the death of the victim of whom, for the moment, they do not know the name. And they have a question that they have not yet been able to answer: how many before her will have fallen into the hands of the Purple Network? Blanco's team has been investigating this sinister organization ever since he came to the fore in the first case of "the gypsy bride." He has compiled information from this group that traffics with videos of extreme violence in the deep Internet (the Deep Web).
But at that time the inspector has kept secret, even for his partner Sub-Inspector Zárate, your greatest discovery and fear: rods the disappearance of his son Lucas when I was a child it may be related to that plot. The next questions are to know where is and who is now really. And if she is willing to transgress any limit to know the truth.
Silver road - Stina Jackson
This title by the Swedish Stina Jackson is being sold with the slogan that "the best of Scandinavian crime was yet to come." I do not know if it is the best of those that keep coming, but I can already attest that it is good. Actually, the nordic crime novel is still in very good health, with the even colder authors from Iceland and Greenland. Of course, that sounds to Jackson because he is from northern Sweden already knocking on the doors of the Arctic Circle.
His move to the United States and a crisis existential life marked his decision to dedicate himself to literature. With this debut novel he won the award for best work of the genre published in 2018, which grants the Swedish Academy of Noir Writers.
He tells us the story of Lennart Gustafsson, Doll, a man who has spent three summers in a row spending his nights traveling the so-called Silver Highway. He is obsessively searching for his daughter Lina, a teenager who disappeared without a trace when I was waiting for the bus. It's been a long time and everyone has given up hope of finding her. Everyone except him, who is still determined to find her. He has no support, just a policeman who cares about him but can't do much more.
But that third summer will be different, since a town in the area arrives Table, a girl fed up with her mother, Sitje, a woman unable to provide him with a stable life. But when fall comes and another girl disappears, fate will unite to Lelle and Meja, two wounded characters and only perhaps they had no choice but to meet.
Dean Koontz is a writer that I love, along with Stephen King and Peter Straub, as I love horror. Ironically, I think neither Straub nor Kootz are as well known as Stephen King throughout the world; something that seems a bit unfair to me due to the quality of his work.
I'm definitely going to sign up your new book for this year, and who knows, maybe I'll give the other mentioned writers a chance. Thank you very much for the recommendations.
Thank you very much for your comment. All the best.