1. One of "good" (or fairly correct) police officers and investigators

I just started The last ship, the new and highly anticipated novel by Sunday Villar with his Vigo inspector Leo Caldas as the protagonist. Caldas is one of the very few national police officers that I have followed with devotion for a long time, because I am more of a law enforcement officer or investigator from other parts of the country. So I have regained his bonhomie, his good work and good manners, his nostalgic and very Galician nature, and at the same time his efficiency. Y I have remembered other similar contemporary colleagues. For readers of crime novels who prefer to those honest, self-sacrificing, upright and incorruptible servants of order and justice.

An American, a Norwegian, an Italian, a French and a German-Scottish

What do they share?

There are many more, but I have decided on these six. They are all from recognized series and writers with their nationalities. And one does not belong to the Police, but is an amateur investigator, but enters the list for being one of those positive, kind, friendly, generous characters and sacrificed for their friends and relatives. All share similar virtues iRegardless of their characters and origins.

Conclusion efficient, with integrity, sacrificed for their team, their people or their friends, although they have become scoundrels like the case of Luca Betti and Marco Tanzi, the "good" cop and the "bad" cop from the Milan Negro series signed by Romano De Marco.

As well tend to loneliness and melancholy, even depressionprecisely because they recognize that honest and generous nature. But surely they all share the need for do not succumb to the attractive and powerful side of evil with whom they coexist so much. Yes, it is possibly a more difficult challenge to be good than bad in the crime novel.

Martin Servaz - Bernard Minier

The French commander of the Toulouse police Martin Servaz especially suffers from that depression and needs professional treatment at a very traumatic moment. It is what it has to face during four novels to a ruthless nemesis with which, at the moment, there seems to be no way to end.

Bernard Minier introduced it to us at Under the ice and we continue with The circle, Do not turn off the light y Evening. And it has become one of the most followed of the genre. Servaz is appreciated for compassion (too much perhaps already especially in the last title) and how he has sacrificed a good part of his emotional stability for his work.

His fight is more fierce by the contrast with that invincible psychopath who catches so many and persecutes him relentlessly. And we suffer with him for his daughter, for his losses and for his constant effort in overcoming your fears, but doing it right.

Jan Fabel - Craig Russell

Jan Fabel is Hamburg Police Chief Commissioner. Half Scottish and half German, he has those fair halves that he shares with his creator, the German-loving Scotsman and former policeman Craig russell.

Fabel is straight until saying enough, pristine in his ways and firm but considerate with a team that respects and admires him. He, in return, is always pending of them as well as his daughter, who is in danger more than once. He even gets along wonderfully with his ex-wife, although readers may suspect that she is not clean wheat at various times.

We have only seen it half falter once (which neither) on a personal level, when he threw an unexpected gray hair on the air in El Señor del Carnaval. In the face of such rectitude, perhaps Russell gave him a break, taking advantage of that carnival atmosphere in Cologne. But demonstrates strong control of all your feelings, even those of us who want to guess you for a component of your team. For me it is the most unscathed.

Myron Bolitar - Harlan Coben

The American Harlan Coben created in the former basketball player, sports representative and amateur researcher Myron bolitar to that friend that we all want to have. You cannot ask for more sympathy or willingness to help and care for others when they have a problem. Furthermore, he is the perfect son with absolutely devoted love for his parents. And of course the best boyfriend and the most in love, always for the best.

However the most interesting thing is the relationship of unconditional affection and support with his best friend Win lockwood, the opposite, dark and sinister reflection of the same mirror. Together they are invincible by complementary and are one of the best contemporary literary couples of the genre.

Luca Betti - Romano De Marco

It is the same as Luca Betti and Marco Tanzi. Romano De Marco created these two policemen in the series Milan Black that make up Missing y Dust city. You have to be very good people, and very in the Italian way, to end up helping your partner and best friend who one day went over to the dark side and also cheated on you with your wife, but who ended up living on the street and then his daughter disappeared.

The good Luca Betti not only picks up and helps Tanzi, but he has to deal with that already ex-wife with whom he is still in love, plus his daughter, plus a new partner who arrives at the department. The point is that it touches his honesty and how he accepts that he cannot help being like this, despite further complications and the possibility of scalding again. So you can't help but admire it either.

Holger Munch - Samuel Bjørk

Munch is that commissioner veteran, understanding, good father, husband and grandfather. And in his work he is in charge of a team of which he also feels mentor. The Norwegian Samuel Bjørk created in I travel alone y The owl the prototype little seen in those Nordic parts of the gentle policeman, who tries to take the worst cases with the greatest control.

Munch is another example with his counterpart in Mia Krüger, the young but unstable inspector whom he must turn to again for work. So you appreciate their particular tranquility.

Leo Caldas - Domingo Villar

More Galician than the octopus to feira and more good than that rich bread of their land. And with that touch of homelessness, nostalgia and retreat that characterizes his countrymen. Leo Caldas is also efficient, tireless, intuitive and with a lot of left hand. But it is also a great good gourmet food, attentive son and worried about his father as well as very marked by the early death of his mother. And above all, very hurt by a sentimental breakup.

Yes too You oppose him to an Aragonese assistant without brake or measure, unhinged by the Galician retreat, but faithful, loyal and with a forceful resolution, you get one of the best couples of the native black genre. They already have their trilogy with Water eyes, The beach of the drowned y this The last ship.


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