Ibon Martin

Ibon Martín is one of the Spanish writers who is on the rise. If you like novels with intrigue, some mystery and above all that hook, this is one of the authors that right now, a book that comes out, a book that triumphs.

But Who is Ibon Martín? What books have you written? How is your pen? If you haven't heard of it; or if you know him but want to know more details about his life, then we will tell you about the author.

Who is Ibon Martín

Ibon Martín is a journalist. He was born in 1976 in Donostia and studied journalism at the University of the Basque Country. After finishing his degree, like many of his classmates, he began to work. His first jobs were in local media, which gave him the opportunity and served as a practice to use the knowledge he had acquired in the labor market.

Therefore, and something that not many know, is that Ibon Martín began writing about travel. For him, it was a true passion, because he loves to travel, and being able to work in something that you like is always better. For this reason, for several years he dedicated himself to writing in the media about travel and routes. He wrote several travel books, especially on routes through the Basque Country. Thus, he became one of the best experts in rural tourism and entertainment in the Basque Country. And the fact is that his books not only focused on the most well-known parts of the earth, but also discovered other little-known ones, which were not touristy but which harbored surprises or made you fall in love even more than the first ones. In addition, he gave many advice and alternatives for routes or ways of traveling, such as by car or from one town to another. To do this, he had the help of Álvaro Muñoz Gabilondo, another local author and expert on the places and places they wrote about.

Ibon Martín as a novel writer

For years, Ibon Martín traveled the paths of the Basque Country and devoted himself to publishing travel guides to make these places known, especially to restore the importance they had once had. And it was through these books that he forged the idea of ​​his first novel, "The valley without a name."

This He wanted to keep his roots and somehow combine his passion for traveling and knowing the most unknown and important things in the area with that idea he had in mind. and that little by little it was emerging with the characters and the plot.

In fact, after that novel, he continued to publish, in this case four books, which were set in myths and legends of the Irati jungle, a Nordic thriller that catapulted him.

Currently, he continues to write. His latest book, "The hour of the seagulls", was published in 2021 and for now he is being quite successful, confirming him as the master of suspense. In fact, it is only considered this way in Spain, but also internationally qualify it as such and several foreign publishers have already set their sights on it to publish their works in other languages.

So we come across an author with a long road ahead of him, who surely brings with him many more great novels.

How is your pen

Those who have read Ibon Martín agree on the same detail: he knows how to hook the reader. The way it is expressed, in how it presents the characters and how the story is plotting makes them wait to follow to know what is going to happen to the characters, but also with that mystery that in the end becomes typical of the reader.

It also stands out for the atmospheres and scenarios that it describes, so realistic and faithful to what can be seen, that many decide sometimes to go to those places to see them for themselves (probably because of their relationship with the travel books that I wrote before).

Also, there is no doubt that he does a lot of research for his novels, as the details and the acting of the characters, as well as the plot and the mystery itself, have a basis. For this reason, he spends a lot of time researching himself to be able to elaborate the novel and that there is no loose fringe that could "bother" the reader.

The books of Ibon Martín

If you have just met the author and want to know what books he has written, we will tell you that he does not have many on the market. Yet. And is that his literary career began in 2013, when he published his first novel, "The valley without a name."

This author, like many others, only publishes one novel a year, and it must be taken into account that in 2018 he did not publish, so we have to his credit 7 books of his authorship. These are:

• The valley without a name.
• The beacon of silence.
• The shadow factory.
• The last coven.
• The salt cage.
• The dance of the tulips.
• The hour of the seagulls.

It must be said that four of those books - The Tulip Dance, The Salt Cage, The Last Akelarre and The Shadow Factory - are part of the Lighthouse Crimes collection.

We can highlight from the books, for example, that The Tulip Dance made it on the best-seller lists, which made his career go up in a meteoric way and many began to see him stand out within the thriller genre within and out of the country. However, it was not until Time for the Seagulls that he earned the title of master of suspense.

Now that you know Ibon Martín a little more, it is time that, if you have not read anything about him, you are encouraged to do so. You can start with his first novel, and thus realize the evolution that his pen has undergone. But you could also start with the last one posted and, if you like, look for the previous ones. Except for those four books that make up The Lighthouse Crimes, the rest can be read independently. In case you already know him and have read him, do you recommend any of his books more than another? We would love to hear about it!