Interview with the writer and private detective Rafael Guerrero

Today I talk to him writer and private detective (or private detective and writer) Rafael Guerrero placeholder image. This Madrid author answers me very kindly to 10 questions in this interview. On the occasion of the launch of his latest novel, I detective (the fourth already), we know a little more about this crime novel writer with the privileged look of a flesh and blood detective. From now I appreciate your time and collaboration.

Who is Rafael Guerrero?

From Madrid, Rafael Guerrero is private detective, university professor and criminologist by the Complutense University. He is also in charge of the Grupo Agency World Inv, a detective agency private companies in Madrid with services throughout the national territory that also extend to the international arena. His clients include companies, lawyers and individuals.

What do they do? Well since follow-ups, search for missing persons, escaped minors, etc.. They also offer private security services as well as surveillance.

Since 1992 Guerrero has solved multiple cases and belongs to the World Association of Detectives of the United States, in addition to being a collaborating partner of the IInternational Police Association. And also there is time to be a writer and have already published tthree novels of black gender, of course. With more than justified knowledge of the matter, as we see.

Participate in any act, talk or meeting related to the private investigation and the crime novel homeland, where you usually try demystify a profession to which, of course, it is difficult to remove the flash and the fascination that it provokes.

His novels are: A Warrior Among Falcons, I die and I return and Ultimatum. He has had prologues of the stature of the remembered paco camarasa. And in them he reflects his profession resorting to his literary alter ego to speak to us and tell us about that world from a first-hand view and position. The next day 26 of this month presents the fourth, I detective.

In this interview Rafael Guerrero answers me 10 simple and classic questions for small general details about your favorite books and authors, influences, trajectories and projects.

Interview

1. Do you remember the first book you read? And the first story you wrote?

Yeah right. It was The odyssey, of Homer. I am sure that from that reading my passion for travel and maybe for reading. The first story I wrote was A Warrior Among Falcons - Diary of a Private Detective. My first novel written in 2010.

2. What was the first book that struck you and why?

The Shiningby Stephen King. I remember reading it and being scared to death. A masterpiece within the horror genre.

3. Who's your favorite writer? You can choose more than one and from all eras.

Manuel Vázquez Montalbán within the genre noir. I also read a lot test and I opt for Fernando Trías de Bes and María Jesús Álava Reyes. There are so many authors!

4. What character in a book would you have liked to meet and create?

A James Bond with Ian Fleming. I was very influenced by his novels about the famous secret agent.

5. Any mania when it comes to writing or reading?

I write at night, I have an iron discipline to be able to finish my novels. I have to be alone and very concentrated. During the day I collect all the notes that I am including in my plots. To read is always a good time.

6. And your preferred place and time to do it?

En my home office, without noise, without messages and without anyone but me and the computer.

7. What writer or book has influenced your work as an author?

As I said before, Ian Fleming. On another plane Juan Madrid, Frederic Beigbeder, Charles Bukowski...

8. What are your favorite genres?

Black and police genre. Also essay, especially, of psychology and criminology.

9. What are you reading now? And writing?

I'm reading Multiple killersby Vicente Garrido. I just finished writing my fourth novel, I, Detective, but I never stop writing, be it reviews or stories that they ask me for publications or blogs specialized in black gender.

10. How do you think the publishing scene is for as many authors as there are or want to publish?

Like everything in these times, difficult, but there is only one way: write and improve every day. As my yoga teacher says, "what has to come will come."