We arrived to March and the month of spring brings us many new arrivals interesting editorials. This is a selection of 6 titles of national and international writers.
The eternal night (Black Iceland Series 4) – Ragnar Jónasson
Ragnar Jónasson is an Icelander and a lawyer as well as a writer, and for some time now, he has become another notable nordic author in the black genre. This is demonstrated by the <strong>success</strong> of his series starring the policeman Ari Thor, which is already going for this fourth title. Jónasson was here 3 years ago, at the Getafe Negro festival.
In this new story Ari Thór will be in charge of investigating a case that unites present and past when they find a Dead body at the foot of a cliff, in Kálfshamarsnes, a small strip of land in the north of Iceland. That corpse appears right in the same place where, twenty-six years before, her mother and her younger sister lost their lives in mysterious circumstances.
tides of blood (Detective William Monk 24) – Anne Perry
Ann Perry is considered the victorian crime queen and with this title he puts the finishing touch to his already legendary saga, starring Commander william monk.
In this last story, Monk faces something that did not seem possible: the treason of one of his men. It will happen by investigating the kidnapping of the wife of Harry Exeter, a powerful and wealthy London builder. The kidnappers demand that the delivery of the hostage in exchange for the ransom be made in one of the most remote areas on the banks of the River Thames. Monk is in charge of supervising the operación, but when they arrive they fall into a emboscada that soon they will verify that it is a betrayal on the part of one of their men. To discover the culprit, he must investigate everyone's past.
hands so small – Marina Sanmartin
We can find Marina Sanmartín every day in Cervantes and co., the bookstore in Madrid's Calle del Pez. And now he presents a new pitch-black novel set in an autumn in Tokyo of this present.
there heas hands of the young and famous dancer Aya Noriko they appear in the small anti-seismic space between two buildings near the gardens of the Royal Palace and the hotel where the marriage formed by the crime novel author has just moved in Olivia Galvan and Professor of Comparative Literature Cesar Andrade. There is also a mysterious padel: a diamond and ruby ring, which will very soon point to Caesar as main suspect.
history tells us Olivia Galván in first person at the same time that he takes refuge in his incipient friendship with the diplomat Gonzalo Marcos, counselor of the Spanish Embassy in Japan.
you will never be innocent –Xavi Barroso
From The avenue of illusions, Xavi Barroso takes us back to the Barcelona of 1917, where Mateu Garriga, after the murder of his mother, is welcomed, along with his brother Gabriel, by his uncle Ernest's family. Both will grow up in a convulsive Barcelona and will forge their future as workers in a textile factory. Gabriel will fool around with trade unionism and violent groups, and Mateu will find himself involved in some trouble that will lead him to commit a heinous crime and end up becoming a gunman.
the sect of angels - Andrea Camilleri
Andrea Camilleri, who left us three years ago, was based on a historical fact for this crime novel plot, in which his usual irony is not lacking.
We are in Sicily in 1901 and a plague of cholera stalks the town of Palizolo, whose terrified inhabitants blame it on apparently inexplicable events. It will be a humble lawyer named Matteo Teresi who denounces from the pages of his newspaper the crimes of a group of powerful men, who call themselves "the sect of angels."
a deadly offense (Inspector Armand Gamache 12) – Louise Penny
The renowned Canadian writer brings us a new title starring Armand gamache, who now, as the new commander of the academy of the Safety, can combat the corruption and brutality that has spread like a plague in this police force. But after finding murdered a former colleague and professor at the academy, along with a mysterious map, Gamache will face the you suspect that fall on him and a series of secrets devastating.
The memory of the yew – Martha Huelves
Marta Huelves studied Geography and History at the UNED and is a writer and disseminator of History. Now with this novel it premieres in the black gender.
We are in Colombres, capital of the council of Ribadedeva, and there the quiet life of Bertha Vega takes a radical turn when they kidnap his daughter for forty-eight hours and then released more than a hundred kilometers from home. Everything gets complicated when there is a second kidnapping that puts the police in check and a connection is discovered between the disappearances of the teenagers and a event that happened in Madrid twenty-five years ago.
La Inspector Roldan, of the Gijón National Police, and the cape blacksmith, from the Civil Guard of Colombres, are in charge of the case and have a valuable padel: the substance found in the blood of the victims, which is a hallucinogen used since ancient times and is extracted from the yew tree.