A murderer of girls begins the trilogy of Amaia Salazar.
After many years of Great crime novels starring male detectives unforgettable like Philippe Marlowe or Sam Spade, in which women only played the role of victims, wives, instigators, or prostitutes, today we go one step further: In addition to fascinating male detectives we have Consolidated, Complete Female Detectives, who assume the role of main protagonists and play the role of detectives building characters that make us look forward to each of their new stories.
The black novel grows, evolves, is enriched with new characters, is updated according to today's society and a solid genre with a future is made.
Amaia salazar She is one of the new groundbreaking detectives, of whom they do not leave indifferent.
So far, he has given us a trilogy and the author's promise to continue.
Who is Amaia Salazar?
Amaia is Provincial Police Inspector of NavarraHe studied at Quantico, at the FBI academy. She is in her thirties, married to an American sculptor, and when the trilogy begins, she has no children.
Amaia carries a terrible past, is a fighting person, a survivor. Despite her persistent, hard-working and intelligent character, she faces rejection from some male police officers, not only for being a woman, but also for being a woman, coming from the FBI and being their boss. Amaia is not aggressive, she breaks with the stereotype of the gender and is not rude nor does she get involved every three episodes, although, it is true that on one occasion she ends up punching one of her policemen. But only once.
Amia lives in Pamplona, grew up in a small town from the Baztán Valley, in Elizondo, where the supernatural mixes daily with the everyday, the mythology of the earth surrounds the lives of its inhabitants beyond what they themselves are aware of. His aunt, refuge from his childhood, casts the cards with a frightening success, which sometimes goes beyond a special talent for empathy and a wisdom fruit of many years of human observation.
Amaia Salazar: A shocking past.
The most impressive trait of Amaia comes from her childhood, from the helplessness, abandonment and fear produced by a mentally ill mother, with a deep psychosis, which mistreated her and tried to murder her when she was a child. After such an event, her father took her to live with her aunt, but she always felt in danger. This leaves Amaia with a "deep wound" and a "Insecurity that generates that whoever has given you life and has to protect you will take it away from you." Amaia cannot sleep in the dark on the rare occasions that she can.
Txantxigorri: The harmless sweet that hides terror
Salazar: The police who face the Beast.
Amaia's incredible strength keeps her going, despite her demons, which are many and powerful, and turns her into an unstoppable professional who fights for what he believes in.
Amaia works with him Inspector Montes, an old-fashioned and macho policeman going through a personal crisis, and with the Deputy Inspector Jonan Etxaide, anthropologist and archaeologist, an upright and intelligent guy.
The cases that Amaia solves are very crude, the kind that don't let you sleep: A skinny, fetishist, girl killer opens the trilogy. We don't find gratuitous bloody violence in the novels of Dolores Redondo. It is a subtle and stark cruelty where family, magic, the harmless business of making traditional cakes, envy, love, dependency, the fetishistic obsession of a murderer for the typical sweet of the area, the lost childhood, fog, violence, death and madness mix until they get a atmosphere reminiscent of movies terror ancient. There is no peace of mind for the reader, the emotional horror splashes every step that Salazar travels in Baztán.
We hope that its author, Dolores Redondo, will soon start a new series with Amaia Salazar at the helm.