Water. 6 novelties and classics novels with the most essential liquid

June has started passed by water. And although they say that it never rains to everyone's liking (always mine), water is a source - never better said - of inspiration for a thousand arts.

Today I come with these 6 titles So watery for a refresher. 4 of them are crime novels. The novelty just out of Eva G.ª Sáenz de Urturi, second book of his trilogy of the White City, after the success of the first. And 3 long-distance titles already, those of Camilleri, Villar y Markaris. And the other 2 are a romantic of Claudia velasco and a youthful dystopia of the Finnish Emmi Itäranta.

Rain water - Claudia Velasco

The Chilean writer and based in Spain Claudia Velasco brings us this love story published two years ago. Vera Saldana, from Madrid, vegetarian, anti-bullfighting and idealistic, she meets by chance in Ireland Michael kennedy, a talented actor and enormous international projection. They should try to keep your romance as they work their way down their respective career paths.

With the water up to the neck - Petros Markaris

This was the 6 title from the famous series starring the Greek inspector Costas Jaritos. It was the first of the call crisis trilogy within the saga.

We are in the summer of 2010 and Jaritos attends the wedding of his daughter Katerina. But the next day the murder Nikitas Zisimópulos, a former bank manager, who had his throat cut. The fact coincides with a anonymous campaign against banks, which encourages citizens to boycott financial institutions. Jaritos will have to investigate with the help of his two usual assistants. But the killer has only just begun.

The memory of the water - Emmi Itäranta

First novel of this Finnish author who has seduced critics. He has won two of the most prestigious literary awards in his country: the Theos  and Kalevi Jäntti for young authors.

With the theme of lack of water Itäranta creates a dystopia with the teenager Ferris Wheel Kaitio. She inherits from her father the virtues necessary to become a tea master. Both are the only ones who know the location of the few remaining water sources in their environment.

But when her father dies, Noria is left alone and responsible for guarding a dangerous hidden spring that can save lives (and take them too). The secret of the existence of this spring reaches the ears of the new military commander, who controls, together with an entire army, the water supply in the territory. Noria will have to try to survive and protect an entire community under threat.

Water eyes - Domingo Villar

Shortly after leaving for Galicia on vacation I always recommend Domingo Villar from Vigo with his first novel starring the wonderful inspector Leo Caldas.

En Vigo a young, pale-eyed saxophonist is found murdered in what appears to be a crime of passion. The inspector Caldas, who combines his work with a radio office, will take charge of the investigation together with his assistant Rafael Estévez, an Aragonese who is unnerved by the proverbial irony and ambiguity of Galicia.

Touches of Galician humor, good wine, better seafood and a lot of suspense. And ideal for those we love to terra galega and its people and, above all, we know Vigo and its surroundings.

The shape of the water - Andrea Camilleri

La first novel of the doctor Montalbano ... To give a background to all who start with him.

Except Montalbano has forty five years, one bride (eternal) in Genoa and is a police commissioner for the small (and imaginary) Sicilian town of vigàta. He is a friend of his friends, a lover of good food and a prototype of the most Mediterranean character.

In this book an acquaintance politician and businessman appears half-naked dead inside your car in a slum. Everything indicates a heart attack after having been intimate. But Montalbano does not trust and will immerse himself in a sexual and political plot.

The water rites - Eva G.ª Sáenz de Urturi

The expected second of this trilogy is already on sale. The creator of the previously also very famous The saga of the old ones continues to reap resounding successes. This time we move in two beats.

Ana Belén Liaño, Kraken's first girlfriend, appears murdered. The woman was pregnant and was executed according to a ritual 2 years ago. But before, in 1992 Unai and his three best friends work to rebuild a Cantabrian town. There they meet an enigmatic cartoonist, whom the four consider their first love.

And going back to 2016 we have Kraken, who must stop an assassin who imitates the Rites of Water in sacred places in the Basque Country and Cantabria whose victims are people they are expecting a child. The deputy commissioner Díaz de Salvatierra is pregnant, and if Kraken is the father, he will become one more of the list of threatened by the Rites of the Water.


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