10 books for the return of the noir

ultimate problem

Arturo Pérez Reverte with “The Last Problem” (Alfaguara), a tribute to Sherlock Holmes and its creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, will definitely be one of the topics that the hirer is excited about (September 3). The struggling novelist brings up the case of a locked room in 1969 on Utakos, an idyllic island off Corfu (Greece) where no one can leave and no one can reach. When a discreet British tourist is found dead in a hotel with nine guests, a fading actor who once played the famous detective at 221B Baker Street must hone his deductive skills.

on the floor

The elusive French novelist Fred Vargas was sentenced to five years in prison for pleading with Commissioner Adamsberg to return to present a new case. The Princess of Asturias Prize for Literature will return next November with “Sobre la losa” (Siruela / Amsterdam). In this film, the iconic investigator will try to combine his usual “mental bubbles” to solve a crime related to a dark local legend in Brittany: the ghost of an earl named Lame, whose wooden leg echoes in the Combourg castle.

Biloxi Boys

Few authors can boast that their 49 books in a row have placed #1 on the US charts or have sold more than 300 million copies. In the latest “Kids from Biloxi” (Plaza & Janés), which arrives in Spain on October 26, the master of legal thriller John Grisham presents a new confrontation before the court: two childhood friends Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco, who follow the different paths of their parents in their own lives. . One is the son of a crime boss; the other is from a legendary prosecutor. The setting is the city of Biloxi (Mississippi), which is known for its beaches and tourist complexes as well as for crime and corruption.

Reykjavik at Night

With “Reykjavík Nights”, a 2012 but unpublished novel in Spanish, the RBA happily rescues one of its star writers, Arnaldur Indridason, who this October opened the door to land in remote Iceland with tormented and veteran commissioner Erlendur a few years ago. . In this prequel, he goes back to 1970 as a young police officer whose body becomes obsessed with the death of a beggar whose body floats in the swamps of the capital. It looks like an accident, but he doesn’t think so.

eagle claws

David Lagercrantz takes over from the late Stieg Larsson’s posthumous trilogy Millennium. Now another Swedish journalist, Karin Smirnoff, takes the bat for the best-selling epic and puts together a new adventure starring rebel Lisbeth Salander in “Eagle’s Claws” (August 30 in Destino/Column). There he allies himself with his less stubborn young nephew, Svala, and is once again confronted with Mikael Blomkvist, a web of corruption around renewable energies, the far right, and violence against women, the central motif of the entire series.

way of resurrection

Los Angeles detective Harry Bosch and Lincoln’s half-brother Mickey Haller share the lead roles in the fireproof Michael Connelly’s new novel, “The Road to the Resurrection” (AdN), due out in November. also longer than the English edition. Lawyer accepts the difficult defense of a woman who pleads innocent after serving four years in prison for murdering her deputy sheriff’s husband; This woman’s department will prevent the case from being reviewed. Haller seeks help from Bosch, who has retired from the police and will discover the illogical.

everything is coming back

Juan Gómez-Jurado, the undisputed bestseller, introduced in “Everything Is Burning” three anti-heroes Aura, Sere and Mari Paz, who took everything from society and decided to face the system. Three extraordinary women as memorable as police officer Antonia Scott, with whom she co-directed the Red Queen trilogy, which will make the leap to the small screen on Amazon Prime at the end of 2023. The Madrid writer, who continues this universe, will return in October. 24 with that belligerent lead trio in “Todo vuelve” (Ediciones B).

the silenced truth

The Black Island series consists of six episodes, as Reykjavik writer and lawyer Ragnar Jónasson paints his earthly and unpopulated country red with blood and has garnered more than three million readers in 30 countries. The fifth one will arrive on August 30, in the pages of which is “Silenced Truth” (Seix Barral / Column), in which a small town’s new chief police officer is assassinated in the middle of a stormy polar night. The murder takes place in an abandoned house where mysterious stories have been told for years. Ari Thór, along with his former chief, Tómas, will search for the murderer among the not-so-peaceful inhabitants of this place.

innocents

Set in Cantabria and starring Civil Guard lieutenant Valentina Redondo, the Los libros del puerto escondido series put Galician María Oruña on the bestseller list with one million readers. Now, in episode six of “The Innocents” (Destiny; in bookstores September 13), the shrewd investigator investigates a sarin gas attack at Viesgo Bridge’s private spa, two weeks after walking down the aisle with his Scottish partner. The massacre between a group of construction businessmen. The lieutenant will doubt his next steps, because soon someone he has never seen but feels secretly familiar with will become suspicious.

fear in the body

One of the biggest fears of some parents is coming true in Empar Fernández’s new novel “El miedo en el cuerpo,” which Alrevés will release in October. In a park in Barcelona, ​​a boy disappears while playing with his ball while in the custody of his mother. The little one has autism. The Catalan writer will once again demonstrate his suspense management and his empathetic, compassionate and humane perspective on today’s society and the evil that grips it.