Festival BCBlack -this is 2024 From 5 to 11 February– had publishers mark each start of the year on the calendar to fire up their books. top bullets changed black novelsAlthough the rest of the quarter falls short on literary crimes. Below these lines guide not to get lost Among the upcoming news:
First shots of the year:
Black Salamander. January 11
The American opens the year with a new novel, similar to Boston’s famous ‘Mystic River’, set in 1974 amidst a wave of racist violence over a judge’s controversial decision. That same night, a black man dies on the subway tracks and a white teenager disappears.
Destination. January 17
They return with the help of senior Giménez Bartlett, inspector Petra Delicado, and sub-inspector Fermín Garzón. Here they must investigate the murder of the owner of a gastronomic minibus traveling through Barcelona, with whom a mysterious woman made a good deal the day before.
Planet/Pillar. January 10
De la Motte, a former police officer and until 2012 Dell’s head of security in the Middle East, Africa and Europe, arrives from cold Sweden with 14 novels in hand. The introduction letter in Spain features Leo Asker, a brilliant investigator transferred to the maligned Missing Cases unit.
RBA. first of february
Five years after winning the RBA Award for ‘Betrayal’, the American once again sticks his stick into the hornet’s nest of race issues by returning to Joe King Oliver, the charismatic detective who will have to help a white supremacist sexist.
Sunrise. January 17
The Canary returns in June 2020 with a tale of homophobia and revenge with his detective Ricardo Blanco in the midst of covid. In Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, shortly after being imprisoned, two respected men of the community are found murdered in their home.
Reservoir Books / Proa. January 17
The Norwegian bestseller dives into the horror genre by traveling to the 1980s. When his parents die, 14-year-old Young Richard starts living in a distant town with his aunt and uncle. One day, he sees a classmate from his new school disappear, swallowed by a phone booth. Nobody believes him.
Editor’s club. January 17
The Israeli novelist, author of views on the Holocaust such as ‘The Memory Monster’, uses the noir genre in a sadly contemporary story. The hero, an agent of Israeli intelligence services who has been interrogating Palestinians for years, must catch the planner of a terrorist attack.
Anagram. January 17
Argentinian writer Pablo Maurette creates a police conspiracy around prosecutor Silvia Rey. This should take responsibility for the murder of a biology teacher on Christmas Eve 2000.
Six Barrals. January 24
The veteran author of ‘The Truth About the Savolta Case’ once again displays his sense of humor and, in the style of comedy and social satire, launches a triple investigation that the mad detectives of the Organization must undertake in Barcelona 2022. Decadent group founded during the Franco era.
Alfaguara. February 1
The Argentinian’s sharp writing examines a tale of corruption, mafia and power when a writer with a penchant for extreme sex reunites with a former partner who asks her to write about the death of her father, a shady businessman who disappeared a decade ago.
Book the Attic. January 29
The author of ‘The Appeal’ and ‘The Twyford Code’ once again plays with the truth and lies in the gory story of a murderous cult that brainwashed a teenager into believing her newborn baby was the Antichrist. A writer wants to save his career by writing a book about him.
Alrevés / Clandestina. Fireplace
Barcelona’s master writer, who will celebrate his 75th birthday in 2024, tackles the ever-sensitive subject of the rape of a child in Barcelona in the midst of the independence divide. Defender Marc Olván investigates a judge’s accusation and questionable decision that freed a dangerous human trafficker.
Editions 62. 17 January
The new book of the author and author of ‘La mala dona’, Mosso d’esquadra, oscillates between detective novels and adventure and mystery novels. In Madagascar in 1998, among the gangs fighting for control of the sapphire mines, there is a lay police officer and a mysterious woman who can predict deaths.
Editions B. January 25
Following the Illumbe trilogy, Mikel Santiago, one of the local kings of ‘Thriller’, introduces ‘Ori’ Aitor Orizaola, an Ertzaintza agent in bad times, who faces a disciplinary file and whose nephew is accused of murder.
Alfaguara / Column. February 1
In ‘Instinct’, she revealed the mystery of motherhood. In ‘Rumor’, the Canadian author returns to the subject by using psychological thriller weapons, investigating friendship and jealousy between women through three neighbors and friends. The little son of one of them runs through his room window.
On the other hand. February
In late 1931, after the great republic festival, the body of a German woman was discovered in Badalona; It’s a true crime that the Barcelona-based author, who lives in Buenos Aires, investigates in this novel starring an exiled Argentinian journalist.
Source. January 25
The third installment of the series follows the devastating defense attorney Eddie Flynn. Here you have seven days to save an innocent man from the death penalty; It’s a race against time as you encounter a sadistic prosecutor, a corrupt sheriff, and a manipulated town.
Ciruela. Fireplace
Twilight’s ‘whodunnit’ is this new movie about Commissioner Perro Lascano, who is admitted to a luxury nursing home and experiences his worst hours and suffers from memory problems. In that environment, a crime is committed in which he will be the prime suspect.
7 bullets in the room after BCNegra:
Planet/Pillar. February 28
Psychological thriller from this French-American author, who tells the story of a serial killer who is an exemplary husband and father, from the perspective of one of his victims, his daughter, and a woman who has been kidnapped for five years. who falls in love?
Sixth Floor / Periscopi. March 11
This campus novel and Hitchcockian thriller by the author of ‘The Optimists’ (Premi Llibreter 2022) is also a critical reflection of the obsession with ‘true crime’. A woman with a successful podcast recalls the traumatic murder of her roommate during her school days.
RBA. March
The versatile and brilliant American writer Carvalho Award 2020 continues to embrace the dark and disturbing side of man. Here he manages to cast doubt on the reader about the version defended by the narrator regarding his sister’s disappearance.
Salamander. March 14
The Canadian presents a new story of the eccentric retired Quebec police chief Armand Gamache. He discovers that an unknown woman has appointed him as the executor of her will, alongside a bookseller and a builder; it is a legacy that hides some unusual provisions.
HarperCollins. March
The writer and director of Pamplona Negra, along with his sassy investigator Marcela Pieldelobo, posits a twisted case of the kidnapping of a real estate agent who hates the wealthy family.
Salamander. March 21
Following the acclaimed ‘Six Four’, the Japanese author returns with the unlikely story of an architect who devotes himself to building a house in the middle of the mountains on a client’s order. A year later, he investigates what happened to the family that was supposed to live there and there is no trace of him left.
DNA. 23 may
Early retired Chicago police officer Cal Hooper searches for peace in a town in Ireland, the American author’s adopted country. There, she pursues an affair with a woman whose son, Trey, has a wild side that turns into revenge when his father reappears.