Damascus Station
David McCloskey, a former CIA analyst and author of the summer thriller (the summer of 2024 in Spain), follows in the footsteps of Le Carré. He has crafted an absolutely gripping plot set in Syria at the...
Literature - Thriller
Christine Falls
Dublin, 1950s. A body appears in a morgue that should never have been there. From this discovery, a murky plot of family secrets and clandestine organizations involving Catholic Church institutions is...
The Twelfth Card
The novel is a thriller. It centers on Geneva Settle, an African American woman who is attacked while researching the history of one of her ancestors. Precisely because she doesn't die, the attempts to kill...
Goldfinger
The James Bond novels are nowhere near as appealing as the films, which are primarily visual, as is well known. They have had very few reprints.
Here, 007 faces one of those eccentric villains who...
The Brooken Window
The criminologist is Lincoln Rhyme, and his partner is Inspector Amelia Sachs. The main antagonist is a criminal who, by working with databases, can manipulate them and get away with his crimes. The...
The Flanders Panel
The plot is, in all respects, implausible but still captivating. Once again, I am surprised by Pérez-Reverte's ability to tell a story. Perhaps both the characters and the narrator fall a bit into bombast,...
Lost in Fuseta
This is the first book of the police series Crímenes en el Algarve. Detective Leander Lost, who is German, takes part in an exchange program. He is an original and charismatic character who does not know...
The Watcher in the Shadows
It is the last book in the Trilogy of the Mist. This fantasy novel takes place in a coastal town in Normandy, a few years before World War II. A family accepts a job at the mansion of a toymaker to pay off...
Vanished
The story unfolds in New York in the 1930s. Marielle and Malcolm Patterson are a seemingly exemplary couple. Their young son, Teddy, aged 4, disappears. The suspect is Charles Delauny, the mother’s first...
Classified as Murder
The novel focuses on the Delacorte family. James Delacorte owns a large collection of rare books and, upon noticing that some volumes are missing, hires a librarian to help him inventory and digitize his...