About Taibo, about Taibo's books had the secrecy of a Masonic lodge. Everyone repeated what they had heard from the lips of some of the initiates who had read his crime novels before they were out of print. And what was said is that we are talking about one of the greats. A classic in form and always without staining the letter. Taibo belongs -by ascendancy, attitude and biography- to the lineage of giants such as Jean-Patrick Manchette, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Roger Simon, Laura Grimaldi or Jean Claude Izzo. Fortunately, a publishing house -Reino de Cordelia- has decided to start doing a kind of poetic justice to part of the narrative of Taibo (founder and director of Gijón's Black Week until 2012, born in Gijón in 1949 but residing since the 10 years in Mexico, and currently occupying an important cultural position in the Mexican Administration). For now, recover four of the first novels by Belascoarán Shayne, that retired engineer who receives his detective license by correspondence. Everything you have heard about the narrative, everything good, is true and now, the general public will be able to verify it. He was one of those who gave or co-helped to kick off a Mexican neopolar, with political commitment, yes, but also with the aim of entertaining and disturbing. Taibo knows the genre and knows that the mistakes and successes are covered with the sporadic and expectant reader and with the fan, not with the classist or stupendous critical mummy. Taibo's books are all full of good news. We no longer have to continue speaking by hearsay and affirming by faith that Taibo is one of the greats. Now, you can even read it and check it out.
Another one who hardly needs promotion due to the loyalty of his readers but a bit of poetic justice is Lorenzo Silva. When it comes to awarding prizes and mentions, Silva seems invisible. His thing with the genre is very serious and meritorious. A new installment of Chamorro and Bevilacqua for an honest guy who is only measured against himself.
The Valencian Salvador Company is behind that 0'Leory, pseudonym or joke around the so-called Ghost writers, and from all that, in the not so distant future, the fluidity and talent of Company offers us a journey as risky as it is a grateful read .
Being a bar boy with menus, paper tablecloths and regular customers, unbearable and endearing brand. The family is our favorite and longed for hell. Identity and escape desires. Armengol knows what he is talking about and transcends autofiction to hoist a book that links him to the best novels of rogue Barcelona.
