Pablo Maurette is an Argentine writer born in Buenos Aires in 1979. Before this, his foray into the crime genre, the police department, he has published essays, novels and film scripts.
The Golden Girl shows classic workmanship and travels through already known places that only Maurette's solvency allows us to follow. As usual, the protagonist is female – it happens in the last one by Gamboa and Lehane –, as if understanding that the public admits violence, obsession and subsidiary personal lives in women but that they are tired of seeing men in the same positions. . The good news is always when the female character is not a man in disguise. And that good news is one of the good news of this novel.
A murder in the year 2000, that year when computers and the world were going to implode. The suspect is an albino taxy boy. The investigation – a secretary of the prosecutor – she and the police cover the work of the investigation. Maurette entertains and provides information, curiosity and rooms of lost steps in just the right dose so that we don't put the book down.
But the most original thing about the novel is how it breaks down the different endings. How he abandons the researchers to show us the reality that they will never know and even a certain amorality of the truth when it is imposed on compassion or ignorance. New ways to explain the same story.
BCNegra reserves a table to talk about the man who innovated the Japanese detective novel. If you haven't read it, you can start with any of his Simonesque works, but this is probably the most ambitious and the one that has remained the most in shape over the years.
Reissue of the second novel starring Lònia Guiu, the first female detective in Catalan literature and a pioneer in the feminist treatment of the genre, created by Mallorcan Maria Antònia Oliver. The BCNegra festival calls for new readers.
Tor in many ways is Carles Porta's Moby Dick, but his readers are not going to let him shipwreck on the Pequod. Update of a book written in 2005, it is the prologue of a series on TV3 that will have us glued to the television for as many chapters as Porta wants.
