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Agatha Christie’s best-selling novel, with some 100 million copies sold.Ten unrelated people are brought together on a mysterious islet off the English coast by a Mr. Owen, the owner of a luxurious mansion and a perfect stranger to all his guests. After the first dinner, and without having yet met their host, the ten guests are accused by a recording of having committed a crime in the past, and one by one, from that moment on, they are murdered without explanation or apparent motive. Only an old children’s song seems to enclose the mystery of a growing nightmare.
Re-release of El paciente, a novel in which Juan Gomez-Jurado irremediably traps the reader. A surgeon faced with an impossible decision. 63 hours that can change the destiny of millions of people. How far would you go to save the one you love the most? The critics have said: «Take a deep breath before you start reading: you won’t have time again until the end. «Javier Sierra

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And perhaps it is all a matter of necessity, of reinventing oneself to continue to monopolize the best-selling positions in world literature. From the initial and inicíaticos enigmas of the genre of the hand of Conan Doyle, or more inspired by the style of Agatha Christie, to the crime as pathology, animosity or twisted artistic will.
Plot twists and narrative resources of all kinds to maintain the psychological tension, a whole display of imagination so that a multitude of authors involved in this genre continue to assault bookstores around the world.
Because every self-respecting country has its own pleiad of crime writers. And it occurs to me that we can get to know the best authors and their best works by grouping them by country, with their own cultural debt to the genre and their new narrative horizons, with their respective links for more details about their work…
The great precursor of the genre in this grouping of Scandinavian countries is, for me, Henning Mankell. It is true that the particular dark setting of these southern countries, together with the longer periods of cold, offer a perfect scenery that is in tune with the darkness of the criminal mind.

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The crime novel presents a suffocating atmosphere of fear, violence, injustice, insecurity and corruption of political power that reflects the first decades of the 20th century in the United States, when the economic crisis unleashed after World War I (1914-1918) and the Great Depression of 1929 gives rise to detective stories inspired by the entry into force of Prohibition (1920-1933) and the subsequent development of organized crime and gangsterism.
On the other hand, the development of the action is fast, moving and often violent, not as intellectual and inquisitive as in the English detective stories. In contrast to the latter, the crime is returned to the degraded environments where it is most frequently committed and the resolution of the crime is not a primary objective, but the non-explicit elucidation of its moral motivation. Both the detective and the criminals often cross the barrier between good and evil, but the detective is often shown as a failed and cynical character who ends up saving himself by the skin of his teeth in the end thanks to a rudimentary sense of personal honor.

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The circumstances of the crime indicate that it was a particularly ruthless murder. The victim had enemies in high places. The detective in charge of the case has a long list of personal problems and is under pressure from his superiors to solve the crime, or to close it without a solution.
«In the end good doesn’t always triumph,» explains Tapani Bagge, whose book titled Punainen varjo (Red Shadow) was also published in March. «They are tougher stories in which, in addition, most of the characters die in the end.»
Critics, authors and readers alike have tried to decipher the secret of the genre’s enormous popularity. Some suggest that the reason lies in the view that readers elsewhere have of the welfare state model in the Nordic countries.
Leena Lehtolainen, whose Her Enemy was published in English this spring, has this to say: «I think the reader likes to think that she and the protagonist are not helpless, that you can fight the bad guys, that things can change, even if it comes at a high price. The novel may be dark, but from time to time there is a ray of light in the protagonist, a person who does not respect the laws but who has her own moral code».