Spanish crime fiction

Black Wolf by Juan Gómez-Jurado

12 April, 2024

Translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia — Black Wolf follows on from Spanish author Juan Gómez-Jurado’s highly rated Red Queen, which is set in Madrid and forms the basis of the Amazon Prime series launched earlier this year. Comparisons have been made with Stieg…

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The Water Rituals by Eva Garcia Saenz

By RoughJustice

31 March, 2021

Translated by Nick Caistor — In August 2020, we reviewed the first novel in Eva Garcia Saenz’s White City trilogy, The Silence of the White City. Set in Vitoria, in Spain, it was about the reopening of a historic serial killer case. Now, criminal profiler…

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The Silence of the White City by Eva Garcia Saenz

By RoughJustice

11 August, 2020

Translated by Nick Caistor — In 1996 the Basque city of Vitoria was terrorised by a serial killer, according to The Silence of the White City by Eva Garcia Saenz. Eight people were killed, including two babies. The killer placed his victims in pairs in…

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Village of the Lost Girls

By Catherine Turnbull

24 January, 2019

Written by Agustin Martínez, translated by Frank Wynne — This missing persons thriller, with its twists racing through the hairpin bends of the Pyrenees, is a debut novel by one of Spain’s most prolific crime screenwriters, and it shows. Its opening, when schoolgirls Lucia and Ana…

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The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories

By crimefictionlover

3 October, 2018

A very original take on crime short stories in this collection by the queen of Barcelona noir, Teresa Solana. Killer grannies, vengeful ghosts, a prehistoric detective turned psychoanalyst are just a few of the characters inhabiting the pages of these stories full of surprises, dark…

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All This I Will Give to You

By MarinaSofia

26 September, 2018

Written by Dolores Redondo, translated by Michael Meigs — The first thing that grabs you about Spanish author Dolores Redondo’s latest novel is its unusual title. What does it mean? For most of the novel, it appears that more is being taken away from the…

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The Plague: Spanish historical crime drama comes to BBC Four

By crimefictionlover

27 August, 2018

After all those moody Scandinavian crime dramas, as well as Nordic-inspired shows from France, Canada and even Wales, BBC Four is changing tack with its Saturday night crime offering. On Saturday 1 September at 9pm the station will be airing The Plague, a Spanish historical…

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The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories

By MarinaSofia

12 August, 2018

Written by Teresa Solana, translated by Peter Bush — How can you resist a title like that? Even if you prefer your crime fiction long and dark, this collection of grotesque short stories is well worth your time. Teresa Solana has already established an international…

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Black Wolf by Juan Gómez-Jurado

The Water Rituals by Eva Garcia Saenz

The Silence of the White City by Eva Garcia Saenz

Village of the Lost Girls

The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories

All This I Will Give to You

The Plague: Spanish historical crime drama comes to BBC Four

The First Prehistoric Serial Killer and Other Stories

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