The detective story is published RBA a few years this part is a real feast for fans of the genre, as it is a careful selection of the most important authors internationally, delicious food literary devour without pause guilty aftertaste that cause us the most sensational best-sellers. The truth is that almost every writer of detective novels published in this editorial have been awarded and recognized in various ways and also it shows.
talking about people like Dennis Lehane (adapted to film by Clint Eastwood in "Mystic River" and Ben Affleck in "Bye, Bye Baby, Goodbye", Val McDermid, Peter Robinson, Ian Rankin (his Inspector Rebus has his own television series), Pierre Frei and of course Harlan Coben, whose work I will speak today. I will not do an overview of the series starring sports agent Myron Bolitar , I have not yet had the pleasure to read, but one of his first books published in Spain with a suggestive title: "Do not tell anyone ".
Let's start with the story itself, which leads this critical synopsis. There is no denying that the mixture of two such powerful themes as love and death is attractive to most people and this is the wisdom the original novel. The characters live a passionate and eternal love story, but she died so suddenly and inexplicably inconsolable husband leaves to make matters worse, is plagued by a series of messages displayed on your computer, messages that will lead to a desperate search for answers and snared in the most unexpected of conspiracy tangles.
From the beginning of the novel, Coben shows great ability to manipulate at will the reader, drawing on numerous twists, surprises and dramatic effects. More than one will think that a good writer does not need such gimmicks to deliver a good story and in fact may be true or it may not, because the correct use of these resources and know-how, when and where to place is not just a sample of literary skill, but also a way to avoid the boredom that can give rise to an author on the type, for example, Henning Mankell (who, on the other hand, it seems a very interesting author.) The impatient will find few moments of respite in a novel that will happen unexpected revelations and demanding it may look a bit jaded by Coben plain prose, which, indeed, does not write enough to take rockets. The obvious shortcomings in style and cohesion between chapters are somewhat offset because the story is not nothing wrong and the final third is substantially better than the rest of the novel. The plot is resolved with some credit, having no place to disappointment. We could say that, ultimately, Coben delivers what it offers, which is a full detective novel while staying within the usual margins of the genre. However, glare.
DATA BOOK TITLE: "DO NOT TELL ANYONE"
Author: Harlan Coben
EDITORIAL: RBA
YEAR: 2002
SCORE *** (three shots)
