The collection Crimes.es celebrates a major milestone, reaching issue number 100, with an exceptional volume, Barcelona, ​​a crime trilogy, which brings together the three detective novels by Rafael Tasis (Barcelona, ​​1906-Paris, 1966): A crime on the Parallel, The Valencian Bible and It's time to fold. According to its director, Àlex Martín Escribà (Barcelona, ​​1974), who holds a doctorate from the University of Salamanca with a thesis on the crime genre in Catalonia, it was worthwhile "returning to the origins of the genre" with this book, paying "recognition to Rafael Tasis, the person who opened its doors." For Àlex Martín, Tasis is "the Catalan Edgar Allan Poe."

"He folded the diary, which first unfolded on his knees and then slid slowly down before landing on the waxed parquet floor. You would have thought he had just fallen asleep if it weren't for the thin slit that occasionally appeared between his eyelids." This is the lazy and narcotic—yet also direct and addictive—opening of The cat (1966), one of the great novels by Georges Simenon (1903-1989), has been chosen from the outset by Quaderns Crema and Acantilado to begin their re-release, starting October 13th, of the literary legacy of one of the essential writers of the 20th century. Editor Jaume Vallcorba intends to publish it "with the respect due to great writers," combining the so-called harsh Romans With 72 novels featuring the celebrated Inspector Maigret, always with his pipe in hand and paying attention to the smallest and most revealing details. The Maigret series will begin with Pietr, the Latvian and will continue in November with The Yellow Dog One month later The cat will arrive The canal house

"We are the most important free crime fiction festival in Europe and the one with the greatest presence of international authors," states BCNegra curator Carlos Zanón at the Boqueria Market, where the 21st edition of the festival, which will take place from February 2nd to 8th, was presented. This year, one of the star guests of the program is the Italian musician and writer Vinicio Capossela, who will offer a multidisciplinary concert in the Sala Paral·lel 62. The leitmotif of this year's edition comes precisely from his work: the "bad life," which the festival has encapsulated in a single word. malavida"We have extracted it from his book Tefteria to celebrate an intense, curious, transgressive life, lived on all levels. "Those of us who love literature do so precisely because life alone is not enough for us," Zanón emphasizes.

Freida McFadden is not her real name, but a pseudonym. There is some controversy over whether in her very few appearances, almost always via video call, she wears a wig to preserve her image and privacy. Be that as it may, the American writer is a hit, especially with the novels in the series. The housemaid (The assistant in the translations published in Catalan by Rosa dels Vents). According to Penguin Random House, McFadden has sold more than nine million copies, her books have been translated into more than forty languages, and the rights to adapt them for film and television have been acquired.

For a few years now, ETA has been making its way into literature, but it's not so common to find it in a crime novel. The Last Princess (Planeta), by Alaitz Leceaga (Bilbao, 1982), is very present. If youBasque noir is a subgenre with the social, cultural, historical, and political conflict peculiarities of the Basque Country. The book by the successful Basque novelist meets many of the requirements. Everything takes place in the 90s, in Lemoiz, a town dominated by a nuclear power plant that has never worked, where ancestral rituals and Basque mythology exist, and the protagonist, who must solve the crime, has a neurodivergent disorder. Leceaga, a Basque author in Spanish, made the leap from writing on a blog to triumphing at the Frankfurt Fair with The forest knows your number (Ediciones B, 2019). Thousands of readers follow her, and she's working on a television series based on her stories.

"Dear Mr. Prosecutor It is one of the pioneering texts of the detective genre and one of the most original. The novel by Mauricio Serrahima (Barcelona, 1902-1979) was published in February 1955, a few months afterEasy blood is shed (1954) by Manuel de Pedrolo, considered the first detective novel in Catalan," explains Àlex Martín, director of the Crims.cat imprint of the Clandestina publishing house. "We have decided to reissue it seventy years later because we want to make known, with a new sub-imprint, Catalan classics of the detective genre that have been unjustly forgotten. year. Among them, Maria Aurèlia Capmany and Jaume Fuster. Maurici Serrahima was a lawyer by family tradition, but above all, and by vocation, a writer, literary critic and republican. From the past when it was presentWritten in six volumes, they cover thirty-four years (1940-1974) and are essential for understanding the everyday history of post-war Barcelona, especially with regard to intellectual, political, and Catalanist circles. Dear Mr. Prosecutor, which Serrahima wrote Written in just 25 days, taking advantage of his wife's trip to Paris, it is the author's only crime novel, although he made some attempts to write another. "From the very beginning, I titled it that way because it's the first words of the text; that is, the heading of a letter. I mustn't deny that the idea of writing it that way comes from having read Letter to my player, by Georges Simenon—magnificent. I want to write it quickly and like manna,” wrote the author. “Serrahima subverts the codes. In the novel, there are no detectives or police officers; rather, it’s a letter from a man convicted of murder who writes to the prosecutor to explain how he ended up in prison,” explains Martín.

"I've made many attempts to retire, but I'm running out of ideas," he admits. Andreu Martín at the Obaga bookstore in Barcelona. The 76-year-old author has just published Everything was going well until now., his tenth book on crims.cat, a collection that he inaugurated with Story of death in 2012. This is the second time that Martín has written a novel with Joan Miquel Capell, who was a Mosso d'Esquadra (Spanish police officer) for more than three decades and currently teaches a course on organized crime and terrorism at the University of Barcelona.

British actor Richard Osman (Billericay, 1970) triumphs in everything he does: he has been successful as a presenter, comedian, and television writer and producer. When he made the leap to writing novels, he became the king of crime. With the adventures of the adorable pensioners in the series The Thursday Murder Club, which will soon be adapted into a film, has already accumulated more than 11 million readers. The novel We solve murders (Planeta/Columna; translated into Catalan by Núria Parés Sellarès) is the start of a new series, but Osman doesn't abandon the elderly. The new heroes are Steve, a retired police officer who lives with his cat and goes to the pub for lunch every day; his younger sister, Amy, a bodyguard who always travels armed; and Rosie, a veteran bestselling writer, millionaire and very free, inspired by the novelist Jackie Collins.

Glòria Sabaté (Barcelona, ​​​​1985) knows the Palau Güell like the back of her hand. She has spent so much time researching for the new novel that the team working on it already greets her with a smile as she explains that in Eusebi Güell's former office she has imagined a murder. Sabaté is a professor of medieval literature at the University of Barcelona and author of novels such as Lilith's daughter (Editions B, 2016) and The Veil of the Goddess (Column, Nèstor Luján Prize 2020). Until now his work had been limited to the historical novel, but with Death in the Palau (Rosa dels Vents) wanted to venture into new territory and has merged the genre with the crime novel. For this literary cocktail, the author was inspired by one of the most emblematic detectives, Sherlock Holmes, and more specifically by his impact in Catalonia at the beginning of the 20th century.