An eagerly awaited novelty, a novel that has been talked about constantly in recent weeks, a story that begins in spring and two that have the summer in their title: here are 5 books, including detective stories, noirs and thrillers, perfect for savor in spring.
5 recommended crime books to read in spring
“A Wild Animal” by Joël Dicker
Having just arrived in Italian bookshops, “A wild animal” marks Dicker’s long-awaited return to the shelves. A perfect read for this spring, given that it is hot off the press and, by reading it immediately, you will be able to avoid spoilers and other people’s conditioning.
July 2, 2022, two thieves are about to rob an important jewelry store in Geneva. But this won’t be a blow like all the others. Twenty days earlier, in an elegant suburb on the shores of the lake, Sophie Braun is about to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Her life smiles on her, she lives with her husband Arpad and her two children in a magnificent villa on the edge of the woods.
They are both rich, beautiful, happy. But their idyllic world suddenly falls apart. The secrets that Arpad keeps are beginning to be too many to remain hidden forever.
The threads that trap these lives lead far in time, far from Ginevra and the elegant Braun villa, into a past that chases the present and that Sophie and Arpad will have to face to solve a diabolical intrigue, from which no one will emerge unscathed. Not even the reader.
“Children in Time” by Ian McEwan
At the beginning it immediately seems like a detective story, then a thriller, then a psychological novel, then a dystopian one. “Children in Time” is unusual, disturbing, unexpected, profound. The story begins in spring.
Stephen Lewis, author of successful children’s books, father and happy husband, goes to the supermarket one day with his daughter Kate, and while he is busy emptying the trolley at the checkout he realizes that he has lost the little girl. Kidnapped? Killed? Escaped? Everything around him seems to fall apart from that moment on.
The painful void left by Kate’s disappearance triggers a series of actions and reactions that will lead Stephen to review his entire life.
His many unshakable certainties will prove weak; habits and attitudes that have never been questioned will reveal their most annoying side. Without ever losing sight of his protagonist, McEwan tells the journey of a man faced with the unacceptable, making us perceive the precariousness and fragility in which we live, and at the same time giving us back our human and indestructible hope.
“Spring of the Disappeared” by Anna Kantoch
In this fascinating mystery, spring is present right from the title.
Katowice, Lower Silesia. Krystyna, a retired policewoman, leads a monotonous life, dividing her time between walking, gardening and indigestion of TV series.
Many years later, however, an event continues to torment her: the disappearance of her brother Romek, which occurred in mysterious circumstances during a trip to the Tatra Mountains in 1963. Of the unfortunate group of five friends, only Jacek had returned who, suspected of having caused the death of comrades, had lost track of him.
One fine day Krystyna sees him again and discovers that the man has assumed a new identity. She is determined to make him confess, she follows him and enters her house armed with a knife… A caustic protagonist far from stereotypes for an engaging mystery that also talks about old age, loneliness and families falling apart.
“The Shrapnel” by Bret Easton Ellis
We have the feeling that this book, however, will continue to be talked about a lot this spring too, given that in recent weeks it has been trending on various social networks and platforms that deal with books. Those who have read it have had no doubts in stating that it is an engaging title to say the least.
In 1981, the lives of a group of seventeen-year-old Californians who attend the elite Buckley School are turned upside down by the arrival of a boy who is as charming as he is disturbed and perverse.
What is Robert Mallory hiding, and what is his connection to the serial killer that is raging in the city? In a sensual and violent Los Angeles, made up of pool parties and new wave music, vodka and cocaine, Bret Easton Ellis tells his most personal, emotional and dark story.
“A bit of madness in spring” by Alessia Gazzola
Finally, a fresh yellow book in which spring is the title and background. “A bit of madness in spring” is the fifth chapter of the Allieva series.
Ruggero Armento’s death is not just any death. Because he was found murdered in his office, and also because Ruggero D’Armento is not just any man. Very prominent psychiatrist, scholar and luminary with a brilliant academic career, charismatic and fascinating personality…
Alice Allevi remembers it well, from the years of study but also from the professor’s recent consultancy on a suicide case that Alice dealt with. In a Roman spring that seems to bring small gusts of madness, the violent death of Ruggero D’Armento creates a sensation. Few and misleading clues, almost no traces to follow. The investigation is difficult for Alice, but fortunately her love life is no longer difficult.
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