Tana French, Los Angeles Review of Books
My review of The Trespasser, by Tana French, is posted on Los Angeles Review of Books, as of this morning: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/forensic-thousand-one-nights/ @lareviewofbooks
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Blood Crime, by Sabastià Alzamora
At first glance, Sabastià Alzamora's newly translated Blood Crime sounded interesting: a crime novel set in the Spanish Civil war, written in Catalan and based on a massacre that occurred in Barcelona. Then I read this sentence in the blurb: "Narrated by a vampire who thrives in the havoc of the war." A historical vampire thriller; not my kind of thing, really. But I was flying off for a work meeting in another state, and needed something to read on the plane, so I took it with me. From the first, this is a different kind of vampire. Then, he actually only narrates a few sections of the book. And what comes between, though still dealing with vampires, especially in the first half of the book, is quite interesting. Not only war and vampires, but massacres, a fantastic automaton, a history of monsters (including the vampire), and various horrors of a war that (based on this book) most of us outside Spain have not understood very well. At times, the book reminded me of V., T...