The Black Minutes
A Detective, Thriller, Mystery Thriller book. What can I say, this is just about one of the best works of contemporary...
When a young journalist named Bernardo Blanco is killed in the fictional Mexican port city of Paracuán, investigation into his murder reveals missing links in a disturbing multiple homicide case from twenty years earlier. As police officer Ramón “el Macetón” Cabrera discovers, Blanco had been writing a book about a 1970s case dealing with the murder of several young schoolgirls in Paracuán by a man known as el Chacal. Cabrera realizes that whoever killed Blanco wanted to keep the truth about el Chacal from being revealed, and he becomes determined to discover that truth. The Black Minutes chronicles both Cabrera’s investigation into Blanco’s murder and goes back in time to follow detective Vicente Rangel’s investigation of the original el Chacal case. Both narratives expose worlds of corruption, from cops who are content to close the door on a case without true justice to powerful politicians who can pay their way out of their families’ crimes. Full of dark twists and turns, and populated by a cast of captivating—and mostly corrupt—characters, The...
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- Pages: 436 pages
- ISBN: 9780802170682 / 802170684
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This book received some very prestigious awards, and I feel bad about giving up on it. I just couldn't get into it. Perhaps the translation isn't as good as it should be. Maybe I wasn't in the right frame of mind for it. I don't know. There's a police investigation into the death of a journalist who was looking into an earlier investigation... This Mexican crime novel was in turns fascinating and frustrating. Solares tells two intertwined stories involving police and criminals today and in the 1970s. Many of the same characters are involved, so that you see how the earlier events influenced the later events. Solares starts the novel in the present, then shifts for hundreds... What can I say, this is just about one of the best works of contemporary fiction out there. Hands down the best crime fiction. You can read a good synopsis here. The story, told from multiple perspectives, is flabbergastingly (is this even a word?) multilayered. Martin Solares's interweaving the past with the present puts the reader...
