by Martín Solares · RESERVOIR BOOKS · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439726982
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«Los minutos negros» is the crime novel by Martín Solares, published by Reservoir Books in paperback (408 pages, in Spanish).
In the border city of Paracuán, a journalist is murdered. A policeman links the crime to the deaths of several girls in the 1970s and ventures into the underworld, drug trafficking, and the secret police, where the corrupt are many. The testimonies of a former policeman and a Jesuit guide the investigation.
The novel belongs to the Roja y negra collection from Reservoir Books. It was originally published in 2006; this edition is from 2013.
For readers of crime fiction and police thrillers looking for a story of corruption, unsolved crimes, and border settings.
Martín Solares is a Mexican writer, critic and editor who received the Efraín Huerta National Literary Award in 1998 for his short story, "El planeta Cloralex". The 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction laureate, Junot Díaz, praises his work as "brilliant, but mostly unavailable in English".
