FROM THURSDAY 5 TO SATURDAY 21/5
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James Ellroy It will be the bombshell of VLC Negra to celebrate its tenth edition. The Valencian festival dedicated to the black genre recovers its international aspect in a big way, with the living legend responsible for classics like The black dahlia y LA Confidential, and that just published Panic starring a character who has appeared in several of his novels. We talk about Freddy Otash, “a corrupt cop, a private detective, “a racketeer blackmailer” who held Hollywood captive for knowing torrid sexual secrets. Another American on the list of international authors will be J.D.. Barker, a bestseller who has signed The forsaken, the trilogy The fourth monkey about a serial killer and Dracula. The origin, combining horror, crime, mystery, science fiction and supernatural facts. An Irishman completes the poster, an Argentinian and an Algerian. John Connolly for his detective novels starring Charlie Parker, Laura Pineiro for the award-winning Cathedrals, “a non-canonical crime novel” according to the jury of the Gijón Black Week; y Yasmina khadra by his commissioner Llob scourge of corruption in Algeria. The national authors signed for this tenth edition will be, among others, Dolores Redondo, Lorenzo Silva, Carlos Zanón y Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett, who has just published a crime novel whose beginning will be familiar to you: President Vita Castellá appears dead in a luxurious hotel in Madrid and the compromised situation requires that a possible murder be officially ruled out and the investigation stalls.… On the cover of this book, The president, a pearl necklace. Los 16 festival days will also offer cinema, theater, book clubs, exhibitions and a concert, and they will end, this year yes, with the traditional outdoor book signing with wine and ham tasting. International authors are back and ham is back on VLC Negra! S.M.
