The corpse of a young woman appears naked on the slopes of the Castillo de Santa Bárbara. This is the starting point of ‘An angel should not die’, the first volume of a crime novel trilogy that its author, Jorge Zaragoza Gómez, places in different settings in Alicante.
The book, which can be purchased on Amazon and in physical format at the 80 Mundos bookstore, has garnered good reviews since it was put on sale and is in the running for the 2020 Amazon novel award.
The main protagonists of this thriller They are the homicide inspector Clara Sánchez and the chief inspector Santi Blanes, both trying to unravel the unknowns that surround this brutal crime. It is a novel set in two moments: the year 1982, at the end of the Transition, and in October 2009, after the appearance of the lifeless body next to the castle.
Its author narrates this investigation and does so by addressing other issues such as immigration, sexual abuse, corruption and prostitution; elements with which he makes an X-ray of society with clear overtones of social criticism.
In this interview Jorge Zaragoza affirms that with ‘An angel should not die’ he begins a trilogy of Alicante crime novels. A genre that is fashionable due to the proliferation of Nordic authors or by other Spanish authors, such as Dolores Redondo, who locate their plots in the north of Spain. They are two areas much less luminous than Alicante, which does not mean that the Mediterranean city -according to Zaragoza- cannot host a similar saga.
And in this he is determined, since at the end of his first novel he leaves enough loose ends to weave successive plots of police intrigue.
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