Although the editorial novelties of the month of May will provide us in the coming weeks of great moments related to our greatest hobby, reading, we cannot lose sight of other books that are worth including in our library. As The silence of the forestthe addictive black novel that will hook you from beginning to end and that has published in Spain the main editorial of books.
Written by Jess Lourey, author of the famous the girls of the quarry, this thrilling Black novel Of just over 300 pages it is ideal to enjoy a good story in which mystery and intrigue are the main ingredients. And all thanks to a protagonist full of charm that, as is the mark of the house in the genre, loads with a dark past but is willing to solve the enigma he faces.
If you also want to enjoy a Addictive reading And your favorite genre is the black novel, we tell you what you will find in the silence of the forest.
The mystery comes from the past
The latest creation of Jess Lourey starts with a prologue that places us in 1980 at Lake Leech, located in the state of Minnesota. There are Rue and Amber, two eight -year -old girls, accompanied by the little sister of the first, Lily. It is a hot day of July and Give A dip in the lake that is in the forest At the end of the street, it seems the best plan, although Rue would prefer to have left his sister at home.
When they arrive at the forest, on which legends are still in the town in which they live, the two elders feel that the gloomy atmosphere of nature in which they are about to enter may not be so good idea. But Lily remains oblivious to those sensations, and everything that she can think about is the refreshing dip that awaits him behind the trees. However, Girls will never carry out their plan And only one of them, Rue, will leave the forest.
What happened to Amber and Lily? Why is Rue unable to remember? Are the legends that speak of a strange presence In that area of the city? What consequences will they have for the families of girls who do not return their sudden disappearance? Maybe only the passage of time can answer all these questions.
The farm detective
In the present, the detective Evangeline Reed Try to disconnect from your work spending time in an animal shelter. His favorite is MacGuffin, a dog “Part San Bernardo, part mammut Lanudo”, which was delivered by a family that was about to have a baby and who are going, as everyone calls him, takes time to walk whenever he can. However, the walk is interrupted by a call, and although she is responsible for trying to solve ancient cases, the Minneapolis police require her presence.
Shortly after getting there, Van discovers why. The victim, A buried woman alivecarried a pendant who, anyone who is sufficient age knows what case is related. With that of “the kidnapped”, of which Van has no record but on which it will soon catch up, until it becomes its main priority. Because, he suspects, the disappearance of Amber and Lily is related to the woman who has just died.
To resolve this, they will have to endure the reluctance of some partners of the Police Department, but it must also deal with their own demons. Those who torment him at night in the form of a nightmare, and yet they serve to be better in his work, but also those who have tried to hide in the depths of his memory, and who are related to his childhood on a farm.
A minneapolis forest as in which they enter the silence of the Rue, Amber and Lily forest. / Weston M/unsplash
With these foundations, Jess Lourey builds in the silence of the forest an addictive novel in which to resolve the main mystery is destiny, but along the way the personality of Van and its past, the future of the case or the characters involved in it add to a path in which the light of truth tries to break through, as if of the dark forest in which girls entered It was. A novel that, as Chalaine Harris, author of True Blood points out, “you will not be able to stop reading until her final explosive.”
