The Two Amelias

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria · Category: Literature · Subcategory: Literary fragments · Year: 2020 · Authors: José Luis Correa

With this title, a new installment of the noir novel saga starring detective Ricardo Blanco, created by the author José Luis Correa (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1962), appeared in 2020. This time Blanco is asked to investigate the murder of an influencer at the Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Book Fair, plunging fully into a world totally unknown to him: social networks.

Hovering over everything, as always in this author’s novels, is the city of Las Palmas with its haze, its "panza de burro" (a local weather phenomenon), its nights in Las Canteras and its journeys through several well-known places:

“The San Telmo taxi rank was becoming a regular feature during that investigation. At this rate, the local taxi drivers were going to name me client of the year. Where to? To the Coño’s house. To see an old friend. The journey along Avenida Marítima lasted twelve minutes. The driver dropped me off at the Nautical Club, from there I only had to cross the bridge by the petrol station to reach my destination.

If a house with two doors is hard to guard, the Coño’s was simply impossible. A hideous and clumsy ten-storey building, built in Franco’s times, when the old tyrant insisted on encouraging large families and needed a place to house them...”

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