The festival of crime literature directed by Carlos Zanón, enables the discovery of new voices which from Latin America, revealing a world where evil has infiltrated among those who are supposedly good.

Dolores Redondo, Javier Cercas, Petros Márkaris and Yasmina Khadra are some of the stars of BCNegra, the crime literature festival which presently gathers almost one hundred authors in Barcelona.

The event reaches its 15th edition as a classic for the fans of Maigret, Sherlock Holmes, Pepe Carvalho, Sam Spade and other private detectives from a genre which enjoys a robust health: one only has to see the vast amount of new novels coming out these days in bookstores where the main characters are detectives, policemen, agents, civil guards and inspectors who are more or less dark and disillusioned, and who despite everything, seek some form of justice.

This is in the case in Spanish, European or American novels. The approach is different in Latin American literature; for example, in the novels written by three of the writers invited to the festival that is directed by Carlos Zanón.

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