"The literary genre of the short story is quite underrated from an editorial and reading perspective."

Fernando Martínez Laínez has just published the book of criminal stories "Luna de cuervos," a careful selection of the stories that he has been writing throughout his literary career. Limited to the noir genre, the Barcelona-born author undertakes both criminal plots and espionage, a world he knows very well for having lived on the other side of the Iron Curtain as a correspondent for the EFE News Agency.

The journey that the author makes in his book goes from the Spanish Transition, another one of the subjects he is passionate about, to the end of the Civil War, where history and fiction are mixed to give a new perspective of what we know from the history books.  Martinez Laínez has a firm hand in his stories, and in each and every one of them he keeps up a growing tension that makes his stories read in a very fluid way. The book has been published by the Literatura Abierta publishing house.

Read the interview here