TodoLiteratura talks with Jon Arretxe, author of "Malos tiempos para la Lyrica" (crime novel)

Today more than ever, crime novelists, with the rise of the extreme right, must do the very important job of whistleblowing.”

The unlikely detective Touré (black, very tall, clandestine immigrant, undocumented and poor) returns to the fray in this ninth installment of the saga of this unique bloodhound, with a story that combines the crime novel, the denunciation of current scourges (illegal immigration, mistreatment, sexual exploitation of foreigners), and the social cliche of the underworld. Its creator, the Basque writer Jon Arretxe, presented this novel during the Crime Novel Week in Gijón.

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