16 good crime novels (and some exceptional ones) to start 2024 well and not get lost at the BCNegra Festival.

The genre reaches its big event in Spain loaded with news. We analyze some of the most notable among all the authors invited to the festival and offer a short reading guide by Jo Nesbø, winner of the Pepe Carvalho Prize.

One of the best moments of the year for the crime genre has arrived. At the end of January and beginning of February, the editorial effervescence focuses on crime novels focusing on its big event, BCNegra, which this year takes place from February 5 to 11 in Barcelona. That's why we've changed the focus a little from previous installments of these lists which have already been read and commented on to focus on novelists present at the festival (with a couple of exceptions at the end).

The complete program so you know which day your favorite author participates can be consulted here. In case it doesn't work out for someone: the number depends on how many we include in the reading guide by Jo Nesbø, the festival's brand new Carvalho Prize winner, and does not take into account the final essay (that one is a gift). Read, go and enjoy.

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