Review of ‘Cuando la tormenta pase,’ by Manel Loureiro (Estandarte.com)

This 'Premio Fernando Lara 2024' work combines a frenetic pace with constant twists and turns, a breathtaking setting and a cinematic story.

Cuando la tormenta pase is the latest novel by Galician writer Manel Loureiro, who has written one of those thrillers that take your breath away almost from the first page and in which there is no lack of mystery, intrigue, action and the winter setting of the island of Ons, in the Pontevedra estuary, made even more inhospitable, oppressive and isolated when a huge storm hits it for a few days. And for the protagonist of the story these days will be more than eternal.

Synopsis: Roberto Lobeira is a successful writer who intends to advance his next novel by going to seek inspiration on the island of Ons; a natural paradise full of tourists in summer, but almost empty in winter, where there is only electricity for a few hours and only a few inhabitants live.

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