I can't help wondering whether there were tells in the text
A recent hoohah over Female Spanish thriller writer Carmen Mola revealed to be three men.
(And really I do not quite grasp how on earth somebody/ies writing 'ultraviolent Spanish crime thrillers' about 'detective Elena Blanco, a “peculiar and solitary woman, who loves grappa, karaoke, classic cars and sex in SUVs”' is somehow “Spain’s Elena Ferrante”. Duh?? Whut???)
Various people discussing this have been 'but male names on books sell more! why take female pseudonym?', though my sense is that in the realm of crime and thrillers there are some notably big hitters who are GURLIEZ though maybe more towards the psychological thriller rather than the action thriller end of the spectrum.
But I must say I have a big honking HUH? about these books and authorship. They do not appear to have yet been translated into English. But I do wonder if they manifest a certain, shall we say, #MenWriteWomen vibe? and whether the reader knows rather more about her breasts than anyone but her gynaecologist needs to know? (Would not Miss Marple have spotted something off very early in the game?)
We feel that for all the 60s-ish attitudes that it is probable that Peter O'Donnell did the ass-kicking action heroine a lot better with good ol' Modesty Blaise and her assorted sidekicks.
Tonstant Weader may not be yet be Fwowing Up but is feeling distinctly Nawseated at the description of the non-series novel for which these charmers won the 'lucrative Planeta prize': It is a historical thriller, set in 1834 during a cholera epidemic, about a serial killer who dismembers girls, according to the Spanish media. A journalist, a policeman and a young woman get together to try to hunt him down.
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