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After a couple of months waiting on the shelf, it was turn for La estrategia del agua, which I just finished.
The protagonists are the Civil Guard couple, Rubén Bevilacqua, a brigade, and Virginia Chamorro, a sergeant, who appear in five other novels by the author.
My general impression is that it’s closer to reality than novels by foreign authors, of course, perhaps their reality is different from ours. In fact, the book is inspired, as the author himself says at the end of the acknowledgments, in a real crime.
Though from the beginning it’s more or less known who the culprits are, the story of the investigation is very well constructed. It’s interesting until the end, entertaining, with humorous and ironic touches, agile and easy to read.
The downside: at times the dialogues seem quite artificial to me, I mean they seem to be reading and not talking, becoming a bit pedantic. This becomes more evident the times that one of the characters criticizes the judicial system, which are not infrequent. Other than that, I highly recommend it.