Dolores Redondo presents ‘Waiting for the Deluge’, a thriller based on real events set in Bilbao in the 80s
Dolores Redondo surprises us again with his new novel ‘waiting for the deluge‘a thriller inspired by true crimes What happened in Glasgow in the 80s.
The winner of Planet Award 2016 She admits that it took her more than 30 years to finish the story, which began with a train journey observing a Bilbao destroyed by a sudden flood when the writer was a teenager.
The image had such an impact on the author that she wanted to set the action of her novel in her homeland, reduced to rubble after natural disaster.
The story is based on the case of john bible, a murderer who sexually abused and ended the lives of three women in a short space of time in the 1960s, who is thought to have met in a nightclub in the area. Three terrifying crimes that were never solved, and that is To this day the case remains open.
Heartbeats, feelings and friendship they have been the engine of the novel, three elements always present in Bilbao. The hope of a new love, the beauty of friendship, the gangs, the joy that has always characterized the city of Bilbao and the author has wanted to base her story on an element already known from her homeland.
It is a very noir novel set in a dark social context, a terrifying real case, set in a Spain in crisis with a main character who is facing his own demons. However, according to Dolores Redondo, it is the light of friendship that illuminates such a black thriller.
The author reveals that the heart is the guiding thread of her novel, based on two fundamental emotions: love and fear of not transcending, in the end and dying without having loved.
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