Eve Battle | València (EFE).- The Alicante writer Blas Ruiz returns to bookstores with the new adventures of inspector Nicolás Valdés, his favorite character, this time to solve a series of murders in his hometown, in the Madrid mountains, which lead to the protagonist to face the past from which he had tried to flee.
“El Quebratahuesos”, by Ediciones B, talks about the mythology and popular legends that have accompanied us all in childhood, often originating from real events but which are enriched generation after generation with more morbid elements, with the aim, Ruiz points out in a conversation with EFE, of scaring children and making them obedient.
The story, he remembers, he had in mind as well as the need for his main character to be Nicolás Valdés, the Police inspector who has given him so much joy with the success of Mora’s mutilator trilogy, and a claim, he assures, of your readers.
Inspector’s Past
The novel also resolves the unknowns that remained pending about the inspector’s past, the conflict with his family and the reasons that led him to leave his small town in the mountains of Madrid, to which he is forced to return due to the case of the murder of a woman, partner of what was his best friend, and around whom the legend of the Bearded Vulture arises again.
The story of this mythological character, with an appearance similar to that of a human being, who quenches his thirst for blood with women of the town that he offers as a sacrifice to a superior being, returns every 40 years, in the month of May, with the death of several women, who have had the bones of their left arm shattered.
The novel also serves Ruiz to raise the anguish experienced by people who, for one reason or another, left their hometown and with it their past in a struggle to “get ahead”, leaving family and friends behind, and that in the case of inspector Valdés he will try to “amend” trying to resolve this case.
The legend of the Bearded Vulture, the writer points out, is completely invented, but it could be found in many popular stories of Spanish geography, and it also raises the fear of the neighbors that this terrible creature, which represents evil, could be one of them.
Blas Ruiz points out that for the preparation of this book he did not have a script, but started from the draft of a first chapter that he shaped thanks to a “well-known” character, Inspector Valdés, who knows very well how he is going to react in every situation and allowed him a “creative freedom” that unknown characters do not offer.
much of himself
The writer acknowledges that there is a lot of himself in the inspector, due to his “anguish, his insecurity and his excessive protection”, and the book has also served him as “therapy” since he wrote it during a difficult personal period, of anxiety , which he has managed to overcome thanks to professional help and writing.
“My anxiety came from success, from seeing that the dream was coming true and from not knowing how to manage it because I had the feeling that I had to give more and I didn’t know if I was going to be able to,” says the author after the sales success of the trilogy “You will not lie”, “You will not steal” and “You will not kill”.
He assures that he is now on a “very correct” path and also that he is less assiduous to social networks that have served him so well to interact with his readers, but also generate greater anxiety.
Regarding his new projects, Blas Ruiz points out that he is already immersed in a new novel, which “comes quite dark”, although he does not want to go into details. “A rock band will always rock and I will continue with the novel”, affirms the writer from Alicante. EFE