Andreu Martín (born 1949) is a Spanish author who specializes in crime and detective novels.[1]
Martín was one of the few Spanish novelists who specialized in crime and detective works who made a living off of them. Patricia Hart, author of , said "the resultant freedom to focus on his fiction has meant that he is developing his substantial talent at an impressive rate."[1]
Hart stated that Martín's works explore "a desire to create protagonists who are believable and corruptible the way real people are" and also a "fierce will to represent reality faithfully" in contrast to several detective genre conventions.[2] She adds that his signature trademark is illustrating dispassionate violence and murder and that the author "has a knack" for describing the sort "that is the terror of industrialized societies".[2]
His first book was published in 1979. He published six additional books from that point until 1983. The company Sedmay published Martín's first four books as part of the publisher's "Círculo del Crimen" series, directed by Carlos Pascual and published from 1979 to 1980. Patricia Hart described the series as "an ambitious undertaking that strove to put Spanish sleuths in print."[1] According to Hart, the series failed because of a too rapid expansion and an unevenness in the writing of the novels due to the publisher commissioning novels from writers who had specialized in other types of works; this resulted in a bankruptcy.[1] According to Hart, Martín's works within the series were "some of the best."[1]
"Círculo del Crimen"