Chopin's crimes: what you should know about the book

On May 25, 2022, one of the best-known youth genre writers in Spain revolutionized literature by publishing a crime novel of intrigue, mystery and love that, although it can be read from 14 years old, already predicted a change of record in the author. Your title? Chopin's crimes.

In this article we want to share with you all the information we have about this novel. Have you read it? Has it caught your attention? We begin.

Who wrote The Crimes of Chopin

First of all, let's know who is the creator of the story that we find in this novel. If we tell you Francisco de Paula Fernández, maybe you won't fall for a youth writer. But if what we say It's Blue Jeans things change. And a lot.

This Spanish writer launched himself into stardom with his Canciones para Paula trilogy, as well as El club de los miscomprendidos.

He has a degree in Journalism and was born in Seville, although now he moves more around Madrid.

This year 2023 is being one of the best for the writer because one of his books, The Invisible Girl, premiered on Disney+ as a series. And another of his books, The Camp, is of international production.

What is The Crimes of Chopin about?

It is not easy to tell you about the plot of the novel without revealing important information. But what we can tell you is that it reads very quickly and easily. Blue Jeans is very detailed in certain descriptions, especially those related to corners and passages of Seville. But don't let that stop you because there are actually many twists and a story that hooks you from the beginning.

Although the male character is perhaps the one that has the most weight in the story, the truth is that the author focuses more on the feminine, all of them with high self-esteem, intelligent and who always give that point to the story to advance (and discover findings for research).

We leave you the synopsis below:

«A series of robberies have occurred in several houses in Seville that worry the entire city. The thief, who is nicknamed "Chopin" because he always leaves a score of the famous composer to sign the theft, takes money, jewelry and various valuable items. One night a body appears in the living room of one of those homes and tension increases.
Nikolai Olejnik is a young Pole who arrived in Spain with his grandfather several years ago. Since he died, he is alone and survives by committing crimes. He was a child prodigy in his country and his greatest passion is playing the piano. Suddenly, everything gets complicated and he becomes the main suspect in a murder. Niko goes to the office of Celia Mayo, a private detective, to ask her for help and there he meets Triana, Celia's daughter. The young woman immediately catches her attention, although it is not the best time to fall in love with her.
Blanca Sanz has barely been working at the newspaper El Guadalquivir for five months when she receives a strange call in which data is leaked to her about the Chopin case, which no one else knows about. From that moment on she became obsessed with everything related to the investigation and tried to find out who was behind those robberies.

Is The Crimes of Chopin a unique book?

One of the common questions of many readers, who do not like to start books if they are going to end with the open plot waiting for a second or third part, is whether this particular one is self-contained or, on the contrary, has a second part.

Well, as we told you at the beginning, The Crimes of Chopin came out in 2022. And a year later, in 2023, a new book by the author titled Chopin's Last Melody was released. And yes, it is related to this book that we are talking to you about today.

Now, is it the only book? Will there be a third part? Well, we cannot give you an affirmative or negative answer for sure, because only the author knows this.

But what we can tell you is that on the official Blue Jeans website Chopin's books are framed as biology, which means that there would only be two books.

How many pages does the novel have?

The Crimes of Chopin is not a small book to say the least. Actually It is quite long for a novel for young people aged 14 and up. (because, unless they like to read, when they see that there are more than 300 pages they get tired even without having opened the book).

In this case, This novel has 512 pages. At least in the format that has come out now. We do not know if changing the format will change the pages to more or less.

And before you wonder, the second book, Chopin's Last Melody, is also around there in page count. In this case, with a few more, 528 pages.

Thus, In total the complete story would be 1040 pages, a considerable number to enjoy a great mystery and intrigue from beginning to end.

Blue Jeans' suggestion for reading this book

On their social networks, and as a way to promote the book, Blue Jeans himself gave a recommendation for reading this book.

And it is not other than listen to Chopin's music while reading the book. The reason he gave is that the rhythm of this composer is very similar to the rhythm followed in the plot of the story. That is to say, it starts slowly and step by step, but then it speeds up until it reaches a tremendous ending.

And although in The Crimes of Chopin that ending is like that, so is the fact that it is left open and with many unknowns to be resolved, we recommend that you have the next book on hand so that you are not left wanting to know what is going to happen.

Now we ask you. Have you read Chopin's Crimes? You like me? We read you in comments.