It is generally agreed that Galician crime fiction began in 1984, when Carlos
G. Reigosa’s Crime en Compostela was published. Since then, different authors
have explored the genre with varying success. One of the best-known writers
of Galician crime fiction is Diego Ameixeiras, who published eleven novels
between 2004 (Baixo mı´nimos) and 2018 (A crueldade de abril). This paper will focus
on Ameixeiras’s works, in particular Baixo mı´nimos and A noite enriba
(2015). The distance between their dates of publication will allow us to highlight
through their differences in structure and style the clear evolution in
Ameixeiras’s narrative production from parody to social critique.
