Susana Hernández Marcet (Barcelona, 1969)^[1][2] is a Spanish writer who specializes in noir fiction. She created the character of Inspector Rebeca Santana, a lesbian investigator, who is the protagonist of several novels.^[2] Hernández has also written theatrical plays and taught literary workshops.^[1][3]

Hernández studied image and sound and social integration, as well as private investigation and psychology.^[3] In addition to collaborating with print and radio media outlets, she has excelled as a writer. In 2005, she won the Ciudad de Sant Adrià award and was a finalist in the 2013 Valencia Negra literary festival. Inspector Santana was chosen as the best female character in noir and detective fiction in the 2012 LeeMisterio awards.^[4]

Along with writers Clara Asunción García and Isabel Franc, Hernández was a pioneer in creating criminal or detective plots around lesbian characters.^[5] All these novelists show an influence by US author Jean M. Redmann.^[6]

Eva Paris-Huesca, in Curvas peligrosas en el contexto de los feminismos del nuevo milenio ^[a] (2013) quotes Professor Shelley Godsland when she explains that this vast body of female-authored literature developed in Spain from the 1980s onwards, establishing a dialogue with the various feminist movements that have been gradually developing alongside the progress made by Spanish women in the political, economic, and social spheres.^[7][8]

Moreover, gender studies researcher Alicia Romero López compares Hernández's Inspector Santana character with other female detectives created by authors such as Alicia Giménez Bartlett (with her character Petra Delicado [es]), Blanca Álvarez González (with Bárbara Villalta), Isabel Franc (with Emma García), Rosa Ribas Moliné [es] (with Cornelia Weber-Tejedor), Rosa Montero (with Bruna Husky), Dolores Redondo (with Amaia Salazar), Susana Martín Gijón [es] (with Annika Kaunda); as well as the series of novels about detective Sonia Ruiz written by various authors, such as Lorenzo Silva and Noemí Trujillo, Andreu Martín, Esteban Navarro, and Claudio Cerdán [es]. Romero López also mentions the series of novels written by Antonio Santos Mercero about the character Sofía Luna, the first transgender police inspector in Spanish literature.^[9][10]

• Curvas peligrosas (Odisea Editorial, 2010, ISBN 9788415294306) (in Spanish)
• Contra las cuerdas (Editorial Alrevés, 2012, ISBN 9788415098720) (in Spanish)
• Cuentas pendientes (Editorial Alrevés, 2015, ISBN 9788416328215) (in Spanish)

• La casa roja (Literaturas Com Libros LcL, 2013, ISBN 9788415414681) (in Spanish)
• La puta que leía a Jack Kerouac (Lesrain 2007; Literaturas Com Libros LcL, 2012, ISBN 9788415414339) (in Spanish)
• Males decisions (Editorial Alrevés, 2017, ISBN 9788417077198) (in Catalan)
• La reina del punk: La enigmática y sorprendente historia de amor y rock de la groupie que vivió a mil por hora y se convirtió en leyenda (Redbook Ediciones, 2018, ISBN 978-84-948799-8-2) (in Spanish)
• Los miércoles salvajes (Editorial Milenio, 2019, ISBN 978-8497438568) (in Spanish)
• Mai més (Editorial Alrevés, 2020, ISBN 978-84-17847-37-1) (in Catalan)
• Cerveza Mexicana (Extravertida editorial, 2021, ISBN 978-8412335989) (in Spanish)

Hernández has participated in major short story anthologies in the noir genre:

• Elles també maten, Anna Maria Villalonga (ed.) (Llibres del Delicte, 2014, ISBN 978-84-941064-1-5) (in Catalan)
• Fundido en negro. (Antología de relatos del mejor calibre criminal femenino), Inmaculada Pertusa (ed.) (Editorial Alrevés, 2014, ISBN 978-84-15900-50-4) (in Spanish)
• Diez negritos, nuevas voces del género negro español, Àlex Martín Escribà [es] and Javier Sánchez Zapatero (eds.) (Editorial Alrevés, 2015, ISBN 9788415900979) (in Spanish)
• Obscena. Trece relatos pornocriminales, Juan Ramón Biedma [es] (ed.) (Editorial Alrevés, 2016, ISBN 978-84-16328-55-0) (in Spanish)
• Barcelona, viatge a la perifèria criminal, Àlex Martín Escribà and Sebastià Bennasar i Llobera [ca] (eds.) (Editorial Alrevés, 2017, ISBN 978-84-17077-17-4) (in Catalan)
• La cervesa de la Highsmith (Pagès Editors, 2021, ISBN 978-84-1303-232-0) (in Catalan)

• Versales Lesbian Poetry award (2009)^[1][11]
• Katharsis award for novel (2009), finalist^[12]
• Valencia Negra festival (2013), finalist for best novel for Contra las cuerdas^[13]
• Ciudad de Sant Adrià (2015), for La casa roja^[13]
• Cubelles Noir (2016), for the best crime novel written in Spanish by a woman and published in 2015, for Cuentas pendientes ^[4]
• Cubelles Noir (2018), for the best crime novel written in Catalan in 2017, for Males decisions ^[14]
• Ciudad de Lebrija (2021), for Cerveza mexicana^[15]

• LGBT literature in Spain
• Noir fiction
• Detective fiction

• Personal website (in Spanish)
• Black Club, a blog and book club about crime fiction (in Spanish)
• Interview with Susana Hernández Marcet by literary criticism website Dr. Goodfellow, 18 November 2022 (in Spanish)
• Cuentas pendientes, Susana Hernández, book review by María Dolores García Pastor in the now-defunct literary criticism website La tormenta en un vaso [es], 7 March 2016 (in Spanish)