Her works cover a wide range of genres, including romantic intrigue, intimate drama, eroticism, and noir fiction.
In addition, female homosexuality is the central theme of her works, some of which have been included in book recommendation lists[2][3] and reviewed by specialized websites.
[4] Her anthology Y abrazarte was a finalist in the 2017 edition of the Guillermo de Baskerville Awards, by literary magazine Libros Prohibidos.
This literary phenomenon has come to be known as "femicrime [es]",[b] in which "a female detective is used to examine the socioeconomic crisis, crime, violence, and/or issues of identity and gender from a woman’s perspective.
Along with Ortiz and Asunción García (with her Cate Maynes character), Aramburu also lists other authors who have created female detective characters, such as: Maria Antònia Oliver Cabrer (with the first serial woman detective in the Lònia Guiu series of novels), Alicia Giménez Bartlett (with her Petra Delicado [es] series), Rosa Ribas Moliné [es] (with Cornelia Weber-Tejedor), Carolina Solé (with Kate Salas), Cristina Fallarás (with Vicky González), Maruja Torres (with Diana Dial), Berna González Harbour [es] (with María Ruiz), Dolores Redondo (with Amaia Salazar), Susana Hernández (with Rebeca Santana and Miriam Vázquez), and Isabel Franc (writing as Lola Van Guardia), who created Emma García, the first lesbian detective.