The Summer of Dead Toys - Softcover

Hill, Antonio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0857520822 ISBN 13: 9780857520821

Publisher: Doubleday, 2012

Synopsis

Evokes the master of Barcelona-set narrative, Carlos Ruiz Zafon' Independent. When the death of a vulnerable young witness in a case of human trafficking and voodoo causes the normally calm Inspector Salgado to beat someone up, he is moved off the project and sent instead to investigate a teenager's fall to his death in one of Barcelona's uptown areas. As Salgado begins to uncover the inconvenient truths behind the city's most powerful families, two seemingly unsolvable cases are set to implode under the hot Barcelona sun.

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Review:

"A welcome corrective to snow-blindness from too much Nordic noir ... excellent characterisation, a sympathetic and engaging protagonist and plenty of plot twists with a cliff hanger ending that sets things up nicely for the next in the series" Guardian "Entertaining debut" -- Marcel Berlins Times "Human trafficking, voodoo, the corruption of wealth and power, and sharp pyschological insight. Don't miss" Literary Review "Evokes the master of Barcelona-set narrative, Carlos Ruiz Zafon... For all his storytelling skills, Hill's real achievement is in the creation of an idiosyncratic new character, Salgado... a series to watch" Independent "A blast of hot air through the current frozen Nordic crime-writing landscape" Weekend Sport

Book Description:

International crime fiction from Spain set over a stifling summer in Barcelona, introducing Inspector Hector Salgado. For fans of Jo Nesbo

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0857520822
• ISBN 13: 9780857520821
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 366