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Spain

The Angel's Game

In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martín, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city’s underworld. But perhaps his dark imaginings...Read more

Series Name: 
El cementerio de los libros olvidados
No in Series: 
2

At Close Quarters

All is not what it seems as every character becomes a suspect in this gripping, politically-charged thriller. Every day Samuel watches as a woman drops off her two children at the bus stop. He is so fascinated by her that, one afternoon when he cannot be at his window to observe her, he...Read more

Series Name: 
Ricardo Cupido
No in Series: 
5

Blood Med

Spain is corrupt and on the brink of collapse.The king is ill, banks are closing, hospitals are in chaos, homes are lost, demonstrators riot and rightwing thugs patrol the street. The tunnels beneath the streets are at once a refuge and a source of anger. And as the blood flows Cámara roars...Read more

Series Name: 
Chief Inspector Max Cámara
No in Series: 
4

The Blood of the Angels

In polished, sensual prose, this Spanish thriller transcends the noir genre, taking on issues such as gun control and asking complex questions about the nature of guilt and innocence. When Julian Monasterio puts an old pistol in a bank safety deposit box and it is used to murder a teacher...Read more

Series Name: 
Ricardo Cupido
No in Series: 
3

The Buenos Aires Quintet

When Pepe Carvalho's uncle asks him to find his son, Raul, in Buenos Aires, Pepe is reluctant. All he knows about Argentina is "tango, Maradona, and the disappeared" and he has no desire to find out more. But family is family and soon Carvalho is in Buenos Aires, getting more caught up in...Read more

Series Name: 
Pepe Carvalho
No in Series: 
20

The Colour of a Dog Running Away

Set in the bohemian under-belly of Barcelona, this novel skilfully combines an urban thriller and a gothic historical drama focusing on Catharism, a 13th century heretical sect.Read more

Death of a Nationalist

This war has drawn international attention. In a dress rehearsal for World War II, fascists support the Nationalists, while communists have come to the aid of the Republicans. Atrocities have devastated both sides. It is at this moment, when the Republicans have surrendered, and the Guardia...Read more

Series Name: 
Tejada
No in Series: 
1

Death on a Galician Shore

One misty autumn dawn in a quiet fishing port in northwest Spain, the body of a sailor washes up in the harbour. Detective Inspector Leo Caldas is called in from police headquarters in the nearby city of Vigo to sign off on what appears to be a suicide. But details soon come to light that...Read more

Series Name: 
Leo Caldas
No in Series: 
2

Death Rites

From the winner of the Feminino Lumen Prize for best female writer in Spain, a new book in the Petra Delicado mystery series.
Inspector Petra Delicado has been chained to a tiresome desk job in the documentation department of the Barcelona police force for months. But...Read more

Series Name: 
Inspector Petra Delicado
No in Series: 
1

The Heart Tastes Bitter

Eduardo Quintana is a broken man. The tragedy that cost him the lives of his family is a wound he daily tears open afresh. The once renowned painter wallows in grief, subsisting on alcohol and drugs, eking out a living with whatever painting commissions he can get.

But when he is...Read more

The Invisible Guardian

A killer at large in a remote Basque Country valley , a detective to rival Clarice Starling, myth versus reality, masterful storytelling – the Spanish bestseller that has taken Europe by storm.
Shortlisted for the CWA International Dagger

The body of a teenage girl has...Read more

Series Name: 
Trilogía del Baztán
No in Series: 
1

No Time to Kill

It is the end of the season at Cala Felix on the Spanish coast, but the peace is about to be shattered…

Everything seems to be very much as normal in the sleepy little resort, where the remaining visitors are making the most of the late summer sun.

Until, that is,...Read more

Series Name: 
Inspector Borges
No in Series: 
4

The Oxford Murders

Gödel's Theorem of Incompleteness is familiar territory to the young South American mathematician who arrives in Oxford. Murder, however, is not. Yet barely has he greeted his elderly landlady - and her rather luscious granddaughter - when he is bidding her a posthumous farewell. Mrs...Read more

Series Name: 
Los crímenes de Oxford
No in Series: 
1

The Shadow of the Wind

Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s...Read more

Series Name: 
El cementerio de los libros olvidados
No in Series: 
1

Woes of the True Policeman

Begun in the 1980s and worked on until the author’s death in 2003, Woes of the True Policeman is Roberto Bolaño’s last, unfinished novel.

The novel follows Óscar Amalfitano—an exiled Chilean university professor and widower—through the maze of his revolutionary past, his...Read more