Published by Doubleday, part of Transworld Publishers
Format: Hardback
£14.99
Author:
Antonio Hill
Format: Hardback
EAN: 9780857521125
£14.99
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EAN: 9780857521125
Published: 24 May 2012
'Evokes the master of Barcelona-set narrative, Carlos Ruiz Zafon' Independent
When the death of a young witness in a case of human trafficking and voodoo provokes the normally calm Inspector Salgado to beat someone up, he is swiftly removed from the project. Instead, he is sent 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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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
- Times
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
Antonio Hill lives in Barcelona. He is a professional translator of English-language fiction into Spanish and speaks fluent English. The Summer of Dead Toys is the first in a detective series set in Barcelona, introducing Inspector Salgado. The second in the series, The Good Suicides, comes out in Doubleday hb in summer 2013.
