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Soho Press
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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This murder mystery set in Fascist Spain is “a colorful, thrilling story about loyalty and love” (Detroit Free Press).
Spain, 1940: Lt. Carlos Tejada has been transferred to Salamanca, where he studied law before the Spanish Civil War. His new duties include monitoring parolees—former professors who were fired for protesting against Franco.
The policeman’s old love, Elena...
Spain, 1940: Lt. Carlos Tejada has been transferred to Salamanca, where he studied law before the Spanish Civil War. His new duties include monitoring parolees—former professors who were fired for protesting against Franco.
The policeman’s old love, Elena...
Author
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Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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A “beguiling” novel of murder, politics, and family in fascist Spain, from an Edgar Award–winning author (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
In the southern city of Granada, Spain, bastion of the conservative Catholic aristocracy, fear of the Red Menace is still strong in 1945. One rich, arrogant, elderly lady summons the police to her home almost once a week; she is sure Communists are plotting...
In the southern city of Granada, Spain, bastion of the conservative Catholic aristocracy, fear of the Red Menace is still strong in 1945. One rich, arrogant, elderly lady summons the police to her home almost once a week; she is sure Communists are plotting...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Winner of the Edgar Award: A “tense and exciting” murder mystery set in the wake of the Spanish Civil War (The Detroit Free Press).
A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, the Chicago Tribune, and the Detroit Free Press
Madrid 1939. Carlos Tejada Alonso y León is a sergeant in the Guardia...
A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, the Chicago Tribune, and the Detroit Free Press
Madrid 1939. Carlos Tejada Alonso y León is a sergeant in the Guardia...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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A police lieutenant in Fascist Spain finds his new assignment a threat to his family in this novel in the Edgar Award–winning series.
Spain, 1940: Potes, a remote northern mountain village, is Carlos Tejada’s first independent Guardia Civil command. He soon discovers that this “promotion” is a mixed blessing. The villagers are unwelcoming. He and his pregnant wife, Elena, have no place to live but...
Spain, 1940: Potes, a remote northern mountain village, is Carlos Tejada’s first independent Guardia Civil command. He soon discovers that this “promotion” is a mixed blessing. The villagers are unwelcoming. He and his pregnant wife, Elena, have no place to live but...