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The Summer of Dead Toys
Hill Antonio
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Description for The Summer of Dead Toys
Paperback. 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. Translator(s): McGlouglin, Laura. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 274.
'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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552778268
SKU
V9780552778268
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Ref
99-1
About Hill Antonio
Antonio Hill studied pyschology and 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 and was a major best seller in Spain. It is translated into fifteen languages.The second in the series, ... Read more
Reviews for The Summer of Dead Toys
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
Evokes the master of Barcelona-set narrative, Carlos Ruiz Zafon... For all ... Read more
Guardian
Entertaining debut
Marcel Berlins
Times
Evokes the master of Barcelona-set narrative, Carlos Ruiz Zafon... For all ... Read more