The Summer of Dead Toys
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3.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
A skillfully plotted tale of misdeeds and murder--introducing Inspector Hector Salgado, a detective with a complicated past, a love of cinema . . . and a tendency to violence.
Under a hot Barcelona sun, a killer is feeling the heat.
When the death of a vulnerable young witness in a case of human trafficking and voodoo causes the normally calm Police Inspector Hector 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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Spanish author Hill's strong debut introduces Barcelona Insp. H ctor Salgado, a native of Argentina who has just returned to duty after an enforced vacation. Four months earlier, Salgado was suspended from duty for losing his temper and assaulting Dr. Omar, the leader of a human-trafficking ring. Salgado now looks into the death of 19-year-old Marc Castells, the son of a successful businessman with right-wing political connections. The teen's fatal fall from a balcony appears to have been an accident, but Salgado's astute partner, Leire Castro, notices a subtle clue that transforms the matter into a homicide investigation. Meanwhile, Dr. Omar, now recovered from the inspector's beating, has vanished, with a bloody pig's head left on the criminal's office desk. Salgado's rich inner life and Hill's talents at plotting and prose bode well for a successful series.
