Murdered by Nature
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Beschreibung des Verlags
Optimism, as Inspector Alvarez knows, is the road to calamity . . . - Inspector Alvarez is in a good mood, for once. The sun is shining, he has enjoyed a morning nap at his desk, and his irascible boss – Superior Chief Salas – is on holiday. But his new-found optimism soon leads to disaster. In no time at all, Alvarez is mired down by a seemingly impossible task – identifying a man drowned in the bay, who it quickly transpires may not have been drowned at all .
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Jeffries, who's been turning out tart, snappy mysteries set in Majorca since 1974, shows no sign of losing steam in the 36th entry in his Inspector Alvarez series (after 2011's Murder, Majorcan Style). When the body of a man, eventually identified as English tourist Colin Kerr, surfaces in the bay amid indications that he didn't drown, Alvarez suspects drug trafficking has something to do with Kerr's demise. Alvarez also wonders whether Kerr's death is somehow related to that of an affluent Englishman, Charles Ashton, who recently perished unexpectedly after surviving the car crash that killed his wife. Alvarez's cantankerous boss, Superior Chief Salas, who's supposed to be on vacation, phones to criticize the inspector's every investigative move. While Alvarez lacks the charisma of other Mediterranean detectives such as Andrea Camilleri's Salvo Montalbano, he's affable enough to keep readers solidly in his corner.
