Spanish crime fiction

The Legacy of the Bones by Dolores Redondo

By MarinaSofia

6 October, 2016

Translated by Nick Caistor and Lorenza Garcia — Just how many secrets is it possible to have in one family? Well, if it’s Spanish author Dolores Redondo’s Baztan Trilogy, it appears the answer is very many indeed. After the disturbing revelations about her mother in The…

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Interview: Dolores Redondo

By MarinaSofia

26 February, 2016

Dolores Redondo has had an amazing few years as a bestselling crime fiction author across Europe and beyond. Her Baztan trilogy, set in Northeast Spain – in Basque country – has been very well received and translated into 20 languages. The first in the series, The…

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The Invisible Guardian by Dolores Redondo

By MarinaSofia

20 January, 2016

Translated by Isabelle Kaufeler — The Baztan valley in the Pyrenees in the north-east of Spain is misty, rainy and remote. Immersed in Basque traditions and superstitions, it creates an atmospheric backdrop to a novel which combines police procedural with a disquieting sense of the…

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Music for the Dead by Luis Gutiérrez Maluenda

By nagaisayonara

20 October, 2014

Translated by Nick Caistor – It’s not often that a crime novel calls to mind the work of Boris Vian, the multi-talented French saxophonist, writer, translator and publisher who, when asked to discover the latest American noir author and translate his work into French, decided…

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The Barcelona Brothers

By MarinaSofia

17 August, 2012

Written by Carlos Zanón — Ah, Barcelona, the city of Gaudi and Miro. A centre of Catalan culture and creativity both on canvas and on the football pitch. Well, that’s not quite the case in The Barcelona Brothers, the first of Carlos Zanon’s books to…

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The Legacy of the Bones by Dolores Redondo

Interview: Dolores Redondo

The Invisible Guardian by Dolores Redondo

Music for the Dead by Luis Gutiérrez Maluenda

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