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Ojos De Agua (2006)

by Domingo Villar(Favorite Author)

3.6 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

8478440488 (ISBN13: 9788478440481)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Siruela

series

Leo Caldas

review 1: Una historia de traición, venganza, codicia y muerte, es la presentación del Inspector Caldas: lacónico, tímido, reflexivo y melancólico y de su ayudante Rafael Estévez.Se trata de una novela negra de corte clásico, escrita con buena prosa y un sutil humor que dibujará en el lector alguna que otra sonrisa con las situaciones en las que se ve envuelto del impulsivo e irascible Estévez.Capítulos cortos con la originalidad de comenzar con la definición de una palabra que se relaciona o aparece con el contenido del mismo. Excelente ambientación.
review 2: This is set in Vigo, once the centre of a rich Atlantic fishing industry and the Galician struggle for autonomy but now somewhat cloven into distinct worlds of arty gay types and gastronomes and the su... moreper-rich and the depressingly quotidian. A quiet jazz musician is found hideously tortured to death in one of the fanciest penthouses in Vigo, and the protagonists, a disillusioned Inspector Caldas and his hair-trigger-tempered Zaragozan colleague, spend several days consuming fine white wine and simple gastronomic delights, interrogate high-society homosexuals and their coterie, fend off inquisitive questioning into their private lives by friends and family, and discover that the murderers had been motivated by the oldest desire in the world. I may add the descriptions of the victims are particularly graphic, of the sort that Ian Rankin associated with lesbian crime-writers, but I have to say that Villar bows to nobody in his hair-raising prose. less

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