Book description
This stunning, atmospheric thriller set in war-torn Europe won the CWA
Gold Dagger and has now been reissued with the Javier Falcon series.
A Portuguese bank is founded on the back of Nazi wartime deals.
Over half a century later a young girl is murdered in Lisbon.
1941. Klaus Felsen, SS, arrives in Lisbon and the strangest party in
history where Nazis and Allies, refugees and entrepreneurs dance to the
strains of opportunism and despair. Felsen's war takes him to the bleak
mountains of the north where a brutal battle is being fought for an
element vital to Hitler's blitzkrieg.
Late 1990s, Lisbon. Inspector Ze Coelho is investigating the murder of a
young girl with a disturbing sexual past. As Ze digs deeper he overturns
the dark soil of history and unearths old bones. The 1974 revolution has
left injustices of the old fascist regime unresolved. But there's an
older, greater injustice for which this small death in Lisbon is
horrific compensation, and in his final push for the truth, Ze must face
the most chilling opposition. Compulsively readable… rich in history
and intrigue, love and death. Bold, inventive and wholly successful…
Wilson unmistakably delivers the goods.' Literary Review
'This is vintage suspense writing; sharp, cold, mean and funny.' Alan Furst
'A gripping and absorbing drama that spans Europe from wartime Berlin
to contemporary Lisbon.' Val McDermid
'A class act…For once a novelist influenced by Raymond Chandler is not
shown up by the comparison.' Sunday Times Robert Wilson has spent
several years in West Africa, and he drew on this experience for his
Bruce Medway novels. He and his wife now live in Portugal, the setting
for 'A Small Death in Lisbon'.
