Book description
'Evokes the master of Barcelona-set narrative, Carlos Ruiz Zafon' Independent
When the death of a young witness in a case of human trafficking and
voodoo provokes the normally calm Inspector Salgado to beat someone
up, he is swiftly removed from the project. Instead, he is sent 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.
Antonio Hill
lives in Barcelona. He is a professional translator of English-language
fiction into Spanish and speaks fluent English.
The Summer of Dead Toys
is the first in a detective series set in Barcelona, introducing
Inspector Salgado. The second in the series,
The Good Suicides
, comes out in Doubleday hb in summer 2013.
