Rating: 4/5
Review:
A decent, if unspectacular, police procedural
This is a very solid, readable crime novel. It is well written and involving, the characters are well enough drawn to convince much of the time, the story is well-paced and the dialogue generally believable.
Set in Barcelona, the story revolves around an apparent accident which, on further investigation, reveals murky goings-on in respectable families and family secrets from the past. It is a good story which moves at a decent pace. What I found lacking was a real sense of place and atmosphere. Somehow, I never really got a feel of Barcelona, and although we are repeatedly told it is very hot, the details were lacking which might have made this a convincing, pervading factor.
Minor reservations aside, this is a decent police procedural which isn't particularly original but is well enough written and constructed to be entertaining and generally pretty engrossing.
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