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At Close Quarters: A Case for Private Investigator Ricardo Cupido
Author(s): Eugenio Fuentes (Author), Martin Schifino (Translator)
- Publisher: Arcadia Books
- Publication Date: 1 Oct. 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 276 pages
- ISBN-10: 1906413363
- ISBN-13: 9781906413361
Book Description
Every day, from his window, Samuel watches as a woman drops off her two children at the bus stop. He is so fascinated by her that, one afternoon when he cannot be at his window to observe her, he leaves his camera programmed to take pictures of her picking up the children. Later, when he looks through the pictures, he not only sees his platonic love, but also an unexpected event that has been photographed. That day, on that corner, a group of teenagers provokes one of the neighbour’s dogs, which manages to jump over the fence to attack and ends up killing one of them. Samuel decides to hide the pictures and, overcoming his shyness, ends up approaching the woman. Her name is Marina, she is recently separated, and the daughter of a high-ranking officer, Captain Olmedo, who is in charge of dismantling the city’s military headquarters. Olmedo, a strict man who likes to do his job right, ends up dead in his house, with a bullet from his own gun, through his chest. His daughter Marina does not believe the official version of the suicide and she hires Cupido, a peaceful detective who will discover hidden secrets as well as the tense relationships of those that surround them. He will investigate Olmedo’s military colleagues, his daughter’s ex-husband, and even the anaesthetist who cared for his wife during her plastic surgery. There are reasons that make all of them suspects.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Old fashioned, character-led who-dunits uncovering the dark side of secret Spain’ – Observer
About the Author
Eugenio Fuentes was born in Montehermoso, Caceres, Spain in 1958 and currently lives in Extremadura. He is a multi-prize-winning writer of five novels and a short-story collection. Arcadia has also published two of his crime novels: Depths of the Forest (2002), winner of the Alba/Prensa Canaria Prize, and Blood of the Angels (2007). His work has been translated into more than thirteen languages.
