Sub-inspector Max Romero is asked to help investigate the death of Leila, a beautiful Muslim postgraduate student, researching the impacts of the Spanish Civil War on Max’s home village in the Sierra Nevada. The prime suspect, Hassan, has links to a supposed terrorist group but the police’s insensitive handling of the case leads to his tragic suicide. As a result, Max gets co-opted into the anti-terrorist operation based in Granada, which is destined to go terribly wrong. Meanwhile, Max’s fascinating family, headed by his charismatic grandmother Paula, loom large in the gathering events, while shadows from the Spanish Civil War crowd in to influence the present. The story moves from the ancient cobbled streets of Granada to the sultry mountains of the Sierra Nevada. Over it all hovers the mesmerising but tragic beauty of the city of Granada.
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Hot and steamy Granada, Spain, center of the old Muslim Empire, a place where the past is intertwined with the present, is the setting of this atmospheric series debut…Brooke writes a compelling and well-paced mystery, smoothly weaving in historical and cultural background and creating, in the young, sensitive Max, a refreshing new face in international crime fiction. — Booklist October 2008
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An investigation into the murder of a beautiful Muslim girl spirals into terrorist outrage in Granada, the most exotic city in Spain.
Sub inspector Max Romero is called to help investigate the death of lovely Leila, a Muslim postgraduate student, researching the impact of the Spanish Civil War on Max s home village in the Sierra Nevada.The prime suspect, Hassan, has links to a supposed terrorist group but the police bungle the intitial investigation and Max finds himself coopted into the anti-terrorist operation.
Max is the possessor of a large and fascinating family, headed by his charismatic grandmother Paula, whose presence looms large as the story moves from the ancient cobbled streets of Granada south to the mountains of the Sierra Nevada.The atmosphere is dominated by the mesmerising yet tragic beauty of the city of Granada, the last Moorish Kingdom in Europe, a Paradise lost, but which some hope to regain.
About the Author
P J Brooke is the amalgam of a husband and wife writing team, Philip O’Brien and Jane Brooke. After a brief spell at the Foreign Office Philip taught Latin American studies at Glasgow University. He then moved to Latin America and witnessed some of its most dramatic moments: the Allende government and Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile, the cocaine wars in Columbia and the Chavez revolution in Venezuela. On his return to the UK he stood as a parliamentary candidate for the Scottish Green Party and was a member of the Scottish Constitutional Convention, which led to the formation of the Scottish Parliament. Jane has had a somewhat quieter life, mostly in local government and consultancy. However she has also been involved with the Scottish Green Party and it was during her time as National Secretary that she met Philip.
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