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Water-Blue Eyes
Domingo Villar
Translated from the Spanish by Martin Schifino
Winner of the Brigada 21 Prize for best first crime novel
Winner of the Sintagma Prize
A rich literary mystery peppered with humour, Domingo Villar’s new suspense-filled novel combines a certain melancholy with the joys of music and white wine.
Amid the aroma of the sea and the Galician pines, a young saxophonist is found dead in his swanky flat overlooking the beach. The murder seems to have taken place after a sexual encounter with a lover: there are two glasses filled with gin in the living room, and the dead man, Luis Reigosa, is tied by the wrists to the headboard of the bed. But the way he was killed makes it impossible to obtain any more clues about his activities that night: his stomach, groin and thighs are horribly burned, and his genitals look hideously like a toasted cashew. The unusually cold-blooded and cruel murder is assigned to Leo Caldas, a disheartened police inspector still searching for his place in the world. The case unfolds between inviting nights at the jazz clubs and the tense, affected atmosphere of upper-class Vigo.
‘Villar never loses the attention of the reader’ El Cultural
‘A piece of hard-boiled crime fiction. In luminous prose Villar lets the Mediterranean space speak, setting his story in Galicia among the “fjord-like inlets known as rias … swaths of green land here and there … shielded from the pounding of the Atlantic by streamlined, white-sand islands”’ TLS
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About the Author
Matti Joensuu is one of the Nordic countries’ leading crime writers and a former investigator at the Helsinki Police Department. Priest of Evil was shortlisted for the 2006 Glass Key Award for Scandinavian Crime Novel of the Year. His works have been translated into thirteen languages.
David Hackston studied Scandinavian languages and literature at University College London. He has worked extensively from both Finnish and Swedish, and his published translations include works of prose, poetry, drama and non-fiction. In 2007 he was awarded the Finnish State Prize for Literary Translation.
Copyright
First published in the United Kingdom in 2006
by Arcadia Books, 15-16 Nassau Street, London, W1W 7AB
This ebook edition first published in 2011
Originally published in Finnish by Otava in 1999
Translation from the Finnish © David Hackston
All rights reserved
© Matti Joensuu, 1999
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