Rebecca Pawel, Author . Soho $24 (280p) ISBN 978-1-56947-304-7
The immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War provides the bleak setting for Pawel's stirring first novel. Madrid in 1939 is filled with bomb craters, desecrated churches and nearly abandoned streets, while black markets are just about the...
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Rebecca Pawel, Author . Soho $24 (274p) ISBN 978-1-56947-343-6
Like Pawel's impressive debut, Death of a Nationalist
(2003), this sequel makes fine use of local color and scenic detail to evoke its unusual setting, post–Civil War Spain ("The fields were the color of cornhusk dolls, not a healthy
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Rebecca Pawel, Author . Soho $24 (288p) ISBN 978-1-56947-379-5
Both time and place—1940, just after the Spanish Civil War, in a remote village in the mountains of northern Spain—are impeccably rendered in Edgar-winner Pawel's well-researched if austere novel, her third (after 2004's Law of...
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Rebecca Pawel, Author . Soho $23 (328p) ISBN 978-1-56947-408-2
Set in fascist Spain shortly after WWII, Edgar-winner Pawel's fourth mystery to feature Gardia lieutenant Carlos Tejada (after 2005's The Watcher in the Pine
) is a triumph of characterization, suspense and atmosphere. The suspicious death...
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