The Blind Man of Seville Robert Wilson British Suspense

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The Blind Man of Seville The Blind Man of Seville Hardcover
British/ Contemporary/ Suspense

After trying his hand at spy fiction in

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The Blind Man of Seville The Blind Man of Seville Hardcover
British/ Contemporary/ Suspense

After trying his hand at spy fiction in The Company of Strangers, Robert Wilson returns to his detective-thriller roots with The Blind Man of Seville, a grimly bewitching and character-driven yarn about people confronting their most hidden horrors./ It was only right that there should be at least one murder in Holy Week, muses Inspector Jefe Javier Falcon as he’s called out during Spain’s Semana Santa festivities to probe the death of a prosperous Seville restaurateur, Raul Jim nez. The deceased was found strapped to a chair with his eyelids removed, facing a television on which had been showing a video of him entertaining prostitutes. Jim nez’s heart had failed as he struggled to escape. This murder is more extraordinary than any I have seen in my career, Falcon tells the businessman’s widow, as he embarks on an investigation that will lead to the slayings of a hooker and an art dealer, and force the homicide cop into a game of wits against a killer obsessed with the contradictions between illusion and reality. Meanwhile, Falcon is himself obsessed with the long-secreted journals kept by his late father, a famous painter, whose brutal acts during the Spanish Civil War and subsequent hedonism in North Africa shaped Javier’s life… and will make him the killer’s next target./ Wilson’s plot turns rather creakily on the coincidence of Falcon discovering a photograph of his father among Jim nez’s things. And lengthy excerpts from the elder Falcon’s diaries, while they reveal links between the book’s secondary players, and are interesting for their portrayal of wartime Europe and postwar Tangier, nonetheless hobble this story’s pace and distract from the modern crimes at its center. Still, there’s a poetic edge to this author’s prose that makes even his most gruesome or tragic scenes worthy of rereading, and in Javier Falcon–a lonely outsider who shadows his ex-wife and has a perplexing aversion to milk–he creates a police protagonist as satisfyingly and humanly flawed as any since Z Coelho, from Wilson’s outstanding A Small Death in Lisbon. –J. Kingston Pierce/ Harcourt 2003-02-03 12:00:00 +0000 8/9/06 21:08 Robert Wilson 448
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