Murder in Barcelona: The thrilling inter-war mystery series

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First published as Twist of Fate under A. C. Koning.
Summer, 1937. Fred Rowland's peaceful holiday is Cornwall is derailed when afellow hotel guest and film star is found dead.


Fred soon learns that this death took place under suspicious circumstances andfinds himself tied up in the police investigation. When his old flame, SecretService agent Iris Barnes arrives, it becomes clear that this murder has links tothe political turmoil of the Spanish Civil War.


Fred and Iris begin to follow the trail of Republican revolutionaries in Barcelona.As they pin together events, they realise that the murder may have beenconnected to the treacherous trail they embarked upon in Barcelona. As Europeinches closer towards international conflict, will Fred and Iris make it out ofSpain alive

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Christina Koning has worked as a journalist, reviewing fiction for The Times,and has taught Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and Birkbeck,University of London. From 2013 to 2015, she was Royal Literary Fund Fellowat Newnham College, Cambridge. She won the Encore Prize in 1999 and waslong-listed for the Orange Prize in the same year.