The Good Suicides
By (Author) Antonio Hill
Translated by Laura McGloughlin
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Black Swan
8th May 2014
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
863.7
Paperback
416
Width 127mm, Height 198mm, Spine 25mm
283g
The return of the volatile Inspector Salgado in an intricate murder story set in Barcelona Young, Free and . . . Dead Senior staff at Alemany Cosmetics come home with a secret after a team-building course in a remote country house. Now they are committing suicide, one by one. Soon, they may all be dead. Each has received a photo from an anonymous sender showing dogs hanging dead from a tree near the farm. Deciphering the personalities of these youthful executives and their power structures, Inspector Salgado has his own ways of making them speak. But Barcelona is hunkering down for an unusually cold spell. Can Salgado break the ice before it's too late
Intelligent and appealing * Sunday Times *
Antonio Hill studied psychology and lives in Barcelona. He is a professional translator of English-language fiction into Spanish. The Good Suicides, set over a cold winter, is the second in the series of Barcelona-set detective stories and was a bestseller in Spain. The first, The Summer of Dead Toys, set in the blistering heat, was also a major best seller in Spain, and was translated into fifteen languages.