The Blind Man of Seville

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The first in Robert Wilsons Seville series, featuring the tortured detective Javier Falcon.
The man is bound, gagged and dead in front of his television.The terrible self-inflicted wounds tell of his violent struggle to avoid some unseen horror. On the screen In his head What could make a man do that to himself

It's Easter week in Seville, a time of passion and processions. But detective Javier Falcn is not celebrating. Appalled by the victim's staring eyes he is inexorably drawn into this disturbing, mystifying case. And when the investigation into the dead man's life sends Javier trawling though his own past and into the shocking journals of his late father, a famous artist, his unreliable memory begins to churn. Then there are more killings and Falcn finds himself pushed to the edge of a terrifying truth

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Praise for The Blind Man of Seville

Crime writing at its very best, but it is also something more. It observes no limits, it begs no ones pardon. It excites, it surprises and it satisfies.This is a fine important novel Literary Review

Admirably paced and enthrallingly elaborate Sunday Times

'The Blind Man of Seville is an ingenious and compelling thriller Daily Telegraph

'This is powerful evocative stuff' Observer

'As an evocation of the emotional labyrinth of postwar Tangiers and as a tale of artistic drift, it's rather brilliant a detective story Paul Bowles never wrote' Guardian

A wonderful, if dark and disturbing, literary detective novel' Time Out

To call Robert Wilson's The Blind Man of Seville a thriller is to do a grave injustice to an utterly stunning achievement.The central narrative of the detective on the verge of a nervous breakdown is a psychological thriller of real profundity. Wonderful! Paul Preston, author of Franco

Author Bio

Robert Wilson spent several years in West Africa and draws on this experience in his novels. He and his wife now live in Portugal.