The anarchist detective

By Jason Webster

Subjects: Max Cámara (Fictitious character), Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, Fiction, crime, Spain, fiction

Description: "Sent on leave after his last, brutal case, Detective Max Cámara returns to his home town in La Mancha. There, the past keeps pulling at him. The town is exhuming a mass grave from the Civil War, but why is his grandfather behaving so strangely? His old friend Yago is investigating a particularly nasty murder, which sets off memories Max has been trying to bury for years. And then there are Yago's whisperings about a saffron mafia. Max finds himself plunged into the thick of a complex and intensely personal case that will put him in severe danger and have him questioning his past - and his future in the police."--Publisher description.