Blood crime / Sebastià Alzamora ; translated from the Catalan by Maruxa Relaño and Martha Tennent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alzamora, Sebastià, 1972- author.

Contributor:

Relaño, Maruxa, translator.

Tennent, Martha, translator.

Standardized Title:

Crim de sang. English

Language:

Catalan

English

Subjects (All):

Vampires--Fiction.

Vampires.

Murder--Investigation--Fiction.

Murder.

Murder--Investigation.

Spain--History--Civil War, 1936-1939--Fiction.

Spain.

History.

Genre:

Fiction.

Thrillers (Fiction)

Detective and mystery fiction.

History.

Suspense fiction.

Mystery fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

288 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Soho Crime, [2016]

Summary:

It is 1936, and Barcelona burns as the Spanish Civil War takes over. The city is a bloodbath. Yet in all this death, the murders of a Marist monk and a young boy, drained of their blood, are strange enough to catch a police inspector's attention. His quest for justice is complicated by the politics, dangers, and espionage of daily life in a war zone. The Marist brothers of the murdered monk are being persecuted; meanwhile, a convent of Capuchin nuns hides in plain sight, trading favors with the military police to stay alive. In their midst is a thirteen-year-old novice who stumbles into the clutches of the murderer. Can she escape in this city of no happy endings? Narrated by a vampire who thrives in the havoc of the war, this stunning novel, inspired by the true story of a massacre in the early days of the Spanish Civil War, is a gothic reflection on the nature of monsters, in all their human forms.

Notes:

"First published in Catalan by Raval Edicions, SLU, Proa, 2012" -- Title page verso.

Sant Jordi Prize for Catalan Literature

ISBN:

9781616956288

1616956283

OCLC:

938384109

Publisher Number:

99971252671