Barcelona by Jordi Llobregat;
Moscow Cipher (p), by Scott
Mariani; Private Princess (l) and
Haunted (p), by James Patterson;
Offering To The Storm (p), the
small paperback edition of the
final part of Dolores Redondo’s
Baztan trilogy set in Spain’s
Basque country; Come Sundown
(p), by Nora Roberts; Sleeping In
The Ground (p), by Peter
Robinson; Twisted Prey (l) and
Deep Freeze (p), by John
Sandford; Playing With Death
(p), by Simon Scarrow; The
Good Daughter (p), by Karin
Slaughter; Hunted (l), the second
in G X Todd’s Voices series; and,
The Lies We Told (p), by
Camilla Way.
maelstrom of politically-driven blackmail. Enrique, a high-
profile businessman, receives a visit from Rolando Garro, the
editor of a notorious magazine that specialises in salacious
exposés. Garro presents Enrique with lewd pictures from an
old business trip and demands that he invest in the magazine.
Enrique refuses, and the next day the pictures are on the front
page.
The Shape Of Ruins (l), by
Colombia’s Juan Gabriel
Vásquez, takes the form of
personal and formal
investigations into two
political assassinations. They
are the murder in 1914 of
Rafael Uribe Uribe — the
man who inspired author
Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s
General Buendia in the novel
One Hundred Years of
Solitude; and of the
charismatic Jorge Eliécer
Gaitán, who might have been
Colombia’s John F Kennedy
but was gunned down on the
brink of success in the
presidential elections of 1948.
Separated by more than 30 years, the killings at first appear
unconnected; but as the novel progresses, Vasquez reveals how
they contain between them the seeds of the violence that has
bedevilled Colombia ever since.
In the general fiction lists,
translated works by two Latin
American authors stand out.
The novel The Neighbourhood
(l), by Peruvian Nobel laureate
Mario Vargas Llosa, is set in
1990s Peru during the turbulent
and corrupt years of Alberto
Fujimori’s presidency. Two
wealthy couples in Lima’s high
society become embroiled in a
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