Vino y pólvora / Wine and Gunpowder (Clover Saga 3)

Vino y pólvora / Wine and Gunpowder (Clover Saga 3)

Title: Vino y pólvora / Wine and Gunpowder (Clover Saga 3)
Genre: Novela negra / Police procedural
Publisher: new edition : Debolsillo (PRHGE)
Date of publication: July 2024
Pages: 400

The third novel in the Clover Saga a gripping trilogy set in the Spanish region of Extremadura, by the author of La Babilonia, 1580.

A wine magnate is found murdered in his office. A Romanian girl belonging to a community of immigrants who work for the victim during the grape harvest vanishes without a trace. In response to this news, officer Annika Kaunda is forced to interrupt an idyllic holiday with her family in Naples and return to Spain to help solve the case. Meanwhile, her partner, an Italian-born journalist, discovers a clue to her past that he will follow until he gets to the bottom of the case: did her father die the way she was always told? Who is her enigmatic uncle Giacomo? And what are his links with the Camorra?

Critics have said:

 

«We could connect Martín Gijón to the authors of the Mediterranean crime novel, Camilleri Márkaris, Andreu Martín, Eugenio Fuentes, with the still close echo of Vázquez Montalbán».

Diario Público

«She skilfully leads readers through the different plots, conceived with a wise distribution of suspense».

Hoy

«Agatha Christie has someone to guard her throne».

Diario de Sevilla