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Imprint: EuroCrime
Format: C Format
ISBN: 978-1-905147-76-2
Price: £ 11.99
Pages: 250 pp
Date: February 2007
‘EuroCrime introduces Spanish scriptwriter Domingo Villar’s elegant literary mystery Water-Blue Eyes with disheartened Inspector Caldas investigating the hideous murder of a young saxophonist in a swanky seafront flat amid the Galician pines’ – Publishing News, New Names to Watch
‘Translated from Spanish, the first instalment of a literary mystery series starring Inspector Caldas. A young saxophonist is found dead in his smart flat, his body is hideously burned.’ – Benedicte Page, The Bookseller
‘Villar's prose is brilliantly concise and depicts consistent scenes and characters’ – Babelia
‘Here is a good story that’s not overly cinematographic and has no vacuous dialogue. Situations are resolved elegantly and skilfully. Villar doesn’t lose the reader’s attention for a second. A great debut.’ – El Cultural
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Water-Blue Eyes
Domingo Villar (About this author)
Martin Schiffino
A rich literary mystery peppered with humour, Domingo Villar’s new suspense-filled novel combines a certain melancholy with the joys of music and white wine.
Amid the aroma of the sea and the Galician pines, a young saxophonist is found dead in his swanky flat overlooking the beach. The murder seems to have taken place after a sexual encounter with a lover: there are two glasses filled with whiskey in the living room, and the dead man, Luis Reigosa, is tied by the wrists to the headboard of the bed. But the way he was killed makes it impossible to obtain any more clues about his activities that night: his thighs, stomach and groin are horribly burned, and his genitals look hideously like a toasted cashew. The unusually cold-blooded and cruel murder is assigned to Leo Caldas, a disheartened police inspector still searching for his place in the world. The case unfolds between inviting nights at the jazz clubs and the tense, affected atmosphere of upper class Vigo.
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