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The Summer of Dead Toys

By: Antonio Hill, Laura McGlouglin - translator
Narrated by: Mark Bramhall
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'Evokes the master of Barcelona-set narrative, Carlos Ruiz Zafon' Independent


When the death of a young witness in a case of human trafficking and voodoo provokes the normally calm Inspector Salgado to beat someone up, he is swiftly removed from the project. Instead, he is sent to investigate a teenager's fall to his death in one of Barcelona's uptown areas.
As Salgado begins to uncover the inconvenient truths behind the city's most powerful families, two seemingly unsolvable cases are set to implode under the hot Barcelona sun.

Crime Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction
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Critic reviews

A welcome corrective to snow-blindness from too much Nordic noir... excellent characterisation, a sympathetic and engaging protagonist and plenty of plot twists with a cliff hanger ending that sets things up nicely for the next in the series
Entertaining debut (Marcel Berlins)
Evokes the master of Barcelona-set narrative, Carlos Ruiz Zafon... For all his storytelling skills, Hill’s real achievement is in the creation of an idiosyncratic new character, Salgado... a series to watch (Barry Forshaw)
A blast of hot air through the current frozen Nordic crime-writing landscape (Book of the Week)
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Very nicely written but really slow and no real shock or twists to the slowly unfolding storyline. Different voices and accent were performed well but slowly read which added to the frustration at the pace. Struggled to finish it and never felt like I couldn't wait to get back into it.

Too slow paced for me

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