Blood crime
By: Sebastià Alzamora ; translated from the Catalan by Maruxa Relaño and Martha Tennent
Contributors: Relaño, Maruxa, translator; Tennent, Martha, translator
Publisher: Soho Crime
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781616956288
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Fiction; Murder; Investigation; Vampires; History
Work titles: Crim de sang
Description: 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: Translation from the Catalan of: Crim de sang.

Sant Jordi Prize for Catalan Literature