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The
2005 Award
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The Blind Man of Seville by Robert Wilson
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Nominated by:
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| It's
Semana Santa in Seville, the Easter week of passion and processions. A leading
restaurateur is found bound, gagged and grotesquely murdered in front of
his TV. Self-inflicted wounds tell of the man's struggle to avoid the unendurable
images he's been forced to watch. At this horrific scene the normally dispassionate
homicide detective Javier Falcón is inexplicably afraid. What could
be so terrible?
The
investigation into the victim's turbulent life sends Falcón trawling
through his own past and the ferociously candid journals of his late father,
a world-famous artist. Painful revelations churn up Falcón's unreliable
memory and more killings push him to the edge of terrifying truth. And
Falcón realizes that this is not just a hunt for the all-seeing
killer who knows his victims' secret lives but also the search for his
own missing heart. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
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Robert
Wilson was born in 1957. A graduate of Oxford University, he has worked
in shipping, advertising, and trading in Africa. He is married and divides
his time between England, Spain and Portugal. He is the author of five
previous novels, including The Company of Strangers and A
Small Death in Lisbon, which won the Gold Dagger Award for Best
Crime Novel of 1999 from Britain's Crime Writers Association |
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