Murder in Barcelona

The thrilling inter-war mystery series

Christina Koning

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Allison & Busby
19 October 2023

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery

Series: Blind Detective

First published as Twist of Fate under A. C. Koning. Summer, 1937. Fred Rowland's peaceful holiday is Cornwall is derailed when afellow hotel guest and film star is found dead.

Fred soon learns that this death took place under suspicious circumstances andfinds himself tied up in the police investigation. When his old flame, SecretService agent Iris Barnes arrives, it becomes clear that this murder has links tothe political turmoil of the Spanish Civil War.

Fred and Iris begin to follow the trail of Republican revolutionaries in Barcelona.

As they pin together events, they realise that the murder may have beenconnected to the treacherous trail they embarked upon in Barcelona. As Europeinches closer towards international conflict, will Fred and Iris make it out ofSpain alive?

By: Christina Koning
Imprint: Allison & Busby
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9780749029494
ISBN 10: 0749029498
Series: Blind Detective
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 19 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christina Koning has worked as a journalist, reviewing fiction for The Times, and has taught Creative Writing at the University of Oxford and Birkbeck, University of London. From 2013 to 2015, she was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. She won the Encore Prize in 1999 and was long-listed for the Orange Prize in the same year.