Why a Booktrail?
2000s: This is often a undiscovered place of literary discovery and there is something special about the rugged coastline of Galicia. As if we need an excuse to go there!
Death On A Galician Shore
What you need to know before your trail
One misty autumn dawn in a quiet fishing port in northwest Spain, the body of a sailor washes up in the harbour. Detective Inspector Leo Caldas is called in from police headquarters in Vigo to look at and close up what appears to be a suicide. But this is no suicide.
It’s not going to be easy finding out what has really happened however since the villagers are so suspicious of outsiders. Caldas then starts to look into the maritime life of the village, and when he uncovers a disturbing decade-old case of a shipwreck and two mysterious disappearances, things start to get a lot more complicated.
Travel Guide
It would seem as if the Galician reserve is in place here to match the slow pace of life in the area. The detectives find that the people who live in and around the town are not open to the idea of being investigated in any way. This is a town of beauty and coastal views to rival any other so this is a kind of paradise and they intend to keep it that way.
Galicia jumps off the page with not only the landscape and its people but the cuisine of the area, the fishing heritage and the clear blue sky.
“Don’t be fooled by the empty harbour, this place was one ofGalicia’s most important fishing ports once”
Contrast to this the historical mystery, the present day murder and the wild, chaotic coastline providing as many mysteries as it does solutions.
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