Normal view MARC view ISBD view

The summer snow / Rebecca Pawel

By:

Pawel, Rebecca, 1977-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Soho Press , c2006.Description: 328 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9781569474433

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

MYS PAW

LOC classification:

PS3616.A957 S86 2006

Summary: In the southern city of Granada, Spain, bastion of the conservative Catholic aristocracy, fear of the Red Menace is still strong in 1945. One rich, arrogant, elderly lady summons the police to her home almost once a week; she is sure Communists are plotting against her. She changes her will almost as often. When she is found dead, the long-suffering local police can't believe that she really may have been murdered. But as her latest will has vanished, the death must be investigated. Influence isexerted to have Lieutenant Carlos Tejada Alonso y Leon transferred temporarily from Potes, in the northern mountains where he has been stationed, to take charge because the rich old lady is his grand aunt Rosalia, and one of the chief suspects is his father. The family expects Tejada to exonerate its members, but Tejada is a man who puts duty first.

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Mystery	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	MYS PAW (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		005946

Browsing Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. shelves, Shelving location: Sala Ingles, Collection: General Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)

Previous								Next
Previous	MYS PAT Degree of Guilt	MYS PAT Dark lady	MYS PAT Double cross	MYS PAW The summer snow	MYS PAW Death of a nationalist	MYS PEA Stone's fall : a novel	MYS PEA Tokyo year zero	Next

In the southern city of Granada, Spain, bastion of the conservative Catholic aristocracy, fear of the Red Menace is still strong in 1945. One rich, arrogant, elderly lady summons the police to her home almost once a week; she is sure Communists are plotting against her. She changes her will almost as often. When she is found dead, the long-suffering local police can't believe that she really may have been murdered. But as her latest will has vanished, the death must be investigated. Influence isexerted to have Lieutenant Carlos Tejada Alonso y Leon transferred temporarily from Potes, in the northern mountains where he has been stationed, to take charge because the rich old lady is his grand aunt Rosalia, and one of the chief suspects is his father. The family expects Tejada to exonerate its members, but Tejada is a man who puts duty first.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.