Javier Falcón Books: Blind Man of Seville (Paperback)

from gypsysmom

I guess I would classify this book as noir detective fiction which is a contradiction in terms according to Wikipedia which defines noir fiction as "Noir fiction (or roman noir) is a literary genre closely related to hardboiled genre with a distinction that the protagonist is not a detective, but...

from cookiemo

This book didn't seem to have any action for the fist 200 or so pages. It was not until Falcon's Father's memoirs appeared that I really became interested in the book. I did enjoy the book eventually but wonder if all his books take this long to get into. I felt that finding the murderer was all...

from perfectleft

As dark and compelling as the previous reviews. I am a big fan of his earlier work. I am not averse to gruesome details but this book worked my last nerve. Dense, with a myriad of meaningless or meaningful connections , less procedural than psychological. Approach this story with caution. A good ...

from Zare

I found this book to be extremely difficult to finish. It is not about gruesome murders described in it nor characters themselves. No. It is about entire disturbing depressive setting, journey of the main character [one Javier Falcon] through the history of his family - more precisely his father'...

from Welshwoman

I was sadly ignorant of this series of books until very recently and I picked it up mainly because I love Seville and was interested in reading something set in the city. It turned out to be far more than just a detective story as Falcon, our protagonist, finds himself looking back into the past ...