Verano de Los Juguetes Muertos

from mmoj

What a terrific book. Antonio Hill is a new favorite author. I received this book from Read It Forward and so glad I entered. The story is about Hector Salgado an Argentinean ex-patriot now working in Barcelona. This is the first in a series focusing on Inspector Salvador and the book does a very...

from TexasBookLover

The Summer of Dead Toys, Antonio Hill Broadway Books 978-0-7704-3589-9 $15, 362 pgs "No one has ever been killed out of love; that's a fallacy from tango." - Héctor Salgado This story grabs you on page one and refuses to relinquish its grip. From the first page: "It's been a long time since I tho...

from gypsysmom

This book is an Advanced Readers Copy sent to me by Random House. It explicitly states that it is an uncorrected proof so I hope my one big problem with the book was corrected in the final version. More about that later.Inspector Hector Salgado is employed by the Barcelona police force or, possib...

from sleahey

Inspector Hector returns from time off because of beating up a perpetrator, and is asked as a favor to investigate the circumstances surrounding a young man's apparent suicide. Three wealthy families are intertwined in the situation, with many secrets and betrayals. Hector's own family is also in...

from maneekuhi

"The Summer of Dead Toys" took me several days more to complete than usual for a typical crime fiction novel. I found it somewhat interesting, but I never eagerly anticipated getting back to it, and after reading it for 30 - 45 minutes I was quite content with putting it down. There were long sec...