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The Summer of Dead Toys (Inspector Salgado #1)

Toni Hill

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Jul 27, 2014 Beverly rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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This was a 3.5 read for me.

Excellent characterizations and plenty of plot twists wrapped in a dark timbre makes for a satisfying and entertaining read. This book introduces us to Inspector Hector Salgado, a Barcelona police homicide detective, who has just returned from visiting his native Argentina, as he is on “forced” leave due to beating up a sex trafficker ring leader who denied culpability in the death of a young Nigerian girl. Because of his violent actions, Hector is taken off this case ...more

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Jan 29, 2019 Tony rated it did not like it · review of another edition

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Barcelona's the only part of Spain I've been to, so I'm always partial to crime novels set there. A few chapters into this one, I had to stop and check that it wasn't the second in a series (it isn't), since it seems like there's a lot of backstory. Detective Salgado is coming back from a month of administrative leave following his beating of a suspect in a human trafficking case, and still coming to terms with the dissolution of his marriage.

He's asked to do a pro-forma investigation into the ...more

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Aug 12, 2013 Andy Plonka rated it it was amazing

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This is an excellent book, set in Spain with several not very nice protagonists in it. Not for the sensitive howver, as there is a fair amount of child abuse in it.

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