Andalusian Mystery Series
Darkness in Malaga
Literary Titan – Gold Medal Award
Crime Mystery set in Spain
For some thirty years, four friends have been hunting all over Spain for the man who made their school years pure hell. They are running out of time. If they don’t find him soon, he will be too old and may die before they can bring him to justice. Their justice. One last concerted effort is all they need, whatever it takes. They make their plans.
Wily veteran Detective Inspector, Leon Prado, is perplexed. When a young foreign girl is kidnapped in Málaga, he screws up the ransom delivery and has to face the consequences. Is he losing his touch, or are darker forces at work?
In the first case of the Andalusian Mystery Series, the truth was far worse than the nightmare.
Darkness in Ronda
Book Viral Reviews – Millennial Prizewinner
For some thirty years, four friends have been hunting all over Spain for the man who made their school years pure hell. They are running out of time. If they don’t find him soon, he will be too old and may die before they can bring him to justice. Their justice. One last concerted effort is all they need, whatever it takes. They made their plans but hadn’t counted on Detective Inspector Leon Prado and his translators, Phillip and Amanda. Now the four are down to three.
Bullfighting is a fading tradition but the support to keep it going is very much alive. A famous Torero decides to stop killing the brave animals but meets stubborn resistance from the Royal Taurino Society.
Their feud comes to a head at the Pedro Romero Festival in Ronda. But more sinister elements are manipulating the conflict for their own ends. In the second case of the Andalusian Mystery Series, death is still in the afternoon.
Darkness in Vélez-Málaga
Book Viral Reviews – Millennial Prizewinner
For some thirty years, four friends have been hunting all over Spain for the man who made their school years pure hell. They are running out of time. If they don’t find him soon, he will be too old and may die before they can bring him to justice. Their justice. One last concerted effort is all they need, whatever it takes. They made their plans but hadn’t counted on Detective Inspector Leon Prado and his translators, Phillip and Amanda. After failed efforts in Málaga and Ronda, the four are now down to two.
Phillip, and Amanda, are helping an old friend Salome, a Flamenco dancer, unravel her birth family’s history in Vélez-Málaga. When they don’t answer his calls for several days, Prado is more than worried.
In the third case of the Andalusian Mystery Series, old legends won’t fade away.
Darkness in Granada
For some thirty years, four friends have been hunting all over Spain for the man who made their school years pure hell. They are running out of time. If they don’t find him soon, he will be too old and may die before they can bring him to justice. Their justice. One last concerted effort is all they need, whatever it takes. They made their plans but hadn’t counted on Detective Inspector Leon Prado and his translators, Phillip and Amanda. But just because three of the four are behind bars, doesn’t mean they will stop trying.
But now, the wily detective knows what the four are up to and is not prepared to wait and see what they do next. He sets out to entrap the man and his fourth victim.
For this he needs some help from a famous artist, Pablo Picasso. From the private collection of a reclusive American mistress exiled in Granada City, seven of his muse paintings are to be exhibited in the magnificent Alhambra Palace. They haven’t been seen in public for over thirty years.
In this climax of the Andalusian Mystery Series, will these abstract illusions be the powerful magnet Prado hopes for?
Darkness in Córdoba
It’s Semana Santa – Holy Week, the colorful and passionate highlight of the church calendar celebrated fervently throughout all of Spain, especially in Andalucía.
On the morning of Palm Sunday, in the historic city of Córdoba, the body of an eminent priest is discovered in a private chapel within the magnificent Cathedral, the hub of the ancient religious rituals.
An elderly man is squatting on the stone floor gazing intently at the corpse. All he would say is three words in Spanish. “Sólo hablo árabe. I only speak Arabic.”
The city police are convinced it’s a religious hate incident. The bishop is adamant it is not.
In this fifth standalone case of the Andalusian Mystery Series, Detective Inspector Leon Prado, with interpreter’s ex-British soldier Phillip Armitage, and American videographer Amanda Salisbury take over the investigation. Not only do they face a cauldron of resentment from the local force but the Town Hall and cofradias, brotherhoods seem to be conspiring to prevent them from solving the case. Prado eventually fathoms that the answer lies behind the mask.
