Ebook {Epub PDF} A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson

Wilson is no Mozart. He just wrote too many words. Had the first pages of A Small Death in Lisbon been edited down to pages he would possibly have had a riveting plot. (The last 50 pages, by the way, were well done.)/5(). No lazy reading, or else one loses one's way, whether it is a John Le Carré spy story or crime fiction like Robert Wilson's A Small Death in Lisbon. The small death is the murder in the s of a young schoolgirl who has been moonlighting as a prostitute, but that thread is interwoven with a complex historical story of Nazi gold and "neutral Reviews: Robert Wilson has written several political thrillers, most of which are set in West Africa, but they are, alas, largely unavailable in the U.S. In A Small Death in Lisbon, the narrative switches back and forth between and , and Wilson's wide knowledge of history and keen sense of place make the eras equally vibrant. In Germany, Klaus Felsen, an industrialist, is approached by the SS high /5().

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A Small Death in LisbonRobert Wilson PagesAvailable in PaperbackBerkley: Book DescriptionA Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson intertwines two tales of intrigue and murder over a course of 58 years. The novel begins in present day Lisbon, Portugal, where a young woman, Catarina Oliveira, is found dead on the coast. A Small Death in Lisbon is a crime novel by Robert Wilson. The novel won the CWA Gold Dagger Award in , and the German Crime Prize (for an International Novel) in Notes. Zé Coelho shares some characteristics with his Spanish counterpart, Inspector jefe Javier Falcón, such as. A SMALL DEATH IN LISBON. by Robert Wilson ‧ RELEASE DATE: Oct. 1, The murder of a teenaged minx opens up a mystery that reaches back to the darkest secrets of wartime in this double-decker winner of the British Crime Writers’ Golden Dagger Award. Inspector José Alfonso Coelho wouldn’t even have been assigned to the case if Catarina Oliveira’s corpse hadn’t been dumped on a beach so close to the home he shares with his own teenaged daughter, Olivia.