The Barcelona Journal Murders: A professor. Two women. A killer.

Description

It’s 1906, Barcelona. Professor C’s mission: teach a photography course at an all-women’s, upper-class school in Barcelona. Meanwhile, a serial killer has the city on edge. Elaborately tied prostitutes are turning up strangled in the Barri Gotic, the city’s medieval neighborhood, on days ending in 4. The Professor is hired to photograph the victims. Now, he’s drawn into a treacherous, riddle-filled plot. And he thought teaching was complicated . . .

Will his camera prove mightier than the sword? Will the two witty, strong-willed women in his life become part of his problem or be his salvation? As he begins to make sense of the serial killings, things turn terribly personal: he and Celia, a wealthy student and his love, are blackmailed for what happened in the school’s darkroom. If they put their heads together, can they find a way out of their predicament?

Come on board a carefully crafted crime and mystery novel placed in historical Barcelona . . .

“Mr Daifuku is a competent and engaging writer, building a complex story round a well-developed protagonist.”

“It is evident the author is comfortably familiar with not only the setting, but the history of photography. A lot of historical details are interwoven into the story. I especially enjoyed the toilet snippets taken from newspapers conveniently ripped into to squares for use as bathroom tissue. At a whopping 693 pages, be prepared for a long, but satisfying read.”