“If Graham Green, P.G. Wodehouse, Raymond Chandler, and Anthony Bourdain all sat together in front of a typewriter, the result would be Pepe Carvalho.” —Crimespree Magazine
Meet Pepe Carvalho, the gastronome-detective whom The times described as “the most metaphysical gumshoe on the streets”:
SOUTHERN SEAS
TATTOO
OFF SIDE
THE BUENOS AIRES QUINTET
MURDER IN THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE
THE ANGST-RIDDEN EXECUTIVE
“Montalbán writes with authority and compassion – a Le Carré-like sorrow.” –– Publishers Weekly
“Montalbán’s work is an exemplar of how crime novels can be used to analyse shifts in society.” —The Guardian
“Pepe Carvalho is a phlegmatic investigator. His greatest concern is with his stomach, but when not pursuing delicacies, he can unravel the most tangled of mysteries?” –-The Sunday Times
“Montalbán is a writer who is caustic about the powerful and tender towards the oppressed.”–Times Literary Supplement
“A sharp observer of the high and the low …” —Detectives Beyond Borders
“Montalbán presents a riveting detective narrative which quite naturally covers the country’s social and political history from the military dictatorship onwards, exposing the hidden power and corruption beneath the facade of democracy.” —The Barcelona Review