Blackstone and the Golden Egg Book

Some time ago I read and enjoyed Wilson's A Small Death in Lisbon (1999), which combines a present day investigation by Inspector Zé Coelho into the death of a young woman, and art theft by the Nazis in World War II. I thought the writing good and the plot clever. With The Hidden Assassins (2006), I expected another Coelho story. Wrong. Not even the same country. This book features Inspector Javier Falcón, is set in Seville, and is the third of a quartet of novels, all of which deal with different investigations, while having common threads running throughout. And while I would have done better to start at the beginning of the series with The Blind Man of Seville (2003), I still found the book gripping - if not quite as good as my first venture with Wilson.

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