The transparency of time Author Surname:Padura

The transparency of time Author Surname:PaduraMario Conde is facing a failing body, a slower mind, and a decrepit country, in which both the ideals and failures of the Cuban Revolution are being swept away in favour of a new worship of money. Rescue comes in the form of a new case: an old Marxist turned flamboyant practitioner of Santeria appears on the scene to engage Conde to track down a stolen statue of the Virgen de Regla a black Madonna. This sets Conde on a quest that spans twenty first

and must find the real killer to clear her name in this thrilling 21st installment of Cara Black's New York Times bestselling mystery series

Cora carries secrets her daughter can't know

a city of contradictions

When Elsie Munday arrives to take up position as housemaid to the Spencer family

Then on a beachside walk

Maggy enters a sinister underworld of corrupt cops

When an evacuee drowns in the river

a number of things

Meanwhile back at Champton

they find an unlisted item - a corpse

Full of mesmerising intrigue

A combination of Gone Girl and Franzen's Freedom filtered through the fierce Mediterranean vision of Elena Ferrante