Great to be spotlighting the Elisenda Domènech Investigations series by Chris Lloyd today, they look awesome!
Elisenda
Domènech Investigations by Chris Lloyd
Summary:
An intense and brilliantly realised crime thriller set in
the myth-soaked streets of Girona
A killer is targeting hate figures in the Catalan city of
Girona – a loan shark, a corrupt priest, four thugs who have blighted the
streets of the old quarter – leaving clues about his next victim through
mysterious effigies left hung on a statue. Each corpse is posed in a way whose
meaning no one can fathom. Which is precisely the point the murderer is trying
to make.
Elisenda Domènech, the solitary and haunted head of the
city’s newly-formed Serious Crime Unit, is determined to do all she can to stop
the attacks. She believes the attacker is drawing on the city’s legends to
choose his targets, but her colleagues aren’t convinced and her investigation
is blocked at every turn.
Battling against the increasing sympathy towards the killer
displayed by the press, the public and even some of the police, she finds
herself forced to question her own values. But when the attacks start to
include less deserving victims, the pressure is suddenly on Elisenda to stop
him. The question is: how?
Information about the Book
Title: City of Good Death (Elisenda Domènech
Investigations #1)
Author: Chris Lloyd
Release Date: 13th July 2015
Genre: Crime Thriller
Publisher: Canelo
Format: ebook
Goodreads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25897153-city-of-good-death
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B010MALNYY
Summary:
Be careful what you dig up…
Still recovering from the tragedy that hit her team, Elisenda takes on a new case. Except it’s not new. On an archaeological dig by the coast a body is uncovered, seemingly executed with a spike thrust through the base of the skull – an ancient tribal ritual. It soon becomes clear that this body is neither ancient nor modern, but a mysterious corpse from the 1980s.
Assigned to the case along with her team, Elisenda soon uncovers a complex world of star archaeologists, jealousy and missing persons. They find a dark trade in illicit antiquities, riddled with vicious professional rivalries. And even though she’s staying close to the crime scene, Elisenda is also never far from enemies of her own within the police force.
Just as the case seems to become clear it is blown wide-open by another horrific murder. Elisenda must fight her personal demons and office politics, whilst continuing to uncover plots and hatreds that were long buried. How far will she go to solve the crime? Is her place in the force secure? And can she rebuild her life?
The atmospheric second crime thriller featuring Catalan detective Elisenda Domènech, for readers of Val McDermid and Ann Cleeves
Still recovering from the tragedy that hit her team, Elisenda takes on a new case. Except it’s not new. On an archaeological dig by the coast a body is uncovered, seemingly executed with a spike thrust through the base of the skull – an ancient tribal ritual. It soon becomes clear that this body is neither ancient nor modern, but a mysterious corpse from the 1980s.
Assigned to the case along with her team, Elisenda soon uncovers a complex world of star archaeologists, jealousy and missing persons. They find a dark trade in illicit antiquities, riddled with vicious professional rivalries. And even though she’s staying close to the crime scene, Elisenda is also never far from enemies of her own within the police force.
Just as the case seems to become clear it is blown wide-open by another horrific murder. Elisenda must fight her personal demons and office politics, whilst continuing to uncover plots and hatreds that were long buried. How far will she go to solve the crime? Is her place in the force secure? And can she rebuild her life?
The atmospheric second crime thriller featuring Catalan detective Elisenda Domènech, for readers of Val McDermid and Ann Cleeves
Information about the Book
Title: City of Buried Ghosts (Elisenda Domènech
Investigations #2)
Author: Chris Lloyd
Release Date: 30th May 2016
Genre: Crime Thriller
Publisher: Canelo
Format: ebook
Summary:
When a child disappears,
the clock starts ticking
Detective Elisenda Domènech has had a tough few years. The loss of her daughter and a team member; the constant battles against colleagues and judges; the harrowing murder investigations… But it’s about to get much worse.
When the son of a controversial local politician goes missing at election time, Elisenda is put on the case. They simply must solve it. Only the team also have to deal with a spate of horrifically violent break-ins. People are being brutalised in their own homes and the public demands answers.
Could there be a connection? Why is nobody giving a straight answer? And where is Elisenda’s key informant, apparently vanished off the face of the earth? With the body count threatening to increase and her place in the force on the line, the waters are rising…
Be careful not to drown.
The stunning new instalment of the gripping Elisenda Domènech crime thrillers for readers of Ian Rankin, Henning Mankell and Andrea Camilleri.
Detective Elisenda Domènech has had a tough few years. The loss of her daughter and a team member; the constant battles against colleagues and judges; the harrowing murder investigations… But it’s about to get much worse.
When the son of a controversial local politician goes missing at election time, Elisenda is put on the case. They simply must solve it. Only the team also have to deal with a spate of horrifically violent break-ins. People are being brutalised in their own homes and the public demands answers.
Could there be a connection? Why is nobody giving a straight answer? And where is Elisenda’s key informant, apparently vanished off the face of the earth? With the body count threatening to increase and her place in the force on the line, the waters are rising…
Be careful not to drown.
The stunning new instalment of the gripping Elisenda Domènech crime thrillers for readers of Ian Rankin, Henning Mankell and Andrea Camilleri.
Information about the Book
Title: City of Drowned Sould (Elisenda Domènech
Investigations #3)
Author: Chris Lloyd
Release Date: 6th February 2017
Genre: Crime Thriller
Publisher: Canelo
Format: ebook
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01N7Y2NDN
Author Information
Chris was born in an ambulance racing through a town he’s
only returned to once and that’s probably what did it. Soon after that, when he
was about two months old, he moved with his family to West Africa, which pretty
much sealed his expectation that life was one big exotic setting. He later studied
Spanish and French at university, and straight after graduating, he hopped on a
bus from Cardiff to Catalonia where he stayed for the next twenty-four years,
falling in love with the people, the country, the language and Barcelona
Football Club, probably in that order. Besides Catalonia, he’s also lived in
Grenoble, the Basque Country and Madrid, teaching English, travel writing for
Rough Guides and translating. He now lives in South Wales, where he works as a
writer and a Catalan and Spanish translator, returning to Catalonia as often as
he can.
He writes the Elisenda Domènech series, featuring a police
officer with the newly-devolved Catalan police force in the beautiful city of
Girona. The third book in the series, City of Drowned Souls, is published
on 6 February 2017.
Website: http://www.cityofgooddeath.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/chrislloydbcn
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