Death in the Sun

Death in the Sun by Adam Creed. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780571274994.

Up in the mountains of Andalucia, Staffe nurses himself back from the brink of death. On a visit to Almeria, Staffe is shown a body that has been found buried in an old greenhouse by the Mediterranean- apparently a drug deal gone wrong. Gradually, Staffe is drawn into the case. The murder mirrors the methods of torture used during Spains brutal civil war. Between the sierra and the sea, everyone seems to want to bury the past- except Staffe, whose new life is threatened as he refuses to abandon his investigation. Once unearthed, the past refuses to go away. The closer the unseen enemy gets, the more Staffes own past haunts him, and the closer he gets to the man who murdered his parents.