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Work InformationThe Beggar's Opera by Peggy Blair (2013)
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 The Beggar’s Opera was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association’s Debut Dagger Award, and it’s easy to see why. Blair writes with confidence in her milieu, showing us a world too often laden with stereotypes and half-truths, all filtered through the perspective of a detective who wants to do the right thing – by himself, or with a bit of help from the spirits that haunt him. Ramirez’s time on earth may be limited by the ticking clock of his dementia, but in the interim, he has more cases to solve, and based on this solid debut, we will be eager to read about them. Belongs to Series
In beautiful, crumbling Old Havana, Canadian detective Mike Ellis hopes the sun and sand will help save his troubled marriage. He doesn't yet know that it's dead in the water - much like the little Cuban boy last seen begging the Canadian couple for a few pesos. For Inspector Ricardo Ramirez, head of the Major Crimes Unit of the Cuban National Revolutionary Police, finding his prime suspect isn't a problem - Cuban law is. He has only seventy-two hours to secure an indictment and prevent a vicious killer from leaving the island. But Ramirez has his own troubles. He's dying of the same dementia that killed his grandmother, an incurable disease that makes him see the ghosts of victims of unsolved murders. As he races against time, the dead haunt his every step. No library descriptions found. 
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The book told from different points of view.
The Beggar Opera - called after a real opera; It is a story of deceit, violence and vengeance, false accusations, even a threat of execution. But also a story about love and loyalty and, above all, friendship. The characters are drawn in depth. Happiness and pain, suffering and happiness are described in the author's faith, describing the difficult life in Havana and the corrupt Cuba of Castro and the American embargo.
Surprises at the end of the book abound to close the story from all terms. (