Law of Return

I read [a:Rebecca Pawel|8108|Rebecca Pawel|http://www.goodreads.com/images/nophoto/nophoto-U-50x66.jpg]'s all-too-brief series out of order as they became available to me. Talk about your odd couple; a detective who's a Franco fascist and his love interest, a much more liberal intellectual. Each brings insights to the crimes they solve, and their relationship deepens most satisfactorily. I have never bought a book from Soho Press that wasn't good, so the publisher alone should tell you something. The setting at the end of the Spanish Civil War and the beginning of World War II is also one of my favorite time periods, so I was primed to like these books from the beginning, and the writing is excellent also. Highly recommended.

2nd novel in Carlos Tejada Alonso y Leon
series. Calos is transferred to Salamanca, he is now promoted to Lt. He meets Elsa again when she accompanies her father to his weekly parole meeting which is now handled by Carlos. Her father receives a letter from a friend who is trying to get out of occupied France (Time is 1940) Elsa and her mother get permission to go to San Sebastion but her mother has an accident and Elsa goes by herself. She manages to get fishermen to take her to Biarritz, France where she finds the friend but her contact there has been discovered by the Gestapo. By chance, Carlos also has gone to Biarritz in his quest to solve a murder and discovers Elena and the gentleman