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Pianist's Hands, The (Paperback)

by Eugenio Fuentes (Author)
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  • Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: EuroCrime an imprint of Arcadia Books (14 Aug 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1905147376
  • ISBN-13: 978-1905147373
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 276,757 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Praise for Blood of the Angels (1900850834, GBP11.99):'A new novel by the Spanish author of Depths of the Forest, which received outstanding reviews. A man facing various crises discovers that a gun has been stolen from a safe-deposit box containing his late mother's effects' - Nicholas Clee, The BooksellerPraise for Depths of the Forest (1905147481, GBP7.99):'Utterly absorbing and brilliantly translated, this should appeal even to those not normally attracted to crime fiction' - Guardian 'A most welcome addition, not just to crime fiction, but to literature in general' - The Independent 'Fascinating modern Spanish baroque from an enterprising small publisher' - DJ Taylor, Books of the Year, The Independent

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As in so many cities in the heat of growth, Breda, Spain, is home to a modest construction company that wants to take advantage of the booming times to construct a luxury housing complex in the suburbs. The business partners have their differences of o
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4.0 out of 5 stars This really gets into the suspects' minds., 12 Jan 2009
By Annabel Gaskell "gaskella2" (Nr Oxford, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is a crime novel with a difference - where the crime itself, or rather the investigation, doesn't play much of a part. Instead it's all about getting under the skin of the main characters, finding out all their foibles and weak points, until the murderer's identity is divined.

It starts out telling us about the pianist, who frustrated by his position in a band that plays the same old tunes at weddings, develops a sideline in euthanasing animals. Word of mouth and cash will get you his shady services, and then when he's offered a larger amount to get rid of a human, he accepts the contract, but finds he can't go through with it. Unfortunately for him someone else does, and he's forced to use his down-payment to hire a detective to find the real murderer so that his name never crops up!

The man who was murdered was a third partner in a successful construction firm which had big plans, but lots of conflict between the three partners - the obvious suspects. Add a client whom the firm was suing on defaulting on his house purchase, the foreman with a chip on his shoulder, and the murdered man's ex-lover, and we have a mystery for Investigator Cupido to solve.

Cupido himself has much on his mind, as his mother has decided to put herself into a home, but manages to pull himself together to ask lots of the right questions at the right time to get close to the suspects and with the help of the Police Inspector they get their killer.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A whodunit with a touch of 'noir.', 16 July 2009
The pianist's hands are strong, but he failed as a classical pianist and is reduced to playing a keyboard for wedding parties and the like. But this deeply unhappy, frustrated and disappointed man discovers he has a way with animals - or, rather, of doing away with unwanted animals. When he is asked to do away with a man, it seems a small and lucrative step up from animals. But when he goes to carry out the murder, he finds himself unable to take that step, and so he gives up and runs home. Next day, he is horrified to learn that his intended victim has been found dead - probably murdered. The pianist has accepted a down payment in advance from the woman who commissioned him. Afraid she might denounce him, he takes his dilemma to private detective Ricardo Cupido. Can Cupido discover who actually committed the murder? Cupido knows the inhabitants of this once-rural Spanish town, now in the throes of a building boom. The murdered man was a partner in the construction company; therefore he had many enemies, as Cupido learns when he applies his personal methods of deduction - learn about the victim, ask few questions, just listen to people talking. All the underlying spite, jealousy and resentment, common in communities undergoing change, comes to the surface. Not to spoil the story, I won't divulge the outcome. If you haven't met Ricardo Cupido in other books of the series (The Depth of the Forest, The Blood of Angels) he's an unusual character, worth getting to know.
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