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  • Bibliography:
    9 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1990
  • Latest Book:
    August 2013
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Full Series List in Order

A Pepe Carvalho Mystery

Southern Seas (Jan-1990)
The Angst-Ridden Executive (Nov-1990)
An Olympic Death (Jun-2000)
Off Side (Nov-2000)
Murder in the Central Committee (Feb-2002)
The Buenos Aires Quintet (Nov-2003)
The Man of My Life (Feb-2010)

Book List in Order: 9 titles



  • Barcelona detective Pepe Carvalho’s radical past catches up with him when a powerful businessman -- a patron of artists and activists -- is found dead after going missing for a year.
     
    In search of the spirit of Paul Gauguin, Stuart Pedrel...



  • Introducing one of crime fiction’s most legendary detectives, and greatest writers, to America

    When Antonio Jauma, a director of the multinational conglomerate Petnay, is murdered, his widow seeks out private investigator Pepe Carvalho, who ...



  • In the 1980s, an American Ph.D. candidate uncovers new facts about the 1956 kidnapping, torture, and murder of Jesus de Gali+a7ndez, a Basque refugee and critic of the Domincan Republic's Trujillo regime....



  • "Montalbán writes with authority and compassion -- a Le Carré-like sorrow." -- Publishers Weekly

    As Barcelona prepares for the Games, the city is turned over to make way for new roads, a new stadium, and the giant prawn sculptures of Maris...



  • Montalban writes with authority and compassion -- a Le Carré-like sorrow. -- Publishers Weekly"Montalban is a writer who is caustic about the powerful and tender towards the oppressed" -- TLSOff Side is the 5th novel in the hugely successful Pepe C...



  • ";Montalbán writes with authority and compassion€Â"a le Carré-like sorrow.";€Â"Publishers WeeklyThe lights go out during a meeting of the Central Committee of the Spanish Communist Party; Fernando Garrido, the general secretary, has been murdered...



  • Gourmet detective Pepe Carvalho returns to investigate Argentina's turbulent political past.

    "The modern committed writer, Montalbán exposes the criminal power relationships beneath the facade of democracy."-Guardian

    When Pepe Carvalh...



  • ";Between 1977 and 1990, Montalbán wrote half a dozen novels that stand among the best in modern Spanish literature. Like Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, he is the man of honour walking the mean streets of a sick society.";?The Independent "Pepe Carval...



  • Only Pepe Carvalho could use a tattoo saying "Born to Raise Hell in Hell" as evidence that the police are, once again, dead wrong

    In a Spain still stifled under the rule of Franco, former CIA operative--and former Communist--Pepe Carvalho has ...





Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Manuel Vazquez Montalban has published 9 books.

Manuel Vazquez Montalban does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Tattoo, was published in August 2013.

The first book by Manuel Vazquez Montalban, Southern Seas, was published in January 1990.

Yes. Manuel Vazquez Montalban has 1 series.