Blood Crime Author:Sebastia Alzamora It is 1936, and Barcelona burns as the Spanish Civil War takes over. The city is a bloodbath. Yet in all this death, the murders of a Marist monk and a young boy, drained of their blood, are strange enough to catch a police inspector?s attention. His quest for justice is complicated by the politics, dangers, and espionage of daily life in a war ... more »zone. The Marist brothers of the murdered monk are being persecuted; meanwhile, a convent of Capuchin nuns hide in plain sight, trading favors with the military police to stay alive. In their midst is a thirteen-year-old orphan novice who stumbles into the clutches of the murderer?but can she escape in this city of no happy endings?
Narrated by a vampire who thrives in the havoc of the war, this stunning novel, inspired by the true story of a massacre in the early days of the Spanish Civil War, is a gothic reflection on the nature of monsters, in all their human forms.« less