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Called to a gruesome crime scene, Inspector Javier Falcón is shocked and sickened by what he finds. Littered like flower petals on the victim's shirt are the man's own eyelids, evidence of a heinous crime with no obvious motive. When the investigation leads him to read his late father's journals,…

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1 author picked The Blind Man of Seville as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

An intense and gritty read, it provides convincing backstory of savagery in the Spanish Civil War and World War II, as revealed in the journals of Inspector Javier Facoln's father, a noted artist whose secret life little resembled his public persona.

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