A review by andrew61
Red April by Santiago Roncagliolo

5.0

An interesting crime novel based in a city in Peru in 2000 at a time when the government is held in place by the military trying to enforce rule against internal 'terrorism'. The narrator is the public prosecutor who has to investigate a series of bizarre murders with religious overtones, however he is halted by the kafkaesque bureaucracy . An odd character who starts of as an almost Jeeves like innocent who talks to his dead mother by the end of the book his character has changed considerably and in ways that are disturbing! A very good book giving a view on Peru , it's history , politics and religion. Despite all that its somewhere I'd love to visit one day!