A review by dmendels
Tattoo by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

2.0

E picked this up in a bookstore in Florida a few months ago, liked it and recommended it to me. It is a not-great, not that well translated, police procedural, written in 1970's Spain and set in Barcelona (with a side trip to Netherlands.) The atmosphere, locales, food are a plus (as is often the case with police procedural mysteries), but the writing is a minus. Can't recommend it. But I guess I appreciate that my son had eclectic enough taste to try it, and like it. Need to give him better examples of the genre....