Silva, Lorenzo

Lorenzo Silva is one of the leading writers of his generation, best known for his five detective novels El lejano pais de los estanques (The Far Away Pond Land), El alquimista impaciente (The Impatient Alchemist), La niebla y la doncella (The Mist and the Maiden), La reina sin espejo (The Queen Without a Mirror), and La estrategia del agua (Water's Stategy), all published by Destino, and all featuring the detective Ruben Bevilacqua and his young assistant Virginia Chamorro, who together represent the new face of Spain's Guardia Civil - a very different animal from its infamous predecessors. Wh...