Rebecca Pawel
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Rebecca Pawel
- 2004 Edgar-1st Novel winner
- 2004 Anthony-1st Novel nominee
- 2004 Macavity-1st Novel nominee
- 2003 LATimes–Mystery finalist
- Score: 28.54
Madrid 1938. Carlos Tejada Alonso y Leon is a Sergeant in the Guardia Civil, a rank rare for a man not yet thirty, but Tejada is an unusual recruit. The bitter civil war between the Nationalists and the Republicans has interrupted his legal studies in Salamanca. Second son of a conservative Southern family of landowners, he is an enthusiast for the Catholic Franquista cause, a dedicated, and now triumphant, Nationalist.
This war has drawn international attention. In a dress rehearsal for World War II, fascists support the Nationalists, while Communists have…
