Spanish Beauty

Esther García Llovet and Richard Village (translator)

Spanish Beauty is a noir novel set in the Spanish town of Benidorm—a town notorious both in Spain and the UK as a cheap package holiday destination. The story revolves around Michela, a corrupt cop with a Spanish mother and English gangster father, though neither is on the scene. It’s brilliant at evoking a sense of place—even if that’s a place you will probably never want to go after reading it. An interesting interview about the book with its author, Esther García Llovet, can be found here.