Books by Guillermo Martínez
“The narrator is an Argentinian maths student who has come over to do a term or two in Oxford. One day, in the company of a famous mathematician who’s written a book about mathematical series with a chapter about serial killers, he finds his landlady dead. Little cryptic messages are left that indicate this may be part of a series of murders. The book is very clever. The characters are barely more than two dimensional, but you’re not reading it for that. It has some of the same puzzle elements that you would get in a Morse but from a mathematical—rather than a verbal—point of view.” Read more...
The Best Crime Novels Set in Oxford
Cara Hunter, Novelist
Interviews where books by Guillermo Martínez were recommended
The Best Crime Novels Set in Oxford, recommended by Cara Hunter
The city of Oxford has been a popular location for fictional murders for nearly a century, the ancient university and its beautiful buildings also lending themselves to wonderful screen adaptations. Bestselling British novelist Cara Hunter—author of the DI Fawley series and Murder in the Family—talks us through some of her favourite crime novels set in the city of dreaming spires.
