PI Ricardo Cupido investigates the murder of a beautiful female artist 'In the Depths of the Forest'. So far so usual, but Fuentes combines characterisation by Patricia Highsmith with the plotting of Agatha Christie, adds a sense of place from Georges Simenon and of town vs country as in Stephen Booth to produce a great crime novel that is all his own. Watch out Perez-Reverte, you have a homegrown challenger now.
