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For the Posts, a two-week trip to the island of Mallorca with their extended family and friends is a celebration: it's Franny and Jim's thirty-fifth anniversary, and their daughter has graduated from high school. The sunlit island also promises an escape from the tensions simmering at home. But all does not go according to plan: secrets come to light, old and new humiliations are experienced, childhood rivalries resurface, and ancient wounds are exacerbated....

Inspector Alvarez likes the quiet life, away from the disapproving gaze of his boss, Superior Chief Salas, and the antics of Mallorca's expatriate community. So he is not inclined to become too concerned when Bevis Ogden, a wealthy British man, reports the disappearance of his attractive young wife, Sabrina. No doubt she has found a younger, possibly wealthier, alternative and left for greener pastures. However, the discovery of a body at the bottom...

Inspector Enrique Alvarez investigates the mysterious death of British art dealer Oliver Cooper on the Spanish island of Majorca.

Inspector Alvarez is just considering whether he can leave early for the day without being detected when Tomeu, a policeman from Port Lluesco with who Alvarez has enjoyed many a night out, calls to tell him an Englishman has been found dead in his car garage, the engine switched and the tank empty.--From book jacket.

"Un viaje de dos semanas a Mallorca con su familia y amigos es una celebración: Franny y Jim celebran su trigésimo quinto aniversario de boda, y su hija, Sylvia, se ha graduado de la escuela secundaria. La isla iluminada por el sol, sus montañas y playas, también prometen un escape de las tensiones latentes en su casa en Manhattan. Pero no todo va de acuerdo al plan: en el transcurso de las vacaciones, secretos salen a luz, rivalidades resurgen...