S.H. Villa

• May-2013
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This is the first in the 22-volume Spanish crime series featuring Jesús de Dios Santos a healer turned investigator when the head of his cousin, another well-known healer, Juan the Unbaptist, is found on the desk of the mayoress. The Guardia Civil i...

• May-2013
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This is the third volume featuring Varigo, home of Spanish crime. Now including Reading Group notes for discusssion and Interview with the Author.

Happiness, it is said, is a matter of balance. Pepe of the Guardia Civil in Varigo agrees beca...

• May-2013
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The second fast-paced volume of Spanish crime fiction set in Varigo is a story of murder, intrigue and revenge in a small Spanish town. And of healing. El Sargento of the Guardia Civil has been simultaneously promoted and demoted. Now capitán, he is...

• Jun-2013
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Varigo: Volume 6 of Spanish crime fiction with a difference…

El Capitán has really disgraced himself this time, and La Señora feels betrayed. Sargenta Carmen has been asked to resume her position as CO of the Guardia Civil in Varigo. Sh...

• Jun-2013
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Now including Reading Group notes for discussion and Interview with the Author.

The wild fourth volume of these Spanish crime fiction stories finds our hero, Jesús the healer, losing his mind. Loco maybe, but he’s sane enough to help two...

• Jun-2013
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Jesús the healer, recognising the strong attraction between Sargenta Carmen of the Guardia Civil and the Romanian gangster Gheorghe Petrescu, ‘marries’ them. So begins a rocky and unlikely relationship.

Gheorghe is soon off to Bucharest...

• Aug-2013
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Sargenta Carmen, now Tenienta, was quite right that the Guardia Civil are self-sufficient when it comes to crime in Varigo. When a half tonne of drugs stored in the cuartel allegedly goes missing, she is suspended from duty and not allowed to investi...

• Sep-2013
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Capitana Carmen gives birth to a son. Gheorghe feels strongly the lack of any coherent family history to pass on to his son. Jesús suggests consulting General Iorga head of Romanian Secret Service. By a fluke, El Capitán Ronaldo García is appointe...

• Sep-2013
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Gheorghe is back! He would love to help change nappies but he is almost immediately asked to find the murderer of the majority share-holder of the Casino Real and his wife. Pepe is in trouble again, accused of murdering both of them in a ‘crime of ...

• Sep-2013
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Héctor home at last to find Alma, now pregnant, out investigating dangerous criminals; Jesús dead in the airport and Mohammed walking around in his body; Gheorghe tries to be helpful and ends up in a cupboard; Pepe definitely knows about ending up ...

• Sep-2013
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The story opens with a wedding and a robbery. The real drugs, the counterfeit drugs, the stolen drugs… And so it goes on. But the real story is about a tree, a Spanish Oak or Encina. Growing slowly over a number of centuries outside the village of ...

• Sep-2013
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The paedophiles have been identified and most of them arrested. But there are powerful forces working against any conviction ever being possible. Juez Lunes Cerrado has become a true investigating judge, thanks to the efforts of Jesús, and he is kee...

• Sep-2013
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This is the other Spain â€" money-laundering, child sex abuse, Opus Dei and fall guys hanging from meat hooks. Tomás has investigated Opus Dei in hopes of uncovering clues to the murders around the Casino Real. Héctor decides to find out more about...

• Sep-2013
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El Capo is found hanging from his ceiling fan. Suicide? Or murder? Inspector Jefe José Blanco takes on the investigation. Meanwhile, Gheorghe Petrescu, investigator extraordinaire, is invited to Gibraltar to assist in the trial of the Romanian gangs...

• Sep-2013
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Quiet little Varigo is suddenly the scene of world news. Two English couples and two little girls are spending their Christmas holiday in Varigo. Late one night, the parents return to their hotel room and find that their three-year-old daughter Ki...

• Sep-2013
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This is one of the most comic of the series and one of the most hectic. Gheorghe accepts an invitation from Capitán Pepe to make some enquiries about a drug-smuggling gang. As they’re English, he goes to Bellamar to ask an old English criminal acq...

• Sep-2013
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Varigo bypass promises riches for the mayoress and a step up the political ladder, but the ‘green’ is in the way. He’s not a proper bribable politician, so he’ll have to be ‘convinced’. Luckily â€" or so it seems â€" she meets just the ri...

• Oct-2013
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Belladoña of the nightclub Noche Buena is menaced by violent extortionists. She consults P.I. Héctor who consults Gheorghe. They decide to follow the thugs. Pepe might be acting El Capo but he’s still Pepe and out for a night’s entertainment wh...

• Oct-2013
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Three Partido Popular politicos have been murdered in Granada. They are found with Viva La Republica! signs. Are the anarchists back in business in crisis-torn Spain? There is a great clamouring and outcrying from other PP politicians, now the ruling...

• Oct-2013
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Tango: a Latin American dance that is characterised by highly stylised, often erotic, body movements punctuated by glides and pauses. Lisa and Ahmed, then Pepe and Lisa Héctor and Alma Gheorghe and Carmen dance an erotic Tango â€" approaching, teasi...

• Apr-2014
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The first three volumes of Varigo, the fast-paced and humorous Spanish crime fiction series set in the Alpujarra.

Now including Reading Group notes for discussion and Interviews with the Author.

The first Varigo Trilogy contains:

Volume 1...

• Jun-2014
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• Aug-2014
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Gheorghe is asked by George Iorga, head of the Romanian secret police, to find his estranged wife, sent to Spain 16 years previously as punishment. Money is not a problem, but witnesses to the whereabouts of a woman long missing are, especially wh...

• Mar-2015
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The first three volumes of Varigo, the fast-paced and humorous Spanish crime fiction series set in the Alpujarra of southern Spain.

Including Reading Group notes for Discussion and Interviews with the Author

In volume 1, Jesús the hea...