20 Great International Mysteries, February 2012

The Angst-Ridden Executive is the third in the Pepe Carvalho series.

The author Manuel Vazquez Montalban died in 2003.

Carvalho is a sassy detective and a notorious foodie. In this installment, Pepe is in San Francisco where he meets a womanizing executive who later turns up dead. Pepe is hired by the executive’s wife to find out who killed her husband. These books provide a look at post-Franco life in  Barcelona and Madrid and are invaluable historical markers of a period in Spanish history.