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The Lisbon Murders: Some crimes were never written down. This one will be.
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Series: The Faro Files, Book 6
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Two old men are dead in Lisbon.
The first is arranged at the foot of the Monument to the Discoveries, facing the river his country once sailed to build an empire. The second is left in the reading room of the national archive. Neither was robbed. Each was left holding a single page - a report, half a century old, about a village that does not appear in any history of the war.
Europol investigator Lucas Faro did not come to Lisbon for a case. He came for his daughter, whom he has not truly spoken to in eleven years, and whom he cannot find the courage to call. But the murders pull him in beside Inspetora Cássia Sanca, the granddaughter of settlers who fled the same colonial war - and together they uncover the thing the killer is killing to expose: Cataxa, a 1971 massacre erased so completely that the truth was not hidden but destroyed, burned out of the record by the men who committed it, so thoroughly that it can never be proved.
The killer is not avenging the dead. The killer is publishing them - turning each corpse into a document the state cannot refuse to file, forcing an unwritten crime, one body at a time, back into the memory of a country that agreed, across fifty years and three generations, never to look.
Faro can read anyone. He reads the killer to the bottom. What he has never been able to read is his own daughter - and as the case winds deeper into her city, into the very room where she has built her quiet life, he is forced toward the one confession he has spent his whole life avoiding: not what was done to him, but what he did.
Some accounts can never be balanced. Some can only, at last, be written down.
The Lisbon Murders is the sixth and most personal Faro Files thriller - a taut, propulsive, deeply human crime novel about memory, inheritance, and the courage it takes to face what we have buried. Perfect for readers of Philip Kerr, Robert Harris, and Jo Nesb .
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