A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson

A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson

In 1941 neutral Lisbon, SS officer Klaus Felsen is forced into a high-stakes mission to infiltrate the mountains of the north and secure tungsten, an element vital to Hitler’s blitzkrieg. Decades later, in the late 1990s, Inspector Zé Coelho is recruited to investigate the sex murder of a teenage girl—an inquiry that unspools a bloody swath of history back to a crime buried among the bones of a fascist past. As Coelho unearths a chilling motive, the past and present converge with unfathomable consequences. Robert Wilson’s A Small Death in Lisbon is a historically sprawling, richly distilled thriller that reveals how the seeds of greed and revenge planted during the war eventually grow into a deadly modern harvest.

Why You’ll Love This Book

Winner of the Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, this is a taut international thriller that perfectly balances brutal eroticism with a seductive and compelling plot. You will be mesmerized by the dual-timeline narrative that uncovers the hidden corruption of wartime Lisbon and the unresolved injustices of a regime long thought dead. If you crave an intense reading experience that offers both historical depth and a white-knuckle mystery, this atmospheric masterpiece will leave you breathless.