The Barcelona Connection

A murder. A kidnapping. A lost Salvador Dalí painting. Just 36 hours to resolve all three. EVERY CRIME SCENE IS A WORK OF ART. Benjamin Blake is no ordinary detective ... Specialising in the criminal underworld of stolen and forged art, things don't always go the right way for Benjamin. But when they don't, he has a stubborn determination to put them right. Within hours of being sent to Barcelona to authenticate a possible Salvador Dalí painting, Benjamin is left stranded without his cell phone at a service station alongside a bloody corpse in the early hours of the morning, after being savagely attacked with his rental car stolen, together with the painting. Helped and hindered by the fiery Elena Carmona, pursued by a psychopathic hitman, Benjamin becomes the prime suspect in a politically motivated kidnap and murder. All this on the eve of Barcelona hosting a G20 summit and UN climate change conference, with the police in hot pursuit fearing a wider terrorist threat. From Nîmes in the South of France, across the border to the sweltering humidity of Girona, Barcelona, Figueres and Cadaqués, The Barcelona Connection is a fast-paced, gripping page-turner sprinkled with black comedy, blending the real with the surreal, art crime and mistaken identity … and where the clues at the crime scene might just be the mirror image of a long-lost work of art …