Cuando llegue la mañana / When the Morning Comes
Novel , 2024
Alianza
Pages: 208
The most enduring detective in Spanish crime fiction: Toni Romano in a gloomy, criminal Madrid.
Toni Romano’s latest case confronts him with the disappearance of a newborn child. The hospital has certified her death, but the family suspects the baby is alive and well and up for sale on the black market.
Toni is now a retired detective without a license, but he continues to move like a fish in water in the Madrid underworld. The son of a bootblack, he has been a boxer, police officer, debt collector, nightclub bouncer and firsthand witness to the country’s transition from the dictatorship to the present day. Many things have changed, but corruption, the abuse of power and the impunity of a political and financial elite willing to commit the worst atrocities still persist as a reminder of the past.