The Blind Man of Seville is a 2003 crime novel and thriller by British writer Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson (crime novelist)

Robert Wilson is a British crime-writer currently resident in Portugal. He is the son of an RAF fighter pilot, and has a degree in English from Oxford. Wilson is the author of the Bruce Medway series, set on the Gold Coast of Africa, and the Javier Falcon series, set largely in Seville, Spain...

. The novel is set in the Spanish city of Seville

Seville

Seville is the artistic, historic, cultural, and financial capital of southern Spain. It is the capital of the autonomous community of Andalusia and of the province of Seville. It is situated on the plain of the River Guadalquivir, with an average elevation of above sea level...

, and is the first book in the projected quartet featuring protagonist Javier Falcon. The novel published to much acclaim, and was shortlisted for the 2003 Gold Dagger

Gold Dagger

The Gold Dagger Award was an award given annually by the Crime Writers' Association for the best crime novel of the year.For its first five years, the organization's top honor was known as the Crossed Red Herring Award....

for Best Crime Novel of the Year.

Plot summary

The novel concerns a series of vicious murders in Seville, and in turn these murders lead protagonist Falcon to look into the shady life of his deceased father, an acclaimed artist who fought in the Second World War. Falcon's investigations cause him to unearth shocking revelations about his father's past, and bring him to an emotional brink. The novel's structure is unusual, being told form the present perspective and also through a series of diary entries penned by Falcon's father during his war-time experiences.

External links

• Review from BookRerporter.com
• Interview with Wilson from ShotsMagazine
• Bonus extracts from the diaries of Fransciso Falcon, cut from original manuscript