<b>A riveting crime thriller set during a sultry Barcelona summer, introducing Inspector Hector Salgado</b><br><br>Inspector Hector Salgado is a transplanted Argentine living in Barcelona. While working on a human trafficking case, Salgado’s violent temper got the best of him and he beat a suspect within an inch of his life. Ordered on probation, he fled to Argentina to cool off for a few months. <br> Now he’s back in Barcelona and is eager for another big case. But his boss has other plans. He assigns Salgado to a routine accidental death: a college student fell from a balcony in one of Barcelona’s ritzier neighborhoods. As Salgado begins to piece together the life and world of the victim, he realizes that his death was not all that simple: his teenage friends are either overly paranoid or deceptively calm, and drugs might be involved. Hector begins to follow a trail that will lead him deep into the underbelly of Barcelona’s high society where he’ll come face-to-face with dangerous criminals, long-buried secrets, and, of course, his own past. But Hector thrives on pressure, and he lives for this kind of case<b>—</b>dark, violent, and seemingly unsolvable. <br> Gripping, sophisticated, and wickedly entertaining, <i>The Summer of Dead Toys</i> introduces a charismatic new detective and announces Antonio Hill as a new master of the crime thriller.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>