Robert Wilson

Inspector Javier Falcón of the Seville homicide squad is called to the scene of a man found dead in front of a painting of Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son — eyes burnt out, posed with deliberate horror. The investigation pulls Falcón into his own family history, specifically the life of his celebrated father, the painter Francisco Falcón. Set against Seville's streets and its Moorish architecture, the first Falcón novel establishes one of crime fiction's most psychologically complex detectives.

A bomb destroys an apartment building in Seville, killing dozens and injuring hundreds. The investigation pulls Falcón into the world of Islamist extremism, Spanish intelligence, and the specifically Sevillian world of the Moorish quarter — the Barrio Santa Cruz — where the city's Christian and Islamic histories are still legible in the architecture. Wilson's most politically charged Falcón novel, written in the aftermath of the 2004 Madrid bombings.

Medway is drawn into the toxic world of Nigerian oil money and the corruption that surrounds it — a missing girl, a lethal cargo, and the specific violence of Lagos. Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of the Year. The third and finest Medway novel.

Set partly in WWII Lisbon — neutral Portugal as the espionage capital of Europe — and partly in the present day, as Javier Falcón investigates a case that connects to wartime intelligence operations. Wilson returns to the Portugal of A Small Death in Lisbon to interweave Falcón's modern investigation with the wartime story of an SOE agent and the shadowy world of competing intelligence services in neutral Lisbon.

Falcón is called to investigate a domestic murder-suicide in a Seville suburb — a prominent businessman apparently shot his wife and then himself. The investigation reveals the case is far more complex, pulling Falcón into the world of Seville's wealthy elite and the corruption that underlies the city's surface prosperity. The third Falcón novel deepens the detective's psychological portrait while delivering Wilson's most tightly plotted thriller.

The fourth and final Bruce Medway novel, returning to Benin — where the series began — as Medway investigates a brutal murder connected to the region's vodoun culture and its underworld of ritual and violence. A fitting close to the West African series, darker and more interior than the earlier books.

Two investigations fifty years apart — a contemporary Lisbon detective uncovering a murdered girl's story, and a German SS officer managing Portugal's wartime wolfram trade — whose threads converge in a single act of historical violence.

The first Bruce Medway novel, introducing the fixer and sometime investigator who operates in West Africa's underworld of corrupt business, smuggling, and sudden violence. Medway is hired to find a missing German businessman in Benin — a job that quickly becomes far more dangerous than advertised. The first of four West African thrillers that established Robert Wilson's reputation before the Falcón series.

Bruce Medway takes on a job in Ivory Coast that involves a dead American, a missing consignment of weapons-grade materials, and the fractious politics of West African civil conflict. The second Medway novel deepens the portrait of the region's corruption and violence while sending its protagonist deeper into danger than the first book managed.