Labyrinth of the Spirits, The : Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A Novel | Paperback | FICTION/Action & Adventure In 1938, during the Spanish Civil War, Alicia lost her parents at the age of nine when the Nationalists savagely bombed Barcelona. Twenty years later, she still carries the emotional and physical scars from that brutal era. Weary of her work as an investigator for Spain’s secret police in Madrid, she is ready to move on. But at the insistence of her boss, Leandro Montalvo, she agrees to solve one last case: the mysterious disappearance of Spain’s minister of culture, Mauricio Valls. With her partner, the intimidating policeman Juan Manuel Vargas, Alicia discovers a possible clue—a rare book by the author Victor Mataix hidden in Valls’s office.