Death of a Nationalist is set in Madrid just after the Spanish civil war. One in a series of books it’s main character is a young policeman who is trying, in this novel, to solve the murder of an old friend. It’s not a period of history I knew anything much about so it was very interesting to find out a bit more. As for the crime story I found it very good. It weaves together nicely and is more complex than first appears which meant that I was as surprised as the hero as to who the real villain is.
