Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán was born in Barcelona in 1939. He was a journalist, novelist and creator of Pepe Carvalho, a fast-living, gourmet private detective. Montalbán won both the Raymond Chandler Prize and the French Grand Prix of Detective Fiction for his thrillers, which are translated into all major languages. He died in October 2003.
Books by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán

Tattoo
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Pepe Carvalho is a phlegmatic investigator. His greatest concern is with his stomach, but when not pursuing delicacies, he can unravel the most tangle…

The Man of My Life
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Pepe Carvalho returns to his beloved Barcelona for more fine dining, death and desire

The Buenos Aires Quintet
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
Montalban is a writer who is caustic about the powerful and tender towards the oppressed

The Angst-Ridden Executive
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
I cannot wait for other Pepe Carvalho titles to be published here

Offside
Manuel Vázquez Montalbán
?Does for modern Barcelona what Dickens did for 19th-Century London? Total Football ?Like Get Shorty with tapas bars? Offside