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Five people die in an unexplained housefire at Estrella de Mar, a glittering resort for retired British elites in Spain, centered around the lively Club Nautico. The club’s manager, Frank Prentice, readily confesses to murder, yet the police remain unconvinced. When his brother Charles arrives to clear the scandal, he gradually reveals that beneath the resort’s polished exterior lies a covert realm of crime, drugs, and illicit sex. The investigation pulls the brothers deeper into a complex web of intrigue that questions everything they thought they knew about privilege and deception at the resort.
First publish date: 1996
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Private Investigator
Authors: J. G. Ballard
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