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A Portuguese bank is founded on the back of Nazi wartime deals. Over half a century later a young girl is murdered in Lisbon. 1941. Klaus Felsen, SS, arrives in Lisbon and the strangest party in history where Nazis and Allies, refugees and entrepreneurs dance to the strains of opportunism and despair. Felsen's war takes him to the bleak mountains of the north where a brutal battle is being fought for an element vital to Hitler's blitzkrieg. Late 1990s, Lisbon. Inspector Zé Coelho is investigating the murder of a young girl with a disturbing sexual past. As Zé digs deeper he overturns the dark soil of history and unearths old bones.

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CWA Gold Dagger (Winners)
The Gold Dagger is awarded each year by the Crime Writers’ Association for the best crime novel of the year, and is the most prestigious prize in British crime writing. First given in 1955, as the Crossed Red Herring Award, it has gone to spy novels and police procedurals, psychological thrillers and historical mysteries alike - from John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold to Colin Dexter, Ruth Rendell, Ian Rankin, Ann Cleeves and Mick Herron. This list collects the winning novels by year.

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A Small Death in Lisbon

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