Or the Bull Kills You is the first of a series of novels by Jason Webster about Spanish police detective Max Cámara. The setting is Valencia during Fallas, the five-day festival of fireworks and bonfires.
A bullfighter is murdered, a controversial bullfighter, in a city undergoing local elections and with a strong anti-taurino lobby. Webster has chosen his setting well. Valencia is a noisy, shouting, breathing presence on every page. The bullfighting is strange, a world of customs and special language, its symbolism machismo. Into the middle of all this walks the Fallas-hating, bullfight-disapproving detective Cámara who’s having a difficult time with his girlfriend. And he’s being reviewed at work for his behaviour in a previous case.
Is there one killer or two, and what about the dead bullfighter’s artist boyfriend and his very-public fiancé?
Webster keeps the page turning with ease, juggling a good detective story with authentic Spanish culture. Something different.
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Read my reviews of other books in Webster’s Spanish detective series:-
A DEATH IN VALENCIA #2MAXCÁMARA
THE ANARCHIST DETECTIVE #3 MAXCÁMARA
BLOOD MED #4 MAXCÁMARA
If you like this, try:-
‘The Killing Lessons’ by Saul Black
‘Wolf’ by Mo Hayder
‘Butterfly on the Storm’ by Walter Lucius
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Currently reading Jason Webster´s Sacred Sierra – A Year on a Spanish Mountain.
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I’ve enjoyed all his books. SD
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I’ve added that to my kindle wishlist. It sounds fascinating. And I love books that are part of a series!
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Me too. The other writer with a detective series set in Spain is Robert Wilson, check my ‘Book Reviews A-Z’ tab. SD
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