A Small Death in Lisbon is a
crime novel by
Robert Wilson. The novel won the
CWAGold Dagger Award in 1999, and the German Crime Prize (for an International Novel) in 2003.
Notes
Zé Coelho shares some characteristics with his Spanish counterpart, Inspector jefe Javier Falcón, such as:
Lost his wife; Falcón is divorced - they both long for their wives;
Has stress problems, as Falcón;
They both discover that past friendships are not as they seem: Coelho with his friend Borrego, and Falcón with his father.
Publication history
1999, London: HarperCollins
ISBN0-00-232668-X, Pub date 19 July 1999, Hardback
2000, London: HarperCollins
ISBN0-00-651202-X, Pub date 2 May 2000, Paperback
2000, New York: Harcourt
ISBN0151006091, Pub date October 2000, Hardback
2002, New York: Berkeley Books
ISBN0-425-18423-4, Pub date March 2002, Paperback