{ "item_title" : "The Madrid Murders", "item_author" : [" Daniel Parton "], "item_description" : "A man lies half-buried in a field two hours north of Madrid, and the shallowness is the message.He was not hidden. He was planted - laid in the top of a grave that was already there, an unmarked pit from the summer of 1939, so that pulling him out means digging up the fourteen beneath him. And the man who kept the dead in the ground for a living has been buried in exactly the kind of grave he spent his career refusing to open.Europol investigator Lucas Faro and his partner Inspetora Cássia Sanca - he reads people, she reads the record - arrive to find a country that decided, in law, to forget its own dead. A hundred thousand disappeared in mass graves everyone can locate and no one is permitted to open. A generation of stolen children, taken from murdered mothers and papered into the families of the regime, growing old without knowing whose they are. And a killer who has found the one lever a state cannot refuse: a fresh murder forces an exhumation, and an exhumation forces the truth up out of the ground.She is not avenging the dead. She is a forensic scientist - the finest of her generation - who has spent twenty years lifting strangers' grandmothers into the light and giving them back their names, and who has been forbidden, by the law of a whole nation, to dig up her own. Each body she leaves is a spade forced into the country's hand. And the closer Faro comes to her, the more clearly he sees the unbearable thing: that she is wrong to kill, and right about everything else - and that the graves she is murdering to open should have been opened eighty years ago by a country with the courage to do it without a corpse forcing its hand.To catch her, Faro must decide what two foreigners owe the dead of a country that told them to stop digging - and whether the deepest respect he can pay the buried is to bring them up, name them, and then set them gently back into the hands of the living whose grief it truly is.The eighth Faro Files - a taut, haunting crime novel about the graves a nation agreed to forget, and the woman who could no longer bear to leave them shut. For readers of Philip Kerr, Robert Harris, and the buried-history novels of Javier Cercas.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/817/519/9798175191128_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "14.99", "online_price" : "14.99", "our_price" : "14.99", "club_price" : "14.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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