Pawns on the Chessboard of Crime

About this book

Dr Joao Alves confronts an apparently impossible murder committed in a sealed room without a trace of entry or escape. Set in an older Portugal of blood and secrets, Omar Saeed's mystery treats investigation as a chess game in which each person may be pawn, player, or deception. The novel joins classical detection with philosophical questions about whether truth lies in what is seen or in what the mind is afraid to admit.