by Roberto Ampuero · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782264036858
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«L'affaire Kustermann» is the crime novel by Roberto Ampuero published by 10-18 in paperback (269 pages, in French).
Industrialist Carlos Kustermann hires private detective Cayetano Brulé to find those responsible for the murder of his son Cristian, which occurred four months earlier in a pizzeria at a Spanish seaside resort station. Brulé, cynical, seductive and a specialist in political affairs, accepts the case for a generous sum.
First installment of the series featuring Cayetano Brulé, published in the Grands Détectives collection by 10-18.
Recommended for readers of noir and crime fiction, particularly those who enjoy cynical detectives and plots with a political backdrop.
Roberto Ampuero is a Chilean author, columnist, and the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, a position he held from March 11, 2018 to June 13, 2019. His first novel ¿Quién mató a Kristián Kustermann? was published in 1993 and in it he introduced his private eye, Cayetano Brulé, winning the Revista del Libro prize of El Mercurio. Since then the detective has appeared in five novels. In addition he has published an autobiographical novel about his years in Cuba titled Nuestros Años Verde Olivo (1999) and the novels Los Amantes de Estocolmo ) and Pasiones Griegas. His novels have been published in Latin America and Spain, and have been translated into German, French, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, Portuguese, Greek, Croatian, and English. In Chile his works have sold more than 40 editions. Ampuero now resides in Iowa where he is a professor at the University of Iowa in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He was a columnist of La Tercera and the New York Times Syndicate and since March 2009 has been working as a columnist for El Mercurio. Between 2013 and 2014 he was Minister of Culture in the government of Sebastián Piñera.
