It is Christmas day, and Max C mara has a hangover. He s due in his hometown of Albacete for lunch with his grandfather Hilario, but instead he s called out to a local nightclub where things have gone horribly wrong. There, it s still very much the morning after the night before. C mara must untangle a tragic truth from a cast of extraordinary nativity characters, fresh from a performance the likes of which he s never come across before.'A series that just gets better and better. Each Max C mara novel is a treat to savour' Mark Billingham 'conveys a wonderful sense of Spain... [Webster] does for the country what Michael Dibdin did for Italy' Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail'All great cities need a fictional cop, and now Valencia has one of the very best in Jason Webster's dope smoking Chief Inspector Max C mara. Step into his world of the corrida, corruption, and clouds of saffron and you'll be hooked. But if he offers you a roll-up ' Quintin Jardine