Ahmel Echevarría

"A more profound and powerful work than this is not to be met with…The final and greatest utterance of the human mind." —Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The kings of Castile maintained a personal cavalry guard through much of the fifteenth century, consisting of practicing Muslims and converts to Christianity.

The irresistible David Freed's first mystery is a stay-up-late-to-finish thriller.
Based in sunny Rancho Bonita - "California's Monaco", as the city's moneyed minions like to call it - Cordell Logan is a literate, sardonic flight instructor and aspiring Buddhist with dwindling savings and a shadowy past. When his beautiful ex-wife, Savannah, shows up out of the blue to tell him that her husband has been murdered in Los Angeles, Logan is quietly pleased. Savannah's late husband, after all, is Arlo Echevarria, the man she left Logan for.