Darkness in Ronda: Crime thriller set in Spain, Paperback/Paul Bradley

This second book of the Andalusian Mystery Series finds DI Leon Prado with his translators, American videographer Amanda Salisbury and ex British soldier Phillip Armitage, continue their hunt for a criminal mastermind and find themselves personally involved in a disturbing case set in the world of bullfighting. Diego Romero is the youthful star of Spain's premier league of toreros--bullfighters. He's deeply worried about the future of his art form. Public opinion is demanding that this ancient cultural activity is banned--or at least transformed. Diego, backed by the might of two of bullfighting's most enduring dynasties, proposes an updated version with no bloodletting or killing, but the Royal Taurino Society--the powerful bullfighting watchdog--insists on retaining its beloved death in the afternoon. Their conflict comes to a head at the Pedro Romero Festival in Ronda where Diego discovers that a more sinister group is also desperate to block his modernizing agenda.