Sins As Scarlet

Harrowing and gripping. An astute police procedural … Switching between LA, Mexico and Tokyo both Iwata’s present and past are cleverly interwoven in a truly heart-rending climax * Daily Express *
Fresh and convincing … the dialogue is worthy of the great chronicler of LA’s dark side, Raymond Chandler. But really, Obregon’s writing has a unique flavour all of its own, wherever his books are set – Jake Kerridge * Sunday Express *
Sins as Scarlet is a searing LA crime story, as poetic as it is brutal, as tender as it is disturbing – Tim Weaver
Thanks to the excellent Iwata, you get a gripping mystery with a real conscience * Sunday Sport *
In the heady tradition of Raymond Chandler and Michael Connelly, Sins as Scarlet lays bare the bruised heart and broken soul of Los Angeles. Extraordinary stuff: a diabolically clever police procedural, a wrenching character study, and a merciless chronicle of a city in decay. I’m awestruck. – A. J. Finn, author of international bestseller * THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW *
A dark, brutal ride through the underbelly of LA * ANTHONY HOROWITZ *
Masterpiece - that’s the only way to describe Sins as Scarlet. Obregón’s brilliant novel is, at once, a classic noir, a psychological thriller and a riveting examination-sometimes dark, sometime moving to the point of tears–of life in a less-than-angelic Los Angeles * JEFFERY DEAVER *
Evocative, perceptive writing * Sunday Time Crime Club *
This bleak, richly descriptive and haunting thriller walks of the wild side of Los Angeles * Peterborough Telegraph *
A brace of cutting-edge themes are threaded into the abrasive narrative … It is a combustible mix, but as in the earlier Blue Light Yokohama, the author has the full measure of his difficult material. With his vividly evoked Mexican and LA settings [he] delivers a pacey, page-turning thriller, but the underlying seriousness gives real texture. Iwata is a richly drawn, conflicted hero, and this is another savage journey into the dark heart of America * Barry Forshaw, Financial Times *

Nicolas Obregón grew up between London and Madrid. While in Japan for his job, he learned of the unsolved Miyazawa Family Murders, which informed his first novel, Blue Light Yokohama. It is also the focus of his Universal Audio true crime podcast, FACELESS. His short story, Colibri, features in the anthology, Both Sides- Stories From the Border, nominated for an Anthony Award, while Blue Light Yokohama was nominated for the T. Jefferson Parker Award.

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