Eugenio Fuentes was born
in Montehermoso (Cáceres, Spain) in 1958. His novels have been awarded with the
prizes Extremadura a la Creación and IX Alba/Prensa Canaria (this latter prize
for El interior del bosque). He is the author of a collection of short stories,
Vías muertas (Dead Tracks, 1997), and
of a book of literary essays, La mitad de
Occidente (Half of the West, 2003). Fuentes, however, finds himself among
the Spanish crime fiction writers with international projection thanks to his
private investigator, Ricado Cupido, the main character in his series of
novels: La sangre de los ángeles (The
Blood of Angels, 2001), Las manos del
pianista (The Hands of the Pianist), Cuerpo
a Cuerpo (One on One – Brigada 21 Prize to the best crime fiction novel
written in Spanish in 2008), El interior
del bosque (Inside the Forest), and Contrarreloj.
Tusquets Editores has also published Venas
de nieve (Veins of Snow), a brilliantly narrated story about the fight
against fatality.