Jacinto Rey

Who is Jacinto Rey?

Jacinto Rey is a Spanish novelist. After completing his studies of Economics in Spain and the UK, he worked for several multinational companies in Germany and Switzerland. Polyglot and widely travelled, he currently lives in France.

His first novel, El cirujano de Las Indias, was published in 2007, and highlights the contradictions of the Spanish colonization in America. In 2009 he made his first foray into crime fiction with El último cliente, which opens the series with Amsterdam police inspector Cristina Molen. His second book in this series, El hombre de El Cairo has been released in 2011. Jacinto Rey is also the author of a book of poems, El pájaro alunado, and two books of short stories.