Gaudí Afternoon

A professional translator and amateur detective travels to Barcelona to find a missing man in this mystery hailed as a "high-spirited comic adventure" (The New York Times).

American but with an Irish passport, the itinerant translator Cassandra Reilly is living in London when she receives an unexpected phone call. The voice on the other end belongs to Frankie Stevens, a San Francisco transplant with an unusual request. Her husband, Ben, has gone missing—presumably in Barcelona—and Frankie n...