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Books set in the Canary Islands

More books set in the Canary Islands:


Lanzarote by Michel Houellebecq
More Ketchup Than Salsa by Joe Cawley
Tenerife Tall Tales by Tony Thorne
Deep Black: Death Wave by Stephen Coonts
Following the Rainbow by Ben M. Baglio
Destiny in Tenerife by Evelyn Hood
Forever Yours by Helen McCabe
The History of the Discovery and Conquest of the Canary Islands by Juan de Abreu Galindo

I have started a Listopia list of books set in the Canary Islands here: Books Set in the Canary Islands. I compiled the list from this thread plus other suggestions and recommendations found elsewhere on Good Reads and the Internet. Feel free to vote for your favorites and/or add books that I missed!

Contemporary Poetry from the Canary Islands by Louis Boure

Dog Days In The Fortunate Islands: A new life in hidden Tenerife by John Searancke

More books set in the Canary Islands:


The Best of the Tenerife Tall Tales by Tony Thorne
Canary Yellow by Elizabeth Cadell
A Darker Sky by Mari Jungstedt (1st book of Gran Canaria series)
Dark Days by Manel Loureiro (2nd book of Apocalypse Z series)
The Drago Tree by Isobel Blackthorn
Even More Ketchup than Salsa: The Final Dollop by Joe Cawley
Fatal Tide by Iris Johansen
Lanzarote by J.H. Wallace
Lanzarote Lover by Anita Verkerk
More Tall Tenerife Tales by Tony Thorne

More books set in the Canary Islands:


Notes From The Canary Islands by Camille Lenning
Onslaught by Nick Oldham (1st book in the Steve Flynn series)
A Proper Family Holiday by Chrissie Manby
The Saint Bids Diamonds by Leslie Charteris
Tenth Year of the Ship by Norman Lewis
Terror at Tenerife by Norman Williams
Thief of Hearts by Teresa Medeiros
Thieves' Picnic by Leslie Charteris
Too Much Trouble in Paradise by Michelle Betham
The Villa Faustino by Katrina Britt
The Wind Off The Small Isles by Mary Stewart
The Witch's Market by Mingmei Yip
The World in the Evening by Christopher Isherwood

稻草人手记 by 三毛

温柔的夜 by 三毛

Dogs of Summer by Andrea Abreu López.

There doesn't seem to be a page for mainland Spain, so apologies if I'm posting this in the wrong place...but I was born in Tenerife!
The Golden Crown of Sevilleis set in Seville, Andalucia.

It is a suspense novel, the action takes place in contemporary southern Spain, following a race-against-time hunt for a lost hoard of Dark Age gold artefacts.

These are based on the Guarrazar treasure (a real Visigoth treasure hoard, found in 1860 near Toledo, but stolen from museums at the start of the Spanish Civil war and never recovered) and the exquisite items of Visigoth gold given to Heinrich Himmler when he visited the fascist regime in Spain in 1940, that have never been returned by the German government.

The hunt for a quasi-historical lost treasure is an entertaining framework for the novel, which actually explores other issues. The action involves an ordinary Spanish family, for whom the search for the treasure leads to unexpected discoveries: about their own past, their faith, and their nation's past.

I recommend Collision on Tenerife by Jon Ziomek

Collision on Tenerife: The How and Why of the World's Worst Aviation Disaster

New Year by Juli Zeh.

Decompression by Juli Zeh.

The Black Mountain

The Banana Road: It's Tenerife But Not As You Know It by Andrea Montgomery.
The Trial by S.R. Masters.

Sunrise on the Coast