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Cover of the 2012 Abacus reprint of the book

Death on a Galician Shore (La playa de los ahogados) is a detective fiction novel by Domingo Villar published by Agencia Literaria in 2009. In 2011, the novel was published in Great Britain by Abacus and translated by Sonia Soto; that year it was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's International Dagger Award.[1] The movie "A praia dos afogados" directed by Gerardo Hererro is based on the book and was released in theaters in 2015.

  1. ^ "Winners archive — The Crime Writers' Association". thecwa.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-07-31.

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