(2000) Fernando Lara Novel Award for Clara y la penumbra (2001) The Hammett Prize of black novel with "Clara and the penumbra" (2002) The Macallan Gold Dagger For Fiction Award 2002, awarded by the Mystery Writers Association of the United Kingdom for his novel "The Cave of Ideas" (2002) Flintyxan Award for the best historical police novel, awarded to "The Cave of Ideas" by the Association of Swedish Novel Writers (2004) Special mention in the Premio Celsius 232 (to the best work of science fiction or fantasy of 2007 written in Spanish) for The key of the abyss in the 21 Black Week of Gijón References External links Book review – The Athenian Murders A second review of The Athenian Murders from Salon Spanish mystery writers Spanish novelists Spanish male novelists Spanish medical writers Spanish psychiatrists Cuban emigrants to Spain People from Havana 1959 births Living people Writers of historical mysteries