Domingo Villar was one of the Galician authors who most revolutionized the world of crime and detective novels.

The world of literature now mourns his loss, after learning of his death last Wednesday from a brain hemorrhage. The 51-year-old writer had been admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Álvaro Cunqueiro hospital for a few days, where he finally died.

‘Ojos de agua’ was the work that started the successful series starring the melancholic and lonely inspector, Leo Caldas, his best-known character and probably the one that best reflects his work. It starts with a murder, that of the young saxophonist, Luis Reigosa, found dead in a residential tower next to the beach. Caldas and his assistant, Rafael Estévez, an Aragonese for whom things "are or are not," will be in charge of the case. A couple that many have branded as the Spanish version of Sherlock Holmes and his beloved Watson.

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