Best-selling British author C.J. Sansom has been awarded the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award. Winter in Madrid is set just after the bloody Spanish Civil War, with World War II looming over Europe. Reluctantly, Harry Brett looks for an old schoolmate who's become a person of interest for British intelligence. 'A bestseller in the U.K., this moving opus leaves the reader mourning for the Spain that might have been-and the England that maybe never was.'-Publishers Weekly