Year: 2023
Editorial: Alianza
Literary Category: police, black and suspense
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ISBN: 978-84-1148-130-4
Format: Softcover
Pages: 440
Synopsis: Seville, October 1936. Crisanta is given a dangerous assignment. A 16th century triptych by Jan Van Eyck has disappeared amid the looting. If she tracks it down and hands it in, she’ll get help her get out of the country. She realizes that there is no place for her in a Spain shrouded in obscurantism, and accepts, regardless of the fact that her divination instruments have advised her to stay clear of that enterprise. Legend has it that the triptych brought misfortune upon its defilers, but she is not intimidated by the curses. Juan Ramón Biedma, an author honored with the main crime novel awards, was the winner of the XXI Fernando Quiñones Unicaja Novel Award with “El sonido de tu cabello". "Crisanta", his latest novel, is an impeccable thriller as well as a ghost story set during the Civil War, born from the encounter between the marginal stories of the thirties cinema, the enigmatic air of the British esoteric societies of the XIX and reconstruction of the events during the Sevillian rearguard.