Blood libel
19.99 €
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Blood libel
19.99 €
In the harsh winter of 1620, a horrific double murder sows panic in Madrid: the bodies of a young woman and a child, whose heart has been cut out, are found. Town gossips soon pin the culprit on the respected and outrageously upstanding notary, Sebastián Castro. The murderer, who has turned all of Madrid against an innocent man, walks free, and Castro, who carelessly witnessed the will of a very conscientious aristocrat, has no idea what he's risked. A single denunciation from a narrow-minded and frightened citizen is enough to shatter several lives.
However, Castro's children manage to escape: thirteen-year-old Alonso, a carefree teenager just yesterday, finds himself with his infant brother on the streets, facing hunger, cold, and arrest. From now on, his entire life is subordinated to a single goal: saving his parents from the Inquisition. And his friends—also homeless and with the same fire in their hearts—help him.
Sandra Asa worked as a lawyer for many years, but gave up her practice to pursue her dream of a writing career. Her debut, "Blood Libel," the first part of a two-part series, is a gripping adventure thriller with elements of noir, procedural fiction, and even picaresque, worthy of both Alexandre Dumas and Arturo Pérez-Reverte. It instantly became a cult classic in Spain. Serial murders, the ins and outs of the Inquisition, a family destroyed by prejudice, revenge and justice, rapid maturation, and the search for one's path—this is the perfect historical novel, and we've never seen such a golden age before.
However, Castro's children manage to escape: thirteen-year-old Alonso, a carefree teenager just yesterday, finds himself with his infant brother on the streets, facing hunger, cold, and arrest. From now on, his entire life is subordinated to a single goal: saving his parents from the Inquisition. And his friends—also homeless and with the same fire in their hearts—help him.
Sandra Asa worked as a lawyer for many years, but gave up her practice to pursue her dream of a writing career. Her debut, "Blood Libel," the first part of a two-part series, is a gripping adventure thriller with elements of noir, procedural fiction, and even picaresque, worthy of both Alexandre Dumas and Arturo Pérez-Reverte. It instantly became a cult classic in Spain. Serial murders, the ins and outs of the Inquisition, a family destroyed by prejudice, revenge and justice, rapid maturation, and the search for one's path—this is the perfect historical novel, and we've never seen such a golden age before.
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