“It's rare a novelist who can create a literary page turner. Pérez-Reverte is one of those rarities”
— Denver Post
“To read him is to rediscover the delights of Dumas and Conan Doyle”
— The Times
“Spain's most popular, inventive writer of historical fiction”
— The Sunday Times
“A true delight right up to its clever final reveal”
— PETER SWANSON, author of Kill Your Darlings
“One of the best crime novels I've read in years!”
— KELLY MULLEN, author of This is Not a Game
“A sophisticated and exciting intellectual game”
— Daily Telegraph
“Gives murder a touch of class”
— Observer
“The perfect murder mystery”
— JANICE HALLETT, author of The Appeal
Year
2026
Pages
320
Praise
“It's rare a novelist who can create a literary page turner. Pérez-Reverte is one of those rarities”
— Denver Post
“To read him is to rediscover the delights of Dumas and Conan Doyle”
— The Times
“Spain's most popular, inventive writer of historical fiction”
— The Sunday Times
“A true delight right up to its clever final reveal”
— PETER SWANSON, author of Kill Your Darlings
“One of the best crime novels I've read in years!”
— KELLY MULLEN, author of This is Not a Game
“A sophisticated and exciting intellectual game”
— Daily Telegraph
“Gives murder a touch of class”
— Observer
“The perfect murder mystery”
— JANICE HALLETT, author of The Appeal
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