Eva García Sáenz de Urturi

Le silence de la ville blanche

The Silence of the White City

September 10, 2020

Thriller

560 pages

140 × 210 mm

21,90 €

978-2-2651-4431-6

Translated from the Spanish by Judith Vernant

Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, Le silence de la ville blanche

When the past comes to haunt a town again…

In the Cathedral of Santa Maria in Vitoria, a man and a woman in their twenties are found murdered in a macabre scenography: they are naked and hold hands like lovers while the two victims did not know each other. An even more terrifying detail: the autopsy will show that their death was caused by bees put in their mouths. The whole thing suggests that there is a link to a series of crimes that terrorized the city twenty years ago. Except that the perpetrator of these acts, once a valued member of the Vitoria community, is still behind bars. With his release on parole imminent, who is responsible for these new murders and what is their real purpose?
One thing is certain, Inspector Unai López de Ayala, nicknamed the Kraken, will discover a completely different face of the city.

The author

Eva García Sáenz de Urturi was born in Vitoria in 1972 and has lived in Alicante since the age of fifteen. Her first self-published novel was a great success. In 2016, The Secret Of The White City, an exciting thriller set in her hometown, becomes a bestseller with more than 200,000 copies sold in Spain. Since then, translation rights have been sold in many countries and a film adaptation has been made.

Strong points

After Dolores Redondo, here is THE new star of the historical Spanish detective novel Le Fleuve.

With an ultra-worked setting, an original plot, characters embodied, Eva García has concocted a thriller full of flavors and colors rooted in the deepest Spain between yesterday and today.

More than 200,000 copies sold in Spain, sales in a dozen countries, a well-attended author and a great press.

Press

“The latest editorial event in Spanish literature.”

Yo Dona.

“a hypnotic thriller”

Lonely Planet Traveller.