Eva García Sáenz de Urturi

Les rites de l’eau

The Rites of Water

April 7, 2022
Thriller
544 pages
140 × 210 mm
21,90 €
9782265155411
978-2-2651-5541-1
Translated from the Spanish by Judith Vernant
																Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, Les rites de l’eau
																Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, Les rites de l’eau

The second part of the trilogy of the white city, the Spanish series event!

Spanish Basque Country, 2016. A serial killer attacks pregnant women. To make matters worse, the killer seems to be inspired by an ancestral rite that consists of burning the victims before hanging them by their feet and immersing them in a cauldron dating back to the Bronze Age. The case is immediately entrusted to the detective and profiler Unai López de Ayala, known as Kraken. Called to the first crime scene, he discovers, horrified, that the victim is none other than Ana Belén Liaño, his childhood sweetheart.

A revelation that will plunge the inspector twenty-five years back into a past he thought was deeply buried...

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

An author in full rise thanks to the Planeta 2020 Prize received for Aquitania, historical thriller which will be published in October 2022 by Fleuve.

The return of Kraken, the hero of Le silence de la ville blanche.

A trilogy anchored in Vitoria, the author’s hometown, offering a fascinating dive into the rites and customs of the Spanish Basque autonomous community.

Released in synergy with Pocket.

April 7, 2022
Thriller
544 pages
140 × 210 mm
21,90 €
9782265155411
978-2-2651-5541-1
Translated from the Spanish by Judith Vernant