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The date 1888; the place Whitechapel in London’s East End. Yes, it is the time of the unholy, but mercifully brief, reign of Jack the Ripper. Prostitutes are being viciously murdered by an unknown assailant and, as the murders become ever more horrific, young Polish immigrant, Jacek Kaminski, is gradually suspected of being the perpetrator. He even begins to suspect so himself, being subject to blackouts during which he has no recollection of what he has done.

En la España del siglo de Oro, codicia, corrupción, estafa y asesinato han invadido un reino gobernado por tres viudos y un fraile. Entre tanto hombre sin amor, apenas queda sitio para un hombre honrado. El tercer caso de Isidoro Montemayor. Otoño de 1615. Un doble enlace por poderes está a punto de unir las coronas de Francia y España en una alianza que pretende ser el germen de la paz en Europa: el de la española Ana de Austria con Luis XIII, rey de Francia, y el de la francesa Isabel de Borbón con el príncipe Felipe.

*Winner of the CWA Historical Dagger 2023* 'A great insight into Renaissance Florence. What I love about these books is the seamless weaving of factual history with a great story' – Abir Mukherjee Florence. Spring, 1537. When Cesare Aldo investigates a report of intruders at a convent in the...