Books by Matilde Asensi and Complete Book Reviews
Matilde Asensi, Author Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A. $29.99 (488p) ISBN 978-84-01-32894-7
Like her previous efforts, El sal""n de mbar (The Amber Room, Debolsillo, 2000) and the best-selling Iacobus (Debolsillo, 2001), Asensi's third novel is a tightly plotted historical thriller. Sister Ottavia Salina, a paleographer and art ...
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Matilde Asensi, Author, Lisa Carter, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Lisa Carter. HarperCollins $25.95 (387p) ISBN 978-0-06-145841-5
Straitlaced Spanish painter Elvira De Poulain confronts massive debt—and mortal danger—in freewheeling 1920s Shanghai in her efforts to sort out her murdered husband's messy affairs in this fast-paced if farfetched thriller from...
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Matilde Asensi, Author, Pamela Carmell, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Pamela Carmell. Rayo $24.95 (458p) ISBN 978-0-06-082857-8
When the murder of an Ethiopian man covered with enigmatic tattoos roils the upper echelons of the Roman Catholic Church, Sister Ottavia Salina, head of the Restoration and Paleography Laboratory of the Vatican's Classified Archives, is called...
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