The ladies of the Spanish thriller move alternately in search of the best seller that always convinces the most impatient readers. For more clues, both ladies are awarded both recent Planet Awards (Let's not be naive either, with its undeniable concession to the commercial for greater security in sales). So when it is not Dolores Redondo who presents a new novel is Eva Garcia Saenz who lashes out with a new and disturbing plot that this time acquires even greater plot flights.
The result of this competition is precisely that, the search for the round plot. An impossible mission that nevertheless serves as a creative horizon, and that leads to novels that are increasingly sophisticated in substance and form, in documentation and twists, in action, mysteries and feverish suspense. Just what this "Aquitaine" is, a region made into a novel with fascinating esoteric touches from when Europe advanced immersed in the shadows of the punishment of religion and the blood of constant wars.
Synopsis
1137. The Duke of Aquitaine - the most coveted region of France - appears dead in Compostela. The body is colored blue and marked with the "blood eagle", an ancient Norman torture. His daughter Eleanor decides to take revenge and for this she marries the son of whom she believes her murderer: Luy VI el Gordo, King of France.
But the king himself dies during the wedding under the same circumstances. Eleanor and Luy VII will try to find out, together with the Aquitanian cats - the epic spies of the dukes - who wants the inexperienced kings on the throne.
Decades before the death of the Duke of Aquitaine, an unnamed boy is abandoned in a forest by his five mothers. Perhaps a monster, or perhaps a saint, the little survivor will end up becoming one of the most exceptional men of medieval Europe.
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