The long-awaited second part of «The silence of the white city»Has just gone out and the truth is that it does not disappoint.
The mysterious serial killer in this installment follows the guidelines of the Triple Death, a Celtic initiatory rite imbued in the shadows of all macabre practices lost in the mists of time. This practice, like many others, which may or may not have taken place in the Iberian Peninsula during pre-Roman periods. The only testimonies in this regard date from several centuries later. In the Middle Ages someone ended up putting black on white what until that moment ran from mouth to mouth as an ancient memory.
Whether they were true or not, what really happens in the novel is that the Police Inspector Unai López de Ayala he is in charge of the rugged case that brings these macabre customs of offering to the gods to our days. Unai will have to find out what is behind this cruelty in death, staged with such macabre theatricalization.
Of course, like any good classic-style thriller, only at the end can the reader tie up the dots, never loose in the plot but buried to achieve that effect of absolute involvement of the reader, of making him want to know more and more in order to find explanations to that manifest form of evil that threatens the protagonists themselves.
The characters of the novel, closely related to the first part, continue to maintain that verisimilitude in each and every one of their acts, provoking in the reader that mimicry that, in addition to capturing the knot of the plot itself, hooks so that each scene feels authentically lived. If to all this we add that recognition of the nearby environment: Vitoria, Cantabria ... Everything becomes very very close.
In summary, a second part at the height of "The silence of the white city." The only thing left is that the closing of the trilogy of the white city does not wait.
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