Historical fiction finds in new values ​​such as louis clog o Luis Montero Manglano (it goes from Luises la Thing) to thriving authors who are consolidating themselves as references of the genre. In the first case, with its fantastic novelistic projections from the tangible aspects of castles or other locations steeped in medieval history. While in the case of Montero Manglano the historical is more the scenography around which to locate plots with a greater free component, beyond the facts and circumstances that occurred in that tidal wave that is History.
The point is to fictionalize to delve into remote times without sticking to official records or passionate chronicles always written by the victors. Chronicles as implausible as their fantastic replicas of those who claim to be heirs of the defeated and, therefore, possessors of the truest truth just because. Thus it remains to fictionalize, imagine, reconstruct from the analysis of past ways of life for novels how people lived then, which is what it is about. And with authors like Luis Montero Manglano we can give ourselves that pleasure.
Top 3 recommended novels by Luis Montero Manglano
King Solomon's Table
A saga by Luis Montero Manglano that reaches those echoes of the great series of mystery and adventure that link the historical with a practically ancestral suspense about remote wisdoms and balances of the world to discover ...
Tirso Alfaro is completing his PhD in Art History in Canterbury, England. Orphan of a father since he was little and with an absent mother who cares more about her reputed career as an archaeologist than about her own son, his life passes quite apathetically, until one night he is involved in the theft of an ancient paten. When he returns to Madrid, he receives a mysterious job offer and enters the strangest selection process he has ever experienced, not suspecting that he is being put to the test by a secret organization.
From that moment on, Tirso will be part of a hectic race to appropriate the mythical King Solomon's Table, which is said to bring misfortune to everyone who owns it. But no ancient legend can compare with the spiral of danger, betrayal and death that his life will turn into when he comes into contact with the mysterious group of The Seekers, a heterogeneous team of adventurers working incognito and based in the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid. What Tirso does not suspect is that the search for the valuable relic will put him on the trail of the truth about his family's hidden past and his own identity.
The museum of mirrors
Beyond the dark mysteries of Dorian Gray's painting by Oscar Wilde, it is always true that each work of art is much more than the canvas that collects it. The gazes that for years and centuries have rested on them make up another mosaic that transcends and seems to be engraved in the represented objects or in the glassy retinas of the characters, about to reveal God knows what mysteries...
In the bicentennial year of the Prado Museum, the celebrations are drastically altered by a series of violent murders that reproduce some of the most famous paintings exhibited there. An amateur copyist and a quirky symbology expert will be the only ones capable of solving the crimes.
The museum of mirrors it's a haunting thriller that revolves around one of the most important art galleries in the world and the mysteries behind its works of art. In the grip of a devilish narrative rhythm, everyone who immerses himself in its pages will travel from the offices of the museum directors to the basements and warehouses, passing through its most famous rooms, and will learn surprising details about the immortal paintings that are exhibited in its walls. Discover in this chilling novel how the works of Velázquez, Goya or Bosco hide more secrets than you could imagine.
The Adventure of the Jade Princes
Henry Talbot was famous for having accumulated an interesting collection of antiquities that included some priceless Mayan statues shrouded in legend: the Jade Princes. After his death, the three pieces that he had collected are to be shared between his lawyer - Mr. Clarke - and the two members of the Archaeological Society, while the rest of his collection will pass into the hands of his niece, Elizabeth. However, shortly after making the archaeologist's last wishes public, Clarke is assassinated and her Jade Prince robbed.
Elizabeth and Robert Hollister, driver of the Spanish diplomat present during the reading of the will, will initiate an investigation: who is guilty of the murder? What mystery is hidden behind the Jade Princes? What is true in the curse they seem to hold?
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