Alicia Giménez Bartlett

Alicia Giménez Bartlett

El silencio de los claustros

El silencio de los claustros

Novel , 2009

Destino

Pages: 464

A friar and art expert from the Poblet monastery is murdered while working on the restoration of an incorrupt body exhibited in the chapel of a Barcelona convent, which has disappeared. Police inspector Petra Delicado and her assistant, Fermín Garzón, research historical territory that is alien to them. The investigation is conducted around two uncertain focal points: the dark echoes of the Tragic Week of 1909 and the history of the convent’s powerful benefactor family. Petra Delicado Saga.