Azul Venezia / Venice Blue

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Pub. Date: 2019-05-21
Publisher(s): Suma
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Summary

Son jóvenes, son músicas, son hermosas y son huérfanas. Si desaparecen, nadie preguntará por ellas. O quizá sí.

Una mujer independiente y decidida, con la ayuda de un oficial del  ejército español, investiga unos asesinatos en serie en la Venecia del siglo XVIII.    Venecia, 1716.

Caterina Sforza, aprendiz de forense e hija del  médico más prestigioso de la ciudad, descubre el cuerpo de una muchacha  crucificado en una góndola; está rodeado de velas encendidas y tiene los pechos teñidos de azul.  Este será el primero de una serie de asesinatos con puestas en escena  tan bellas como perturbadoras. Las víctimas son alumnas del Ospedale  della Pietà, el conservatorio para huérfanas con talento musical donde  da clase el gran maestro Antonio Vivaldi.

Caterina entrará en ese  hospicio para descubrir al culpable. No estará sola: el capitán español  Alfonso Guardi, conocido en la Corte por sus dotes deductivas y su  capacidad de análisis, la ayudará a averiguar qué se esconde tras las  muertes en una ciudad fantasma donde nada ni nadie es lo que parece.

«Una de vosotras hará algo intrascendente que la bestia interpretará como una señal del destino. La atrapará con sus ardides, la llevará a su sala de tortura y entonces ya no habrá escapatoria...».

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

They are young, beautiful, musical, and they are orphans. If they disappear, nobody will ask about them. Right?

With the help of an official in the Spanish army, an independent, determined woman investigates serial murders in 18th-century Venice.

Venice, 1716. Caterina Sforza, apprentice coroner and daughter of the city’s most renowned doctor, discovers the body of a woman crucified on a gondola: she is surrounded by candles and her breasts are tinted blue. This is the first in a series of murders with staging that is both beautiful and disturbing. The victims are alumni of the Ospedale della Pietà, the conservatory for orphans with musical talent where the great Antonio Vivaldi teaches. Caterina enters the orphanage to discover the culprit. She is not alone: the Spanish captain Alfonso Guardi, known for his deductive skill and analytical capacity, helps her find out what lies behind the deaths in a ghost city where no one and nothing are as they seem.

“One of you will do something trivial that this animal will see as a sign of destiny. He will trap you with a ruse, he will take you to his torture chamber, and there will be no escape...”

Author Biography

MARINA G. TORRÚS (Madrid, 1971). Licenciada en Ciencias de la Información. Escribe historias desde los seis años, pero empezó a vivir de ellas hace más de veinte, cuando su nombre apareció acompañado de la palabra «guionista» en los títulos de crédito de numerosas series de ficción, programas de entretenimiento, series de animación y concursos. Ha escrito 10 novelas infantiles de la colección «El pequeño Leo Da Vinci», publicadas por Alfaguara. Amante de la ópera, la literatura de misterio y la ciudad de Venecia, ha decidido reunir estos tres elementos en un thriller apasionado con un importante trasfondo histórico, a partir de una idea que le robó el corazón la primera vez que viajó a la ciudad de los canales.

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