Jordi Llobregat

Secreto de Vesalio

Thomas Bunstead

Secret of Vesalius

Daniel Amat has left Spain and all that happened there behind him. Having just achieved a brilliant role in Ancient Languages at Oxford University and an even more advantageous engagement, the arrival of a letter - a demand - stamped Barcelona comes like a cold hand from behind. He arrives back in that old, labyrinthine and near-mythic city a few days before the great 1888 World Fair, amid dread whispers of murders - the injuries reminiscent of an ancient curse, and bearing signs of the genius 16th century anatomist, Vesalius. Daniel is soon pulled into the depths of the crime, and eventually into the tunnels below Barcelona, where his own dark past and the future of science are joined in a terrible venture - to bring the secret of Vesalius to life.

The Secret of Vesalius

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Ein actionreicher historischer Thriller, so spannend wie Dan Brown und so atmosphärisch wie Carlos Ruiz Zafón. »Thriller der Extraklasse: Leidenschaftlich, brutal, historisch exakt.« Hamburger Morgenpost Barcelona, 1888: Als der junge Gelehrte Daniel Amat die Nachricht vom Tod seines Vaters erhält, kehrt er nur widerwillig in seine Heimat zurück. Am Grab begegnet er dem Journalisten Bernat Fleixa, der glaubt, dass es Mord war. Doch die Polizei will nicht ermitteln. Als Daniel dann noch das mysteriöse Tagebuch seines Vaters in die Hände fällt, das auf ein geheimes Manuskript verweist, und immer öfter schrecklich zugerichtete Frauenleichen in den Altstadtgassen entdeckt werden, fragt sich Daniel: War sein Vater einem grausamen Verbrechen auf der Spur?

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Die Anatomie des Teufels

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Frankenstein meets The Shadow of the Wind in a Gothic thriller set in the diabolical city of fin-de-siecle Barcelona. Daniel Amat has left Spain and all that happened there behind him. Having just achieved a brilliant role in Ancient Languages at Oxford University and an even more advantageous engagement, the arrival of a letter - a demand - stamped Barcelona comes like a cold hand from behind. He arrives back in that old, labyrinthine and near-mythic city a few days before the great 1888 World Fair, amid dread whispers of murders - the injuries reminiscent of an ancient curse, and bearing signs of the genius 16th century anatomist, Vesalius. Daniel is soon pulled into the depths of the crime, and eventually into the tunnels below Barcelona, where his own dark past and the future of science are joined in a terrible venture - to bring the secret of Vesalius to life. Gothic and gripping, this historical thriller makes of Barcelona a diabolical character - emerging out of the dark into a new electrical age, aflame with spirit, superstition and science. Published in eighteen countries, Jordi Llobregat's bestselling first novel mixes a passionate setting and cryptic mystery into a genre-crossing phenomenon.

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