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  • Published: 28 July 2020
  • ISBN: 9781984898593
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $36.00

The Silence of the White City




Already a major bestseller in Spain and Latin America, the first installment of the sensational White City Trilogy introduces Inspector Unai López de Ayala and follows his hunt for a terrifying serial killer.

"You’ll want to race through The Silence of the White City, but it’s best to slow down and savor the full effect of the volatile, intoxicating universe Sáenz has created. This is the first novel of the White City trilogy to be translated into English—the second can’t come fast enough." —AirMail

HOW DO YOU STOP A KILLER WHO'S ALWAYS TWO STEPS AHEAD?

A madman is holding Vitoria hostage, killing its citizens in brutal ways and staging the bodies. The city's only hope is a brilliant detective struggling to battle his own demons.

Inspector Unai López de Ayala, known as "Kraken," is charged with investigating a series of ritualistic murders. The killings are eerily similar to ones that terrorized the citizens of Vitoria twenty years earlier. But back then, police were sure they had discovered the killer, a prestigious archaeologist who is currently in jail. Now Kraken must race to determine whether the killer had an accomplice or if the wrong man has been incarcerated for two decades. This fast-paced, unrelenting thriller weaves in and out of the mythology and legends of the Basque country as it hurtles to its shocking conclusion.

  • Published: 28 July 2020
  • ISBN: 9781984898593
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $36.00

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Praise for The Silence of the White City

International Praise for the White City Trilogy:

  • "A sequence of murders narrated with such precision that they could very well have come from a real police report." --El Periódico de Catalunya
  • "If one wants to enjoy and suffer with a book--enjoy because of the hypnotically interesting and suffer for being unable to read any quicker--their novel is The Silence of the White City." --Que Leer
  • "Like a puzzle where the pieces twist till they fit. That is how the novel[s] of Eva Garcia Saénz de Urturi works." --El Correo