Title: El asedio
Description: Cádiz, 1811. While the city is under siege from the marauding French army, an even greater menace is lurking within the city walls: a serial killer is on the loose, flaying young women to death. Each of these murders takes place near where a French bomb has just fallen. In order to find the murderer, police commissioner Rogelio Tizon begins to perceive the city as a vast chessboard as he tries to predict his unknown opponent's next deadly move. In the claustrophobic atmosphere of the besieged town, an heiress, an unscrupulous corsair captain, a taxidermist who is also a spy and a hardened soldier begin to cross paths, and behind them all the figure of Tizon is getting closer to deciphering the lethal pattern behind the murders...
Subjects: Novela, Fiction, Ficción, Novela histórica española, Spanish Historical fiction, Murder, Investigation, History, Fiction, crime, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Spain, fiction, Romance literature, Meurtre, Romans, nouvelles, Enquêtes, Histoire, Historia, Asesinato, Investigación, Fiction, thrillers, historical
Places: Cádiz (Spain), Spain, Cádiz
Time periods: Siege, 1810-1812, 19th century, Napoleonic Conquest, 1808-1813