by Bernard Ashley · Editorial Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420465708
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«Atrapadas en Casa Venganza» is the young adult mystery and suspense novel by Bernard Ashley, published by Alfaguara in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
Sofía has just lost her father and misses her life in London. After moving with her mother to the renovated Casa Venganza hotel, in the middle of hostile and silent marshes, Sofía doubts she can start over. Very soon, a criminal plot shakes the stillness of the place and reveals the hotel's dark past.
The novel belongs to Alfaguara's Red Series, where it occupies number 2. It was published on February 21, 2003.
For young readers who enjoy intrigue and rural atmospheres charged with tension.
Bernard John Ashley is a British author of books for children and young adults. His debut novel, The Trouble with Donovan Croft, published in 1974, won "The Other Award", an alternative to the Carnegie Medal. A Kind of Wild Justice (1978), Running Scared (1986), and Little Soldier (1999) were commended runners up for the Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book. The first two have been reissued by OUP in their Children's Modern Classics series, the third re-issued in a 15th anniversary edition. Ashley's TV drama Dodgem won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Entertainment programme (BBC) in 1993.
