La sombra del cardenal

Synopsis of La sombra del cardenal

«La sombra del cardenal» is the historical novel by Jesús Ávila Granados, published by Ushuaia Ediciones in paperback (347 pages, in Spanish).

In the sixteenth century, in the principality of Trent, Cardinal Cristoforo Madruzzo receives the severed head of a military leader and commissions Captain Domenico Tonelli to investigate the crime. Meanwhile, the restorer Bruno and the gardener Angiolo set off for their hometowns on a journey of intrigues, betrayals, loves, revolts and esotericism that will change their lives.

This novel belongs to the Narrativa collection of Ushuaia Ediciones; its first Spanish edition was published in 2013.

For readers of historical fiction and mystery, with intrigue plots set in the Renaissance.