by Hubert Monteilhet · Plaza Y Janes · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401908491
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«Las mantis religiosas» is the crime novel by Hubert Monteilhet, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (213 pages, in Spanish).
The work reconstructs a famous homicide through a supposed file of documents arranged chronologically, with names and dates modified. The terror does not arise from the setting, but from the psychology of the characters, portrayed in those seemingly objective pieces that keep shedding new light on the crime.
Translation by Alfredo Crespo; it belonged to the Búho Collection (number 49) of Plaza & Janés.
Hubert Monteilhet was a French writer of crime and historical fiction. His best-known novels are The Praying Mantises and Return from the Ashes which have been adapted into TV and motion pictures. His works are characterized by their literary sophistication and mordant wit while exploring moral and philosophical issues. He was called "one of the more eclectic and diversified dabblers in crime" and "the most literary of all the French crime novelists."
