El ladrón de veranos

Summer of 1935. Clara is eleven years old and has met the most fascinating man in the world: Roberto Montenegro, painter and aristocrat, who has just arrived in Deauville, the extravagant and frivolous capital of the Normandy coast where princes and millionaires meet. Little is known of his past and his fortune has uncertain origins, though rumors speak of stolen works of art and gambler hits in casinos. The only one who knows his youthful secrets is Gabriel Caron, Clara's uncle, but he keeps them silent, faithful to a friendship pact established between the two men fifteen years ago. However, when Clara finds the body of the painter, murdered during a night out, she gradually begins to reveal everything Montenegro was hiding. The discovery of a highly valuable canvas by Velázquez, in which the Sevillian master portrayed his lover Flaminia Triunfi, perhaps hides the key to what happened. An addictive puzzler set on the glamorous French coast of the 1930s places María Soto as the new master of the escape and mystery novel.