Black Wolf - The 2nd novel in international bestselling phenomenon Red Queen

The highly anticipated sequel to Red Queen. ''Best thriller books of 2023 . . . What impresses is the brainy brio of Gomez-Jurado''s storytelling'' - Sunday Times on Red Queen Antonia Scott has an unusually gifted mind, able to see what others miss, able to solve the crimes that baffle all others. The only thing she fears is herself. Antonia is the lynchpin of the Red Queen project, created to work behind the scenes to solve the most devious and dangerous crimes. But she is unwilling to move past the last case, convinced it''s related to a personal tragedy, until a series of deadly events pulls her back in. In southern Spain, in the Costa del Sol, a key mafia figure is found brutally murdered in his villa, his pregnant wife, Lola Moreno, barely escapes an attempt to kill her in a shopping mall and is on the run. A shipping container from St. Petersburg arrives in port in Spain containing the corpses of nine women, all who suffocated. Now Antonia, with the help of her helper and protector, Jon Gutierrez, must track down this missing Lola. But they aren''t the only ones on Lola''s trail - a dangerous contract killer, known as the Black Wolf, is also on her trail. And Antonia Scott, still plagued by her personal demons, must outwit, out-maneuver, and, ultimately, face this terrible, mysterious rival. The Black Wolf is getting closer and closer, and Antonia, for the first time in her life, is feeling scared. ''An electrifying serial-killer thriller . . . tops even The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as a thinking reader''s thriller, and Antonia Scott is like a more sympathetic Lisbeth Salander'' A.J. Finn, bestselling author of The Woman in the Window

Product details

• Authors: Juan Gomez-Jurado, Juan Gómez-Jurado
• Assisted by: Nicholas Caistor (Translation), Caistor Nicholas (Translation)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.03.2024
• EAN: 9781529093742
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-9374-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 243 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Antonia Scott
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Women Sleuths, Crime & mystery, Spain, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators, Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Madrid (City), FICTION / World Literature / Spain / 21st Century, Thriller: serial killers