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  • Published: 23 May 2021
  • ISBN: 9781984898616
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $32.99

The Water Rituals



Kraken is back for the second installment in the acclaimed White City Trilogy, and this time he investigates a series of ritualistic murders that target expectant parents, only to find that the key to uncovering the killer may be found in his own past.

HOW DO YOU UNMASK A KILLER WHO'S SPENT YEARS PREPARING TO HUNT YOU DOWN?

Kraken is back for the second installment in the internationally bestselling White City Trilogy, this time investigating a series of ritualistic murders, only to find that the key to uncovering the killer may be found in his own past.

A pregnant woman has been murdered in a brutal, ritualistic way: burned, hung, and then placed upside down in a Bronze Age cauldron. When Unai “Kraken” Lopez de Ayala discovers the victim is his first love, Ana Belén Liaño, memories of their time together come flooding back, and with them reminders of a dark secret long buried. Then the killer strikes again, enacting the same ritual against a second expectant parent. Kraken knows he must confront his past in order to unmask this fiend. And there’s no time to waste, because Deputy Superintendent Díaz de Salvatierra has just found out she's carrying a child. And the father could very well be Kraken himself...

  • Published: 23 May 2021
  • ISBN: 9781984898616
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $32.99

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Praise for The Water Rituals

International Praise for the White City Trilogy:

  • "A sequence of murders narrated with such precision that they could very well have come from a real police report." --El Periódico de Catalunya
  • "If one wants to enjoy and suffer with a book--enjoy because of the hypnotically interesting and suffer for being unable to read any quicker--their novel is The Silence of the White City." --Que Leer
  • "Like a puzzle where the pieces twist till they fit. That is how the novel[s] of Eva Garcia Saénz de Urturi works." --El Correo