El susurro de las sombras

Synopsis of El susurro de las sombras

«El susurro de las sombras» is the suspense novel by Jan-Philipp Sendker, published by Grijalbo in paperback (432 pages, in Spanish).

A man who has withdrawn to a small island off Hong Kong to overcome the death of his son meets an American woman whose son has disappeared. His decision to help her drags him into an investigation across a China of dangers and contrasts, where the country's past and the protagonist's own past intersect in a story about loss, friendship and love.

First instalment of the The Rising Dragon series. Work translated from German, whose original title is «Das Flüstern der Schatten». Published on 12 February 2010.

Aimed at readers of suspense and mystery novels with a contemporary setting in China and characters marked by personal drama.