by Paul Harding · Editora y Distribuidora Hispano Americana, S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788435055123
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«La charada del asesino» is the medieval mystery novel by Paul Harding, published by Edhasa in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
In the summer of 1380, Sir John Craston and Brother Athelstan investigate the death of Edwin Chapler, clerk of the Chancery of the Green Wax, whose body appears in the Thames. The case turns out to be the first in a chain of murders in which the perpetrator plays a macabre game with the victims and with the friar's wits.
Seventh novel in the Brother Athelstan series, part of the Detectives in History collection. Translated by Gemma Rovira; the original English title is The Assassin's Riddle.
Recommended for readers of historical crime fiction and crimes set in medieval England, featuring a friar detective as protagonist.
Paul Harding is an American musician and author, best known for his debut novel Tinkers (2009), which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2010 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, among other honors. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Emerson College in Boston. Previously, Harding was the director of the Creative Writing and Literature MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton, as well as interim associate provost of Stony Brook University's Lichtenstein Center.
