by Vanessa Montfort · Espasa · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467076356
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«La Toffana» is the historical legal thriller novel by Vanessa Montfort, published by Espasa in hardback (544 pages, in Spanish).
In seventeenth-century Rome, the apothecary Giulia Toffana is brought before the Holy Office. She guards a family secret inherited from her mother: the formula for a poison and an oath to protect young women from forced marriages. The novel reconstructs her trial between the legend of the first female serial killer and the figure of an avenger.
It won the 2025 Primavera Novel Prize; it was published on 9 April 2025 in the Espasa Narrativa collection.
The work is aimed at readers of historical fiction and legal thrillers, with an interest in historical female characters and baroque Rome.
