by Victoria Holt · CÍRCULO DE LECTORES · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422636236
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«Nido de serpientes» is the romantic suspense novel by Victoria Holt, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (395 pages, in Spanish).
In late nineteenth-century Edinburgh, Davina, a sixteen-year-old girl, is unjustly accused of murdering her father, a powerful banker. Victim of a conspiracy hatched by a mysterious governess and a sinister coachman, she flees to South Africa, where the diamond rush and the conflict with the Boers mark her attempt to rebuild her life.
Translation by José Manuel Pomares of the English original «Snare of Serpents», published in 1990; this Spanish edition appeared in 1991.
A read for those seeking historical romance, gothic suspense and mystery set in the nineteenth century.
Eleanor Alice Hibbert was an English writer of historical romances. She was a prolific writer who published several books a year in different literary genres, each genre under a different pen name: Jean Plaidy for fictionalized history of European royalty and the three volumes of her history of the Spanish Inquisition, Victoria Holt for gothic romances, and Philippa Carr for a multi-generational family saga. She also wrote light romances, crime novels, murder mysteries and thrillers under pseudonyms Eleanor Burford, Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Anna Percival, and Ellalice Tate.
