Daniel Sempere runs the Sempere & Sons bookshop, he is happy but he's still haunted by the mysterious death of his mother when he was six years old. One morning, a mysterious figure enters and buys a precious copy of The Count of Monte Cristo and inscribes the book with the words 'To Fermin Romero de Torres, who came back from the dead and who holds the key to the future'.
The long-awaited new novel from the author of "The Shadow of the Wind".