In a remote mountain village, fear has returned with the wolves.Eight years after a woman known as the Lady of the Wolves died amid violence and superstition, men connected to that night begin to die one after another.When Brother Anselmo, a Benedictine monk, arrives in the village, he finds a community ruled by old hatreds, ancient beliefs and secrets no one wishes to uncover. The evidence points to wolves. The villagers are certain of it.Anselmo i...

A remote town. A desecrated grave. And a dead man who may not have stayed dead.When Brother Anselmo is called to investigate, old fears resurface—of restless corpses, forbidden rites and the sanguisugae: the dead who return among the living.As rumours spread and fear takes hold, Anselmo must separate superstition from evidence and uncover the human motives concealed behind ancient beliefs.But in a world where the dead are feared almost as m...

For the first time in English, the improbable detective of the impossible who has had great success in Italy!Geremia Solaris has returned to the places of his youth convinced that he can forget, at least for a while, the endless evil he experienced in Florence. But a strange message left by the librarian who introduced him to the world of books and who committed suicide thirty years earlier, under never clarified circumstances, will drag him into a dark reality he never imagined he...

July, 1315. Months of relentless rain, unseasonable cold and famine have pushed a city to the edge of unrest.Within the Cathedral precinct, the canons of the Chapter begin to die—one after another, each death more disturbing than the last.Brother Anselmo soon finds himself drawn into an investigation where fear, superstition, ecclesiastical rivalries and violence are dangerously intertwined. As unrest spreads through the streets and powerful institutions pu...

Twenty years ago, a servant vanished after a sacrilegious theft from the crypt of Santa Maria di Avasinis.Now a Franciscan arrives with three scraps of parchment, supposedly written in blood by Mattia, a former monk condemned as a heretic. In them, he confesses to the servant’s murder.When the buried remains are found exactly where the parchments say they will be, the old crime seems solved.Anselmo is not convinced.Then anot...

A town built on faith. A sanctuary rich in relics. And deaths no one seems eager to explain.Forced to remain in a thriving pilgrimage town, Benedictine monk Anselmo and his young companion Gregorio are drawn into a web of suspicion when a Franciscan friar disappears and another death raises questions no one wants asked.The canons guard their privileges. The friars have secrets of their own. And behind the walls of the hospital, charity and silence exist sid...

A monastery built on the ruins of a dead city. A series of violent deaths. And an eclipse that seems to confirm the darkest fears of an entire community.When Brother Anselmo arrives at an isolated mountain monastery as a visitor for his Order, he finds a community already gripped by unease. Strange signs have appeared in the sky, old stories have resurfaced, and whispers of curses and evil presences are growing louder.Then the deaths begin.While fea...

A monastery built on the ruins of a dead city. A series of violent deaths. And an eclipse that seems to confirm the darkest fears of an entire community.When Brother Anselmo arrives at an isolated mountain monastery as a visitor for his Order, he finds a community already gripped by unease. Strange signs have appeared in the sky, old stories have resurfaced, and whispers of curses and evil presences are growing louder.Then the deaths begin.While fea...

This instant New York Times bestseller reveals the secrets embedded in Leonardo Da Vinci's best-known Christian piece The Last Supper.Milan, 1497: Leonardo is completing The Last Supper. Pope Alexander VI is determined to execute him after realizing that the painting contains clues to a baffling—and blasphemous—message that he is driven to decode. The Holy Grail and the Eucharistic Bread are missing, there is no meat on the table, and the apostles, shockin...

**"Splendid" —New York Times"Mind-bending." —Wall Street Journal"Brilliantly original. The best new novel I've read this year." —Salman RushdieA daring, kaleidoscopic novel about the clash of empires and ideas, told through a tennis match in the sixteenth century between the radical Italian artist Caravaggio and the Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo, played with a ball made from the hair of the beheaded Anne Boleyn.**The poet and the artist b...

From one of Mexico's most revered authors, an award-winning epic novel exploring history, culture, and the human condition.Terra Nostra is one of the great masterpieces of modern Latin American fiction. Concerned with nothing less than the history of Spain and of South America, with the Indian Gods and with Christianity, with the birth, the passion, and the death of civilizations, Fuentes's great novel is, indeed, that rare creation—the total work of art.

The Meditation Prayer on Mary Immaculate is one of Padre Pio’s few published writings, penned before he was forbidden by the Church to publish or to engage in correspondence—this for fear a cult would arise around him. Here we encounter a profound spiritual penetration into the mystery of Mary’s unique and sublime role in our salvation. Though brief, it can be read over and over with great benefit since it is –just as the title suggests—both a meditation and a prayer on the meaning of Mary...