Red Queen: A Novel
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Juan Gómez-Jurado. (2023). Red Queen: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Juan Gómez-Jurado. 2023. Red Queen: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group.

Juan Gómez-Jurado, Red Queen: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2023.

Juan Gómez-Jurado. Red Queen: A Novel. St. Martin's Publishing Group, 2023.

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"Pacing of the breakneck variety. Short chapters, funny asides, lethally potent descriptions: They all contribute to a frenetic page-turning momentum... you'll have great fun reading it." —The New York Times Book Review
The #1 International bestseller is now a top ten streaming series on Prime Video—read the captivating thriller that has taken the world by storm.
Antonia Scott—the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish mother—has a gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. But after a personal trauma, she's refused to continue her work or even leave her apartment.
Jon Gutierrez, a police officer in Bilbao—disgraced, suspended, and about to face criminal charges—is offered a chance to salvage his career by a secretive organization that works in the shadows to direct criminal investigations of a highly sensitive nature. All he has to do is succeed where many others have failed: Convince a recalcitrant Antonia to come out of her self-imposed retirement, protecting her and helping her investigate a new, terrifying case.
The case is a macabre, ritualistic murder—a teen-aged boy from a wealthy family whose body was found without a drop of blood left in it. But the murder is just the start. A high-ranking executive and daughter of one of the richest men in Spain is kidnapped, a crime which is tied to the previous murder. Behind them both is a hidden mastermind with even more sinister plans. And the only person with a chance to see the connections, solve the crimes and successfully match wits with the killer before tragedy strikes again...is Antonia Scott.

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   • source: Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author of The Kaiser's Web
   • content: "A labyrinth of mystery, crisply plotted and paced, way ahead of the pack. If you like good old fashioned suspense, with plenty of intrigue and treachery, this one's for you."
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   • content: "All the velocity and thrillers of Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy...all engrossing."
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   • source: David Morrell, New York Times bestselling author of Murder as a Fine Art
   • content: "Terrific - a complex story that unfolds at breakneck speed, a compelling plot filled with twist after twist, a story told with rich, fluid language, and a fascinating, well realized unlikely pair of characters, especially the brilliant Antonia Scott. Distinctive and entertaining."
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     October 1, 2022
     

     The daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish mother, brilliant detective Antonia Scott refuses to work or even leave her apartment after personal trauma. Disgraced Bilbao police officer Jon Gutierrez is tasked with coaxing her back to solve a gruesome murder that seems to be spawning other crimes. First in a trilogy that sold over two million copies in Spain and is being produced as an Amazon streaming series. With a 100,000-copy first printing.

     Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     January 9, 2023
     At the start of this nail-biting thriller, the first in a trilogy, Spanish author Gómez-Jurado (The Traitor’s Emblem) hooks the reader with the tantalizing opening sentence: “Antonia Scott allows herself to think of suicide no more than three minutes a day.” Antonia is a genius, whose off-the-charts intelligence and analytical skills have made her a valued member of a covert organization that handles sensitive criminal investigations. Following the near-fatal shooting of her beloved husband, which has left him in a coma and for which she blames herself, Antonia has become a recluse in her Madrid home. But she’s drawn back into the fray by the kidnapping of Carla Ortiz, a Spanish bank executive and “heiress to the richest man in the world.” Antonia’s handler partners her with disgraced police inspector Jon Gutiérrez, and together they pursue the possibility that Carla’s abduction is linked to the grisly murder of a young boy, whose corpse was drained of its blood. Frequent and often startling plot twists help compensate for a few contrivances that lessen interest toward the end. Lisbeth Salander devotees will find much to like. Agent: Tom Colchie, Colchie Agency.

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     February 1, 2023
     An exciting thriller set in Spain and recently translated from Spanish. Beleaguered by crime, the European Union has created the secret Red Queen project, the name inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, designed to "adapt continually to keep up with the bad guys." One of their tools is Antonia Scott, a non-cop who has a history of providing insights into the criminal mind. She is the smartest person in the world, and she never forgets anything. Her husband is in a coma for which she wrongly blames herself, and she contemplates suicide for a strict three minutes a day, along with a few other quirks. "My brain...isn't normal," she says. "I can do things others find impossible." Police pair her up with Inspector Jon Guti�rrez, an overweight gay cop whose career is in a peck of trouble for planting heroin to gain a conviction. Despite a chasm of differences, they quickly accept each other and work together to track down a criminal named Ezekiel who has slowly drained the blood from a young man's carotid artery. Then Ezekiel kidnaps Carla Ortiz, the daughter of the world's richest man. Ransom is out of the question because he just wants to teach the mogul a lesson. Antonia believes that Ezekiel kidnaps and kills for a very specific reason, probably for power. "Essentially, I'm a good person," Ezekiel tells himself. Good enough to think of Psalm 23, anyway, as he anoints one victim's head with oil. That doesn't mean there won't be blood, though. A scene with an explosion splatters grisly detail across a couple of pages, and there is a nice balance among character, action, and setting--a qanat, or underground water tunnel in Madrid, is a great place for an evildoer to set booby traps. Red Queen (Reina Roja in the original version) is the first of a completed trilogy written by G�mez-Jurado. The next two, Loba Negra (Black Wolf) and Rey Blanco (White King), must be translated into English, because thriller fans will be waiting. Fast-moving and quirky fiction from Madrid.

     COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     Antonia Scott was once Spain's Red Queen, part of an elite European Union crime-fighting unit devoted to foiling master criminals--like Dr. Evil, but for real. But after a severe personal trauma, she won't even leave her apartment and suffers debilitating panic attacks, ever at the mercy of her "medications." Disgraced police officer Jon Guti�rrez has a chance to salvage his career by convincing Antonia to return to work. The body of a teenage boy from a wealthy family is found exsanguinated and "anointed" with olive oil, and the daughter of one of the richest men in Spain has been kidnapped. A sinister mastermind is at work who makes impossible ransom demands--not the financial kind. Antonia's mind is "a jungle full of monkeys leaping at full speed from limb to limb," but she bonds with Jon, and they investigate. It is a suspenseful and terrifying case for both of them, not to mention the reader. A bit of Clarice Starling and a lot of Lisbeth Salander make Antonia a thoroughly compelling character, who will return in two more translations to complete G�mez-Jurado's trilogy, which is being adapted for streaming by Amazon.

     COPYRIGHT(2023) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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The #1 International bestseller is now a top ten streaming series on Prime Video—read the captivating thriller that has taken the world by storm.
Antonia Scott—the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish mother—has a gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. But after a personal trauma, she's refused to continue her work or even leave her apartment.
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