★Rights sold: Poland, Italy,Portugal.
★A novel of intrigue between the walls of one of the most impressive medieval monasteries of Spain.
★Following the success of EL CASTILLO (Ediciones B, 2015) with twelve editions until so far (25.000 copies sold in trade edition plus 14.000 in club edition) and LA CIUDAD (15.000 copies sold in trade edition plus 13.000 in club edition), Luis Zueco continues with his epic medieval trilogy with a fast paced historic thriller, EL MONASTERIO.
★Luis Zueco is one of the Spanish authors with more best seller potential of the moment. Great story teller, great creator of intriguing plots and accessible for all publics. Excellent communicator. Pure escape entertaining fiction, with which you can enjoy learning.

The Monastery of Santa María de Veruela, the first foundation of the Císter in the Kingdom of Aragon, was built on a unique mountain of more than two thousand meters over the river Ebro: the Moncayo. This exciting thriller takes place between its walls, which housed much more than a church and a cloister. It was a real city where weapons, tools, clothes, footwear and wine were produced, land was ploughed, animals were raised and mines exploited. The monastery soughted to be a celestial city, but men lived in it. And with them, the ambition of power, envy, thirst for revenge, love, sex, betrayal ... And murders.
In the fourteenth century the area is the scene of a bloody war between the crowns of Castile and Aragon, and there arrives young Bizén with a mission to fulfill: recover the remains that lie in one of his tombs, something to which the abbot refuses for mysterious reasons.
But when one of the brothers of the abbey is murdered in mysterious and violent circumstances, Bizén will be involved in an intrigue of dangerous ramifications. And you should concentrate on finding the culprit if you do not want your own secret to be discovered.

LUIS ZUECO: Novelist, historian, researcher and photographer. Successful writer specially with his last book El Castillo (Ediciones B 2015). At present he is Managing Director of the Castillo de Grisel, a medieval castle turned into a hotel. He is an industrial engineer and a historian, he is also member of the Spanish Association of Friends of Castles and collaborates as an expertise in heritage and culture in several media. Its novel El Escalón 33 obtained the honourable mention at the International Award of Historical Novel of Zaragoza in 2012 in
Zaragoza. It also obtained the award to the best historical thriller in 2012 at I Certamen de Novela Histórica de Úbeda, the first competition of historic novel in Úbeda.