In the Shadow of Silence

Can just a few words turn the very course of life forever?

Munich, December 1997. Hector, the descendant of a former German World War II captain, visits his parents for Christmas. After a fight, his mother, shortly before her death, reveals to him a secret that weighs on her conscience for fifty-three whole years.

From frozen Munich, Hector will find himself at the southwestern edge of Messinian land, searching for the truth surrounding his family's life and past. The story of that search evolves into a shocking journey through time, revealing at every step gruesome murders, cursed loves and ghosts of memory that stalk like shadows in the picturesque alleys of the Upper Town of Cyparissia.

One book, two different stories that develop in parallel in the present and the distant past, with its protagonists fighting until the end to win some of their lost innocence, to vindicate the souls of the dead and to complete the loves of today...