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352 pages, Hardcover
First published November 5, 2020
The Café Moran is full. Six tables occupied by the usual kind of people who haunt such places. Antonia scopes them rapidly as she attempts to catch her breath before entering. Three couples acting like they’re listening to one another while checking their Instagram accounts, two hipsters pretending to write novels on their MacBooks, and a psychopathic killer. The last is the easiest to identify: he is the only one holding a book, not an electronic device.-------------------------------------
What pisses Jon off about kidnappings is when he’s the one being kidnapped. You can’t walk down the street these days without someone bundling you into a van with a bag over your head, thinks Jon.Fair Warning, there are spoilerish items in the following review if you have not yet read the first two books in the series.


…when you think about the genre of thriller you have to have three things, social danger, physical danger for your main characters and you have to have a clock around you… - from the FLMADRID23 interviewAnd here we are back again. In White King, Antonia and Jon are given ridiculously short times in which to solve several cold-case crimes. Or else what? Something reeeeaaaalllly bad will happen. Tick tock.
Dharmaniṣṭhuya - In Kannada, a Dravidic language spoken by forty-four million people in India, the relief of the downhill slope. The sensation an exhausted walker has when they come to a downward stretch of the path.There is a persistent, but light touch of humor throughout all three books. Not LOL material, but smirk or smile-worthy for sure. Also, be prepared for some pretty nifty twists. Don’t worry. I won’t tell. But you should be pleased by them. The individual mysteries exist under the arch of a larger, all-encompassing mystery. Jurado looks to tie up the loose ends, mysteries and miseries from the entire series, so you can look forward to some satisfaction there. The pace of White King is relentless. While it seems unlikely there will be more books in the series, given that it has been over five years since this one was published in Spain, but the possibility has been left open, if he ever gets the urge.
Mamihlapinatapai, thinks Antonia. In Yaghan, a language spoken by a nomadic people in Tierra del Fuego, the beached eye. A look people exchange when they’re waiting for others to start something they all want but none dares initiate.
Many of us sense there’s something wrong with reality, with everything around us. With the system, other people, ourselves. Yet life bribes us, it buys our silence with the gift of sleep. She, on the other hand, doesn’t forget, can’t forget.Review posted - 4/11/25
Juan Gómez-Jurado (born 16 December 1977) is a Spanish journalist and author. He is a columnist in "La Voz de Galicia" and "ABC", distributed in Spain, and he participates in multiple radio and TV programs. His books have been translated into 42 languages and he is one of the most successful living Spanish authors…Interviews