The Charlie Glass Series
Book Three
An ancient map. A modern conspiracy. History bleeds.
The Case
A thirteenth-century map said to predict the location of a forgotten library surfaces in private hands. The men hunting for it have already killed three scholars. When Charlie picks up the trail in Barcelona, she realises the map is not valuable for what it shows — it is valuable for what someone, eight hundred years ago, was desperately trying to hide.
Beneath the Gothic Quarter, beneath the libraries, beneath even the city’s own history, something has been waiting. And the people who knew that have been waiting too.
Curse of the Catalan Atlas is the third Charlie Glass novel. It is about history as a weapon, scholarship as a war, and a map that almost certainly should not still exist.
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A novel that wears its scholarship lightly and its menace heavily. Impossible to put down.
— Financial Times
Themes & Texture
Barcelona’s Gothic Quarter — narrow stone streets, a library that has been closed to the public since 1939, and a room nobody is supposed to know exists.
A map that names a thing it should not have known. Three scholars dead. A fourth missing. Charlie is the only one still asking why.
Charlie out of her depth, on her own dime, and exactly where she belongs.