Historical thriller simmers with tension and suspense

The Creator’s Map. By Emilio Calderón, John Murray, €16.20

Born in Malaga in 1960, Emilio Calderón has been writing historical texts as well as stories for children since the early 1990s.

The Creator’s Map, his first novel for adults, is set amid an atmosphere of fear and intrigue in Rome prior to the outbreak of World War II.

The book opens in 1952,when Spanish architect José María Hurtado reads of the death of ...