Eva García Sáenz de Urturi

Eva García Sáenz de Urturi is a Spanish crime novelist born in 1972 in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Álava. She is best known for the White City Trilogy, a series of crime novels set in and around Vitoria-Gasteiz that combine police procedural with a distinctive, atmospheric vision of Basque Country history and landscape. The trilogy has been one of the most successful publishing phenomena in recent Spanish fiction. The White City Trilogy comprises El silencio de la ciudad blanca (The Silence of the White City, 2016), Los ritos del agua (The Water Rituals, 2017), and Los señores del tiempo (The Lords of Time, 2018). The series follows detective Unai López de Ayala through crimes that draw on local history and mythology. Aquitania, her 2020 Premio Planeta winner, is a historical novel set in medieval France and the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine. The novel represents a departure from contemporary crime fiction into a more purely historical register, showcasing García Sáenz de Urturi's range. She is one of the most commercially successful Spanish crime writers of her generation and the White City Trilogy has been adapted for Netflix.