Every new historical fiction by Juan Pedro Cosano is an exciting adventure. Novels perfectly set and loaded with dynamic plots that go through the purely intrahistorical or the chronicle without ever losing an iota of interest.
Much of his magnetism comes from characters outlined with that gift of someone who knows how to balance dialogues with meditations turned into passionate soliloquies. All of this accompanied by that humanistic transition that every historical novel must carry between kings and commoners, between times of conflicts and wars combined with splendid moments.
It is not an author confined to an era or a civilization. Juan Pedro Cosano is more about presenting his plots at different times, revisiting Jerez on various occasions because of his love for the small homeland. An author with whom to enjoy History made literature.
Top 3 recommended books by Juan Pedro Cosano
Nobody can love you like me
In the antipodes of the case of Juana la loca we find María Luisa de Orleans. The first mistreated and the second very loving. Except that she, María Luisa, could not give offspring to the king. And that, whatever her fault was, she damned her forever...
The young and beautiful princess María Luisa de Orleans, niece of the Sun King, is sent to Spain to marry the most powerful man in Europe... and also the most monstrous, King Carlos II. Against all odds, the unequal couple reaches a good understanding and their marriage is harmonious and happy, except for the absence of the long-awaited heir.
The alleged infertility of the queen is the talk of the court and puts her in the crosshairs of the different factions that do not stop conspiring: the nobles, the queen mother Mariana of Austria, the ambassador of France and the ambassador of the Empire. One day, the queen herself falls ill and suspects that she has been poisoned.
The king, knowing that no one can be trusted, entrusts an investigation to Francisco Antonio de Bances y Candamo, the royal playwright, who, much to his regret, accepts the unusual commission when the unfortunate queen dies after a terrible agony, leaving Carlos devastated and the kingdom about to become a spoil for the great powers.
An exciting novel that immerses the reader in one of the most interesting and least known periods of our history and reconciles him with Carlos II, the unfortunate monarch who had very little peace in his life and no luck after his death.
The king of Peru
It is not necessary to raise a uchronia to have a juicy alternative to the events of any era. You just have to delve into some characters and their environments to discover new protagonists loaded with transcendental forgotten roles...
Juan Pedro Cosano presents a novel with a little-known episode of that epic: the adventure of Gonzalo Pizarro, Francisco's younger brother, a bastard like him and who accompanied him on his expedition to America in 1531, the beginning of the conquest of Peru.
After the brutal assassination of the conquistador Pizarro by a group of Spaniards around Diego de Almagro in 1541, Gonzalo led a rebel faction, confronted with the Crown and with the purpose of taking control of the extremely rich recently dominated Inca territories. The story is told from the point of view of his lover, Lady Nayaraq (a name that in Quechua means "the one who has many desires"), witness to the end of one world and the beginning of another.
The poor lawyer
The official start in the career of this author. A story that, knowing the performance of Juan Pedro Cosano as a prestigious lawyer, takes us into argumentative approaches of more substance around the ideal of Justice as a substantial element of any society.
Jerez de la Frontera, 1752: a trial is held in court for some terrible murders whose development has the entire city on edge. No one doubts the guilt of the defendant, an orphaned boy without any support... except that of the "lawyer for the poor", paid by the council, the young Pedro Alemán y Camacho.
Idealistic, but also harassed by his weaknesses and limitations, Pedro has just astonished the people of Jerez with the impressive resolution of some cases that seemed lost. Faced with the most important challenge of his career, will the lawyer get justice to prevail?
With an admirable narrative skill, Juan Pedro Cosano composes a story that transports us to exciting times and circumstances.
