The Flanders Panel

The Flemish Board (Spanish: La tabla de Flandes) is an intellectual detective story—paradoxical and multi-layered. The novel fascinates with dizzyingly intricate plot twists, shifting the action from one time and cultural layer to another. In a world of antique dealers and collectors, an old painting becomes the key to solving brutal crimes committed today. But for every chess piece the killer loses, a human life will be paid for.

So, everything began with a painting by the master of the Flemish school, Peter van Huys, which the book’s main heroine set out to restore. However, the painting conceals one mystery, and when one tries to find an answer, mysteries start arising even in real life. The drawn and the real begin to merge, and at the center of this fusion is a chess game depicted on the canvas. It seems someone wants to play it out for real—five hundred years later…