EDEBÉ Young Adult Literature Award 2012:
BOWEN'S ISLAND, by César Mallorquí

1920. It all began with the murder of the English sailor Jeremiah Perkins in a small Norwegian port located in the Arctic, and with the mysterious package that, before dying, Perkins sent to Lady Elizabeth Faraday. Or perhaps the story began earlier, when some strange relics were discovered inside a very old medieval crypt. And it was precisely one of those relics that caused the grumpy Professor Ulises Zarco, director of the SIGMA geographical society, to embark on an unimaginable adventure. Both Zarco and his assistant, Adrián Cairo, had traveled the world facing all kinds of dangers, just like Captain Verne and his crew, or the young photographer Samuel Durango, or even the two English ladies who had requested them. aid; but none of them were prepared to face the fearsome mystery that surrounds Bowen Island, beyond the Arctic Circle. Because, as Sherlock Holmes said, "when the impossible has been eliminated, what remains, however improbable it may seem, must be the truth."