Checkmate in Amber

A group of antiquarians are dealing in stolen works of art. The group is hierarchically organized and its members represent the chess pieces. The King (the eldest team member) leads every operation and the Pawn (Ana Galdeano, the main character of the novel) carries out the orders. Ana’s next job is finding a unique and exceptional piece, stolen by the Nazi army, which mysteriously disappeared during the final days of World War II. This object is the Amber Room, an 18th-century chamber constructed entirely of semitransparent amber from the Baltic. In seeking this magnificent object, Ana finds herself obliged to disentangle the threads of a conspiracy plotted 50 years earlier by two very dangerous Nazi officials.In 1999, Matilde Asensi published her first novel, Checkmate in Amber, an amazing journey in search of a work of art that mysteriously disappeared during the Nazi period.