They killed Sidónio!

The assassination of President Sidónio Pais, which occurred in 1918, remains a mystery. Although the police arrested a suspect, he was never tried. The tragedy took place when Lisbon was grappling with the Spanish flu, the deadliest epidemic of the 20th century, and still reeling from the aftermath of the First World War. The city was exhausted from hunger and suffering. It is in this wounded and fearful environment that Sidónio Pais is assassinated at Rossio station in December 1918. Francisco Moita Flores constructs a novel of love and death. Based on documents from the time, he reconstructs the murder of the President-King, using forensic techniques that, in a way, continue to be reproduced in popular television series about the capabilities of forensic police. The results are unexpected, and Mataram o Sidónio (They Killed Sidónio) is a true confrontation with that era and the historical truths that have been disseminated over decades, where the reader experiences the most fascinating fears and hopes of that republican Lisbon that was awakening to the city we live in today. And while controversial, it is tender, featuring characters that few writers know how to create. Considered one of the masters of dialogue technique, Moita Flores evokes the most conflicting emotions in the reader, ranging from hilarious laughter to intense suffering. A novel that comes from History. A unique story for a beautiful novel.