Amaia Salazar is a police inspector who returns to her hometown of Elizondo to try to solve a lurid serial murder case. Teenage girls in the area are the killer's main target. As the plot progresses, we discover Amaia's dark past, the same one that has her plunged into a personal anxiety that she hides through her impeccable police performance.
But there comes a time when everything explodes into the air, linking the case itself with the inspector's stormy past ...
Flawless plot, at the height of the best detective novels. I read it during a convalescence and I find it fascinating how the author managed to immerse me fully in the story from page 1, completely abstracting myself from time (you already know that lying in bed due to any ailment, that is what is most appreciated about reading, the light and entertaining passage of the hours).
I screeched for a few moments in which the case was intertwined with a mythological aspect of the area where the story takes place. The appearance of some mythological being that served as a complement to introduce more personal aspects of the inspector's stormy past into a fantasy terrain led to that "click" of occasional disconnection from reading. They are moments that take you out of the knot of history and that make the whole limp.
Luckily they are only moments to introduce us to the tormented woman who wanders between ghostly memories and vital yearnings. It may have all its justification as a literary tool of punctual dispersion, but for my part it did not fit me, it strayed too far without the necessary return that in my opinion requires any ramification of a plot.
But as I say, these personal assessments do not detract at all from an exceptional set, they are only very specific misunderstandings.
The resolution of the case is worthy of the best Agatha Christie
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