Nothing can resist a Elia Barceló that transits from genre to genre from historical fiction to science fiction, passing through his youth books or volumes of stories to that prospective realism of some of his latest publications.
Now he returns with a police plot, set in a world full of everyday but never trivial, with a strong and authentic protagonist.
The author's most ambitious novel since The color of silence.
Vienna 1993. A girl disappears at a Christmas market
Vienna 2020. The police find a child skeleton in the garden of a suburban house.
Carola Rey Rojo, a specialist in child kidnappings and homicides, and mother of the girl who disappeared twenty-seven years ago, now on leave of absence from the Spanish police, returns to Vienna with a friendly order to destroy the library of a recently deceased art dealer.
Together with his friend and colleague, Chief Inspector Wolt Almann, he will find himself involved in a plot that will show that nobody is what he seems and that one never quite knows others, not even oneself.
What looked like a cold case it gets complicated when, now that everything seemed almost definitively over, another girl disappears into the Christmas market in the imperial city of Vienna, the splendid city of music and art that hides the darkest secrets behind the facades of its beautiful houses.
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