Detectives, policemen, inspectors and other protagonists of crime novels often suffer from a kind of Stockholm syndrome with their trade. The more evil the cases appear, the darker the human soul is guessed, the more attracted these characters feel with whom we enjoy so much in the crime novel.
María Ruiz, already an illustrious curator of the literary imaginary of this country, finds herself removed from Madrid and its hectic pace of work. She is destined for Soria, where it seems that all the souls in that place live in peace and harmony, with the worn memory of an old unsolved murder as the only pending issue. And that has been more than 60 years.
Maria needs more encouragement to feel alive. He has learned to dedicate his life to investigating among the social scum, where the most twisted psychopaths move. The clarity of a peaceful world generates indescribable anguish.
Having more time to spend with Tomás, his partner, although he has been in a coma for too long, does not give him any relief, on the contrary ...
For this reason, when a fellow commissioner asks you for help in a singular case, you cannot refuse. María travels to Santander and learns about the peculiarities of the murder of a young woman who was found dead in the trunk of a car. In the same vehicle there are clues that make up a message to the taste of the murderer on duty, who claims the immortality of his work, the justification of his finalist violence.
Santander becomes a dark city, where we are checking how the investigation progresses and María as we delve into the previous life of Claire Jones, the dead girl.
Between both women a kind of mirror is created between yesterday and today, between their tormented souls that fit into that common space of the mirror. The author moves in this disconcerting space that unites victim and curator, with a narrative that exudes conflicting emotions, always participating in the black genre of this work.
Undoubtedly a great story to discover and that, despite belonging to a saga, offers an absolutely independent reading.
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