When a second part can be read independently, we are faced with an open series, with great projection and infinite possibilities for an author of a crime novel like Ana Lena Rivera.
In these cases of sagas that aim to extend during a large part of the literary development of a writer, a main protagonist usually stands out over the cases presented themselves. Either because of its personal magnetism, because of its chiaroscuro, or because of some pending issue that never closes between the deliveries that are accumulating.
It would be something like the shocking Amaia Salazar from Dolores Redondo, since we are around another writer of black genre. In this case the main character is also a woman like Grace Saint Sebastian that already in the first part «What the dead are silent»Contributed so much novelty to the profile of a character who investigates away from the police stations, with greater risks due to the special look that their cases are taking ...
On this new occasion, Gracia San Sebastián, a financial fraud investigator, is involved in the disappearance of Imelda, a young psychologist who is found dead a few days later on the train tracks.
Her husband, a Civil Guard bomber and the main suspect, asks her for help in discovering the murderer of his wife. Together with her friend Rafa Miralles, Oviedo police commissioner, Gracia will begin an investigation that will lead her to hunt down a murderer in various European capitals.
At the same time, Gracia's life falls apart. Her relationship with Jorge, her husband, is going through a bad time, and her reputation as a researcher is in question after accusing an official with multiple sclerosis of faking his illness to compete in the most extreme form of triathlon, the Ironman.
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