Death in Santa Rita, by Elia Barceló

The detective genre can offer pleasant surprises in that kind of reinvention that invokes literature from its very essence towards narrative evolution. Even more so if at the helm of the voyage we find an author like Elia Barceló. Once we assume that every reinvention brings surprise and new narrative powers, we can open ourselves to this story with the doubts typical of any deductive plot, adding any other ingredients to the reader's bewilderment that catches us as if everything could happen. Until it really happens...

We are in Santa Rita, an old spa, which was later a sanatorium and is now the house of an elderly writer, Sofía, (who writes mystery novels under a pseudonym and romance under another), where about forty people of all ages live. supporting each other and working together, in a concept of transgenerational «cordial community».

The protagonist, Greta, Sofía's niece and translator, arrives to stay for a while and, through her, we get to know the characters in the story: Candy, Sofía's secretary and right-hand man; Robles, retired police commissioner; Nel and his group, university students; Miguel, a blind math teacher; Reme, mother of a battered woman...

The arrival of an old acquaintance of Sofía with his own plans for the future of the community will create the first problems. A few days after returning, the man is found dead in the irrigation pool. Accident or murder? In fact, almost all the inhabitants of Santa Rita have had the opportunity and they would not have lacked the desire to make Moncho Riquelme disappear. Greta and Robles will get involved in the investigation and, without intending to, they will reveal more secrets and discover more mysteries than they thought.

What if it really had been murder? Who, in Santa Rita, would be capable of killing? And because? Who could benefit from the death of that clown? For everyone, of course, that was the problem: that, except for Sofía, from the point of view of the inhabitants of Santa Rita, men and women, old and young, Moncho was at his best just as he was now: dead.»

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