When the body of Ada Sofia, daughter of one of the most powerful bankers in the country, is found hanging from the central pier of the Constitution Bridge in Cádiz, it first looks like an assisted suicide. Salvadora Rossi, Violent Crimes police inspector, does not agree. The merciless cruelty used and the forensic evidence soon demonstrate that Ada Sofía was ritually tortured. When another girl, a friend of Ada Sofía, is found tortured and murdered, Rossi faces a case almost as complicated as her personal life.
While Rossi’s theories are crumbling and with the pressure of such a high-profile case suffocating her, in Madrid, Manuel Pizarro is shocked to read the news of the murders in Cádiz. Formerly a promising young police officer, he resigned after an accident left him disabled, taking refuge in drink and drugs to forget his problems. He decides to take action, confident that he knows how to solve the case, joining the pieces that link Ada’s murder to a much worse conspiracy.
Rossi will find herself facing a world in which nothing and no one is what they seem and the reality hidden behind appearances is unimaginably cruel. Obedience, religious fanaticism, the complicity of powerful people, social prejudices, loneliness and the vulnerability of the fearful and indifferent, create a scenario in which the hopelessly doomed characters evolve and blur as the case progresses to an uncertain resolution.
Spanish world: Ediciones B (Penguin Random House), September 2024
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