Jorge Ibargüengoitia

Wanted by the police after becoming entangled in a murky political affair, Marco flees to his hometown hoping to go unnoticed. His refuge is the house of his uncle Ramón, a wealthy, ailing man surrounded by relatives as opportunistic as they are untrustworthy. But what begins as a cautious escape soon turns into a comedy of errors: lies multiply, identities blur, and ambitions simmer beneath the surface.

When Marco and his partner, La Chamuca, decide to take advantage of the situation to secure the uncle’s inheritance, they fail to anticipate that other relatives are already playing the same game. In a setting where everyone deceives everyone else—and where truth is the first casualty—the tangle of misunderstandings, passions, and greed inevitably leads to two crimes as absurd as they are unavoidable.

With his unmistakable dark humor, Jorge Ibargüengoitia crafts a brilliant comic crime novel about human pettiness, in which no one is entirely innocent and disaster is always just one step away from laughter.