May R. Ayamonte

1950s, Granada. The city is plunged into the kind of silence that only tragedy leaves in its wake. The ground has split in two and swallowed everything in its path—except for a child, who now stares in fear at the rubble as he realizes that his life has just changed forever.

2021, a new murder. On the banks of the Darro River, bearing clear signs of violence, the body of a man is found in a position that recalls a case Jimena Cruz solved four years earlier—a case whose killer’s identity is known only to her. Fearing that the murderer may have returned, and despite her lack of shared values or sympathy with the police, she joins the investigation in an attempt to solve this new crime. She does so under one condition: that she be allowed to form her own team. Among its members are Fátima Suárez, a young historian, and Gari Atxa, a criminologist eager for action.

And a countdown begins. But they soon discover that nothing is what it seems, as a series of banners begin to flood the streets of Granada, predicting how the next victim will appear. The team then realizes they are facing something far darker, and that none of what they had taken for granted will serve them now. Will they be able to get ahead of the killer?

Hold your breath. May R Ayamonte returns with a relentless crime novel you won’t be able to forget.