Teresa Solana

It's July, and the Mossos d'Esquadra are overwhelmed. Commissioner Valentina Vallès decides to hire the services of a peculiar pair of private detectives, Borja Masdeu-Canals Sáez de Astorga and Eduard Martínez, who count among their clients some of the most distinguished members of Barcelona’s upper class.

In this novel full of surprises and unexpected twists, the detectives join the Cold Case Department and must try to solve four murders in the sweltering summer heat. These are complicated cases, as the motives are unclear, the killers have left no clues, and, given the victims’ profiles —a mathematician working at the University of Barcelona, a wealthy widow living near Turó Park, a doctor specializing in cancer treatment, and a violinist in the Liceu Symphony Orchestra— they have sparked a wave of social alarm, with social media in an uproar.

With the trademark humor of her novels, Teresa Solana offers once again a portrait of a contradictory and vibrant Barcelona, where women, feminist politics, and new sensibilities take center stage in the plot.