Inspector Elena Blanco’s first case
When she returns at dawn, exhausted after nights of drinking and casual sex, Elena Blanco has a ritual: examine the images from a camera she placed in front of the door of her building. Who’s afraid to see? Or rather, who more than any other person in the world would you like to see? There is an unsolved case in the past of this exceptional police inspector.
The only one of his career. It is much more than a disappointment, it is a profound trauma that has upset his life and which continues to haunt every second of his existence.
For now he must put his demons aside because the BAC, the special brigade he heads in Madrid, is called to investigate a very strange case: the murder of a gypsy girl who disappeared on the evening of her hen party, and was found two days later still wearing her party dress. Her death, of unspeakable sadism, is the work of a frighteningly cruel mind.
To complicate matters, the modus operandi is identical to that of a crime that occurred seven years earlier, and whose victim was the girl’s sister, who was also killed on the eve of her wedding. However, the culprit of that murder is already behind bars.
Between false leads and indecipherable clues, this thriller by Carmen Mola takes us to the places richest in history and mystery of the Spanish capital. And it brings a new enigmatic protagonist to the panorama of black literature.
Wednesday 22 Mayat 6pm
at the Ubik bookshop in Corso Italia 3/ba Legnano
meeting with the authors of The gypsy bride (Salani ed.)
who signed it with the pseudonym Carmen Mola
in dialogue with Luca Previato
The editorial team
