The Invisible Guardian

Zusatztext "A more sophisticated kind of book...than the conventional crime novel.... Exciting! attractive! competent! well structured! full of temperance! different and fresh.” Informationen zum Autor Dolores Redondo was born in Donostia-San Sebastián in 1969. She studied law and gastronomy! but began writing short stories and in 2009 she published her first novel! The Privileges of the Angel . The Invisible Guardian was published in Spain in 2013 and is being translated into thirty languages. She currently lives and writes in the Ribera Navarra. The Invisible Guardian 1 AINHOA ELIZASU was the second victim of the basajaun, although the press was yet to coin that name for it. That came later, when it emerged that animal hairs, scraps of skin, and unidentifiable tracks had been found around the bodies, along with evidence of some kind of macabre purification rite. With their torn clothes, their private parts shaved, and their upturned hands, the bodies of those girls, almost still children, seemed to have been marked by a malign force, as old as the Earth. Inspector Amaia Salazar always followed the same routine when she was called to a crime scene in the middle of the night. She would switch off the alarm clock so it wouldn’t disturb James in the morning, pile up her clothes and, with her cell phone balanced on top of them, go very slowly downstairs to the kitchen. She would drink a cup of milky coffee while she dressed, leave a note for her husband, and get in the car. Then she would drive, her mind blank except for the white noise that always filled her head when she woke up before dawn. These remnants of an interrupted night of insomnia stayed with her all the way to the crime scene, even though it was over an hour’s drive from Pamplona. She took a curve in the road too sharply, and the squealing of the tires made her realize how distracted she was. After that she made herself pay attention to the highway as it wound its way upward, deep into the dense forest surrounding Elizondo. Five minutes later, she pulled over next to a police sign, where she recognized Dr. Jorge San Martín’s sports car and Judge Estébanez’s off-roader. Amaia got out, walked around to the back of her car, and fished out a pair of Wellingtons. She sat on the edge of the trunk to pull them on, while Deputy Inspector Jonan Etxaide and Inspector Montes joined her. “It’s not looking good, chief, the victim’s a young girl.” Jonan consulted his notes. “Twelve or thirteen years old. When she didn’t arrive home by eleven last night, her parents contacted the police.” “A bit early to report her missing,” observed Amaia. “True. It looks like she called her older brother on his phone at about ten past eight to tell him she’d missed the bus from Arizkun.” “And her brother waited until eleven before saying anything?” “You know how it is, ‘Aita and Ama will kill me. Please don’t tell them. I’m going to see if any of my friends’ parents will give me a ride.’ So he kept quiet and played on his PlayStation. At eleven, when he realized his sister still hadn’t arrived home and his mother was starting to get hysterical, he told them Ainhoa had called. The parents went down to the station in Elizondo and insisted something must have happened to their daughter. She wasn’t answering her cell phone and they’d already spoken to all her friends. A patrol found her. The officers spotted her shoes at the side of the road as they were coming around the bend.” Jonan shone his flashlight toward the edge of the tarmac where a pair of black-patent high-heeled shoes glistened, perfectly aligned. Amaia leaned over to look at them. “They look like they’ve been arranged like this. Has anyone touched them?” she asked. Jonan checked his notes again. The young deputy inspector’s efficiency w...

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• Autori: Dolores Redondo
• Editore: Pocket Books USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9781501102134
• ISBN: 978-1-5011-0213-4
• Pagine: 384
• Categorie: Narrativa > Gialli > Polizieschi, thriller, spionaggio; Spanische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.)