“I started writing very old, already at 40. It's not that I started publishing late, it's that I hadn't written anything.

With the third novel in her crime series, the writer settles herself in the genre, at which she arrived after 40 and directly from the short story. A different path and a literary recipe that condenses in this conversation.

El hombre que mató a Antía Morgade, which has just been published by Lumen, is a good example of her commitment to a very fast-paced crime scene with well-developed characters. In it, six friends meet again in Santiago de Compostela during the summer of 2021.

They all share a disadvantaged origin, they were roommates in a sheltered apartment for young people without parents, and a trauma from that time: the suicide of her friend Antía after having been the victim of abuse by an educator.

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