«Ainhoa Elizasu was the second victim of basajaun, but then the press called it yet. It was a little later when it emerged that some of the bodies appeared animal hair, skin debris and human traces doubtfully, together with a kind of funeral ceremony of purification. An evil, telluric and ancestral force seemed to have marked the bodies of those girls almost torn clothes, shaved pubic hair and hands arranged in virginal attitude.

At the margins of Baztán River in the valley of Navarre, the body appears nude of a teenager in circumstances that relate to a murder happened a month ago. The inspection of the homicide section of the Provincial Police, Amaia Salazar, will be responsible for leading an investigation that will lead back to Elizondo, the small town where it originated and has tried to escape his entire life. Faced with increasingly complicated derivations of the case and with his own ghosts family research Amaia is a race against time to find a murderer who can show the most frightening face of a brutal reality while summon the most disturbing things Legends of the North.

Editorial Destino

ISBN: 9786070726408

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432 pp.

Price: $23.95

 

"Amaia took a step forward to see the picture. Jason Medina was sitting on the toilet with his head tilted back. A dark and deep cut across his neck. Blood soaked the front of his shirt like a red bib that slipped down between his legs, coloring everything in its path. His body was still warm and the stench of death permeated the air."

Johana Márquez's stepfather was accused of his murder and the trial is about to begin. A pregnant Foral Police inspector Amaia Salazar is present. A year ago she solved the crimes of the basajaun that provoked terror in the Baztán Valley.  Amaia is also the inspector who collected the evidence against Jasón Medina, who used the modus operandi of the basajaun to murder, rape and mutilate Johana, his wife's adolescent daughter. Suddenly, the judge announces that the trial is canceled: the defendant committed suicide in the bathroom of the court. In front of the angry and expectant public present, Amaia is called in by the police. The accused left a suicide note addressed to the inspector. A note that contains a brief and unsettling message: "Tarttalo." This single word, referring to the character from the Basque fable, will unleash a sequence of terrifying events that will lead the inspector to a shocking end.

Editorial Destino

ISBN: 9786070726460

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560 pp.

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"The intruder took the doll and observed the little girl's face [...] There was no longer light in her face and the sensation of being in the presence of an empty receptacle was increased when the doll was brought close to her face to take in the childish aroma, now enriched by the breath of a soul."

It has been over a month since the Foral Police investigator has gotten her son back and was able to stop Berastegui. Despite the fact that both the Civil Guard and Judge Markina have written Rosario off as dead, Amaia feels that she isn't out of danger, an unease that only Jonan understands.

The sudden death of a little girl in Elizondo is suspicious: the baby has red marks on her face that indicate finger marks, and her father tries to flee with her cadaver. According to the little girl's great grandmother the tragedy is the work of the Inguma, a demon who drinks your breath, taking your life while you sleep. Despite these claims, it will be Dr. San Martín's forensic analyses that convince Amaia Salazar to investigate the deaths of other babies that will soon reveal an unprecedented pattern in the valley.

Berasategui then inexplicably dies in his cell, unleashing a frantic investigation that will lead Amaia to find out the truth about the events shadowing the Baztán Valley.

Meanwhile, from the forest, an impressive storm arrives to bury the devastating truth.

Editorial Destino

ISBN: 978607027283

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544 pp.

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