Cursed words
by Miguel Conde-Lobato
With his unmistakable brand of frenetic rhythm and originality, Miguel Conde-Lobato sets this novel in his native Galicia, endowing the imaginary town of Estela with the charms of the region and the nightmares of those small places where everyone trusts – perhaps too much – in each other. Until they stop doing so.
A COASTAL VILLAGE IN GALICIA
A VIOLENT AND UNSCRUPULAR KILLER
CAN FEAR MARK YOU FOREVER?
Estela has always been a prosperous and peaceful town, as full of prejudices as it is of wind and fog. Its inhabitants, accustomed to living with their backs turned to the problems of the world, never thought that a tragedy would come that would darken that place more than its usual climate.
The shadow falls on Estela the day the head of a young woman with a strange tattoo on her forehead is found. When new victims appear, the small town shudders at the idea that one of its neighbors may be a serial killer.
Edén has been suspended from her position as a judicial police officer for the Civil Guard for some time when she receives a call. Now they need her, and fast. In a society obsessed with beauty and image, only she is capable of observing people closely and discovering the truth in others, their essential goodness or the depth of their evil, even if to do so she has to look into the dangerous and terrifying abyss of the human.
Miguel Conde-Lobato He is a versatile Galician writer and advertising creative with a recognized and award-winning career, who combines advertising creation with literature, film and television.
Since 2010 he has been promoting the ideas and proposals included in his non-fiction book Knowcosters, when low cost is evil, and is a pioneer of transformative consumption in Spain.
Wolves Don’t Ask for Forgiveness, published in 2019 by Ediciones B, was her first novel, and The Congregation (2021).
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