About the book
A writer of storms
Dolores Redondo defines herself as “a writer of storms” and with this new novel, based on real events, she takes us to the epicenter of one of the biggest storms of the last century while portraying a time in full political and social upheaval. It is a tribute to work culture full of nostalgia for a time when the radio was one of the few windows open to the world and, above all, to music. It is also a hymn to the camaraderie of the crews and the love stories that are born from a hunch.
A dazzling work with characters that take us from the most frightening cruelty to hope in human beings.
There are only two things in life: love and fear.
Waiting for the Flood is the new novel by storm writer Dolores Redondo, as she defines herself. With this novel, the author inaugurates a narrative cycle independent of her previous works. Bilbao becomes the great stage, always the North! And we also have a new protagonist: the unique police officer Noah Scott Sherrington. But the same shadow: the evil that hangs over the innocent; and a commitment: the denunciation of him.
It all starts with a hunch. What Scottish police investigator Noah Scott Sherrington feels one stormy night in the early 1980s. He is following a suspect who could be a dangerous serial killer: John Bible, a real historical figure named after the British tabloid press of the time, which claimed the lives of three young women between 1968 and 1969 in Glasgow whom he had met at the same nightclub. In the first years, dozens of police officers worked on the case, but the “baby-faced killer” disappeared forever and today his case is still unsolved.
The hunch hits the mark, because it leads Noah to discover the macabre place where the murderer disposes of his victims. When he is about to stop him, heart failure in the rain prevents him from doing so and Bible John manages to escape. Noah returns from the dead with a serious heart condition and his days numbered, but after fourteen years of dogged research he will not give up. As long as his heart continues to beat, the search for John Bible will not be over, despite contravening medical advice and his superiors removing him from the body due to his delicate state of health.
And the investigation has only just begun, because a new hunch straightens Scott Sherrington’s bow towards Bilbao, where the murderer continues his trail of blood, hidden in the turbulent political and social climate of those years. But another storm is brewing under the Bilbao sky, much fiercer than the one in which his heart stopped beating. A biblical flood in which perhaps the investigator’s hunch takes its true meaning and the trail of horror of the famous serial killer comes to an end.
This is what Waiting for the Flood is about, the new and long-awaited novel by Dolores Redondo. A dazzling work that starts from a chilling real character, the enigmatic murderer John Bible, to lead to an equally true tragic historical episode: the dramatic Bilbao floods of 1983. From one point to the other, the writer from San Sebastian takes the reader on the back of fiction and with the help of unforgettable characters on a roller coaster of emotions.
But beyond all this, Waiting for the Flood is a unique work in which Dolores Redondo combines the exploration of the evil that resides in the human being – so appreciated by her readers -, very typical in addition to the crime novel, with a kind of I sing of hope. The hope that resonates against all odds under the storm when it seems that everything is lost, the one that feeds the fuel of true friendship or the one that ignites the capricious spark of love, which always gives us a second chance.
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