Synopsis
THERE IS A PLACE WHERE SECRETS HIDDEN FOR SEVERAL DECADES RESIDE.
Death in Santa Rita. A NOIR MEDITERRANEAN BY ELIA BARCELÓ.
We are in Santa Rita, an old spa, which later became a sanatorium and is now the home of an elderly writer, Sofia, (who writes mystery novels under one pseudonym and romance novels under another), where about forty people of all ages live, supporting each other and working together, in a concept of a transgenerational “cordial community.”
The protagonist, Greta, Sofía’s niece and translator, arrives to stay for a while and, through her, we get to know the characters in the story: Candy, Sofía’s secretary and right-hand woman; Robles, a retired police commissioner; Nel and his group, university students; Miguel, a blind mathematics teacher; Reme, the mother of an abused woman…
The arrival of an old acquaintance of Sofia’s with his own plans for the future of the community will create the first problems. A few days after his return, the man is found dead in the irrigation pool. Accident or murder? In fact, almost all the inhabitants of Santa Rita have had the opportunity and would not have lacked the desire to make Moncho Riquelme disappear.
Greta and Robles will get involved in the investigation and, without intending to, they will reveal more secrets and discover more mysteries than they thought.
«What if it really was murder? Who in Santa Rita would be capable of killing? And why? Who could benefit from the death of that clown? Of course, everyone, that was the problem: that, except for Sofia, from the point of view of the inhabitants of Santa Rita, men and women, old and young, Moncho was best off just as he was now: dead.»
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