Betibú

When it seems that tranquility has reigned in the country La Maravillosa, Pedro Chazarreta appears with his throat cut, sitting in his favorite chair, with an empty whiskey bottle at his side and a bloody knife in his hand. Everything suggests that it is a suicide. But doubts soon appear. Has any vigilante wanted to avenge the death of the businessman's wife, murdered three years earlier in that same house? Is this the last death? El Tribuno, one of the most important newspapers in the country, put aside its confrontation with the government for a few days to fully cover the news. He sends Nurit Iscar, a retired writer, and a young, inexperienced journalist to the scene of the crime. And although the former head of the Police section, Jaime Brena, has been displaced for taking his feet off the plate, he decides to get involved in the case and help his replacement and Nurit, whom he secretly admires. An engaging novel in which the author of Las viudas de los Thursdays once again deploys all her narrative talent to tell the investigation of a crime and draw a portrait of her country. A keen reader of reality and social behavior, Piñeiro sheds light on the relationships between journalism and power and on the changes that have occurred in the media, and confronts us with a world of limits and controls in which In spite of everything, there is always the possibility to build bridges and bet again.