El ladrón de rostros

In Sandaili, a humble hermitage carved into the rock, the mutilated body of a woman murdered while practicing an ancient fertility rite has turned up. Her torso has been opened and emptied and her hands have been placed on either side of her abdomen in an attitude of delivery. The scene reproduces, with macabre accuracy, the figures of the apostles that Oteiza sculpted on the façade of the Arantzazu basilica. The evidence indicates that someone made a copy of her face at the time of her death. A dangerous ritual murderer has been born in the shelter of the green mountains that have kept the myths and legends of the Basques since time immemorial. An isolated enclave, shaped by water that has left its scars in the form of majestic gorges and deep caves. Ane Cestero and the Impact Homicide Unit will embark on a journey to the bowels of the earth where the darkest part of the human soul is hidden.