La fosa

The excavation of the pit has already begun. It is next to the cemetery, in Castillejos de la Sierra, Seville. And the exhumation is joined by Mar Torralba, a renowned and renowned forensic anthropologist. She arrives in town accompanied by her nephew Dani, mute since, recently, her mother was murdered at the hands of her father. Mar is ready to recover all those bodies that lie buried there. Retaliated by the Franco regime in 1940. But there is more, because a terrible and dark secret is hidden in the common grave: one of the corpses shows signs of murder, of a different death. From there, Mar and her family will be involved in a dizzying process of investigation that will expose facts from the past that someone tried to keep them always underground. Meanwhile, at the center of the vortex, Dani and his dark secret will remain ... Past and present, history made real and feelings intermingle in this novel by Lola Montalvo. With fast and precise strokes, in an enveloping writing, La fossa transports us to those lived moments that we can never forget.