La ilustrísima

On May 12, 2014, the city shook: the corpse of the president of the Provincial Council lay on the catwalk that crossed every Monday on the way to the headquarters of her party. Immediately, a sheet of rumors and speculation covered her corpse. Which of her many enemies could have the most motive for murdering her? The Most Illustrious was a hated and feared woman. She controversial, ambitious, without mincing words, hoarder of charges, obsessed with knowing the secrets of the entire city and persecuted by the press, which she began to snoop into her affairs and compromises. The morbid will run unbridled through the rainy streets of a city with eyes and poison in every corner, in every window, discovering a web of hatred, sick jealousy and secrets woven for years. A choral, exciting and ironic story that tells us about corruption, power and how it is accepted, or not, when the one who holds it is a woman. La Ilustrísima is an overwhelming, stark and accurate novel. Marta Prieto, with an almost naturalistic prose, has concocted a social story at times hilarious, others brutal, which is also the portrait of a provincial city in which it seems, it only seems, that nothing ever happens.