First Published: 2013
SPOILERS!!!
Amaia Salazar is a police inspector in Navarra, and she is the leading investigating officer in a series of crimes. They discover the dead body of a young girl, who has been left with her clothes shred to stripes, and with some kind of cake on her body. The death of this girl, Ainhoa, is linked to a previous murder, another girl who was killed some weeks before. Then two days later another girl is found dead in the forest. This last girl, Anna, Amaia learns, seems to lead a double life which her parents didn't know anything about. Her friends told the police that she had an affair with a married man. Amaia discovers that there is a link between Anna and her family. Her sister, Rosaura, recently decided to leave her husband, Freddy, and then he tries to commit suicide, and Amaia discovers that Freddy is the man Anna had an affair with. Thankfully, both her sister and her brother-in-law have alibis for the time Anna was killed, so Amaia can continue the investigation.
Rosaura is not Amaia's only sister. Flora is her edlest sister, who is in charge of the family business, a bakery. Flora is separated from her husband, Victor, who used to be an alcoholic, but he still loves her. Flora is a bitter woman who recriminates Amaia for leaving the family business to her and the care of their mother before she died. We discover in fragments of Amaia's childhood that her mother had mental problems and treated her horribly. She even tried to kill her once when she hit her with a metal rolling pin and then threw her into the kneading trough and poured flour over her. Rosario, the mother, went to find her husband, and Juan was horrified and saved his daughter. It was the doctor who told him that Rosario had an unhealthy hatred towards Amaia and she should be removed from the family home because it was a danger. From then on Amaia went to live with her aunt Engrassi. It is no wonder that when Amaia left the town, she didn't want to return to look after her mother or get involved in the family business.
A new body is found. This one belongs to Johana, and this time there are differences to the other bodies. She was found in a hunting hut, and she was sexually assaulted and one of her arms was missing. When Amaia talks to the mother, she is convinced that her husband killed her. The man, Jasón, raised her as if she were his daughter, but when she hit puberty, something changed. He became controlling, and the mother, Inés, could see that he looked at her in a dirty way. When the police go to find the man, he is gone, and they discover that he has emptied the bank account and taken the passport. Amaia discovers that before being a mechanic, Jasón worked as a shepherd, and she is convinced that he has fled to the mountains.
This is getting more and more interesting. Amaia thinks that the last murder is not connected to the others, and when Jasón killed his stepdaughter, he tried to emulate the other murders so that he wasn't accused of the crime.
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