The Invisible Guardian 3 - The End (Pages 363 - end)

 RATING: VERY GOOD

SPOILERS!!!

Amaia gets a call from Dr Takchenko, telling her that she did some more tests on the flour samples, and there is a partial match. To Amaia's dismay the sample belongs to her sister's company. Then she asks Ros for some of the flour that took home before she quit and sends the samples to Irun. It is Jonan who picks up the results, and there is a match with the flour. Then Maia sets a trap for Zalbala and Montes because she is certain that there is someone infiltrating information. So she asks Jonan to send a fax to the police station, and just after she receives the fax and tells her colleagues, Montes arrives, and she and Urialde see how Montes comes out of Zabalza's office, carrying an envelope. After that, Amaia and Uriarte follow him to a hotel where they watch MOntes and Flora at the restaurant, and he gives her something. When Flora comes out, Amaia confronts her, and Flora claims that she found the envelope as Montes must have dropped it. Amaia doesn't let her get away with, and Flora behaves with as much hostility as before, and she even admits that she used Montes for information but she cares little for him. Montes hears her, and he feels so wounded that he grabs his gun and if it hadn't been for Amaia and Uriarte, he would have shot himself.

Uriarte stays with Montes and Amaia goes after Flora. She is not in the workshop, but she sees a photo of Flora, and she identifies the place as the farm which belonged to Victor's late mother. Thanks to the help of Aunt Engrasi, she remembers where the place is, and she drives there. Flora's car is at the beginning of the forest, and Amaia follows her to the farm stables. There Flora has cornered Victor. He is the killer, who killed all these young girls because he thought that they were a shame to youth. He started killing twenty years ago, but there was a twenty-year hiatus when he controlled his instincts by drinking. HIs alcoholism made him lose Flora, but he wanted her back and stopped drinking, and that started him in his killing. Flora is aghast when he confronts him with a rifle, and he shoots him twice and kills him.

Flora is acquitted because she claims that Victor tried to hurt her when she realied he was the murderer. There is an element that leaves readers wondering. More bodies were found, some of them mutilated like Johana's, and there were teeth marks, but the laboratories conclude that those marks weren't left by Victor. So what does this mean? Will we learn the truth in the next book? 

And one positive note at the end of the book: Amaia is now expecting a child. 

I really enjoyed the book. It was an excellent mystery.