SPOILERS!!!
The book has been a rollercoaster of emotions. The point that leads Amaia to the resolution of the case is when the police have a call, reporting a house where shoots have been heard. When Amaia and the others get there. A woman receives them and explains that her sister shot her ex-husband. The man, Antonio Garrido, had kept her prisoner in their home in Murcia, and Nuria eventually escaped. She was a skeleton, and he was sent to prison. Yet, he was released recently and called, threatening to come for her and take her to hospital. When Amaia questions Nuria, he describes her ex-husband as having no fingers in one hand, which means this is the man who contacted Beñat, the boy who wrote about the argotes in his blog.
Inspector Montes, who in the first book had been suspended, wants to reinstated as his case is going to be reviewed. He has been pestering Amaia to talk to her, and she has been putting him off. Then he confronts her one night when she is strolling through town. They argue and even come to blows. However, that seems to reconcile them. Amaia testifies in his favour, and Montes return to the team.
Montes then becomes key to discover the criminal. He is assigned to try to find Garrido, and he is the one who finds him. When he and Jonan are out one night, he asks about some building, which used to be a hospital for pilgrims, and he gets curious, remembering that Garrido told his ex-wifte that he would take her to hospital. Montes discovers that Garrido is there, and he and Jonan manage to stop him from hanging himself. The man doesn't die and after he is seen in hospital, he is arrested. It seems that he is trying to waste their time as if he were waiting for something to happen.
Something that the man says makes Montes remember therapy, and they discover that the common element between the cases is that they all had therapy. They found that the psychologist that went to the prison came from Sarasola's clinic. Judge Markina is reluctant to authorize an order against Sarasola, but then Dr Franz, the director of the clinic were Rosario was previously, is found dead in his car. Amaia and the others go to talk to Sarasola, who claims that he never goes to the prisons but simply signs the reports. When Amaia demands to see her mother, they discover she is gone. A doctor, Dr Berasategui, has taken her for an MRI, but they discover that he has taken her out of the hospital.
This man is the one who has visited her for months, and Amaia discovers that he is the son of the man living next to the house which belonged to her grandmother. When Amaia discovers through Flora that Rosario knew that she had a child, she fears the worst, especially when Flora confirms that her mother thought she was having a girl as that was what everybody thought at first. There is a terrible storm, and Amaia is worried about Ibai, who is alone with her aunt as James is in Bilbao to prepare his exhibition. Amaia calls her sister, Ros, who rushes to the house, and she finds Engrassi injured with a blow to her head and Ibai gone.
Amaia is very upset, and Montes makes her see that with so much rain they can't have left. They are on their way to Elizondo when Amaia thinks that they must have taken Ibai to the cave. She and Jonan leave the car and reach the place. Ibai is in the middle of some kind of coordinates and Rosaria is approaching a knife to his naked body. Amaia bursts into the cave and threatens them with her gun. Rosario leaves the cave as Amaia feels unable to shoot, but she arrests Berasatagui. Her baby is now safe and sound. The police search for Rosario and they find her hat near a river, and the conclusion is that she has fallen into the river and has died. However, Amaia is certain that her mother is not dead.
In the last chapter Amaia and her family are in her grandmother's house, burying the bones that the killer's father unburied and Berasategui used to draw her attention.
It was a very exciting read. My only criticism is that it is not clear why Berasategui was obsessed with Amaia.
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