Author: Mola, Carmen.
Publisher: Booket
Pages:544
Masterfully, Carmen Mola weaves, with the threads of the best thriller, this shocking, frantic, and relentless novel of hell and darkness. The year is 1834 and Madrid, a small city trying to expand beyond the walls that surround it, is suffering from a terrible cholera epidemic. But the plague is not the only thing terrifying its inhabitants: in the outskirts, dismembered corpses of girls that no one claims are appearing. All rumors point to the Beast, a being no one has seen but everyone fears. When little Clara disappears, her sister Lucía, along with Donoso, a one-eyed policeman, and Diego, a hustler journalist, start a frantic countdown to find the girl alive. On their way, they encounter Brother Braulio, a guerrilla monk, and a mysterious gold ring with two crossed maces that everyone covets and for which some are willing to kill.