Author: Velasco, Xavier.
Publisher: Alfaguara
Pages:432
Many things will be said about Iván Mauricio or "Juan de la Luna": that he squandered his inheritance and became a shaman, that he left behind the love of his life, that he had the worst friends, or that he committed suicide by jumping from the seventh floor with his feet suspiciously tied... Dunia Montoro, the dead man's ex-wife, lives haunted by guilt. As an intelligence analyst, she could use police resources to trace Iván's steps, but now she is suspected of murder and has no choice but to talk to the dead, as she cannot trust the living. With the best practices of noir fiction, Xavier Velasco returns to fiction in "Mala espina" and places the reader in front of a grim cast of sorcerers, rogues, dowsers, hounds, fetishists, traffickers, and powerful people, as well as a forensic doctor and his assistant, the seductive and twisted Hata Mari, who struggle between survival, ambition, love, spirituality, and hallucinogens, in a Mexico City whose sinister core emerges from the stones.