La niña de oro

A corpse on Christmas Eve, an albino, an African witch... A surprising and masterful detective novel... On the eve of Christmas 2000, the end of the millennium, biology professor Aníbal Cardevaro is found murdered in his home in Buenos Aires . The crime ruins the vacation of prosecutor Silvia Rey, who must take charge of the proceedings. The clues point to an albino taxi boy nicknamed Copito, who frequented the murdered man's apartment. But when it seems that the case is about to be closed, things get complicated and cross paths with another criminal matter in which an African witch is involved. As the investigations progress, everything becomes tangled and it turns out that nothing is what it seemed at first. Pablo Maurette has written a detective novel full of ingenuity, with priceless characters -starting with the prosecutor and her father- and that works as a sophisticated mechanism of narrative...