This book starts about a month after the events at the end of The Legacy of the Bones (El Legado de los Huesos, original in Spanish). We follow again Inspector Amaia Salazar who is called to investigate the death of a baby girl, initially declared as victim of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). Salazar and her team realise that the girl was asphyxiated by her own dad. Awful as it sounds this is only a snippet of a complicated network of macabre and perturbing events which date back several decades in the past. Suddenly the dad tries to steal the girl's body during the funeral. He says, to carry out with a rite. Salazar's instinct takes her to look for recent, similar cases of SIDS in the area. What she finds is horrific and it takes the team back to revisit close cases (the basajaun and tartalo, from book 1 and 2 of the trilogy) which are connected and apparently just the tip of the iceberg of an occult network of sadistic killers.
Opinion: I think this might be the best book of the trilogy. I surely love the three books. However, this one scores for the outstanding way in which Redondo connects the cases from the 3 books in a way that makes sense, and which is interesting and entertaining. More points for character development, Inspector Salazar, SubInspector Etxaide and Judge Markina. Obscure characters which are not always present but are intriguing and add to the story such as Rosario, Amaia's mother, Flora, Amaia's sister, Father Solorzano. Dead characters who still play important roles are as well excellent additions. Finally, more points for the gothic, obscure atmosphere (which is present in the 3 books) and the creepy, disturbing scenes of the crimes. I totally recommend this trilogy to any thriller and crime novela fan.
My book is the Spanish edition published by Ediciones Destino, Editorial Planeta. It has 539 pages.
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