Calliope. La voz de las llamas

A Southern Gothic novel where the brutal murder of a family man in 1950s Alabama unleashes a tale of family secrets, supernatural legacies, and haunted houses, written by Michael McDowell, the undisputed master of Southern Gothic and author of the Blackwater series. Calliope “Calley” Dakin is seven years old and the apple of her father’s eye. But her childhood world shatters when, during a trip to bustling New Orleans, her beloved father is kidnapped, murdered, and dismembered by two women for no apparent reason. Afterward, Calley and her mother find themselves caught up in a series of strange events that lead them to Pensacola, where, in a house that turns out to be identical to that of her late great-grandmother, an enigmatic woman awaits their arrival. There, Calley will discover that she can hear voices that are not of this world and that this gift is a weapon someone wants to use. Someone who made a grave mistake by ordering the murder of his father, not knowing that the bond that united them could not be destroyed by death.