Los dos lados (Serie de Blecker y Cano, 1)

On whose side are truth and justice? On whose side are you? The new voice of Spanish-language crime fiction. A smart and powerful debut worthy of the genre's greats. The granite ground scorches, and only the chirping of cicadas disturbs the peaceful, familiar summer of San Lorenzo de El Escorial. Its inhabitants, accustomed to the harshness of the mountains, complain of the heat wave, seeking refuge in the shade of the ancient monastery walls. A heat that, however, has not hastened the agony of the man who, bound in the cool boiler room of a Herrerian-style house among the pines of Mount Abantos, is found dead from dehydration, his gaze fixed on a water bottle hanging from the ceiling at eye level. Lieutenant Karen Blecker—newly arrived in Spain after spending most of her career working for Europol—and the eccentric Sergeant Cano will begin by uncovering the identity of the victim, whom no one in the area seems to know. But, as the investigation progresses, the striking parallels with a crime committed two decades earlier will also force them to delve into the painful years of terrorism and the sharp edges that truth always presents when examined from both sides...