Красная гиена

BASED ON REAL EVENTS.
FROM THE RECIPIENT OF THE MEXICAN NATIONAL AWARD "TURNING THE KEY".

She really lived, this woman whom the press nicknamed the Hyena. The Devil. The Cannibal. The Dissector. Felicitas Sanchez Agillon not only performed secret abortions but also killed dozens of already born children. And it is in her horrifying story that lies the key to the murders committed forty years after her death….

San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, 1985. The owners of two funeral homes find a female corpse at their doors. Two girls, two friends, sit with their legs spread wide, their hands folded on their enormous bellies — under their clothing are pillows simulating pregnancy. Each has a perfectly round hole in their forehead. And not a drop of blood. This is precisely how the murders were staged in the most famous novel by Ignacio Suarez — a local detective author. Suarez himself receives photos of the corpses with the inscription "Find me," and shortly afterward dies in a car accident. The only clue left is some mysterious manuscript…

Weaving together two chronological layers, two thriller intrigues, and two psychological dramas, the author creates a grim story about the psychology of murderers and bloody ties, about how evil is born and how far one can run from the past…