Red April
"I always wanted to write a thriller — that is, a bloody crime novel with serial killers and monstrous crimes. And I found the necessary elements in the history of my country: a war zone, a celebration of death like Holy Week, a city populated by ghosts. What more could one ask for?" Santiago Roncagliolo. The investigator of the murders is the deputy district prosecutor Félix Chacaltana Saldívar. He likes to be called that, with his title and all. Prosecutor Chacaltana has never done anything wrong, never done anything good, never done anything not clearly stipulated in the regulations of his institution. But now he is about to encounter horror. And horror has not read the civil code.