Ramón Díaz Eterović Boeken

Private Investigator Heredia returns as multiple-award-winning author Ramón Díaz Eterovic sends the most iconic figure in Chilean crime fiction down a dark alley of lost love, corruption, and murder. Private investigator Heredia has many phantoms--and one of his most haunting has come calling. Argentine investigative journalist Fernanda Arredondo, an old flame he loved and lost, needs to see him after saying goodbye years ago. All it takes is a single day for Heredia to lose her again when she's found dead--an apparent suicide in a lonely hotel room in Santiago. Heredia has more than his instincts to tell him that it was murder. He has clues. Like the suspicious death in the same hotel weeks before of a North American journalist specializing in uncovering covert military affairs. Both he and Fernanda were trailing an explosive story--chemical weapons tied to the Latin American arms industry--and they won't be the last to die. Now Heredia is following their secrets by infiltrating the most powerful and dangerous criminal network in Chile. Exposing it is Heredia's business. Avenging Fernanda's murder is personal. For a man with so few illusions left, surviving it is up to fate.

The first novel by multiple-award-winning Chilean author Ramón Díaz Eterovic to be translated into English--a landmark event for fans of crime fiction. Private investigator Heredia spends his days reading detective novels; commiserating with his cat, Simenon; and peering out over the Mapocho River from his Santiago apartment. The city he loves may be changing, but Heredia can't stop chasing the ghosts of the past. This time, they've come to him... Virginia Reyes's brother, an ex-political prisoner of dictator Augusto Pinochet, was killed in an apparent robbery. Yet nothing of value was taken. The police have declared the case closed, but Virginia suspects that things aren't quite as they appear and turns to Heredia for help. Heredia couldn't agree more--but he can't shake the feeling that there's something Virginia's not telling him. Heredia knows this is not a simple crime. His investigation proves it. Drawn back into a world where murderers nest, secrets are to kill and die for, and Pinochet's legacy still casts a long, dark, and very threatening shadow, it's all Heredia can do to crawl out of it alive.

Nuevo y apasionante capitulo de la serie de novelas del detective Heredia. En esta ocasion, el detective santiaguino es contratado para investigar las extranas circunstancias que rodean la muerte de Francisco Ritter, un renombrado critico literario. La version policial dice que la muerte de Ritter se debio a un accidente, pero su vecina y antigua amante, Berta Zamudio, piensa otra cosa y por eso recurre a los servicios de Heredia. Junto a Heredia y sus habituales acompanantes el gato Simenon, el quiosquero Anselmo y el periodista Campbell la novela de Diaz Eterovic entrega una notable galeria de personajes. A ellos se anade la descripcion de diversos ambientes bohemios de la ciudad de Santiago y un estilo que caracteriza por su ironia y humor.