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Alicia is a young supply teacher who has to move with her three-year-old daughter to the the capital of La Mancha to teach in a school for a few months. In her home town, she leaves behind her husband and a satisfactory, stable life that could almost be classified as happy. In Toledo she stays in the house of her aunt, Lara, who has a secret as dreadful as only domestic secrets can be.
Mexico City: the actress Pamela Dosantos attained stardom due to her famous thighs and a big, generous heart through which Mexico's top politicians have passed. The appearance of her savagely mutilated body leads to a crisis with unimaginable consequences for the returning PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) .
Musical theatre is the thread that runs through this novel in which a serial murderer outwits the Special Brigade of the Central Madrid precinct. A veteran inspector returns to the brigade with the express aim of trying to put a stop to the crime wave in the capital's theatres. To do this, he has to stir up his own past, in which lies the key to the identity of the murderer.
Three people pass a night in San Juan, Murcia, which they are unlikely to ever forget. Jacinto, a Mexican bodyguard working for Don Jorge, has to settle scores with the murderer of one of the men he was minding, while his boss is giving a large party.