Les possessions

This is a ghost story. A novel that begins with a return and ends with a howl. The narrator of Les possesions travels from Barcelona to Palma to try to halt the paranoid conspiracy spiral of her father who, in his retirement, has gone from being a placid high school teacher to launching a legal battle against an alleged urban crime. It's an uncomfortable weekend, marked by conversations with a suddenly unfamiliar father, with a mother who carries on as though nothing were wrong, and a former lover and mentor. These encounters reopen old wounds, taking the protagonist to the heart of her family's history, still marked by a macabre event that took place in Madrid in 1993: it was then that, involved in economic martingales and seeing himself close to ruin, businessman Benito Vasconcelos, her grandfather's ex-partner, murdered his wife and son, later committing suicide himself.