The Invisible Guardian

An international best seller and short listed for the CWA International Dagger Awards, Redondo's exciting first installment in the Baztán trilogy brings readers deep into Basque country in northern Spain. The novel opens with a suspected serial homicide case forcing Insp. Amaia Salazar to return to her hometown. The suspect is killing young women in a particularly bizarre fashion and leaving them posed in such a way that locals begin to tell tales of the mythological creature the basajaun, the invisible guardian, protector of the innocent. Working across superstition, tradition, and mythology, Amaia bumps up against her family's surprising connections to the victims as well as the deeply buried past determined to haunt her. Political complications mar the case, and Amaia isn't sure whom she can trust; her nightmares steadily increase as the body count picks up.