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The second book in Dolores Redondo's atmospheric Baztan trilogy, featuring Inspector Amaia Salazar. A year after arresting Jason Medina for the rape and murder of his step-daughter, Detective Inspector Amaia Salazar has one last duty to complete before starting her maternity leave - attending Medina's trial. When the trial is suddenly called off, Amaia is appalled. But the judge had no choice. Jason Medina has committed suicide in the bathroom of the courthouse, leaving behind a cryptic note addressed to Amaia: the single word ‘Tarttalo'.

Amaia Salazar, a young detective from the north of Spain, has joined a group of trainees at the FBI Academy in Virginia. Haunted by her past and having already tracked down a predator on her own, Amaia is no typical rookie. And this is no ordinary student lecture at Quantico. FBI agent Aloisius Dupree is already well acquainted with Amaia’s skills, her intuition, and her ability to understand evil. He now needs her help in hunting an elusive serial killer dubbed “the Composer,” and in solving another case that’s been following him his whole life.

In Pamplona, capital of Navarra, Amaia Salazar is called in to investigate the death of a baby girl. The baby has red marks on her face, indicating she has been murdered. According to the girl's grandmother, the father tried to run away with the body, uttering something about an offering. She also mentions the Inguma - an evil being of Basque mythology that kills people in their sleep. The investigation takes Amaia and her team to the nearby valley of Baztan, where there have been an abnormally high number of similar cases - and some procedural irregularities.

Estate 2005. Amaia Salazar, giovane e promettente vice ispettore della polizia regionale della Navarra, partecipa a un corso per gli ufficiali della Europol. A Quantico, il quartier generale dell'FBI, lei e i suoi colleghi studiano il caso del "Compositore", un serial killer attratto dalle catastrofi naturali, che stermina famiglie con una dedizione da culto e una precisione rituale.

Glasgow. Alla fine degli anni Sessanta un uomo ribattezzato dalla stampa "Bible John" uccise tre giovani donne, tutte con caratteristiche fisiche simili, adescate in un club notturno della città. L'assassino si presentava con un volto pulito e le carte giuste per convincere una ragazza a passare del tempo con lui, per poi stringerla nel suo abbraccio mortale. Non verrà mai arrestato. Quindici anni dopo Bible affolla ancora le pagine di cronaca nera, perché ogni tanto capita che un delitto mostri proprio la sua impronta.