Bajo tierra seca

Around the turn of the twentieth century, famine grips rural Extremadura, and Antonia Monterroso, the Widow, fights to save her great estate. A blaze wipes it out and she disappears. Lieutenant Martín Gallardo and Sergeant Pacheco come to look into it. Days before, she had accused her foreman and one-time lover, Jacinto Padilla, who is picked up at Zafra station carrying cash and jewellery. He insists that she ordered the fire and planned to run away with him, and his interrogation leads to grisly revelations.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

501 pages in the original

Genres

Crime, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Spain, early 20th century

Series

Tierra quemada, book 1

First published

2024 by Ediciones Destino

Author's age

50 when first published

ISBN

9788423364572 (original)