The Violet Candy Killer

Nostalgia and suspense go hand in hand in the pages of this addictive mystery

In the final years of franco’s dictatorship, madrid is experiencing a wave of deaths that have been classified as suicides and accidents. All of them are young women, and apart from lucio garza, a shrewd medical examiner, no one has found a clear link between them. Garza, however, has uncovered the killer’s terrible modus operandi, he sweetens death with violet candy.
But the unexpected killer is not the only enemy lucio encounters in his investigations. He must also contend with the narrow-mindedness of the times, the misgivings of his superiors, and a suffocating authority that still does not conceive of the concept of a serial killer. Luckily, he is not alone: he has the help of teresa, his intelligent wife, and their seven children, who are as eager as their parents to participate in the research. They are joined by an atypical colleague, felix, a policeman from the criminal investigation brigade, who helps lucio garza in his investigations. The investigations they gather will bring to light a dark family secret that has its roots in the civil war.