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Bloodline

A Carmen Reyes Investigation

A child laid out in a dry riverbed at first light, ringed by stones in a circle deliberately left open to the sea. Carmen Reyes knows at once that this is not a beginning — and the thread she pulls runs back four generations, into her own family.

The call comes at 5:52 in the morning. A girl of eleven, laid — not dumped — on a shelf of limestone in the barranco, her hair combed back, stones arranged around her in a circle with a single deliberate gap facing the sea. Carmen Reyes knows within a minute of crouching beside her that this is not a first attempt.

“I think it's someone's tenth. I don't know whose.”

A note on this book: it deals with the murder of children. The violence itself is kept off the page — nothing here goes beyond what the story needs to be told honestly.

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