Carmen Reyes · The Nerja Caves

The Nerja Caves

A Carmen Reyes Investigation

Twelve hectares of terraced citrus above the Maro headland, a compulsory purchase three weeks from completion, and a sixty-year-old man dead of a heart attack he was never going to have. Carmen Reyes follows a thread from a family’s ten-year legal fight into the limestone beneath the coast — and into the Cueva de Nerja itself.

27 chapters · 70,788 words · Chapter One free for everyone, the rest for full-access readers

1. 01Chapter OneMay arrived on the coast the way May arrived on the Costa del Sol, a season preparing to commit.
2. 02Chapter TwoThe Caves
3. 03Chapter Three—The Gibraltar Address
4. 04Chapter Four— The Face
5. 05Chapter Five— The Names
6. 06Chapter SixThe Trial Opens
7. 07Chapter SevenThe 1959 Map and the 1972 Void
8. 08Chapter EightThe Fundación Cueva de Nerja archive smelled of dust and cold stone.
9. 09Chapter NineThe Families
10. 10Chapter TenThe Intermediary
11. 11Chapter ElevenThe Package
12. 12Chapter TwelveNight Entry, Borehole 4
13. 13Chapter ThirteenThey went in at 02:15 from the eastern boundary.
14. 14Chapter FourteenThe Arrest
15. 15Chapter FifteenThe Verdict
16. 16Chapter SixteenJuly
17. 17Chapter SeventeenThe Hearing
18. 18Chapter EighteenThe Architect in the Caves
19. 19Chapter NineteenThe warrant was executed at 06:30 inside the cave.
20. 20Chapter TwentySeptember
21. 21Chapter Twenty-OneOctober
22. 22Chapter Twenty-TwoThe Trial
23. 23Chapter Twenty-Three— The Fifth Summer
24. 24Chapter Twenty-FourThe Fifth August
25. 25Chapter Twenty-FiveInterlude: Balcón at 05:30
26. 26Chapter Twenty-SixInterlude: Meal with Ana and the File
27. 27Chapter Twenty-SevenWalking Tour for Readers: How to Witness THE NERJA CAVES