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by Sergio Olguín
Two foreign girls are murdered after a high society party in Yacanto del Valle, northern Argentina.
Their bodies are found in a field near sacrificial offerings, apparently from a black magic ritual. Verónica Rosenthal, an audacious, headstrong Buenos Aires journalist with a proclivity for sexual adventure, could never have imagined that her holiday would end with her two friends dead. Not trusting the local police, she decides to investigate for herself.
"[Verónica] is unlike any female protagonist in today's crime fiction. And with his easy conversational approach to the darkest noir, Olguín is a real original as well. A quirky, un-put-down-able thriller by a veteran Argentine novelist." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"[S]tunning...Olguín exposes copious examples of moral bankruptcy en route to the devastating ending. Readers will eagerly anticipate the third and final volume." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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Sergio Olguín was born in Buenos Aires in 1967 and was a journalist before turning to fiction. Olguín has won a number of awards, among others the Premio Tusquets 2009 for his novel Oscura monótona sangre (Dark Monotonous Blood) His books have been translated into German, French and Italian. The Fragility of Bodies and The Foreign Girls are his first novels to be translated into English.
The translator Miranda France is the author of two acclaimed volumes of travel writing: Don Quixote's Delusions and Bad Times in Buenos Aires. She has also written the novels Hill Farm and The Day Before the Fire and translated much Latin American fiction, including Claudia Piñeiro's novels for Bitter Lemon Press.
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