Diez anos despues, nada queda en Luciana de la muchacha alegre y seductora a la que el famoso escritor Kloster dictaba sus novelas. Tras las tragicas muertes primero de su novio y despues, uno a uno, de sus seres mas queridos, Luciana vive aterrorizada, vigilando cada sombra, cada persona que se cruza a su lado, con la sospecha de que esas muertes no pueden ser casuales, sino parte de una venganza metodica urdida contra ella, un circulo a su alrededor que solo se cerrara con el numero siete. En la desesperacion mas absoluta, recurre a la unica persona capaz de adentrarse en el siniestro universo de Kloster. Los cuadernos de notas de Henry James y una Biblia de Scofield seran claves ambiguas en un pasaje sin retorno a la region mas primitiva del mal.

Martinez, Guillermo
The Book of Murder

Fiction
A woman approaches a man she worked for briefly ten years before with a fantastic story. She believes that another of her previous employers is murdering everyone close to her. The alleged murderer is now a profoundly successful and famous author who is apparently murdering her loved ones in ingeniously contrived “accidents.” Not just a murder mystery, Martinez attempts to analyze life itself. Is life just a series of random events or coincidences that the human mind needs to organize in an attempt to make meaningful? Or is all this philosophizing just a smoke screen to discredit the victim and hide the truth? Guillermo Martinez also wrote The Oxford Murders, another psychological and philosophical mystery.
Recommended March 2009 ( )

This story is set in Argentina
Main character who writes novels (we never know his name) is contacted by a woman he knew 10 years ago.
She said that a famous writer she also worked for is killing off her family.

This is an ok book makes you think. ( )

Martinez, Guillermo
The Book of Murder

Fiction
A woman approaches a man she worked for briefly ten years before with a fantastic story. She believes that another of her previous employers is murdering everyone close to her. The alleged murderer is now a profoundly successful and famous author who is apparently murdering her loved ones in ingeniously contrived “accidents.” Not just a murder mystery, Martinez attempts to analyze life itself. Is life just a series of random events or coincidences that the human mind needs to organize in an attempt to make meaningful? Or is all this philosophizing just a smoke screen to discredit the victim and hide the truth? Guillermo Martinez also wrote The Oxford Murders, another psychological and philosophical mystery.
Recommended March 2009

Set in Buenos Aires, this book had my attention from the first page. It is very well-written and the mystery was intriguing. I had made up my mind which character I believed and just needed to know the truth behind the murders. Were they even murders? However, it had a very different ending to what I expected, which felt like a letdown. There is no doubt the solution was clever, but still an anticlimax. ( )