Repentance - Eloisa Diaz

Repentance

By: Eloisa Diaz

Paperback | 20 January 2022 | Edition Number 1

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Buenos Aires, 1981.
Inspector Alzada's work in the Buenos Aires police force during the Dirty War exposes him to the many realities of life under a repressive military regime. Personally, he prefers to stay out of politics, but when his hot-headed revolutionary brother Jorge is disappeared, Alzada knows he will stop at nothing to recover him.

Buenos Aires, 2001.
Argentina is in the midst of yet another devastating economic crisis. Alzada is still an inspector, determined to keep his head down in anticipation of a peaceful retirement with Paula and the nephew they've raised together. But all his plans are derailed when a young woman's dead body lands in the dumpster behind the morgue on the same day a woman from one of the city's wealthiest families goes missing.

About the Author

Eloisa Diaz is a Spanish writer and lawyer. She completed her MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2013. Repentance - which she wrote in English - is her debut novel.
Industry Reviews
A powerful crime novel ... Opening old historical wounds that still strongly affect Argentinian society, this is a tale with many layers, many of them painful to evoke and a strong depiction of a country and a period that still simmers between the pages of history books and the crime novel is a perfect way of lancing the boil. Recommended. - CRIME TIME

This impressive, multi-layered debut is both an evocative crime thriller and a journey back to the darkest era in Argentina's modern history

- Financial Times Summer Pick

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